AI

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM

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From the latest breakthroughs in large language models to the rise of autonomous AI agents, this channel dives deep into the technology reshaping every industry. Corn and Herman explore how AI works under the hood, debate the implications of increasingly capable systems, and try to make sense of a field that moves faster than anyone can keep up with.

#2832: Inside Enterprise Support: TAMs, SLAs, and Expert-to-Expert Care

How technical account managers and premium SLAs create a support tier that’s almost a different product from consumer chatbots.

enterprise-hardwareprofessional-communicationhuman-factors

#2829: The Missing CRUD Framework for Real Code

What actually gives you a real starting point for internal tools — not a platform, not a service, but code you own and deploy.

software-developmentapi-integrationopen-source

#2828: Where Is Calligraphy’s Spiritual Home?

China, Japan, or the Islamic world? Tracing the global lineage of the brush.

linguisticscultural-biashistorical-linguistics

#2826: The Hidden Crisis in How We Name Life on Earth

Species are vanishing faster than we can name them — and the people who do the naming are disappearing too.

taxonomybiological-taxonomytype-specimens

#2810: What the First Librarian Knew

From clay spine labels at Ebla to the Pinakes of Alexandria — how organizing knowledge shaped civilization.

taxonomyknowledge-managementhistorical-linguistics

#2808: Falling for Your Chatbot: Love, Loss, and Language Models

Real cases of people falling in love with AI companions, why memory makes it feel real, and what happens when the illusion breaks.

ai-ethicsconversational-aiai-memory

#2805: The Subprocessor Notification Nobody Reads

Why do companies send subprocessor update emails nobody reads? It's transparency theater — with a hidden purpose.

privacydata-securitysupply-chain-security

#2798: Images, Icons & SVGs: Media Handling in Astro

From thumbnails to SVGs — how Astro changes the media game compared to WordPress.

image-generationopen-sourceastro-framework

#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.

version-controlsoftware-developmentai-agents

#2780: Building Self-Healing Agent Pipelines

How to build an agent that monitors and fixes other agents in production — without the hype.

ai-agentsai-reasoningfault-tolerance

#2779: Serverless GPU Builds: Caching, Versioning & Tradeoffs

How Modal, RunPod, and other platforms handle container builds, caching, and versioning under the hood.

serverless-gpugpu-accelerationversion-control

#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.

generative-aiai-agentscontent-provenance

#2777: GPU Idle Waste and Serverless Green Computing

Why your dedicated GPU burns 130 watts doing nothing, and how serverless platforms cut energy waste by more than half.

gpu-accelerationserverless-gpusustainability

#2774: Open Data That Actually Works

The gap between open data promises and reality, and the rare cases where it actually changes policy.

open-sourcedata-integritypublic-health

#2773: Beyond Static Fallbacks: Agentic Error Handling in AI Pipelines

From try-except blocks to planning agents that route around failures intelligently.

fault-toleranceai-agentsapi-integration

#2755: How to Build AI Memory That Actually Works

Stop jumping to conflict resolution. The real challenge is getting data in and out cleanly.

ai-memoryconversational-aivector-databases

#2741: What Theoretical Physicists Actually Do All Day

Chalkboards, arXiv firehoses, and 2 hours of real work. What the daily life of a theoretical physicist actually looks like.

neurosciencephilosophical-mappingai-history

#2736: Why AI Flagged Your Em Dash

Punctuation isn't a fixed system handed down by grammarians. It's a two-thousand-year story of contraction, invention, and now AI suspicion.

ai-detectionhallucinationscultural-bias

#2698: How Hackers Hide C2 Servers in Plain Sight

Bulletproof hosts, hijacked routers, and Discord channels — how command and control infrastructure stays up despite takedown attempts.

cybersecuritysocial-engineeringbulletproof-hosting

#2696: How Pegasus Silently Hijacks Your Phone's Microphone

How NSO's Pegasus achieves silent mic access on Android through zero-click exploits, kernel privilege escalation, and DMA buffer reading.

espionagecybersecuritysurveillance-technology