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Building Production Grade Agents with Samuel Colvin #58

March 20, 2025 • Neil Leiser • Season 4 • Episode 9

Our guest is Samuel Colvin, Co-Founder and CEO of pydantic: a data validation library with millions of downloads per month.

In our conversation, we first discuss Pydantic and their observability platform: logfire. We then dive into agents where Samuel shares his vision on how to build production ready agents and what makes PydanticAI different than other frameworks.

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(00:00) Intro

(02:10) How Samuel Got into AI

(04:06) What is Pydantic?

(06:44) Observability with Logfire

(13:28) PydanticAI

(17:33) Agent Frameworks

(24:40) PydanticAI vs Other Agent Frameworks

(32:06) Strengths and Weaknesses of Agents

(36:43) Future Challenges with AI Agents

(46:45) Career Advice