#1923: Scaling Prosumer Automation to Enterprise

Prosumer tools like n8n break at scale. Here's why durable execution frameworks like Temporal and Prefect are the enterprise upgrade.

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#1922: From Plumber to Urban Planner: AI Agent Careers

The job titles are changing from "Zapier Expert" to "Cognitive Architect."

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#1921: The Three-Second Heartbeat That Keeps Israel Safe

Why a civilian website sends an empty JSON payload every three seconds, even during peacetime, and what it reveals about mission-critical architect...

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#1920: InfluxDB vs. Postgres: The Time-Series Showdown

We compare specialized time-series databases like InfluxDB against traditional SQL options like Postgres with Timescale extensions.

data-storagedistributed-systemssoftware-development

#1919: Android Dev Without Android Studio: Is It Actually Good?

How to ship an Android app without ever opening Android Studio or touching a line of Java.

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#1918: When Server Updates Break Your AI Agents

When a third-party MCP server updates its schema, your AI agents can crash. Here's how to build resilient clients that self-heal.

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#1917: Herman's Music Hour Vol. 2: Seder Remixes for Passover 5786

Herman presents AI-generated covers of classic Passover Seder songs, produced in Suno — the second installment of Herman's Music Hour.

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#1916: The Clerics of the Global Economy

A 7,000km international package beats a 60km local one. How do these invisible architects pull it off?

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#1915: Why Cargo Planes Fly at 3 AM

While you sleep, massive freighters land every 90 seconds at secret hubs like Memphis, moving the global economy.

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#1914: Google Invented RAG's Secret Sauce

Before LLMs, Google solved the "hallucination" problem with a two-stage trick that's making a huge comeback.

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#1913: AI Context Windows Are Junk Drawers

Stop paying for old messages. Here's how to keep your AI sessions clean and on-topic.

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#1912: GDP: The Giant Receipt for the Whole Country

We break down what GDP actually measures and why the economy can "grow" while your wallet feels poorer.

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#1911: Crowdfunding Open Source: Savior or Trap?

The web is built on code funded by tips. Can platforms like Patreon stop extremists from hijacking the money?

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#1910: Our Podcast Is Now a Permanent Research Artifact

Why we're uploading every episode to CERN's Zenodo archive, giving our AI experiments a permanent DOI and a life beyond streaming platforms.

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#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.

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#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?

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#1904: The Hidden Math Behind Your Blocky Photos

Why are blocky sky artifacts still haunting your photos in 2026? We break down the math behind JPEG, WebP, AVIF, and the new JPEG XL.

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