AI After Dark

Seven years trading at JP Morgan, a Fulbright scholarship to the US, and one circled line in a careers book at Warwick. Anekha Sokhal, Founder and Machine Learning Engineer at Moshi, walks through how she's building an AI-native analyst platform for energy and macro traders. We get into screen real estate wars on trading desks, why people lie about their workflows, building Toyotas instead of Ferraris, and what it actually takes to leave a dream job to chase a harder one.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Screen real estate and the death of the application04:00 - Building Moshi after eight years of trading08:00 - Tribal knowledge, generational gaps, and AI FOMO12:30 - A statistical edge in a zero-sum industry17:30 - Toyotas vs Ferraris and learning to fail fast23:30 - Team culture at startup speed27:00 - Solo founding and always selling33:30 - From a careers book at Warwick to JP Morgan37:00 - Leaving the dream job for a Fulbright to Rice43:30 - Prioritization and listening without taking it personally49:30 - The hard moments and finding conviction

Going from designer to CTO sounds like an impossible career pivot, but Kyle Ledbetter, Co-Founder and CTO of Dreambase, walks through how AI handed him the permission slip he didn't know he needed. We get into building a Dream Team of data agents on top of Supabase, why dashboards are just the Trojan horse, agent orchestration, the case for CLI as the default interface, and the slightly terrifying moment his wife's AI generated Instagram feed knew her better than he did.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 From designer to CTO04:30 The co-founder unlock and imposter syndrome07:30 Rethinking team design with AI10:00 Mini CEOs and agents as employees12:00 The Dream Team of data agents15:00 Why Dream Base sits on Supabase18:30 Why can't Claude just build this21:00 Specialization beats generalists25:00 MCP apps and email as UI30:30 Critical thinking for the next generation37:30 What keeps Kyle up at night42:00 Faster horse vs building a car45:00 Legacy industries adopting AI48:00 What comes after dashboards50:30 The rise of the CLI54:00 When the algorithm knows you better than your spouse58:00 What Dream Base really is