Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation
Our mission is to cultivate AI literacy in the Greater Richmond Region through awareness, community engagement, education, and advocacy. In this podcast, we spotlight companies and individuals in the region who are pioneering the development and use of AI.
Inspire AI: Transforming RVA Through Technology and Automation
Latest Episodes
Ep 78 - Learn By Building: From Strategy Decks To Working Agents w/ Matt Bartles
“We’ll learn AI once we understand it” sounds responsible, but it’s one of the fastest ways to fall behind. We sit down with Matt to argue for a different approach: learn AI by building with it, in small scopes, with real users, and with the hu...
Ep 77 - The Ralph Loop: How Iteration Turns AI Into A Reliable Work System
Most teams are still using AI like a vending machine: type a prompt, hope for the right answer, then waste time nudging it closer. We take a different route and unpack the Ralph Loop, a deceptively simple pattern that turns AI from a one-shot h...
Ep 76 - The BMAD Method For Building Reliable Agentic Systems
AI can write code on demand now, but that doesn’t mean we’re building better software. When we treat AI like a chat window with a long memory, projects drift: requirements change midstream, agents hallucinate assumptions, and systems that felt ...
Ep 75 - Where Human Judgment Belongs Throughout A Multi-Agent Workflow
Multi-agent AI feels like a breakthrough right up until you realize the real problem isn’t intelligence anymore, it’s coordination. When planning agents, retrieval agents, tool-using agents, and verification agents all make decisions, a simple ...
Ep 74 - Agentic Workflows: Did The Job Actually Get Done?
An AI agent that confidently says “done” can still be the most expensive kind of wrong. We start with a simple test of reality: when an agent updates a policy document, who was notified, what changed, what got logged, and what state did it actu...
