Episode 78 - Secret Cyborg: Special Disclosure Unit

On August 2, 2026, part of the EU AI Act became active, and now you legally can't be a Secret Cyborg (kinda).

Episode 77 - The Incredible Shark

Can a Shark (I mean AI) build a physics-based Rube Goldberg machine video game?

Episode 76 - Don’t Write Metadata

Sorry for the clickbait title, but it turns out that Metadata might not matter as much as we think, or at least for the reasons we thought!

Episode 75 - What is an MCP?

MCP is how you hand an AI real tools. It's coming to ArcGIS. It is one of the best ways to ground AI answers in real data, and you can try it with your own org today.

Episode 74 - Would You Let AI Plan Your Vacation?

Christopher goes to the UC, so Holly takes over to report on letting an AI plan her vacation.

Episode 73 - Credit Where Credit Is Due

Come play AI or Not at the Esri UC (booth 436) and win a robot-head keychain!

Episode 72 - The Judge Pattern Goes to Washington

To bring Claude Fable 5 back online, Anthropic paired it with a smaller model that screens what you ask and what Fable answers. That's the "judge" pattern!

Episode 71 - Ask Better Questions

Educate yourself enough to "kinda get it," then ask good questions, then judge the output.

Episode 70 - AI or Not?

AI-generated and AI-altered images have gotten genuinely, unsettlingly good. That's wildly useful and also dangerous!