The Reasoning Show
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
Episodes
1060 episodes
The 2026 AI Draft
SUMMARY: Draft guru Brandon Whichard (Software Defined Talk) joins us for the inaugural AI Draft, where we predict the next year of AI winners, losers, trends, and headlines. GUEST: Brandon Whichard,
Halt & Retool: Rewriting Software Development in the Age of AI Agents
SUMMARY: Exploring how to fully embrace AI-driven, agent-based software development, resulting in dramatically increased productivity and faster feature delivery. It highlights a broader shift in engineering—from writing code to orchestrating A...
The Zero-CVE Mirage: Hardening Software in the Age of AI Attacks
SUMMARY: How software development is rapidly evolving in the age of AI and automation. Matt Moore shares how his team is rethinking secure software supply chains, scaling infrastructure, and safely integrating AI agents into development workflo...
The Grid’s Breaking Point: Can AI Save the Infrastructure It’s About to Crash?
SUMMARY: How real-time power flow optimization at the edge is helping data centers and the electrical grid handle surging AI energy demands more efficiently. By unlocking hidden capacity and dynamically managing power systems, we explain how ex...
Shadow AI is Faster Than Your Governance: Why Guardrails are Failing
SUMMARY: Shadow AI is growing much faster than known AI adoption across businesses. How can IT teams get Shadow AI under control?GUEST:
The Junior Dev Crisis: Who Inherits the Code When AI Does the Work?
SUMMARY: Have we reached a point where coding is a solved problem? And if so, what are the downstream effects on companies that need software to differentiate their business?GUEST: B...
RAG Won’t Save Your Messy Data: The Brutal Truth About AI Reliability
SUMMARY: The RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pattern is one of the most frequently used to augment LLMs with context-specific information. Let’s explore RAG. GUEST: Roie Schwaber...
The Productivity Paradox: Why More AI Code is Slowing Down Shiptimes
SUMMARY: Discover how AI is transforming software development and what it means for engineering leaders. GUEST: Jeff Keyes, Field CTO at
The Production Chaos: Why AI-Generated Code is Breaking Traditional SRE
SUMMARY: With the explosion of AI-generated code and applications, the modern SRE requires an AI-native approach to managing complex systems. GUEST: Anish Agarwal - CEO/Cof...
The Future of Service belongs to Self-Improving AI
SUMMARY: Today’s episode is all about a transformation happening in customer service—one that’s moving us from static systems and scripted workflows into something far more dynamic: AI systems that can actually learn and impr...
The $26B Pivot: Why Big Tech is Abandoning the AI "Wrapper" Model
SUMMARY: Brian (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk and Failover Media) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the month of March, 2026. SHOW: 1014SHOW TRANSCRIPT:
Living the Claude-centric Life
SUMMARY: With @bwhichard, we dig into how daily work-life changes when you make @AnthropicAI @claudeai the center of all workflow activities. SHOW: 1013SHOW TRANSCRIPT:
NVIDIA’s Open Software Trap: The Real Cost of the New Inference Stack
SUMMARY: We dig into the NVIDIA GTC keynote and highlight three things - accelerated computing for everything, the complexity of the new inference stack, and NVIDIA’s “open” software stack including NemoClaw.SHOW: 1012SHOW TRANSCR...
Kagenti - A Kubernetes Control Plane for AI Agents
SUMMARY: Morgan Foster talks about the Kagenti project, which enables an AI Agent agnostic framework for security, authentication, identity and zero-trust.SHOW: 1011SHOW TRANSCRIPT:
Your Career is Legacy Code: Why 'All Jobs are Software' is a Warning, Not a Trend
SUMMARY: Brian talks about the rapidly expanding gap between people and companies that augment their work with AI and those who are making AI the center of their work world. SHOW: 1010SHOW TRANSCRIPT: ...
Inside OpenClaw and Open Source Innovation
SUMMARY: Sally O’Malley (Principle Software Engineer @RedHat, Maintainter @OpenClaw) talks about her early experiences of immersing herself into OpenClaw and evolution of the OpenClaw community.SHOW: 1009SHOW TRAN...
Understanding NeoClouds with Crusoe
Erwan Menard - SVP Product Management @CrusoeAI talks about the evolution of NeoClouds, the challenges of matching the speed of data centers, GPUs and software, and how everything is evolving to megawatts and tokens. SHOW: 1008
Beyond the Chatbot: Why Most "Agents" are Just Glorified Automation
OVERVIEW: Welcome to The Reasoning Show! We dig into one of the foundational building blocks of modern Generative AI, the AI Agent. So what is an AI Agent, and what do we need to think about for the next couple years? SHOW...
AI & Cloud News of the Month - Feb 2026
This episode marks the transition from The Cloudcast to The Reasoning Show, focusing more on AI and cloud topics. Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss recent trends in AI, the evolution of tech t...
How The Cloudcast is changing in 2026?
Aaron and Brian discuss how The Cloudcast will be changing going forward, signaling an industry shift from Cloud Computing to AI. SHOW: 1005SHOW TRANSCRIPT:
What's Your Token Budget?
This episode explores the evolving economics of AI development, the rising costs associated with AI agents, and the implications for businesses and developers. It highlights the shift from centralized to decentralized computing, the importance ...
Evaluating AI Models in 2026
Aaron and Brian review some of the latest AI model releases and discuss how they would evaluate them through the lens of an Enterprise AI Architect. SHOW: 1003SHOW TRANSCRIPT:
Three AI Rooms to be a Fly on the Wall in 2026
As we move into Q1 2026, Brian talks about 3 rooms where he'd like to be a fly on wall to see the blueprints of significant AI companies shaping the markets. SHOW: 1002SHOW TRANSCRIPT:
What we wish we knew about the next 3 years of AI?
Aaron and Brian explore the evolving landscape of AI over the next three years, discussing its economic implications, political influences, technological advancements, partnership dynamics, changing buying patterns, and the potential impact on ...