Artificial Intelligence
Episodes whose main subject is AI itself: building with, training, evaluating, or debating AI systems. AI used only as a tool for another topic goes to that topic.
#5512: The Passenger Seat Never Got an Instrument Panel
Dedicated front-passenger screens exist across luxury cars — but they're built for TikTok, not for the co-pilot job. Here's why.
#5507: Inside ChatGPT's Hidden Pipeline: 8 Models Per Reply
One chat turn isn't one model call. It's moderation, PII filtering, a tone-based router, and activation classifiers — here's the documented graph.
#5506: AI Is Way More Than Chatbots
The word "AI" quietly became a synonym for "chatbot." Here's what the full model ecosystem actually contains.
#5505: Send a Bot to Your Next Sales Call
Daniel wants a bot that takes his sales meetings, asks hard questions, and ends the call when the pitch is spray-and-pray.
#5504: Motolola and the Art of the Near-Miss Knockoff
From a Motolola walkie-talkie to barcode-cloned counterfeits, how knockoffs calibrate just enough distance to trade on recognition.
#5503: Inside the Hidden Image Generation Pipeline
That one-click image generator is secretly a graph of many models. We reconstruct the hidden pipeline behind Gemini and ChatGPT.
#5488: How Emoji Went From 176 Characters to 3,600
From a 176-character set built for Japanese pagers to a 3,600-character Unicode standard — and why your emoji breaks in production.
#5485: Fine-Tuning Parakeet for Hebrew and Your Own Jargon
NVIDIA's Parakeet beats Whisper on Android — but can you teach it Hebrew, or just your own jargon? Two answers, one much happier.
#5482: When AI Edits Your Words: The Off Switch Problem
A tool that works reliably — and still gets switched off. What over-editing studies reveal about why AI rewrites more than you asked.
#5481: Small Models, Big Guardrails: PII Detection in ChatGPT
A tiny 600M parameter model is quietly scanning your ChatGPT tool calls for PII. Here's how that class of guardian model actually works.
#5480: Writing a Personal Instruction for ChatGPT
Daniel's personal ChatGPT prompt gets a line-by-line critique — and the case for shorter, sharper custom instructions.
#5478: When AI Hands Out Your Phone Number
A chatbot gave out a stranger's real phone number. What happens when the model can't forget it?
#5476: When Login Systems Lock Out Their Own Users
Why do login systems permanently lock out real users? A look at the hidden design failures behind OTP dead ends and circular recovery flows.
#5471: Your News Feed Is Filtering for Failure
40% of people now avoid the news. Here's why the feed distorts reality — and what to read instead.
#5469: Open Source's New Map: India, Croatia, Ethiopia
One in three new GitHub developers now comes from a country outside 2020's top ten. What that shift means for open source.
#5467: Small Models, Big Schemas: When JSON Constraints Backfire
Small models plus strict JSON schemas should be a safe bet. A 15,000-generation study found the opposite.
#5466: Hebrew Words Hidden in English Text
Daniel wants a classifier that spots Hebrew written in Latin letters — and it turns out nobody's built one.
#5465: Packaging AI Pipelines So They Actually Get Reused
Daniel's podcast pipeline works — so why can't he reuse it? Recipes, containers, and Hebrew code-switching TTS.
#5464: Your Keyboard's Hidden Data Problem
Your keyboard knows your email address, your phrases, your habits — and you can't take any of it with you.
#5463: What Happens When You Click "Connect" on an AI Plugin
You click accept, the tool runs, and a credential you never saw is doing the work. Here's who actually owns it.