Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Confident Shrug: Why AI Can't Explain Itself
Season 1 Episode 332
Modern AI can diagnose skin cancer with 95% accuracy—but ask why, and you get a confident shrug. We explore interpretability and explainability: why …
1 week, 5 days ago
The Mistborn Advantage: Why Generalists Beat Specialists in a Wicked World
Season 1 Episode 331
Is being good at one thing better than being okay at many things? Turns out, the answer depends entirely on what kind of world you're playing in. We …
1 week, 6 days ago
The ER of Engineering: Inside Application Support
Season 1 Episode 330
Your friend's blog is down right now, and that's actually a perfect interview story—because diagnosing the problem is literally the job. Application …
1 week, 6 days ago
The Carbon Fiber Question: When Innovation Becomes Cheating
Season 1 Episode 329
Why is carbon fiber celebrated in pole vaulting but regulated in running shoes and banned from cricket bats? There's no global rulebook for sports te…
2 weeks ago
The AI Placebo: When Fake Intelligence Makes You Smarter
Season 1 Episode 328
When researchers labeled a random system as 'AI,' participants solved puzzles faster—even though no AI actually existed. This episode dives into a 20…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
One Step Ahead: When Your Data Becomes Obsolete
Season 1 Episode 327
A batter pulls left 78% of the time, so defenses stack that side. The model works perfectly—until batters learn to hit the other way, and the predict…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Read or React: The 100-Millisecond Gamble Behind Every Sport
Season 1 Episode 326
Elite athletes face an impossible choice: commit early based on what you predict, or wait and lose precious time. Baseball batters have 175 milliseco…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Governance Cosplay: When AI Policy Meets Reality
Season 1 Episode 325
Why do organizations write AI governance rules they immediately break? A new survey reveals that 98% of major companies have formal AI policies, yet …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Pre-Signed: How a Brewery Automation System Fooled Itself
Season 1 Episode 324
A brewery automation project uses a review template with the critical 'approved' line already pre-filled. The automated gate checks for this phrase a…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Grading the Grader: When Tests Fail to See
Season 1 Episode 323
How good is your test suite really? Host A plants bugs while Host B watches tests pass anyway—some changes harmless, others cutting critical safety s…
2 weeks, 1 day ago