The Reasoning Show
Massive Studios
The Reasoning Show AI moves fast. Thinking clearly matters more.The Reasoning Show cuts through the hype to explore how the smartest people in enterprise AI actually make decisions — the strategy, the tradeoffs, and the hard lessons no press release mentions.Every week, hosts Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely sit down with the founders building the tools, investors funding the shift, and operators running AI in the real world. Not hype. Not panic. Just clear-headed conversations with people who have to make actual decisions.Because the AI revolution isn't just happening. It's being reasoned through. New shows every Wednesday and Sunday. Topics: Enterprise AI strategy · LLMs in production · AI leadership · Agentic AI · Digital Sovereignty · Machine Learning · AI startups · Cloud Computing
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Mar 29, 2026 • 40min
AI News of the Month for March 2026
A fast roundup of March AI headlines, from Arm moving into chip manufacturing to rising ARM and NVIDIA momentum in data centers. Deep dives on NVIDIA’s GTC moves, frontier model ambitions, and the challenges of hardware firms doing software. Debate over inference demand, token pricing and whether the AI market is a bubble. Coverage of Apple’s cautious AI posture and OpenAI’s strategic retrenchment and hires.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 37min
Living the Claude-centric Life
Brandon Whichard, a technology pro who built Claude-centric workflows, shares practical tales of reviving stalled coding projects and making Claude the hub of daily work. He talks setup routines, trust and handing off responsibility, token-saving tricks, using Claude for emails and code review, and how rapid iteration shortens decision cycles.
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Mar 22, 2026 • 28min
Three Thoughts from NVIDIA GTC 2026
Discussion of Jensen Huang’s vision of accelerated computing powering everything from robotics to everyday enterprise apps. A deep look at the emerging, complex inference stack mixing GPUs, CPUs, LPUs and networking. Analysis of NVIDIA’s push toward an ‘‘open’’ software layer with NemoClaw and how agentic AI ties into broader hardware strategy.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 41min
Kagenti - A Kubernetes Control Plane for AI Agents
Morgan Foster, an engineer focused on distributed systems and AI in Kubernetes, co-chair of the Kubernetes AI Gateway WG and maintainer on Kagenti. He describes Kagenti as a framework-neutral control plane for agentic AI, talks identity and zero-trust for agents, orchestration vs data-plane tradeoffs, and challenges of multi-tenant, unpredictable agent behavior and safe tool access.
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Mar 15, 2026 • 21min
Code Red - All Jobs are Software
A warning about a widening divide between workers who merely use AI and those who make AI the core of their work. Discussion of reframing knowledge work as code and embedding developers with business teams. Coverage of new operational roles like AgentOps and Inference Ops. A push to adopt AI skills quickly or risk falling far behind.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 26min
Inside OpenClaw and Open Source Innovation
Sally O’Malley, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and new OpenClaw maintainer, focuses on deploying and securing AI at scale. She recounts an immersion week containerizing OpenClaw, explains how personal AI agents are customized, and discusses security trade-offs for enterprises. She also describes the surge of community contributions and evolving maintainer workflows driven by AI-assisted reviews.
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Mar 8, 2026 • 28min
Understanding NeoClouds with Crusoe
Erwan Menard, SVP of product management at Crusoe who built their NeoCloud strategy, explains a purpose-built AI cloud. He discusses why a new AI-dedicated cloud category matters. He outlines linking energy, modular data centers, and cloud services. He covers challenges of synchronizing energy deals, builds, and rapid software change, plus sovereign and private AI needs.
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Mar 4, 2026 • 26min
What is an AI Agent?
They dig into why agentic AI is taking off now and what changed since chatbots. Listeners hear a clear contrast between chat interfaces and autonomous agents with goals, memory, tools, and iterative loops. Design tradeoffs get attention, from task definition to human-in-the-loop choices. Frameworks, pricing approaches, and how agents will reshape enterprise work are also discussed.
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Feb 28, 2026 • 42min
AI & Cloud News of the Month - Feb 2026
Brandon Whichard, regular contributor from Software Defined Talk who covers cloud and AI trends. He discusses the show’s shift toward AI, the future of AI-generated code and Linux 7.0, Anthropic’s enterprise push versus OpenAI, the rise of agent-native assistants and OpenClaw, and how bottoms-up AI prototypes are changing teams and tooling.
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Feb 25, 2026 • 18min
How The Cloudcast is changing in 2026?
They announce a rebrand and format shift as AI overtakes cloud as the main focus. They outline new content buckets: AI technology, economics, trends, use cases, productivity, and regulation. Plans include audio plus video clips, varied episode lengths, a newsletter, and keeping monthly cloud coverage. Timeline and new website tooling are discussed.
