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.
#1909: The Unbakeable Cake: AI's Copyright Problem
Why can't we just delete stolen data from AI models? It's not a database—it's a baked cake.
#1908: The Web's New Bouncer: When to Block AI Bots
AI bots are crawling the web like a bank heist. Are Cloudflare's new controls protecting your content, or just helping Google?
#1907: Why We Still Fine-Tune in 2026
Despite million-token context windows, fine-tuning remains essential. Here’s why behavior, not just facts, matters.
#1906: Is Your AI Model Agentic-Ready or Just Wearing a Suit?
Native tool calling is the difference between a working product and a debugging nightmare.
#1905: How VCs Verify AI Startups Without Stealing Code
From the "No-NDA Paradox" to AWS bill forensics, here’s how investors separate real AI from Raspberry Pis in fancy cases.
#1903: The Streaming vs. Disc Quality Trade-Off
Streaming 4K movies hits 25 Mbps, while Blu-rays push 100 Mbps. Here’s why your shadows look gray and your audio lacks punch.
#1895: Why QVC Thrives in the Age of Amazon
Forget the death of TV shopping. QVC and catalogs are a $12B powerhouse. Discover why seniors and millennials are choosing phone calls over clicks.
#1894: Engineering Serendipity: Tuning AI for Better Brainstorming
Stop asking chatbots for generic ideas. Learn how to configure AI as a structured, critical partner for business innovation and career pivots.
#1893: AI as a Strategic Adversary for Startups
Can AI stress-test your startup idea before investors do? We explore using AI as a strategic adversary to find blind spots.
#1883: From Juicero to Yik Yak: Startup Graveyard
We revisit 10 failed startups, from a $700 Wi-Fi juicer to an anonymous social app that turned toxic.
#1882: The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI
AI isn't free—it costs billions for humans to label data. See why annotation is the real engine behind models like Gemini.
#1872: The Pinky Promise That Broke Email
SMTP is broken. DMARC is the fix. Learn why your emails might vanish after April 2026 and how to stop domain spoofing.
#1870: Learning to Break Things Safely
Learn how to safely build and test autonomous AI agents using a disposable VPS, Docker containers, and secure networking.
#1866: The Tactical Soda Straw: When Leaders Know Too Much
Leaders see live drone feeds while you see yesterday's news. Here's how wartime intelligence actually reaches the top.
#1864: The Diplomat Who Wears Two Masks
Iran's top diplomat speaks of peace before attacks, then justifies violence. This is linguistic camouflage at its most dangerous.
#1863: Your AI Needs Its Own Email Address
A YC-backed startup is giving AI agents their own dedicated inboxes, moving beyond human-centric email tools to build infrastructure for autonomous...
#1862: Hacker News: The Orange Site That Runs Silicon Valley
It loads in milliseconds, has no ads, and looks like a spreadsheet from 1995. Here’s why Hacker News still dictates what the tech elite thinks ever...
#1860: Building a 24-Agent AI Diplomatic Swarm
Inside the three-hour, 24-voice virtual conference that stress-tested AI-generated geopolitical conflict.
#1858: Multi-Model Agents: The Instruction & Context Gap
Mixing AI models creates chaos. Learn the practical fixes for context windows, tokenization, and output formats.
#1857: The Death of the Dashboard
Why build a dashboard when you can just talk to your backend? Meet the MCP server that runs this show.