InfoQ - Business https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Business feed Presentation: From Models to Agents: Building Context-Aware Consumer AI at Scale at DoorDash https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-agentic-recommendations-semantic-ids/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Business <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/ai-agentic-recommendations-semantic-ids/en/mediumimage/sudeep-das-medium-1785845550765.jpeg"/><p>Sudeep Das shares how DoorDash shifts from legacy one-shot predictions to an agentic recommendation platform. He discusses leveraging language-native consumer memory, RQ-VAE semantic IDs for catalog representation, and grounded search to dramatically boost relevance and conversion metrics.</p> <i>By Sudeep Das</i> Agents QCon AI Boston 2026 AI Architecture Rankings Agentic AI Architecture E-Commerce Large language models Generative AI vector databases Search Machine Learning Transcripts AI, ML & Data Engineering Architecture & Design presentation Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-agentic-recommendations-semantic-ids/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Business Sudeep Das 2026-08-15T11:00:00Z /presentations/ai-agentic-recommendations-semantic-ids/en Podcast: Founders, Friction, and Focus: Building Engineering Teams at Early-Stage Startups https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/building-engineering-teams-early-stage-startups/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Business <img src="https://res.infoq.com/podcasts/building-engineering-teams-early-stage-startups/en/smallimage/engineering-culture-podcast-thumbnail-1786109915926.jpg"/><p>In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Gudeman about the unique culture of early-stage startup engineering, how founder personality quirks and premature process impositions can derail teams, and how engineers can build influence and make deliberate career choices without formal power.</p> <i>By David Gudeman</i> Leadership Engineering Culture Podcast Psychological Safety Teamwork Management Startup Careers Agile Scrum Trust Culture & Methods podcast Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/building-engineering-teams-early-stage-startups/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Business David Gudeman 2026-08-14T09:00:00Z /podcasts/building-engineering-teams-early-stage-startups/en