{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Braintrust by Cortex","title":"Outcomes over activities: Planera's Naveen Puvvula on aligning humans and agents to the work that matters","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e7569ebc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2871,"description":"Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Naveen Puvvula, who recently left a director role at Life360 to become a senior principal engineer at construction tech startup Planera, to talk about what it takes to align both humans and AI agents around outcomes instead of activity.\nNaveen and Ganesh discuss why architecture and product judgment remain squarely human tasks even as agents get better at execution, how organizational bottlenecks rather than raw compute determine whether AI investment pays off, and why engineering specialization is likely to stratify the way manufacturing did with the rise of factory technicians. They also get into the trust gap AI still needs to close in regulated, high-stakes industries, and why unlimited token budgets are reviving the same tech debt trade-offs teams used to make with headcount.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ySnZ0f3oFot1nXhD72oolFI3bZcgZ6Z9xDdt5_KXizE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZmJi/ZjcwZTRlMjNkMzZj/NDBmNDZmZDVlNDRh/NGZjOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}