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.
#4986: How to Weaponize Small Talk (Anti-Guide)
Turn "How are you?" into a weapon. An escalatory ladder from honest answers to full conversational catastrophe.
#4980: Can You Learn to Code Backwards?
When AI writes your code, do you still learn? Aviation, atrophy, and building a mental model from scratch.
#4979: Building a Shadow Reputation on Amazon and AliExpress
Is concentrating your spending on just two platforms actually a smart strategy? The mechanisms behind it are real.
#4976: Building a Procurement Agent That Actually Works
How to encode the weird, undocumented skills technical buyers use every day into an AI agent that won't get you audited.
#4973: Building a Pure AI Inference Server
Why your "AI server" should look more like a database than a web app, and how to actually build one.
#4972: CPU vs GPU Inference: When to Skip the GPU
Why running AI on CPU isn't a toy — and when the GPU advantage vanishes.
#4971: Fine-Tune vs Prompt: Taming Hallucinated Deadlines
Big models add fake deadlines. Small models miss tasks. Which wrongness can you build a system around?
#4970: Labels vs. Book Covers: Structured Extraction Tradeoffs
General vision models vs. purpose-built pipelines for extracting data from messy real-world labels and covers.
#4969: How to Train a One-Class Detector from 300 Photos
From photo folder to production YOLO model — the real walkthrough for custom object detection.
#4967: AI Gateways: Worth the Middleware Tax?
When does an AI gateway's overhead justify its features? We break down the tradeoffs.
#4966: Local vs Cloud: Running Hugging Face Models
Hugging Face's compatibility tracker, cache management, and the real difference between Inference Endpoints and the direct API.
#4965: The $115 Desk Studio That Beats Pop-Up Boxes
Pop-up boxes sag, card systems cost $45 for cardboard. The desk-mounted alternative works better for less.
#4960: How Clickbait Hijacks Your Brain
The 1835 moon bison hoax, 1920s piano ads, and why you still click on pillow articles.
#4958: Multi-Model Transcription with LLM Reconciliation
Using multiple transcription engines and an LLM judge to catch errors in voice-to-text — especially tricky technical terms.
#4921: The Breakfast Detective and Other Cringe Icebreakers
Why do some icebreakers create connection while others produce cringe? A three-factor model explains it all.
#4920: Local Dictation on Android: The Real Bottlenecks
Why on-device speech-to-text on Android hits a wall at 30 seconds — and what silicon actually matters.
#4913: What ACMI Leasing Reveals About Airline Operations
How airlines secretly swap planes and crews without passengers knowing.
#4911: How Airline SOPs Vary Between Operators
Why the same plane type can fly differently depending on which airline's procedures the crew follows.
#4910: Why Wide-Body Flying Isn't Actually Harder
Why bigger planes don't need more experienced pilots — and how ACMI operators let pilots leapfrog the seniority queue.
#4903: Can You Really Sew Your Own Shorts?
What it actually takes — in time, money, and skill — to make a pair of shorts from scratch.