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.
#1123: When One Database Isn't Enough
Can Postgres 18 finally replace the data warehouse? We dive into data gravity, columnar storage, and the physics of scaling in the AI age.
#1122: Why AI Agents Are Abandoning Human Language
Why force AI to talk like humans? Explore how agents are ditching English for high-speed "mind-melding" and latent space communication.
#1121: Why 80% of Developers Are Hiding Their Code From AI
With 81% of new code moving to private repos, the era of building in public is at a crossroads. Is AI killing the open source dream?
#1120: The AI Handoff: From Manual Hacks to Standard Protocols
Stop the "context rot." Learn how new protocols like MCP and typed state channels are revolutionizing how AI agents collaborate.
#1115: The Rise of the AI Procurement Officer
Discover how AI is evolving from simple chat to autonomous B2B procurement agents capable of negotiating and executing million-dollar deals.
#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.
#1112: Inside the Neural Cathedral: Cracking the AI Black Box
Peek inside the "black box" of AI to discover how models use high-dimensional geometry and superposition to organize complex human concepts.
#1111: Surviving the arXiv Deluge: Finding Signal in AI's Paper Firehose
Discover the unsung research papers that built the AI era and learn how to navigate the relentless flood of new machine learning breakthroughs.
#1110: The arXiv Effect: Inside the Engine of AI Research
Explore how a 1990s-style website became the central nervous system for AI breakthroughs and the power of the preprint revolution.
#1109: The T-FLOP Trap: Measuring the Power of Modern AI
Are teraflops the "horsepower" of AI, or just a marketing gimmick? Explore why raw compute speed isn't the whole story in the race for AI power.
#1108: Beyond the Emoji: How Hugging Face Conquered AI
Discover how a quirky chatbot company became the central nervous system of AI, hosting millions of models and standardizing the entire industry.
#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.
#1103: The Kitchen War: When Theory Meets Messy Reality
Explore the mechanics of LLM context windows and attention, and witness what happens when technical debates collide with household chores.
#1100: The Truth Conflict: Why AI Ignores the Facts You Give It
Discover why AI models ignore provided documents in favor of old training data and how to build a reliable "hierarchy of truth" for RAG systems.
#1099: Digital Recalls: Why Your AI Is Losing Its Edge
Is your AI getting lazier? Explore the "digital recall" and why the world’s most advanced models are secretly taking steps backward.
#1098: The Hidden Vendor Prompt: Why Enterprise AI Agents Stay Siloed
Stop building AI silos. Discover the 14-layer framework that turns isolated models into a cohesive, connected enterprise ecosystem.
#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.
#1094: The CPU-First Era: Why AI is Moving Back to the Processor
Is the GPU's reign over? Discover how modern CPUs and clever optimization are bringing powerful AI models to the hardware you already own.
#1088: Why AI Can Read a Library but Only Write a Postcard
Discover why frontier AI models can process millions of words but struggle to write more than a few pages without losing their logical thread.
#1087: Inside My Weird Prompts: A Meta-Analysis of the Hosts
Go behind the scenes of My Weird Prompts as Corn and Herman discuss their unique biology, neural implants, and life in Jerusalem.