Ep. #56, Vibe Coding for Data with Mark Brocato

On episode 60 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Vasanth Mohan of SambaNova about when faster AI agents actually mean better work. They explore why token consumption and code volume are poor substitutes for business value, how inference latency interrupts productive workflows, and why engineering taste still matters. Sometimes the most valuable thing an engineer can produce is less code.

On episode 59 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Emily Long and Alex Zenla, co-founders of Edera, about rethinking the foundations of cloud and AI security. They explain how an IoT side project became an approach to workload isolation built around Xen and Rust, and why AI agents are making stronger security boundaries increasingly urgent. Along the way, they discuss complementary leadership skills, fundraising lessons, and the value of questioning the industry’s technical assumptions.

On episode 58 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Anastasia Marchenkova. They explore what it will take to move quantum computing from promising hardware to useful, production-ready systems, including better orchestration across quantum, classical, and AI compute. Anastasia also discusses open-source infrastructure, the limits of AI automation, and her larger vision of making powerful computing and scientific tools more broadly accessible.

On episode 57 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Navneet Kaur, founder of FemTech India and TechThrive Ventures. Together they explore why women's health innovation must extend beyond Western markets, how AI is reshaping femtech, and what founders need to understand about trust, culture, and personalization when building global healthcare companies.

On episode 56 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Mark Brocato, founder of Mockaroo and creator of Fabricate, to explore the evolution of synthetic data in the age of AI. Mark shares how a simple internal QA tool grew into one of the most widely used synthetic data platforms and discusses how agentic AI is transforming software development, testing, and data generation.

On episode 55 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Sunil Dhaliwal to explore how AI is reshaping developer infrastructure, venture investing, and computational biology. Sunil reflects on building Amplify Partners during the rise of cloud computing, why the best technical founders “live the problem,” and where he sees the next generation of AI tooling emerging. The conversation also dives into personalized medicine, AI infrastructure consolidation, and what remains fundamentally human about investing.

On episode 54 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Vishakha Gupta to explore the hidden infrastructure challenges behind modern AI. They unpack why multimodal data systems are still fragmented, how graph and vector approaches can be unified, and what it takes to build production-ready AI pipelines. This conversation offers a systems-level perspective on scaling AI beyond prototypes.

On episode 53 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Dr. Mehdi Nourbakhsh to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the physical and digital worlds. They discuss the origins of generative design, why many AI initiatives fail inside organizations, and how leaders can move beyond experimentation toward real adoption. Mehdi also shares practical enterprise AI use cases and his perspective on how AI can augment human decision-making.

On episode 52 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Piyush Agarwal to explore how developer behavior reveals far more about buying intent than traditional sales signals. They discuss why most dev tool GTM strategies fail, how to distinguish curiosity from real demand, and what it takes to engage developers at exactly the right moment.

On episode 51 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Soya Park of Akify to explore why an organization’s most valuable knowledge rarely makes it into formal systems. They discuss how leaders make excellent decisions every day without realizing it, and how AI can surface, reinforce, and scale those best practices without disrupting existing workflows.