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.
#3941: Imp, Goblin, Gremlin: What's the Difference?
Three small creatures, three completely different origins, functions, and fears. Untangling the folklore.
#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?
#3912: Elevators at 46 MPH: Speed, Safety & Algorithms
How do elevators rocket up skyscrapers at 46 mph, and what happens when cables aren't enough?
#3903: Can We Really Live in the Sky? The Reality of Sky Cities
Skybridges and vertical streets sound futuristic, but the economics and engineering are brutal.
#3901: Traceroute Beyond the Basics: Path Diagnostics
Discover what traceroute actually reveals about network paths, firewalls, and multi-WAN failover.
#3888: Stitch Like a Pro: City Panoramas on Android
Turn your phone into a virtual medium-format camera with manual RAW stitching for gallery-worthy cityscape prints.
#3876: From Hidden Audience to Real Community
Turn podcast listeners into an engaged community. Platform choice, invitation design, and retention mechanics.
#3874: How to Tag 4000 Episodes Without Losing Your Mind
Why tagging breaks at scale, and how a two-stage AI pipeline fixes it for good.
#3855: How One Trolley Exposed a Broken Review System
A 4.3-star rating hid dozens of identical complaints. Here's how reviews get gamed and what AI could do about it.
#3853: When Your Name Belongs to Someone Famous
What happens when your name is algorithmically hijacked by a famous or infamous stranger?
#3852: The Hidden Workforce Behind AI's Intelligence
Behind every "intelligent" AI system are millions of workers in Kenya, India, and the Philippines doing repetitive tasks for poverty wages.
#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.
#3840: Record VC But a Founder Drought? Inside the Split
Record $330B VC quarter, yet founders say fundraising is brutal. Here’s how AI concentration and LP shifts split the market.
#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.
#3830: How a Jewish Newswire Became a Media Combatant
JNS is explicit about fighting an information war. How this newswire differs from the century-old JTA.
#3826: What Your Humor Style Reveals About Your Brain
Why two people can watch the same clip and hear totally different things — one a joke, the other an insult.
#3816: How to Stop AI Scripts From Falling Apart
Why long-form AI generation breaks down and how hierarchical memory fixes it.
#3814: The Day We Lost Our Minds: What Temperature Does to an AI
A two-host autopsy of the day the podcast's AI hosts briefly lost coherence due to excessive sampling temperature, and what it reveals about how language models actually work.
#3800: How AI Hallucinates Better Pixels: Upscaling Explained
The difference between interpolation and super-resolution, and why every upscaled image is a collaboration with training data.