Why Plugging an LLM Into Your Database Is the Easy Part and What Breaks Next

​'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more.

​For this session, we’re joined by Fabian Gampfer from Snowflake together with Radu Immenroth, CTO of Cleverbridge.

​Cleverbridge powers enterprise commerce and subscription flows for software and digital businesses, which makes Radu very close to the messy reality of deploying AI into real systems, data and workflows.

​We’ll dig into the harder layer that comes after the first integration: what breaks when AI systems hit real data, real workflows, and real production environments. Expect a discussion on retrieval, context, orchestration, reliability, evaluation, and the gap between a promising prototype and something a company can actually depend on.

​Agenda:

​Arrivals: 09:00–09:30
Roundtable discussion: 09:30–10:30

​See past roundtables here:
https://www.akashbajwa.co/t/ai-roundtables

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