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.
#3840: Record VC But a Founder Drought? Inside the Split
Record $330B VC quarter, yet founders say fundraising is brutal. Here’s how AI concentration and LP shifts split the market.
#3835: Slack's Accidental AI Agent Superpower
The tool that failed to kill email is now thriving as the notification backbone for AI agents. Here's why.
#3830: How a Jewish Newswire Became a Media Combatant
JNS is explicit about fighting an information war. How this newswire differs from the century-old JTA.
#3826: What Your Humor Style Reveals About Your Brain
Why two people can watch the same clip and hear totally different things — one a joke, the other an insult.
#3816: How to Stop AI Scripts From Falling Apart
Why long-form AI generation breaks down and how hierarchical memory fixes it.
#3814: The Day We Lost Our Minds: What Temperature Does to an AI
A two-host autopsy of the day the podcast's AI hosts briefly lost coherence due to excessive sampling temperature, and what it reveals about how language models actually work.
#3800: How AI Hallucinates Better Pixels: Upscaling Explained
The difference between interpolation and super-resolution, and why every upscaled image is a collaboration with training data.
#3797: How Self-Reverting Watchdogs Save Broken SSH Sessions
A dead man's switch for server configs that automatically rolls back risky changes when connectivity drops.
#3772: AI-Native Knowledge Platforms for Human-Machine Docs
What happens when AI agents and humans need to share the same documentation without drifting apart?
#3768: Testing Premises Before They Fail
How structured techniques and AI frameworks challenge assumptions in high-stakes scenarios before they become failures.
#3767: How LLMs Actually Learn: Stages or Slurry?
Do large language models learn grammar first, then facts? The honest answer is messier and more fascinating.
#3755: Hermes vs OpenClaw: Mobile-to-Server AI Frameworks
Why developers are leaving OpenClaw for Hermes—and why mobile-to-server AI interaction remains unsolved.
#3751: Source-Restricted vs. Open Retrieval: How to Lock Down Your LLM
When should an LLM be locked to specific documents, and when should it search the web? A practical framework for grounding decisions.
#3724: How the Pope's Letter on AI Actually Works
Unpacking the Pope’s new encyclical on AI: what it is, how Catholics interpret it, and why it matters beyond the Church.
#3718: AI Babysitters Already Exist—What We Learned
Tens of thousands of Chinese families already use robot babysitters. What actually happened, and what's next?
#3717: What Even Is Luxury?
Is luxury in the object or in your head? A deep dive into the meaning of high-end goods.
#3713: How a Real PI Manages Thousands of Photos
Phone camera rolls don't cut it. Here's how real PIs organize, tag, and store thousands of evidence photos per month.
#3703: Group Sex Through History: Orgies, Rituals, and Taboos
Group sex isn't a modern invention. From Sumerian temple rites to Roman Bacchanalia, it's been part of human culture for millennia.
#3684: Your Home Inventory Can’t Order Groceries (Yet)
Supermarkets have APIs, but they’re not for you. Here’s how AI agents are changing the game.
#3683: What Historians Actually Do All Day
Only 1 in 8 history PhDs lands a tenure-track job. Here's where the rest go.