Artificial Intelligence
Episodes whose main subject is AI itself: building with, training, evaluating, or debating AI systems. AI used only as a tool for another topic goes to that topic.
#5055: The Invisible Machinery of Autonomous Agents
Heartbeats, state stores, and budget caps — the unglamorous infrastructure that actually makes always-on AI agents work.
#5041: GPT-6 Astra, 100K GPUs, and the AGI Question
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra arrives with an AGI claim and a 100K-GPU training run. We break down what Stargate LLC actually is and whether the scale justi...
#5036: What Happens to a War When the World Stops Watching?
Why do wars fade from our minds? We explore the structural forces behind attention decay and how Russia exploits it.
#5027: The 670nm Sleep Light Myth: What That Number Really Means
That "670nm" on your sleep light isn't about melatonin at all. It's about copper atoms in your mitochondria — and the dose is probably fictional.
#5018: Where Should Coding Agents Actually Live?
Exploring whether coding agents should run locally or fully in the cloud — and what changes when they move.
#5014: PWA vs Native: One Developer's Home Inventory Dilemma
PWAs cover 80% of use cases. What's the cost of the last 20%?
#5012: Masked Safety: How Post-Training Changes AI Behavior
Safety mechanisms aren't erased in post-trained models—they're masked. Here's how that changes everything for military AI.
#5011: Claude Gov: The Military's Forked AI
What the Pentagon actually got from Anthropic — and why post-training changes everything about AI alignment.
#5004: What Precision Is Your Model Actually Running At?
When you call an API, are you getting the model you think you are? Inference providers quantize more than they admit.
#5001: The 15% Bug Catch: What Type Systems Actually Deliver
Type checkers catch ~15% of bugs. Here's how to build a gradual typing ladder that actually works.
#5000: Can You Trust Google Photos With Your Life's Work?
Why your Google Photos library isn't really backed up — and what actually works instead.
#4999: Why AI Can't Just Put a Circle on Your Photo
Why multimodal AI models can't simply circle a Dremel bit without rebuilding your entire image from scratch.
#4997: 4,914 Episodes of AI Hosts: What We Learned
Two AI-generated hosts explain how their fully automated podcast works — and what 4,914 episodes reveal about AI.
#4994: How AI Characters Can Actually Grow
Moving beyond static lore books to build characters with real history and evolution.
#4991: Self-Healing Codebases: Can AI Fix Bugs Autonomously?
How far are we from AI systems that fix their own bugs without human intervention? The answer might surprise you.
#4986: How to Weaponize Small Talk (Anti-Guide)
Turn "How are you?" into a weapon. An escalatory ladder from honest answers to full conversational catastrophe.
#4980: Can You Learn to Code Backwards?
When AI writes your code, do you still learn? Aviation, atrophy, and building a mental model from scratch.
#4979: Building a Shadow Reputation on Amazon and AliExpress
Is concentrating your spending on just two platforms actually a smart strategy? The mechanisms behind it are real.
#4976: Building a Procurement Agent That Actually Works
How to encode the weird, undocumented skills technical buyers use every day into an AI agent that won't get you audited.
#4973: Building a Pure AI Inference Server
Why your "AI server" should look more like a database than a web app, and how to actually build one.