Airbnb CTO on Project Everest: Building a 'Company Brain' for AI Agents
TWIML AI Podcast · rss · 2026-10-22
TWIML interviews Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle on Project Everest, a 'company brain' that captures institutional knowledge from employee workflows for AI agents. Key topics: stale information and context poisoning, why too much context backfires, evaluating whether shared knowledge improves engineering work, measuring AI productivity beyond token counts and PR counts, the limits of chat interfaces, and deploying support agents in a marketplace where disputes require mediating conflicting interests.
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