David vonThenen
@davidvonthenen.com
AI/ML Engineer at @netapp.com | Keynote Speaker | Building Scalable ML Architectures & Conversational AI Solutions | Python | Go | C++
Info: https://linktr.ee/davidvonthenen
Info: https://linktr.ee/davidvonthenen
🎉 Reading some eye-opening stuff over the break...
MIT just dropped a study showing AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. jobs. Not hype. Real data. Worth a read if you care about work, skills, and what's next.
👉 bit.ly/3Y76fWg
MIT just dropped a study showing AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. jobs. Not hype. Real data. Worth a read if you care about work, skills, and what's next.
👉 bit.ly/3Y76fWg
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:18 PM
🎉 Reading some eye-opening stuff over the break...
MIT just dropped a study showing AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. jobs. Not hype. Real data. Worth a read if you care about work, skills, and what's next.
👉 bit.ly/3Y76fWg
MIT just dropped a study showing AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. jobs. Not hype. Real data. Worth a read if you care about work, skills, and what's next.
👉 bit.ly/3Y76fWg
New video is live! 🚀🔍 I break down how rethinking RAG with MCP + Agent2Agent unlocks more powerful, secure, agentic search. This is the same approach I shared at 3 conferences in late 2025.
Watch it now on the @Instaclustr YouTube! 🎥✨ bit.ly/3NiViPe
Watch it now on the @Instaclustr YouTube! 🎥✨ bit.ly/3NiViPe
More powerful search: Rethinking RAG agents
The future of intelligent search starts with rethinking RAG, retrieval augmented generation. By harnessing the power of MCP (Model context protocol) and Agen...
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
New video is live! 🚀🔍 I break down how rethinking RAG with MCP + Agent2Agent unlocks more powerful, secure, agentic search. This is the same approach I shared at 3 conferences in late 2025.
Watch it now on the @Instaclustr YouTube! 🎥✨ bit.ly/3NiViPe
Watch it now on the @Instaclustr YouTube! 🎥✨ bit.ly/3NiViPe
Hybrid RAG breaks the black box 🔍🚀 Combining Graphs or BM25, and vectors turns retrieval into something explainable, governable, and production-ready for real enterprise AI 🤖✨ Want agents you can trust?
Read the full breakdown here 👉 bit.ly/4pz0D3b
#HybridRAG
Read the full breakdown here 👉 bit.ly/4pz0D3b
#HybridRAG
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Hybrid RAG breaks the black box 🔍🚀 Combining Graphs or BM25, and vectors turns retrieval into something explainable, governable, and production-ready for real enterprise AI 🤖✨ Want agents you can trust?
Read the full breakdown here 👉 bit.ly/4pz0D3b
#HybridRAG
Read the full breakdown here 👉 bit.ly/4pz0D3b
#HybridRAG
Got two talks accepted at SCaLE 23x! 🐧
1. A Practical Guide to Training a Small Language Model
2. The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend
One of the best conferences of the year! See you there!
Register: bit.ly/4aMlprJ 🚀
1. A Practical Guide to Training a Small Language Model
2. The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend
One of the best conferences of the year! See you there!
Register: bit.ly/4aMlprJ 🚀
January 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Got two talks accepted at SCaLE 23x! 🐧
1. A Practical Guide to Training a Small Language Model
2. The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend
One of the best conferences of the year! See you there!
Register: bit.ly/4aMlprJ 🚀
1. A Practical Guide to Training a Small Language Model
2. The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend
One of the best conferences of the year! See you there!
Register: bit.ly/4aMlprJ 🚀
What did 2025 really change about AI, and what must 2026 fix to make it work in the real world? 🤖✨ Top builders and thinkers share bold predictions (including mine) on agents, context, and governance.
Read it here on the @odsc.bsky.social blog 👉 bit.ly/3YdViSW
#AI #Governance
Read it here on the @odsc.bsky.social blog 👉 bit.ly/3YdViSW
#AI #Governance
2026 AI Outlook: How Agents, Context, and Governance Will Shape Real-World AI
As artificial intelligence continues its rapid evolution, one thing has become increasingly clear: progress isn’t being driven by a single breakthrough, but by a convergence of architectural shifts, cultural changes, and hard-earned lessons from production deployments. ODSC AI is built on our community – and that involves our speakers, attendees,...
opendatascience.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:11 PM
What did 2025 really change about AI, and what must 2026 fix to make it work in the real world? 🤖✨ Top builders and thinkers share bold predictions (including mine) on agents, context, and governance.
Read it here on the @odsc.bsky.social blog 👉 bit.ly/3YdViSW
#AI #Governance
Read it here on the @odsc.bsky.social blog 👉 bit.ly/3YdViSW
#AI #Governance
Got my ChatGPT year in review... I know ChatGPT is the ultimate hype man, but it's good to see it thinks I am chasing difficult problems and trying to bring that information/material to others. See you in 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Got my ChatGPT year in review... I know ChatGPT is the ultimate hype man, but it's good to see it thinks I am chasing difficult problems and trying to bring that information/material to others. See you in 2026!
Some reading for the break. I was thinking about this a lot...
IBM's CEO walks through the data center math and basically says the returns don't add up 💸
The capex numbers are wild, the AGI bets feel shaky. This math is math-ing for me.
Link: bit.ly/4qkwCE8 🚀
IBM's CEO walks through the data center math and basically says the returns don't add up 💸
The capex numbers are wild, the AGI bets feel shaky. This math is math-ing for me.
Link: bit.ly/4qkwCE8 🚀
IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.
finance.yahoo.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Some reading for the break. I was thinking about this a lot...
IBM's CEO walks through the data center math and basically says the returns don't add up 💸
The capex numbers are wild, the AGI bets feel shaky. This math is math-ing for me.
Link: bit.ly/4qkwCE8 🚀
IBM's CEO walks through the data center math and basically says the returns don't add up 💸
The capex numbers are wild, the AGI bets feel shaky. This math is math-ing for me.
Link: bit.ly/4qkwCE8 🚀
Been catching up on AI stuff, and this is a definite must-read 🤖
The @linuxfoundation.org just launched the Agentic AI Foundation. Open governance, real standards, and projects like MCP, goose, etc, under one roof. 👀
Link: bit.ly/4s4cGHv
The @linuxfoundation.org just launched the Agentic AI Foundation. Open governance, real standards, and projects like MCP, goose, etc, under one roof. 👀
Link: bit.ly/4s4cGHv
Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md – Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
aaif.io
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Been catching up on AI stuff, and this is a definite must-read 🤖
The @linuxfoundation.org just launched the Agentic AI Foundation. Open governance, real standards, and projects like MCP, goose, etc, under one roof. 👀
Link: bit.ly/4s4cGHv
The @linuxfoundation.org just launched the Agentic AI Foundation. Open governance, real standards, and projects like MCP, goose, etc, under one roof. 👀
Link: bit.ly/4s4cGHv
I’ve been binge listening to Diary of a CEO and these two AI interviews are wild. Super fascinating from a social angle. Perfect holiday break listens 🎧🎄
Check them out:
1. bit.ly/3Y7405i
2. bit.ly/3NcAetx
Check them out:
1. bit.ly/3Y7405i
2. bit.ly/3NcAetx
AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris
Ex-Google Insider and AI Expert TRISTAN HARRIS reveals how ChatGPT, China, and Elon Musk are racing to build uncontrollable AI, and warns it will blackmail h...
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’ve been binge listening to Diary of a CEO and these two AI interviews are wild. Super fascinating from a social angle. Perfect holiday break listens 🎧🎄
Check them out:
1. bit.ly/3Y7405i
2. bit.ly/3NcAetx
Check them out:
1. bit.ly/3Y7405i
2. bit.ly/3NcAetx
One of my favorite moments at my KubeCon NA session a few weeks back 🤣
You can find the recording for my session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips: Advanced Troubleshooting with MCP, RAG, and k8sgpt, here:
bit.ly/48d52m8
You can find the recording for my session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips: Advanced Troubleshooting with MCP, RAG, and k8sgpt, here:
bit.ly/48d52m8
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
One of my favorite moments at my KubeCon NA session a few weeks back 🤣
You can find the recording for my session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips: Advanced Troubleshooting with MCP, RAG, and k8sgpt, here:
bit.ly/48d52m8
You can find the recording for my session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips: Advanced Troubleshooting with MCP, RAG, and k8sgpt, here:
bit.ly/48d52m8
Huge thanks to everyone who joined my Tbilisi Data Science Meetup session! 🙌 The recording is now live on the TDS YouTube channel 🎥 bit.ly/448P9e1
Special shoutout to Giorgi Didberidze for the awesome talk on Data Pipelines for RAG. Reach out anytime!
Special shoutout to Giorgi Didberidze for the awesome talk on Data Pipelines for RAG. Reach out anytime!
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Huge thanks to everyone who joined my Tbilisi Data Science Meetup session! 🙌 The recording is now live on the TDS YouTube channel 🎥 bit.ly/448P9e1
Special shoutout to Giorgi Didberidze for the awesome talk on Data Pipelines for RAG. Reach out anytime!
Special shoutout to Giorgi Didberidze for the awesome talk on Data Pipelines for RAG. Reach out anytime!
Still time to register... happening tomorrow (Wednesday, Dec 3) at 8:30 AM Pacific / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET 🇬🇪.
Register here: bit.ly/4a6Z47x
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Register here: bit.ly/4a6Z47x
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December 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Still time to register... happening tomorrow (Wednesday, Dec 3) at 8:30 AM Pacific / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET 🇬🇪.
Register here: bit.ly/4a6Z47x
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Register here: bit.ly/4a6Z47x
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The recording for our #KubeCon session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips Troubleshooting w/ MCP, RAG, and K8sgpt, is live! 🎉
I built a k8s troubleshooting AI Agent using a runbook via RAG, link to recording: bit.ly/48d52m8
Teaser video is below 👇
I built a k8s troubleshooting AI Agent using a runbook via RAG, link to recording: bit.ly/48d52m8
Teaser video is below 👇
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The recording for our #KubeCon session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips Troubleshooting w/ MCP, RAG, and K8sgpt, is live! 🎉
I built a k8s troubleshooting AI Agent using a runbook via RAG, link to recording: bit.ly/48d52m8
Teaser video is below 👇
I built a k8s troubleshooting AI Agent using a runbook via RAG, link to recording: bit.ly/48d52m8
Teaser video is below 👇
Happy 🦃 Day to everyone in the US! Enjoy the food & naps... you've earned it.
Next week: Tbilisi Data Science Meetup discussing MCP + A2A and data 🇬🇪 with 3 demos +& take-home code!
📅 Wed, Dec 3 at 8:30 AM PT / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET
Register 👉 bit.ly/4a6Z47x
Next week: Tbilisi Data Science Meetup discussing MCP + A2A and data 🇬🇪 with 3 demos +& take-home code!
📅 Wed, Dec 3 at 8:30 AM PT / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET
Register 👉 bit.ly/4a6Z47x
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy 🦃 Day to everyone in the US! Enjoy the food & naps... you've earned it.
Next week: Tbilisi Data Science Meetup discussing MCP + A2A and data 🇬🇪 with 3 demos +& take-home code!
📅 Wed, Dec 3 at 8:30 AM PT / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET
Register 👉 bit.ly/4a6Z47x
Next week: Tbilisi Data Science Meetup discussing MCP + A2A and data 🇬🇪 with 3 demos +& take-home code!
📅 Wed, Dec 3 at 8:30 AM PT / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET
Register 👉 bit.ly/4a6Z47x
NEW BLOG!
GraphRAG proved that structure = reliability in AI 🧠⚙️ But not every team wants the complexity of a full graph setup. DocumentRAG (BM25-based) hits the sweet spot... explainable, grounded, and lightweight. Learn why structure still wins 👇 bit.ly/48kWHvC
GraphRAG proved that structure = reliability in AI 🧠⚙️ But not every team wants the complexity of a full graph setup. DocumentRAG (BM25-based) hits the sweet spot... explainable, grounded, and lightweight. Learn why structure still wins 👇 bit.ly/48kWHvC
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
NEW BLOG!
GraphRAG proved that structure = reliability in AI 🧠⚙️ But not every team wants the complexity of a full graph setup. DocumentRAG (BM25-based) hits the sweet spot... explainable, grounded, and lightweight. Learn why structure still wins 👇 bit.ly/48kWHvC
GraphRAG proved that structure = reliability in AI 🧠⚙️ But not every team wants the complexity of a full graph setup. DocumentRAG (BM25-based) hits the sweet spot... explainable, grounded, and lightweight. Learn why structure still wins 👇 bit.ly/48kWHvC
Last week, I delivered "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Multi-Agents Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search" at Devoxx Morocco 🇲🇦. It was my first time in Morocco, what an experience!
Check out my blog post, which contains resources from the talk 🔗 bit.ly/4r9qAY9 ✨
Check out my blog post, which contains resources from the talk 🔗 bit.ly/4r9qAY9 ✨
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Last week, I delivered "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Multi-Agents Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search" at Devoxx Morocco 🇲🇦. It was my first time in Morocco, what an experience!
Check out my blog post, which contains resources from the talk 🔗 bit.ly/4r9qAY9 ✨
Check out my blog post, which contains resources from the talk 🔗 bit.ly/4r9qAY9 ✨
Back at #KubeCon after almost 5 years, and spoke with Yash Sharma on the intersection of AI + k8s 😄 It sparked a great number of discussions after our session, and it was incredible 🤓
Recording out in a few weeks, but here are session resources: bit.ly/3WVrGcm 🚀
Recording out in a few weeks, but here are session resources: bit.ly/3WVrGcm 🚀
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Back at #KubeCon after almost 5 years, and spoke with Yash Sharma on the intersection of AI + k8s 😄 It sparked a great number of discussions after our session, and it was incredible 🤓
Recording out in a few weeks, but here are session resources: bit.ly/3WVrGcm 🚀
Recording out in a few weeks, but here are session resources: bit.ly/3WVrGcm 🚀
We are definitely not in an AI bubble. When AI and sandwiches collide.
Not going to lie, they make amazing sandwiches though.
Not going to lie, they make amazing sandwiches though.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We are definitely not in an AI bubble. When AI and sandwiches collide.
Not going to lie, they make amazing sandwiches though.
Not going to lie, they make amazing sandwiches though.
@socallinuxexpo.bsky.social isn't just a conference... It's a community. 💡 Join the next generation of open-source innovators at the SCaLE: The Next Generation (TNG) info session this Sat, Nov 8 @ 9 AM! 🚀 Empower the future of tech!
Register 👉 bit.ly/scale-youth-info
#SCaLE23x
Register 👉 bit.ly/scale-youth-info
#SCaLE23x
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@socallinuxexpo.bsky.social isn't just a conference... It's a community. 💡 Join the next generation of open-source innovators at the SCaLE: The Next Generation (TNG) info session this Sat, Nov 8 @ 9 AM! 🚀 Empower the future of tech!
Register 👉 bit.ly/scale-youth-info
#SCaLE23x
Register 👉 bit.ly/scale-youth-info
#SCaLE23x
1 week to go until Devoxx Morocco 🇲🇦! Excited to share "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Multi-Agents Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search."
📅 Fri, Nov 14 at 9:00 AM
📍 L’oranger Conference Room
🔗 bit.ly/45YCb2t
Demo below: When you blindly trust vector RAG...
📅 Fri, Nov 14 at 9:00 AM
📍 L’oranger Conference Room
🔗 bit.ly/45YCb2t
Demo below: When you blindly trust vector RAG...
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
1 week to go until Devoxx Morocco 🇲🇦! Excited to share "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Multi-Agents Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search."
📅 Fri, Nov 14 at 9:00 AM
📍 L’oranger Conference Room
🔗 bit.ly/45YCb2t
Demo below: When you blindly trust vector RAG...
📅 Fri, Nov 14 at 9:00 AM
📍 L’oranger Conference Room
🔗 bit.ly/45YCb2t
Demo below: When you blindly trust vector RAG...
We’re 1️⃣ week away from #KubeCon NA! Excited to team up with Yash Sharma to share how MCP + RAG supercharge k8sgpt for smarter Kubernetes troubleshooting ⚙️
📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 🕚 11:00 AM EST
📍 Bldg B | Lvl 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1
👉 bit.ly/4ln39Xt
📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 🕚 11:00 AM EST
📍 Bldg B | Lvl 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1
👉 bit.ly/4ln39Xt
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We’re 1️⃣ week away from #KubeCon NA! Excited to team up with Yash Sharma to share how MCP + RAG supercharge k8sgpt for smarter Kubernetes troubleshooting ⚙️
📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 🕚 11:00 AM EST
📍 Bldg B | Lvl 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1
👉 bit.ly/4ln39Xt
📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 🕚 11:00 AM EST
📍 Bldg B | Lvl 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1
👉 bit.ly/4ln39Xt
Opening keynote at @odsc.bsky.social with Harrison Chase (of LangChain) talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are about to explode... I love coding, but "no code" multi-agent systems are coming.
Mutil-agents are about to explode... I love coding, but "no code" multi-agent systems are coming.
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Opening keynote at @odsc.bsky.social with Harrison Chase (of LangChain) talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are about to explode... I love coding, but "no code" multi-agent systems are coming.
Mutil-agents are about to explode... I love coding, but "no code" multi-agent systems are coming.
Opening keynote at @_odsc with @hwchase17 talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Opening keynote at @_odsc with @hwchase17 talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Opening keynote at @_odsc with @hwchase17talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Opening keynote at @_odsc with @hwchase17talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
🎤 My @odsc.bsky.social session is today, Wed, Oct 29 at 3:30 PM!
We’re unpacking how MCP and Agent2Agent are reshaping RAG & intelligent search (packed with live demos). 🤖
Info: bit.ly/42AU5HK
Come join the session and see what's next.
🎬 Check out the teaser clip below!
We’re unpacking how MCP and Agent2Agent are reshaping RAG & intelligent search (packed with live demos). 🤖
Info: bit.ly/42AU5HK
Come join the session and see what's next.
🎬 Check out the teaser clip below!
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🎤 My @odsc.bsky.social session is today, Wed, Oct 29 at 3:30 PM!
We’re unpacking how MCP and Agent2Agent are reshaping RAG & intelligent search (packed with live demos). 🤖
Info: bit.ly/42AU5HK
Come join the session and see what's next.
🎬 Check out the teaser clip below!
We’re unpacking how MCP and Agent2Agent are reshaping RAG & intelligent search (packed with live demos). 🤖
Info: bit.ly/42AU5HK
Come join the session and see what's next.
🎬 Check out the teaser clip below!