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When Your AI API Quietly Changes Under You
Episode 6190
You ran the evals, you pinned the version, and your invoice parser worked perfectly in October. Then December arrives and the same API name returns s…
1 week, 3 days ago
Making Our AI Voices 16% Cheaper on Modal GPUs
Episode 6190
Every episode of this show runs through Chatterbox, an open-weights speech model, on rented Modal GPUs. Today we made it 16% faster with bit-for-bit …
1 week, 3 days ago
What "Real" Improvement Actually Means in AI Evals
Episode 6189
A leaderboard shows a bolded number: one model beat another. But is that a real improvement or ordinary statistical wobble? This episode digs into wh…
1 week, 3 days ago
Every Way Linux Relieves Memory Pressure
Episode 6188
Daniel's 16GB laptop runs six Claude Code sessions and stays alive, while his 64GB desktop barely notices. What's the difference? This episode walks …
1 week, 3 days ago
Can Your Laptop Borrow Your Desktop's RAM?
Episode 6187
A laptop down to two gigabytes of free memory, a desktop one room over with sixty-four gigabytes doing nothing. What if the laptop could swap pages o…
1 week, 3 days ago
A Virtual Disk Inside Your Linux Filesystem
Episode 6186
Daniel wants a pocket of storage inside his ext4 home server — a virtual disk that lives as a single file, mounts from fstab, and behaves like a real…
1 week, 3 days ago
Why AI Labs Sell a Tier Above the Flagship
Episode 6185
Every major American AI lab now sells a premium tier above its everyday flagship: Anthropic's Claude Fable, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra (Pro), Google's Deep…
1 week, 3 days ago
Anthropic's Unreleased Model Two, Explained
Episode 6184
In August, Anthropic described an internal model it calls Model Two — a step up on its released flagship, used heavily inside the company, and never …
1 week, 3 days ago
Private Podcast Feeds: Tokens, Buckets, and Basic Auth
Episode 6183
Making a private podcast feed is easy; keeping it private is where things fall apart. This episode walks the whole ramp — from paid hosts like Transi…
1 week, 4 days ago
Running a Private APT Repo for Family Machines
Episode 6182
A zip file in a shared Drive folder is a software release process with no mechanism for the second release. So how do you run your own APT repository…
1 week, 4 days ago