Bryan Bischof
Head of AI at Theory Ventures with a long career in data science and AI engineering; organized the America's Next Top Modeler hackathon and researches trustworthy data agents, context engineering, and evaluation methods.
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Mar 20, 2026 • 1h 34min
Episode 72: Why Agents Solve the Wrong Problem (and What Data Scientists Do Instead)
Bryan Bischof, Head of AI at Theory Ventures and long-time data scientist, explains why real-world data challenges reveal agent failures. He recounts a hackathon testing agents on SQL, logs, and 750,000 PDFs. Topics include failure funnels and binary checkpoints, why unlimited submissions encourage hill-climbing, DocETL for document extraction, MCP as a semantic layer, and when simple coding agents beat heavy frameworks.
