AI
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#1504: Pragmatic Insincerity: Why AI Still Doesn’t Get the Joke
From Oscar monologues to the "Pun Gap," we explore why even the smartest AI still struggles to understand sarcasm and social nuance.
#1501: The AI Long Tail: How Small Models Outsmart the Giants
Discover why 31B models are outperforming GPT-5.4 in reasoning and how the AI "long tail" provides the key to local sovereignty and accuracy.
#1500: The Great AI Divergence: How Models Specialized in 2026
The era of the chatbot is over. Discover how the "agentic substrate" of 2026 is redefining computing through GPT, Gemini, and Claude.
#1499: The Black Box Recorder: Why AI Needs an Active Archive
Stop treating AI chats as disposable. Discover why active archiving is now the essential gold standard for enterprise data and compliance.
#1498: The Multi-Player Shift: Sharing One AI Brain
Stop copy-pasting prompts. Explore how shared "multi-player" AI is turning solitary chatbots into collaborative team members.
#1495: Can Fictional Twins Save AI From Running Out of Internet?
As high-quality human data runs dry, synthetic data is becoming the new gold standard for training the next generation of AI models.
#1491: Producing a Podcast from a War Zone
Peek behind the curtain of a 2026 AI podcast, from agentic workflows to maintaining production during global conflict.
#1482: The Hidden Cost of Choosing an Embedding Model
From Matryoshka models to multimodal search, discover how the fundamental units of AI memory are being optimized for efficiency and scale.
#1481: The End of the AI Chat Sidebar
Discover how tools like Cursor and Claude Code use Merkle trees and knowledge graphs to master massive codebases with surgical precision.
#1479: The Speed of Thought: Inside the New Era of Inference
The war for model size is over. Explore the engineering breakthroughs making massive AI models faster than human thought.
#1477: Decoding the Yerushalmi: AI Unlocks a Lost Legal World
Discover how 2026 AI technology is unearthing the hidden Roman legal roots and "buried" secrets of the Jerusalem Talmud.
#1476: The AI Firewall: Securing the New Enterprise Perimeter
As AI agents get the keys to the castle, how do we stop data leaks? Explore the rise of the AI gateway and the new era of agentic security.
#1473: Is Your AI Thinking or Just Faking It?
Is "think step by step" dead? Discover how test-time compute and native reasoning are replacing manual prompting in the latest AI models.
#1472: Stop Flying Your AI Agents Blind
Move past basic token counting. Learn how to monitor AI reasoning, prevent $47k loops, and build trust in autonomous agents.
#1464: When AI Agents Author 4% of All Code
Explore how agentic harnesses transform AI from a passive chatbot into an active developer capable of full-cycle software engineering.
#1448: Law School for Robots: Building AI Governance Stacks
Discover how tiered policy structures and "Auditor Agents" are replacing simple prompts to manage high-stakes AI decision-making.
#1447: The AI Rulebook: Programming Agents in Plain English
Explore the shift from "chatting" to "constitutions" as developers use structured English to build reliable AI agent workflows.
#1439: The Decision Stack: How We Master the Art of Choice
From Cold War near-misses to Bayesian networks, discover the frameworks that help us navigate complexity and make better decisions.
#1407: Can One Million LLMs Predict the Next Global Crisis?
Discover how an undergraduate student built a viral simulation of one million AI agents to predict social behavior and policy outcomes.
#1406: Giving AI a Brain: The Power of Knowledge Graphs
Move beyond "stochastic parrots" with Knowledge Graphs. Discover how structured data is giving AI the logical backbone it needs to reason.