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.
#462: Beyond the Resume: Fixing the Broken Recruiting Loop
Stop the "spray and pray" application cycle. Learn how agentic workflows and narrative profiling are redefining the remote job market.
#459: Can AI Fix Your 'Wall of Awful' Productivity Paralysis?
Stop staring at your to-do list and start moving. Discover how AI is transforming productivity from manual sorting to automated daily roadmaps.
#450: The Hidden Hazards of Your Home AI Lab
Learn how to safely power high-performance AI rigs without overloading your home's circuits or creating fire hazards.
#440: Beyond the Diaper Log: From Tracking to Understanding Your Baby's Brain
Move past the spreadsheet. Discover how AI tools provide deep neurological insights into your baby’s development and the "mental leaps" at seven mo...
#433: Will AI Win the Red Queen’s Race Against Superbugs?
Explore how generative AI and "microbial dark matter" are helping us stay one step ahead in the global arms race against superbugs.
#420: Why Dictating Your Own Meeting Notes Beats AI Transcription
Learn why dictating your impressions is better than raw transcripts and how to use AI to turn voice notes into professional client reports.
#419: Why AI Transcripts Miss the Subtext
Stop relying on fading memories. Learn how to use the "Golden Hour" and AI to create perfect records of every important conversation.
#404: Beyond the Screenshot: Proving Your Digital Evidence
Can a thumbs-up be a binding contract? Learn how to authenticate digital messages and protect your legal rights in the age of AI forgeries.
#399: Genius or Forgetful? Decoding Moravec’s Paradox
Why can geniuses build AI but forget their keys? Explore Moravec’s Paradox and the "spiky profile" of the neurodivergent brain.
#397: Who Trains the Boss if AI Does All the Junior Work?
As AI moves from talking to acting, entry-level roles are vanishing. Corn and Herman discuss the "hollowing out" of the global workforce.
#384: The Whistleblower’s Shield: AI and the End of Scams
Can AI protect those who expose the truth? Explore the future of whistleblowing, from multi-million dollar bounties to anonymous digital twins.
#372: Proving Reality: Fighting the Liars Dividend with C2PA
In an era of deepfakes, how do we prove what’s real? Explore the tech behind digital provenance and the battle for authenticity.
#371: Beyond the Etch A Sketch: Building Persistent AI Memory
Why treat AI chats like disposable tissues? Discover how to turn years of prompts into a self-healing, evolving digital brain.
#367: Escaping the Chat Bubble Trap
Stop hunting through bookmarks. Learn how to turn hundreds of scattered AI assistants into a cohesive, professional productivity suite.
#352: When Your Lens Defines Your Authority
Are bulky news cameras history? Herman and Corn explore how smartphones and AI are redefining professional journalism in 2026.
#347: Bridging the Workspace-GCP Divide
Discover how to use Google Cloud buckets and Vertex AI to turn a cluttered Drive into a scalable, AI-powered knowledge base.
#346: GPU Scaling: The "Go Wide or Go Tall" Dilemma
Should you use a fleet of cheap GPUs or one powerhouse? Learn the math behind serverless GPU costs, cold starts, and batching efficiency.
#340: Why Immutability Is the New Trust
In an era of AI and deepfakes, how do we prove data is real? Explore WORM technology: the digital equivalent of carving records in stone.
#336: The World Model Revolution: Beyond LLM Token Prediction
Herman and Corn explore why LLMs struggle with logic and how the shift to world models is giving AI a sense of physics and spatial reality.
#332: Who’s Talking? The Tech of Speaker Identification
Herman and Corn break down the difference between speaker diarization and identification to help automate meeting transcripts.