alphalist.CTO Podcast · 2026-06-04 · 1h 3m
Max Deichmann built Langfuse - the open-source LLM engineering platform acquired by ClickHouse - and explains why the engineer of the future isn't writing code, they're reviewing what agents did overnight. Max Deichmann didn't set out to build the observability layer for the AI era. He started with mobile apps, taught himself to code via Harvard's CS50, and ended up in Y Combinator with a SaaS product he wasn't excited about. Then ChatGPT launched, and on a Sunday night at 10 pm, his co-founder asked: "If you just had time, what would you build?" The answer became Langfuse and eventually led to an acquisition by ClickHouse. This episode is a rare, grounded conversation about what building and operating AI agents actually looks like in 2025, from the engineering loop to the 3 am incident, to what the engineer's job becomes when agents are doing most of the execution.
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