Alex Gras sits down with Gustavo Herrera, Founder and CTO of Knowme Global, to talk through why recruiting still sucks and how AI might actually fix it by doing the one thing everyone avoids, sitting down and talking to people for two hours. Gustavo breaks down why LLMs are just glorified averaging, how he picked Llama Index over LangChain by keeping it simple, and why the industry's obsession with automation is backwards when the hardest part is capturing who someone actually is. They dig into prompt versus context engineering, why philosophy matters more than people think, and how AI is forcing everyone back to the most human things we do.

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0:00 - Why Gustavo went back to school to learn AI for recruiting
4:30 - Choosing tech stacks and avoiding bleeding edge tools
9:15 - How Knowme ingests long-format interviews to build candidate profiles
14:45 - Prompt engineering versus context engineering
19:00 - Why LLMs will never be truly intelligent
24:20 - Philosophy's role in shaping AI and society
30:45 - How employers don't actually know what they want
36:15 - Speeding up the 42-day hiring process with AI interviews
42:00 - Why Knowme does the unscalable thing nobody wants to do
47:30 - Preventing AI from embellishing candidate answers
54:10 - Training interviewers to strike the right conversational tone
58:45 - When to use deterministic solutions versus agentic AI
1:01:40 - AI bringing us back to our humanity

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