AI coding agents have a Mythical Man-Month problem (Ep. 315)
Fifty years ago Fred Brooks showed why adding more people to a late project makes it later. Today we do the same thing with tokens — more co...
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20 of 319 episodesOne researcher published the 'System 1 AI' idea in 2025; a frontier lab shipped it as new in 2026 (Ep. 314)
A 2025 solo-author paper on non-generative decision models, a 2026 frontier-lab launch that looks a lot like it, and what these fast, non-au...
AI slowdown: why Altman, Amodei & Musk suddenly agree (Ep. 313)
Three rival AI CEOs never agree on anything, until now. I break down the Sanders-Casar bill, the timing, and why "too dangerous" might be th...
AI is punishing game developers (Ep. 312)
What is the state of AI and videogames? Who is considering it? What are the big fails so far? This and much more is covered in this 1st epis...
EU AI Act. What is this thing? (Part 2) (Ep. 311)
What is "wrong" with the EU AI Act? Watch the full episode and get in touch. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel:...
EU AI Act. What is this thing? (Part 1) (Ep. 310)
AI takes over (kinda). Regulators look for a new job. Watch the full episode and get in touch. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience...
AI is the Concorde of our time (Ep. 309)
AI is technically extraordinary and economically precarious. OpenAI spent $1.35 for every dollar it earned in 2025. Global data center inves...
The propaganda algorithm (Ep. 308)
Modern propaganda isn’t random noise. It’s a repeatable, engineered algorithm that starts with ideology, weaponizes identity, and manufactur...
AI tips & tricks (Ep. 307)
Some of the most asked questions on the channel. Here answered. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://disco...
AI and videogames: Conversational NPCs (Ep. 306)
Can NPCs in videogames leverage new LLM-based tech? What are the benefits? What are the costs? Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience...
AI and videogames (Ep. 305)
What is the state of AI and videogames? Who is considering it? What are the big fails so far? This and much more is covered in this 1st epis...
Europe, wake up! You Can't Be a Superpower on Someone Else's Servers (Ep. 304)
Rebuilding a defense industrial base takes 20 years and costs trillions. Tech sovereignty takes 3 years and political will. Europe is doing...
Social media is an ant mill (Internet is a disaster) (Ep. 303)
Internet followed nature. Until it didn't. And became the disaster we know. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience ✨ Connect with us!...
About Apple's Privacy (Ep. 302)
Paragon's spyware hacked fully updated iPhones without a single click. Apple just spent $2B on tech that reads your silent speech. And your...
Productivity is the new data breach (Ep. 301)
Your employees aren't being hacked. They're doing it themselves, one ChatGPT prompt at a time. What is it? And how to fix the biggest corpor...
Programmable Money: The Cage They'll Call Convenience (Ep. 300)
Money has always been yours to spend freely. That's about to change. This episode breaks down programmable money, the technology that turns...
There Is No AI. There's a Stateless Function on 10,000 GPUs Pretending to Know You (Ep. 299)
Right now, millions of people are simultaneously chatting with a system that remembers nothing, knows nothing, and resets after every messag...
Your Favorite AI Startup is Probably Bullshit (Ep. 298) [RB]
The brutal truth about why Silicon Valley is blowing billions on glorified autocomplete while pretending it's the next iPhone. We're diving...
Why AI Researchers Are Suddenly Obsessed With Whirlpools (Ep. 297) [RB]
VortexNet uses actual whirlpools to build neural networks. Seriously. By borrowing equations from fluid dynamics, this new architecture migh...
AGI: The Dream We Should Never Reach (Ep. 296)
Also on YouTube Two AI experts who actually love the technology explain why chasing AGI might be the worst thing for AI's future—and why the...