Binny Gill, Founder and CEO of Kognitos, discusses how LLMs like ChatGPT are making us all programmers
Binny Gill on how LLMs like ChatGPT are making everyone programmers and transforming automation.
Episode Description
Binny Gill started his career as a programmer after studying CS and Engineering at IIT Kanpur and later UIUC, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He then had an impressive eight-year run as a technology leader at Nutanix, the hyper converged infrastructure company, eventually becoming its CTO for cloud services. In January 2021, Binny left Nutanix to start Kognitos based on a bold vision to make everyone a programmer. In this discussion, we learn about his journey and how generative AI just may change everything.
Thanks to Steve Kaplan for the intro to Binny.
Listen and learn:
- Binny’s inspiration for starting Kognitos: “…why should humans need to think like machines… when machines can now think like humans?”
- What makes programming so hard.
- Why the future of programming is using natural language to describe the features you want.
- How computing interfaces restrict us from communicating like humans when programming.
- Why Binny says “generative AI is the new electricity.”
- The most important leadership lesson Binny learned working alongside iconic leaders at IBM.
References in this episode:
- How Petals just became the BitTorrent of LLMs
- Phil McKinney, former HP CTO, on AI and the Future of Work
- The Kognitos blog
Generative AI: Embracing Intelligent Automation is a Kognitos production. Kognitos enables businesses to build and manage automation in real-time using human language. For a demo visit Kognitos.com
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Common questions about this episode
What is this episode about?
Binny Gill, founder and CEO of Kognitos, on how large language models like ChatGPT are making everyone a programmer — and what that means for business automation. Binny traces his journey from Nutanix to Kognitos and the thesis that humans should not have to think like machines when machines can now think like humans.
Who is Binny Gill?
Binny Gill is the founder and CEO of Kognitos. He spent eight years at Nutanix as a technology leader, eventually serving as CTO for Cloud Services, before founding Kognitos in January 2021 with a vision to make everyone a programmer through natural language.
What does this episode cover about generative AI and programming?
Why programming is hard, why the future of programming is describing intent in natural language, how computing interfaces have restricted human-computer communication, why "generative AI is the new electricity," and leadership lessons from Binny's time at IBM.
How does this episode relate to Agentic AI and enterprise automation?
This is the early articulation of the thesis behind Kognitos's deterministic agentic AI platform: if anyone can describe a business process in English, the platform should be able to run it as a governed program. That thesis is what powers Kognitos's enterprise automation product today.
Where can I listen to this episode?
Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — links are at the top of this page. For more conversations with Binny Gill, see The Logic of AI Magic series at /podcast/.