Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBuilt to Fail: Why AI Benchmarks Have an Expiration Date
Season 1 Episode 293
In five years, GPT-4 went from 27% on ARC (barely beating random guessing) to 96%. This isn't a success story—it's a cautionary tale about how benchm…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
The Benchmark Mirage: Why That 88% Means Nothing
Season 1 Episode 292
You trained a language model for months, ran it on MMLU, and got 48.8%. But the published version of the same model? 63.4%. Nothing was wrong—the mod…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Sacred Absolution, Profane Laughter: The Confession-Comedy Crossing
Season 1 Episode 291
What do Catholic confession and stand-up comedy have in common? They're both rituals for processing shame—one ending in absolution, the other in laug…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Prions and Poison: When 0.001% Breaks Everything
Season 1 Episode 290
What happens when someone intentionally poisons an AI's training data to make it dangerously wrong? Host A and Host B explore how researchers showed …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Stop Caring (The Right Way): Why Indifference Isn't What You Think
Season 1 Episode 289
When management ignores your warnings and the world keeps spinning in chaos, a dangerous thought arrives: what if you just stopped caring? Philosophe…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Keys Inside the Burning House
Season 1 Episode 288
You build a backup to survive when things fail. But what if the backup secretly needs the same thing that's broken? That's a common mode failure, and…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Wood Wide Web: Invisible Infrastructure, Invisible Burnout
Season 1 Episode 287
Imagine a forest where invisible fungal networks keep massive trees alive—but the trees don't know it. This episode reveals how open-source software …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Crowned in Blood: Robert the Bruce and the Making of Scotland
Season 1 Episode 286
A Scottish history primer for travelers, centered on Robert the Bruce and the Wars of Independence. From the murder in Greyfriars Church that sealed …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Mise en Place: AI Inside the Regulated Kitchen
Season 1 Episode 285
A data engineer at Ally Financial asks the one question nobody answers: if your bank approved an AI tool, what do you actually do with it Monday morn…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Locked Doors: The Logic That Eats Itself
Season 1 Episode 284
Why does modern life feel like Catch-22? From Doc Daneeka being bureaucratically dead to AI in corporate, we explore how systems trap us in paradoxes…
3 weeks, 5 days ago