Episode 112

Carmine Paolino on RubyLLM, Chat with Work, and Building AI Products Solo

With Carmine Paolino,
March 28, 2026

What we talked about

Carmine Paolino is an AI builder and founder based in Berlin. He co-founded Freshflow to help supermarkets reduce food waste, built RubyLLM, an open source library that makes working with LLMs in Ruby feel simple and elegant, and is now building Chat with Work, a workplace knowledge assistant that connects tools like Google Drive and Slack so teams can find answers without guessing where information lives.

Show notes

Today I am joined by Carmine Paolino, an AI builder and founder based in Berlin. He has worked across machine learning, distributed systems, and full stack engineering, helped scale teams at OLX Group and Capgemini, and co founded Freshflow to help supermarkets reduce food waste. 

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