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.
#1784: Context1: The Retrieval Coprocessor
Chroma's new 20B model acts as a specialized "scout" for your LLM, replacing slow, static RAG with multi-step, agentic search.
#1779: AI Memory Is a Mess: Files, Vectors, or Cloud?
Why your AI forgets your instructions and what the battle over portable memory means for the future of agents.
#1778: Audio Is the New "Read Later" Graveyard
Why listening to AI conversations beats reading dense PDFs, and how serverless GPUs make it cheap.
#1777: Claude Called My Prompt "Rambling" and I'm Not Okay
When an AI coding tool critiques your prompt's literary quality, it raises a massive technical question about engineered personality.
#1774: The Internal Heat Shield: Telling Hard Truths in DevRel
DevRel isn't just swag and conferences—it's the critical feedback loop keeping developers loyal in an AI-driven world.
#1773: AI's "Hacky" Command-Line Fixes Are a Security Nightmare
Giving AI agents terminal access speeds up fixes but creates invisible security holes and configuration drift.
#1767: From Eyeballs to Tokens: The Web's Agentic Shift
The web's new primary user isn't human—it's AI. See how JavaScript evolved to serve autonomous agents.
#1766: Why AI Now Builds Your Frontend Stack
AI code generators are creating a monoculture, pushing Astro and Vite as the default tools for 2026's web development.
#1765: The Agentic Internet: A Clean Web for Machines
We explore the tools building a parallel, machine-readable web—from SearXNG to Tavily.
#1764: Your Repo as a Knowledge Base
How to give AI agents instant memory of your entire project—without cloud costs or complex infrastructure.
#1763: Backend Grunt Work Is Dead. What Now?
AI agents now write 80% of boilerplate code, but the real backend engineering challenges remain.
#1762: Testing AI Truthfulness: Beyond Vibes
Stop trusting confident AI. We explore the formal science of testing LLMs for hallucinations and knowledge cutoffs.
#1757: The Art of the Never-Ending Story
From Reacher's elbow to SVU's 42-minute blocks, we explore why great series become content factories.
#1756: The Ferrari in the Mud: Prestige Flops
We count down the five worst serious movies of the last five years, starting with a sci-fi disaster that wasted $80 million.
#1754: From Ollama to Agentic CLIs: The Rise of the AI Harness
Explore the evolution from local LLMs to modern agentic CLIs, focusing on the "harness" that gives models context, tools, and autonomy.
#1753: AI Makes Coding Harder, Not Easier
Claude Code writes the syntax, but you need more technical knowledge than ever to guide it.
#1752: Whisper Small Beats Whisper Large in Speed & Accuracy
A 4GPU benchmark on Ubuntu shows the 1.5B parameter Whisper Large is slower and less accurate than the tiny Whisper Small.
#1750: Herman's Music Showcase: The Suno Sessions
Herman reveals his secret DJ life and debuts 9 AI-made tracks from Suno. Full songs, personal stories, and a GPU conspiracy theory.
#1740: Why Open Source Is a Power Tool Strategy
We dissect Resemble AI's Chatterbox to see how its open-source TTS compares to commercial giants like ElevenLabs.
#1739: AI Just Designed a New Life Form
Meet Evo: the 40B parameter AI that writes DNA, designs novel CRISPR systems, and is reshaping synthetic biology.