AI Infrastructure
Infrastructure & AI engineering techniques
Kai Hendry
Show overview
AI Infrastructure launched in 2025 and has put out 49 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 45 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 48 min and 1h 9m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 27 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Kai Hendry.
From the publisher
A podcast about Infrastructure & AI engineering techniques
Latest Episodes
View all 49 episodesClaude Dynamic Workflows 🤑
BAU is fun with AI
Where does Spec Driven Development fit?
Checking for AI guard rails
Managing context is the challenge
Spec Driven Discovery
S1 Ep 28Adversarial Agents from London
from a London bus and Vincent in Vietnam! Kai is attending https://www.ai.engineer/europe/schedule
S1 Ep 27Distracted by AI
Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?usp=sharing
S1 Ep 26If it Hurts, do it More Often (with AI)
Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Automating AI Agents 04:20 - Auto Research Role 07:15 - Building CLI Tools 09:50 - AI Behavior Control 13:00 - Voice & AI Transcription 15:45 - GitHub Security 18:50 - Multi-cloud Management 22:50 - Disaster Recovery Testing 28:30 - Cost Optimization 33:00 - Terraform vs CDK 38:45 - AI Evaluations 44:00 - AI in Enterprise 50:00 - Ethical Considerations 55:00 - Kubernetes Strategies 58:00 - DevOps Myths 62:00 - Cloud Security Insights 66:00 - Closing Thoughts
S1 Ep 25How can we trust AI?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408205 Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ulxx2eqh7qsr
S1 Ep 24AI's broken mirror
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.nimhcz973asx https://dabase.com/podcast/ for a summary
S1 Ep 23Validating AI output & Refactoring Infrastructure
Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0 https://dabase.com/podcast/ for a summary
S1 Ep 22Jira is the AI adoption challenge
The elephant in the room is Jira. How can we adopt AI in a structured way in an Enterprise? https://dabase.com/podcast/
S1 Ep 20AI Vampire
Do please Rate and share to keep us rewarded / motivated to share! Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0
AI is a VAMPIRE
cfgmgmtcamp 2026 debrief
S1 Ep 19cfgmgmtcamp 2026 debrief
Previous 2025 vlog: https://youtu.be/QQB6juzzIZU?si=5mrQi_ox8ds0ENp2 I'll add more links as I find a decent internet connection! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxzghm3Fdj8&t=10718s is Adam Jacob's AI talk CDK plan we were talking about: https://gist.github.com/kaihendry/ce6574744e161d4ba8ba283b8dada85c
S1 Ep 18AI Engineer Anti-Patterns + more
I show https://clawd.bot/ & WhatsApp integration. We touch how type checking is not done enough in Python https://docs.astral.sh/ty/ We speculate what's the "Next big thing" in Infrastructure... better state management with https://stategraph.com/? https://handy.computer/ dictation (speech to text) is shown We try capture what the the AI lifecycle looks like right now. Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?usp=sharing Kai will be at https://fosdem.org/2026/ & https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/ next week ... say hello if you see me!