Interview, Explained

In-depth breakdowns of tech interviews — section-by-section analysis with diagrams, quotes, and insights.

~18 min

The TWIML AI Podcast·2026-11-13

Chris Lattner on why one AI stack can span every chip

Chris Lattner· EVP of Advanced AI Software and Platforms at Qualcomm

Chris Lattner explains why AI's hardware is fragmenting into specialized chips, how one software stack can span them by unifying what is common and specializing only the hot path, why selling Modular to Qualcomm was what finally let the platform go open source, and where he still keeps a human in the loop as agents take over the code.

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~56 min

TWIML AI Podcast·2026-08-12

Fatih Porikli on making image models precise, not just plausible

Fatih Porikli· VP of Technology

Qualcomm's Fatih Porikli argues that image generation's next frontier isn't a bigger model but smarter decomposition: reward the right objective, split planning from rendering, route to specialists, and tile the work in latent space so precise, high-resolution images run on a phone.

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