Off-air pre-roll: two speakers planning edits and naming their agent 'Jiro'
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A 28-second off-mic pre-roll in which the two Nori Agentic presenters settle on the name “Jiro” for their agent and plan their opening edit, immediately before their recorded online-track talk.
See the one-line summary above; this segment is a 28-second off-air pre-roll.
Key lessons
Section titled “Key lessons”None - this segment is a 28-second off-air pre-roll.
Watch this session
Section titled “Watch this session”Notable quotes
Section titled “Notable quotes”“Do we want to call it Jiro or no?” [05:01:51 | 1:42:26 PM]
“I think it’s also like a helpful potential cut, which is like, if we ask Jiro, like, you ready to get started?” [05:02:01 | 1:42:37 PM]
Session narrative
Section titled “Session narrative”This filler segment is off-mic pre-roll chatter between the two presenters of the next pre-recorded AIE online-track talk. The two voices settle on the name “Jiro” for their on-screen agent, plan an opening beat where they ask Jiro “you ready to get started?” and Jiro gives a visual acknowledgment, and agree on a “transition pane” / “transition cut” edit, ending with “All right, let’s get started.” Neither voice self-identifies in this slice; the boundary verification attributes them to Amol Kapoor and Clifford Ressel from their self-introductions at [18219] and [18234] in the talk that starts right after (“My name is Amol… CEO of a company called Nori Agentic”; “I’m Cliff… CTO at Nori Agentic”). The final transcript line, “Thanks, guys, for coming to listen to a talk on the AIE online track.” [05:02:19 | 1:42:54 PM], is the opening sentence of the following segment (order 29), which begins at t=18138; this segment ends at the chatter line “All right, let’s get started.” (t=18137.5).
This slice is too short and too incidental for lessons. The agenda shows a Networking Break in this window, so this content is off-agenda stream filler between the recorded Jellyfish talk (ends “Cheers.” at t=18090) and the Nori Agentic talk.
Speaker details
Section titled “Speaker details”Amol Kapoor - CEO, Nori Agentic. Amol Kapoor leads Nori Agentic, the company behind Nori, cloud infrastructure for running AI agents in isolated cloud environments with access to a team’s code, documents, and operational knowledge. He has worked in AI and machine learning for about 12 years, including as a researcher at Google Research on graph neural networks, computer vision, 3D reconstruction, and robotics. He studied at Columbia University, co-founded the visual-filesystem company SOOT (as CTO), and organizes Agentics, a New York AI community event series. Links: LinkedIn | Twitter | Website (Not named in this pre-roll; identified from the self-introduction in the immediately following session.)
Clifford Ressel - Co-founder and CTO, Nori Agentic. Clifford Ressel co-founded Nori Agentic, which provides cloud infrastructure for teams running AI agents to develop software and automate operational work. He works on the future of coding agents, including nori-cli, a Rust-based CLI for running coding agents across models and providers, and nori-skillsets for portable, reusable agent skills. He studied computer science and linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Links: LinkedIn | Twitter | GitHub (Not named in this pre-roll; identified from the self-introduction in the immediately following session.)
Full timestamped transcript
Section titled “Full timestamped transcript”[05:01:50 | 1:42:25 PM] Okay.[05:01:50 | 1:42:26 PM] Yep.[05:01:51 | 1:42:26 PM] Do we want to call it Jiro or no?[05:01:55 | 1:42:31 PM] Yeah, we could call it Jiro.[05:01:58 | 1:42:34 PM] We could just be like, this is our agent Jiro.[05:02:01 | 1:42:37 PM] I think it's also like a helpful potential cut, which is like, if we ask Jiro, like, you ready to get started?[05:02:06 | 1:42:42 PM] Yeah, sure.[05:02:07 | 1:42:42 PM] And then, like, you know, our video can move, Jiro can, like, draw something, acknowledgement, whatever.[05:02:12 | 1:42:47 PM] Yeah, yeah, yeah.[05:02:12 | 1:42:48 PM] Maybe like a transition pane.[05:02:14 | 1:42:50 PM] Yeah.[05:02:15 | 1:42:50 PM] Transition cut.[05:02:15 | 1:42:51 PM] Okay.[05:02:15 | 1:42:51 PM] Yeah.[05:02:16 | 1:42:51 PM] All right, let's get started.[05:02:19 | 1:42:54 PM] Thanks, guys, for coming to listen to a talk on the AIE online track.