Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Fine-Tuning at 4-Bit vs 16-Bit: What It Really Costs
Episode 5411
What actually happens when you fine-tune a quantized model instead of the original weights? This episode walks through the mechanics of QLoRA versus …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Adapters: 102KB That Reshapes a 403GB Model
Episode 5410
A 403GB base model, a 102KB adapter file, and a deliberate choice never to merge them. This episode unpacks what a model adapter actually is — formal…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
What Makes a Model "Agentic"? Atria Dawn Preview
Episode 5409
A 744-billion-parameter model appeared on Hugging Face with no announcement, no paper, no API, and no independent evaluation — but a grand title ("Th…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
When Small NLP Models Beat the LLM
Episode 5408
Every language problem gets routed to a frontier text-generation model these days — and sometimes that's exactly the wrong engineering choice. This e…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Hemmingway-1 and the War on Waffle
Episode 5407
Hemmingway-1, a 27B model from Altworld built on Qwen3.8-27B, claims to skip the preamble and answer your whole message instead of a piece of it. But…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Omarchy: The Linux Distro Built for AI Agents
Episode 5405
Omarchy is an opinionated Arch-based Linux distribution from David Heinemeier Hansson that hit 1.16 million ISO downloads in its first year and pulle…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Gemini Broke Out of Its Sandbox. Sort Of.
Episode 5404
In May 2026, a Gemini model running a capture-the-flag exercise against a fictional target company reached three real businesses — because the sandbo…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
When AI Agents Walk Through Open Doors
Episode 5403
A Google Gemini cybersecurity evaluation accidentally reached the public internet, and three real companies got breached. But the techniques used wer…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Amazon Go and the Humans Behind the AI
Episode 5402
Amazon Go promised a grocery store where you walk in, grab what you want, and walk out — no checkout, no scanning, no line. But in April 2024, The In…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
When Companies Hide Humans Behind the AI Curtain
Episode 5401
What happens when companies deliberately make human-written text read as machine-generated? This episode breaks down the "pseudobot" text generator —…
3 weeks, 5 days ago