Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi · 2025-11-26 · 35 min
Gou Rao is CEO of NeuBird, an agentic AI Site Reliability Engineer for IT teams. They've raised $44.5 Million from Mayfield and M12. He was previously the CTO of Citrix and Portworx. (00:01) Introduction (01:07) What Does an SRE Do? (02:19) Inside a Typical Incident Flow (04:16) What Can Be Automated? (05:52) Deploying Hawkeye: Day 1 to Day 100 (11:59) Earning Trust for Autonomous Agents (14:57) Versioning Agent Behavior & Chain of Thought (17:02) Building Agentic Infra Products (18:38) Access Control for Agents (20:29) Company Building in the AI Era (23:53) Competitive Edge in AI + Infra (26:35) Model Choice & Agent Reasoning Quality (29:33) Biggest Product Bet (31:22) Exciting AI Advancements (33:04) Rapid Fire Round - Where to find Gou Rao: LinkedIn: - Where to find Prateek Joshi: Research Column: Newsletter: Website: LinkedIn: X:
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