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S10E11 - Still Essential: Ruchir Puri, IBM Chief Scientist, on the Death of Prompt Engineering and the Rise of Agentic AI {Replay}

Published: March 18, 2026

Duration: 29:40

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First Aired Apr 23, 2025

If you've been following the AI space lately, this episode hits differently the second time around.

When Al sat down with Ruchir PuriChief Scientist of IBM Research, IBM Fellow, and the architect behind Watson and watsonx — the conversation covered ground that's only gotten more relevant since: the death of prompt engineering, the rise of agentic AI, and why 2025 was always going to be the year agents broke through in the enterprise.

Ruchir doesn't deal in hype. He deals in syst...