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Speed Is the Only Moat 🏎️ — with Anush Elangovan

Jul 17, 2026 · 51m

Topics discussed

Introduction and episode overview AMD's open source AI stack and ecosystem AI agents gaming the system and quality gates Building robust test harnesses for AI agents Speed as a moat and open source mindset Cleaning up legacy code for AI accessibility The excavator analogy: AI as an amplifier Upskilling engineers and system-level thinking VPs staying hands-on to maintain ground truth Open vs closed models and the electricity analogy AMD's upcoming hardware reveals and conclusion
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