How to Listen to or Subscribe to the Chain of Thought Podcast

You can listen to the Chain of Thought Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or via its RSS feed, and you can subscribe to a free email newsletter for new episodes and host essays. The show is hosted by Conor Bronsdon and features guests from companies like NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and AMD, aimed at engineers, founders, and operators building AI. All 77 episodes are available, and the newsletter has 1,200+ subscribers with delivery up to once a week.

Where to listen

The site lists four follow options under "Follow the show":

Each episode page also offers a direct "Download the episode audio" link, so you can save an episode without going through a platform.

How to subscribe for updates

The newsletter is the main way to get new episodes and written material:

• What you get: new episodes plus Conor's essays on what the conversations add up to.
• Frequency: up to once a week.
• Cost: the site labels the subscribe action "Subscribe free."
• Unsubscribing: the site states you can unsubscribe anytime.
• Sign-up: enter your email address on the site and confirm. By subscribing you agree to Substack's Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Information collection notice.

If you only want episodes, following on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or RSS is enough — the newsletter is optional.

Finding a specific episode or topic

• Latest episode: the homepage surfaces the newest one. As of the site's October 8, 2026 snapshot, that was EP 77, "Switching Models Shouldn't Mean Starting Over," with Kimberly Logan of Walrus Protocol.
• All episodes: the "All 77 episodes" link goes to the full archive.
• Show notes and transcripts: each episode has a "Show notes & transcript" link, useful if you'd rather read than listen.
• By topic: episodes are grouped under topics including AI Agents, AI Evaluation & Reliability, Enterprise AI, Open Source AI, RAG & Retrieval, AI Hardware, AI Observability, AI Coding, Agent Memory, Multimodal AI, and Context Management.
• Explainers: the "AI, decoded" section answers common builder questions and links each answer to the guests who have dealt with it in production.

New here? Start with these

If you're deciding whether the show is for you, the site's "New here? Start here" entry point and the explainer pages are the fastest way to sample the format. Recent episodes give a sense of the range:

• EP 76 — "Your Best AI Engineer Might Have the Worst Metrics," with Andrea Malagodi, CTO at Sonar (Enterprise AI, 57 min).
• EP 75 — "Why Context Alone Isn't Enough for Enterprise AI Agents," with Kapil Chhabra, CPO at WisdomAI (AI Agents, 83 min).
• EP 74 — "AI Codes: Product Engineers Decide What to Build," with Laurie Voss of Arize (AI Agents, 56 min).

Common snags

• RSS in a podcast app: if your app asks for a feed URL rather than a search name, use the RSS link from the "Follow the show" section instead of searching by title.
• Wanting to read instead of listen: use the per-episode "Show notes & transcript" link — not every platform surfaces it.
• Expecting a paid tier: the site only signals a free newsletter subscription; there's no indication of a paid plan, so don't assume one exists.