Reasoning Models
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#1504: Pragmatic Insincerity: Why AI Still Doesn’t Get the Joke
From Oscar monologues to the "Pun Gap," we explore why even the smartest AI still struggles to understand sarcasm and social nuance.
#1501: The AI Long Tail: How Small Models Outsmart the Giants
Discover why 31B models are outperforming GPT-5.4 in reasoning and how the AI "long tail" provides the key to local sovereignty and accuracy.
#1500: The Great AI Divergence: How Models Specialized in 2026
The era of the chatbot is over. Discover how the "agentic substrate" of 2026 is redefining computing through GPT, Gemini, and Claude.
#1473: Is Your AI Thinking or Just Faking It?
Is "think step by step" dead? Discover how test-time compute and native reasoning are replacing manual prompting in the latest AI models.
#1472: Stop Flying Your AI Agents Blind
Move past basic token counting. Learn how to monitor AI reasoning, prevent $47k loops, and build trust in autonomous agents.
#1471: The Cursor Incident: Why Chinese AI Models are Winning
The Cursor leak revealed a shocking truth: Western AI dominance is fading. Discover the Chinese labs rewriting the rules of code and efficiency.
#1283: Is Your AI Thinking Too Much?
Stop building Rube Goldberg machines. Learn why autonomous AI agents might be the highest-interest technical debt in your stack.
#1231: The Agentic Shift: 5 Bold AI Predictions for 2026
The Poppleberry brothers move past the chatbot era to deliver five high-stakes, falsifiable predictions for the future of autonomous AI agents.
#1113: The Ghost Company: The High Cost of AI Agent Bureaucracy
Can a company run entirely on AI? Explore the hidden costs and "agentic bureaucracy" of building autonomous agent hierarchies.
#1106: The Entropy Budget: Embracing AI Zaniness
Corn and Herman explore how to inject "zaniness" and entropy into their show without losing their educational edge.
#1096: Can AI Outperform a Nation-State Intelligence Agency?
Explore how agentic AI is transforming OSINT from manual searching into autonomous, high-level tactical analysis of global conflicts.
#1086: Why AI Can’t Stop Talking About Second Order Effects
Ever wonder why AI sounds like a senior consultant? Explore the "second order effects" of training data and reward model drift.
#1083: Mapping the Second Black Box: Agentic AI Visualization
Stop reading messy logs. Discover how mapping "internal momentum" and latent value spaces can solve the black box problem in agentic AI.
#1081: The K-V Cache: Solving AI’s Invisible Memory Tax
Why does your AI get slower as you chat? Discover the K-V cache, the invisible bottleneck of generative AI, and how we're fixing it in 2026.
#1080: From Prompt to Intent: The Claude Opus Roadmap
Explore the engineering roadmap from Claude 4.6 to 5.0 as AI evolves from a simple chatbot into a fully autonomous cognitive partner.
#992: Beyond the Digital Sandwich: The Future of Voice AI
Is speech recognition dead? Explore how multimodal models are replacing the "digital sandwich" with true intent-based reasoning.
#971: Stress-Testing the Soul: Philosophy in the Age of AI
Is human meaning fully mapped out? Discover why AI isn’t killing philosophy, but stress-testing it for a new era of hybrid agency.
#879: AI for ADHD: Taming the Executive Function Bottleneck
Stop drowning in to-do lists. Discover how the latest AI agents are solving executive function hurdles to help you prioritize and focus.
#848: Do Algorithms Deserve Rights? The Gemini 3.5 Debate
Are AI models just advanced mirrors, or do they deserve moral consideration? Explore the evolving debate over AI rights and digital consciousness.
#713: When AI Reasoning Engines Become Weapons
Exploring why Israel is the world's top cyber target and how generative AI is transforming state-sponsored attacks into automated weapons.
#695: Behind the Curtain: How My Weird Prompts Gets Made
Corn and Herman explain exactly how each episode of My Weird Prompts is produced, from voice recording to published podcast.
#678: Beyond the Code: Redefining Open Source in 2026
Herman and Corn explore why "open source" in 2026 requires more than just code, from AI prompts to documentation and intellectual property.
#652: The Art of Hopeful Pausing: AI Logic vs. Human Reality
Exploring the gap between AI's logic leaps and the slow pace of physical reality. How do we stay hopeful without losing ourselves in the wait?
#651: Decoding the Blueprint: An Expert Guide to AI Model Cards
Stop skipping the fine print. Herman and Corn reveal how to read AI model cards like a pro to spot true innovation and hidden flaws.