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.
#4169: Change Detection AI for Construction Sites
How AI catches what experts miss in construction site photos — from Siamese networks to transformer models.
#4167: Why AI Can’t Read Your Gmail (Yet)
Your AI misses emails and fails to send replies. It’s not dumb—the pipes are leaky.
#4165: Living in the Gap: High-Rise Satire as Social Experiment
One man weaponizes luxury marketing by treating his apartment tower as an actual sanctuary above the city.
#4160: Why That "Dry" Wine Tasted Like Flat Coke
The chemistry of why "dry" on a label doesn't mean what you think — and which grapes deliver the real deal.
#4157: Prompt Engineering Is a Misnomer — Managing Ambiguity in AI
Why the best AI outputs come not from tighter prompts, but from knowing where to leave room for surprise.
#4145: Does Getting Things Done Actually Work?
Stress-testing David Allen’s GTD claims against real cognitive science. Does writing things down really free your brain?
#4143: How Screwdrivers Became a Museum of Bad Decisions
Why are there so many incompatible screw types? The surprising history of Phillips, Robertson, and the design that won by failing.
#4139: The Hosepipe-to-Digest AI: Your Outbox Middleware
An AI middleware that intercepts your outgoing emails, buffers them, and delivers a crisp executive summary.
#4106: Embedding Models vs LLMs: What Actually Connects?
Can you mix any embedding model with any LLM? And why are new embedding models still dropping if they're "solved"?
#4104: Why 20% of AI Scripts Loop on Themselves
Debugging the mysterious repetition bug affecting one in five podcast episodes.
#4094: One Mind or Two? AI Podcast Dialogue Showdown
Can two AI agents create better podcast banter than one? We explore the tradeoffs.
#4092: How AI Remembers What You Never Told It
How ChatGPT connected "wall anchors" to a power tool you bought days ago — without being asked.
#4090: When Visual Shortcuts Fail: Reading Politics by Appearance in Israel
How reliable are political signals from clothing? One Jerusalemite's stories of delightful failures.
#4087: What Connie Sachs’s Job Title Actually Is
How a fictional spy’s pattern-recognition skill maps to real CIA, MI5, and MI6 careers.
#4071: Four Tools for a Human Review Layer on AI Tags
Adding human review to AI-generated tags without building an admin panel from scratch.
#4069: How AI Is Rewriting Your Tech Stack Choices
What happens when AI agents change how we pick frameworks, ORMs, and databases?
#4068: How to Build a Go Image Pipeline for Your Inventory App
Stop treating your inventory app like a photo dump. Here's how to build a smart image pipeline in Go.
#4059: LLM Councils for Post-Gallbladder Care
Can multiple AI models solve what no single doctor can? A deep dive into LLM councils for post-cholecystectomy syndrome.
#4058: Can AI Agents Ever Be Truly Social?
Text-based AI simulations look social, but do they understand anything? We explore the gap between pattern-matching and real social intelligence.
#4057: How to Fix AI's Bullet Point Addiction
Why AI models default to bullet points and how textual LoRAs achieve 94% prose adherence.