Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhen Data Stops Being Code and Starts Being Conversation (Ep. 297)
Episode 299
Mark Brocato built Mockaroo—the tool that taught millions of developers how to fake data. Now, as Head of Engineering at Tonic.ai, he's building the …
4 months, 1 week ago
Your AI Strategy is Burning Money: Here's How to Fix It (Ep.295)
Episode 297
Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a decision-making problem. Matt Lea, founder of Schematical and CloudWarGames, has spent nearly 20…
5 months, 1 week ago
From Tokens to Vectors: The Efficiency Hack That Could Save AI (Ep. 294)
Episode 296
LLMs generate text painfully slow, one low-info token at a time. Researchers just figured out how to compress 4 tokens into smart vectors & cut costs…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Why AI Researchers Are Suddenly Obsessed With Whirlpools (Ep. 293)
Episode 295
VortexNet uses actual whirlpools to build neural networks. Seriously.
By borrowing equations from fluid dynamics, this new architecture might solve …
6 months ago
The Scientists Growing Living Computers in Swiss Labs (Ep. 292)
Episode 294
Fred Jordan, Co-CEO of FinalSpark, takes us inside the radical world of biological computing, where real neurons extracted from human tissue are bein…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
When AI Hears Thunder But Misses the Fear (Ep. 291)
Episode 293
Sanjoy Chowdhury reveals AI's hidden weakness: while systems can see objects and hear sounds perfectly, they can't reason across senses like humans d…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Why VCs Are Funding $100M Remote Control Toys (Ep. 290)
Episode 292
This episode exposes the uncomfortable truth: most defense tech startups are just software engineers cosplaying as military innovators, creating frag…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
How Hacker Culture Died (Ep. 289)
Episode 291
A nostalgic dive into the rise and fall of true hacker culture - from MIT's curious tinkerers to today's hustle-obsessed "founders." Plus, why IRC wa…
8 months, 1 week ago
Robots Suck (But It’s Not Their Fault) (Ep. 288)
Episode 290
We were promised robot butlers and got Roombas that cry under the couch. In this brutally honest (and slightly hilarious) episode, Francesco dives i…
9 months ago
Your Favorite AI Startup is Probably Bullshit (Ep. 287)
Episode 289
The brutal truth about why Silicon Valley is blowing billions on glorified autocomplete while pretending it's the next iPhone.
We're diving deep int…
9 months, 1 week ago