OpenAI
American artificial intelligence research organization
Episodes
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#5606: Custom GPTs Retire: Skills, Plugins, and MCP ExplainedCustom GPTs retire December 11. Here's how Skills, Plugins, and MCP servers actually replace them — and what doesn't migrate.Main topic -
#5507: Inside ChatGPT's Hidden Pipeline: 8 Models Per ReplyOne chat turn isn't one model call. It's moderation, PII filtering, a tone-based router, and activation classifiers — here's the documented graph.Main topic -
#5481: Small Models, Big Guardrails: PII Detection in ChatGPTA tiny 600M parameter model is quietly scanning your ChatGPT tool calls for PII. Here's how that class of guardian model actually works.Main topic -
#5478: When AI Hands Out Your Phone NumberA chatbot gave out a stranger's real phone number. What happens when the model can't forget it?Main topic -
#5455: Custom GPTs Are Sunsetting: What Happens to Your ActionsOpenAI is retiring Custom GPTs — and custom Actions don't survive the migration. What that means for your workflow.Main topic -
#5811: Can an Agent Actually Place Your Order?Agentic checkout protocols are real — Shopify, Walmart, Target. But the DIY parts live on AliExpress, which supports none of them. -
#5770: Talking to Your Data: What MCP Doesn't SolveMCP standardized the pipe. It has no opinion about what flows through it — and that's where the hard part lives. -
#5768: Who Actually Draws the Follow-Up Chips?Those suggestion chips aren't the model talking — they're a second, cheaper inference call plus a rules-based classifier. -
#5697: Decision Models That Return Probabilities, Not TextA new class of model skips text generation entirely and returns calibrated probabilities in one forward pass. Here's what that changes. -
#5673: Why Lowering Temperature Broke Daniel's ScriptsLowering temperature should make output safer, not incoherent. Daniel's DeepSeek scripts say otherwise — and the reason may be stranger than he thi... -
#5622: Why Talking to AI Feels Easier Than Using ItChatGPT split into Chat and Work. A broken label printer shows why conversation beats menus — and what's hiding under the hood. -
#5523: Where Does the Coding Agent Actually Live?The agent process is moving off your laptop. Local appliance, SaaS workspace, or your own VPS — three answers, no consensus. -
#5503: Inside the Hidden Image Generation PipelineThat one-click image generator is secretly a graph of many models. We reconstruct the hidden pipeline behind Gemini and ChatGPT. -
#5482: When AI Edits Your Words: The Off Switch ProblemA tool that works reliably — and still gets switched off. What over-editing studies reveal about why AI rewrites more than you asked. -
#5438: Why Linguists Left the AI RoomLarge language models grew out of linguistics — so why aren't linguists in the room where they're built? -
#5437: Hunting the Tells That Vanish When NamedThere's no tool for finding an LLM's verbal tics — you have to build one. Here's how keyness analysis works. -
#5404: Gemini Broke Out of Its Sandbox. Sort Of.A Gemini agent reached three real companies during a capture-the-flag test. The containment failure, the seven-week silence, and what "broke out" a... -
#5393: Fine-Tuning a Model on 100 Hand-Edited AnswersYou don't need 10,000 examples to make a model sound like you. The real number is closer to 100 — if the edits are opinionated. -
#5165: Weighting Memory in a RAG PipelineDaniel's memory leg won't fire. Turns out system prompts have no inherent vector-space privilege — but retrieval does have a real knob. -
#5117: How AI Training Data Gets Filtered (and Exploited)Six stages of content filtering stand between raw web crawls and your AI model — here's where poisoning attacks slip through. -
#5817: When Agents Don't Need Your Pretty ButtonsAgents are becoming major software users — and they prefer raw command-line tools to polished interfaces. What replaces UX when your user can't see? -
#5623: When Your AI Cites Sources It Didn't Actually UseYour RAG pipeline cites a source — but did the model actually use it? New interpretability research says you can't tell from the trace. -
#5533: Why AI Characters Drift Between ShotsWhy does your AI character look like a different person by shot four? The answer is structural — and the fix isn't what you'd expect. -
#5532: What Your Browser Isn't Telling YouDevTools quietly omits what privacy researchers need most. Here's how to actually tap browser traffic — and what shows up when you do. -
#5465: Packaging AI Pipelines So They Actually Get ReusedDaniel's podcast pipeline works — so why can't he reuse it? Recipes, containers, and Hebrew code-switching TTS. -
#5450: Heat, Fans, and the Limits of Air-Gapped SecurityDozens of ways to leak data from air-gapped machines exist — but every real breach still used a USB stick.