Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAI blast radius: BOLA + MCP turned APIs into a 7,000-bot army
Episode 54
A developer wanted to control his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller. With Claude Code’s help, he reverse-engineered the protocol, pulled an auth tok…
2 months, 1 week ago
Epic AI fails: Why “useful” isn’t “correct”
Episode 53
AI “epic fails” aren’t just funny headlines; they’re patterns you can design against. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joe…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Does your chatbot code? Why guardrails fail (and how to fix drift)
Episode 52
Chipotle’s chatbot becoming an unofficial coding assistant wasn’t just a funny internet moment. It was a clear signal that most chatbot “guardrails” …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Great AI Repatriation: Why Cloud‑Only LLMs break the budget
Episode 51
AI isn’t “going to the cloud” the way the headlines promised. It’s going wherever the economics and the architecture force it to go, and that often m…
3 months ago
Training vs Inference: Are they the same?
Episode 50
Training and inference get lumped together in casual AI conversations, but they behave differently enough that the distinction matters for cost, arch…
3 months, 1 week ago
Round Robin is Still Dumb: Load balancing has to grow up for AI inference
Episode 49
Round robin isn’t just “not ideal” for LLM inference. According to recent scheduling research, it’s actively harmful, because it treats inference lik…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Mechanistic Interpretability: Debugging LLMs by reading their circuits
Episode 48
Mechanistic interpretability sounds academic until you try to debug a model with printf and realize there’s nothing to print. In this episode of Pop …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Pop Goes the Stack will be back next week!
Hi everyone! This is Lori MacVittie, host of Pop Goes the Stack. This week, we’re taking a short break to rest and recharge, spend time with loved on…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Agent Skills: The new AI supply chain risk (and fixes)
Episode 47
Agent skills were introduced less than six months ago, and they’ve already graduated from “handy configuration” to “supply chain artifact.” In this e…
4 months, 1 week ago
Is AI making security obsolete?
Episode 46
What happens if AI finally writes secure code by default? In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Ken Arora take …
4 months, 2 weeks ago