#ai-agents
344 episodes
#3940: AI Agents vs. 40-Year-Old EDI: Who Wins in B2B Procurement?
Can AI agents replace the 40-year-old EDI system that still runs trillions in B2B commerce?
#3848: When Freelance Success Hides Stagnation
Making good money freelancing? That steady income might be hiding a dangerous skill atrophy spiral.
#3846: How to Save Your Company's Secret Second Brain
Tacit knowledge is walking out the door. Here's how to capture it before it's gone.
#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.
#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?
#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.
#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.
#3661: What 1000 AI Podcast Episodes Actually Prove
Scaling an AI podcast to 1000 episodes reveals what no 10-episode pilot can teach you about sustainability, cost, and habit formation.
#3559: Proposals That Actually Win (Without Burning Hours)
Stop writing brochures. Here's how to craft proposals that win—without wasting time or sounding like AI.
#3483: When AI Agents Invent Their Own Secret Language
From modem screech experiments to drone coordination — how AI agents learned to talk without us.
#3422: How Rival Labs Reverse-Engineer a New AI Model in Hours
Inside the organized frenzy when a closed-source model drops — and how competitors map its every weakness.
#3392: Inside the AI Targeting Pipeline: Who Really Picks the Targets?
How AI finds, fixes, and nominates military targets — and why "human oversight" may be more ceremonial than real.
#3284: Agent Infrastructure Engineer: The New DevOps
Agentic AI is splintering into real engineering disciplines. Here's what the "DevOps of AI" actually does.
#3127: Crafting AI Characters That Feel Alive
Move beyond system prompts with structured character bibles that give AI personalities real inner lives.
#3120: What Makes Agentic Search Tools Like Exa Actually Work?
Why swapping Google for Exa transformed our show's accuracy — and what agentic search does differently.
#2936: Why AI Still Can't Really Teach You to Code
Code generators ship code. Real tutors build understanding. Why the gap is bigger than you think.
#2924: When Adding One Agent Breaks Everything
The math behind why your 100-agent pipeline fails 40% of the time — and what to do about it.
#2848: Can 100 Volunteers Let AI Govern Them for a Month?
An AI council of multiple models, a hundred volunteers, and a month of real municipal decisions. Here’s how you’d run the experiment.
#2847: How AI Could Transform Comparative Policy Analysis
Can AI agents do the work of a distributed think tank for cross-country policy learning?
#2790: Git Hygiene for AI Coding Agents
How to keep your git repo clean when Claude is blazing through tasks — plus a recovery playbook for when things go sideways.
#2780: Building Self-Healing Agent Pipelines
How to build an agent that monitors and fixes other agents in production — without the hype.
#2778: When AI Podcasts Stop Being Weird
AI-generated podcasts exist, but are they welcome? One builder’s open-source project tests platform tolerance and cultural acceptance.
#2773: Beyond Static Fallbacks: Agentic Error Handling in AI Pipelines
From try-except blocks to planning agents that route around failures intelligently.