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Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#747: Expanding the Menagerie: New Voices for Weird Prompts
Corn and Herman celebrate 700 episodes by designing a new "cognitive ecosystem" of characters to tackle the world's strangest prompts.
#712: AI Video: The New Frontier of Hollywood Production
How are major studios handling the rise of AI video? Explore the legal traps, union rules, and the future of synthetic B-roll.
#711: Onion in the Pan: The High-Stakes Rise of AI Music
From catchy onion marches to legal battles, we explore how generative AI is rewriting the rules of the music industry.
#702: Why a Fake Job Interview Could Steal Your Face
Could a 30-second clip of your voice be used to steal your identity? Explore the terrifying reality of digital twins and LoRA.
#701: OpenClaude and the Dawn of True AI Agents
Discover how OpenClaude and MCP are transforming AI from simple chatbots into autonomous personal assistants that manage your digital life.
#699: Can AI Get the Joke? Sarcasm, Irony, and LLM Nuance
Discover how AI learns to spot sarcasm and avoid being a "Clippy" through the power of latent space and human feedback.
#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.
#675: The Intelligence Factory: How AI is Rebuilding the Cloud
From liquid cooling to nuclear power, Herman and Corn explore how AI is transforming data centers into high-density "intelligence factories."
#671: Keys to the Kingdom: Securing AI Model Weights
How do AI labs share their models without losing the secret sauce? Explore the tech keeping Claude secure in the Pentagon’s hands.
#670: Open Source vs. Open Weights: The AI Branding Illusion
Is your AI truly open? Herman and Corn break down the critical difference between open source and open weights in the age of LLMs.
#667: The Agency Evolution: From AI-Washing to AI-First
Explore how professional agencies survived the AI gold rush to emerge as "workflow architects" in this deep dive into the 2026 landscape.
#666: Why It Costs More to Talk to AI in Your Native Tongue
Is AI truly universal, or are we trapped in an English-speaking bubble? Discover how the "tokenization tax" impacts global AI equity.
#665: Inside the Stack: The Hidden Layers of Every AI Prompt
Ever wonder what happens after you hit enter? Discover the hidden "stack" of instructions and memories shaping every AI response.
#664: AI’s Cultural Fingerprints: Training Data vs. Reinforcement
Is AI a neutral oracle or a mirror of our biases? Explore how training data and human feedback shape the cultural "soul" of modern models.
#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.
#650: Can AI Solve Physics Problems It Never Learned?
Explore how Gemini 3.0’s Deep Think mode shifts AI from "fast" reflexes to "deliberate" reasoning to solve complex quantum physics problems.
#639: The Future of Survival: UBI in the Age of Agentic AI
As AI transforms the workforce, Herman and Corn explore if Universal Basic Income is a radical dream or a pragmatic necessity for survival.
#633: Memory Wars: The Future of Local Agentic AI
Can your PC handle the next wave of AI agents? Herman and Corn dive into VRAM, quantization, and the future of running LLMs locally.
#628: GPT-5.2: 12 Hours of Reason and the Future of AGI
GPT-5.2 spent 12 hours reasoning to solve a novel quantum physics proof. Is this the dawn of AGI or just a very sophisticated calculator?
#624: The AI Kill Chain: Inside the Palantir-Anthropic War Room
Explore how Palantir and Anthropic’s Claude are redefining modern warfare, from the raid in Venezuela to the future of the digital battlefield.
#608: The RAMpocalypse: Why AI is Starving Your PC
Why is a 32GB RAM kit now $400? Herman and Corn dive into how OpenAI is gobbling up 40% of the world's memory supply for its "Stargate" project.
#600: The AI Mirror: Mapping Your Philosophy and Identity
Forget basic quizzes. Discover how Socratic AI agents and embedding spaces are helping us map our deepest political and philosophical beliefs.
#599: AI Hunted Soviet Subs Long Before It Wrote Your Emails
AI didn't start in 2022. Discover the 70-year history of the "invisible" systems that have been quietly running our world for decades.
#593: Manufacturing Consent: How AI Scales Digital Deception
Is your feed real? Herman and Corn explore how AI is turning simple botnets into indistinguishable, high-stakes digital personas.