Episode 89 - To Dash or Not To Dash

The em dash has been interrupting people since at least the 1600s, folks have complained about it for almost 300 years, and nobody really knows why AI loves it so much.

Episode 88 - Build vs Buy

AI is making it cheap to build your own software. Sometimes it beats buying it. But building incurs debt, so you need a plan to keep it running.

Episode 87 - Only the Weather You'll Drive Into

You can trust the answers an AI gives you from data when you set it up to be trustworthy: give it the right data (read-only), give it the right tools, and make its choices obvious.

Episode 86 - Your Map Already Knows

Jaws and I build a small AI agent that answers everyday GIS questions from public City of Portland data.

Episode 85 - I have a Robot Cat (Kind Of)

Jaws designed a desk robot, I printed it and hot-glued it together, and it immediately drove off the table. Jaws fixed it in about 20 minutes, and then drove it.

Episode 84 - Are We Cooked?

These tools are amazing, and they're getting better faster than we're ready for. I think we need an independent regulator who can look inside the labs. I know that sounds crazy.

Episode 83 - Let's Eat, Grandma

I told an AI never to publish without me, but it was capable of publishing without me. I think you can see where this is going...

Episode 82 - Local Models for the win

Spiel v2 is a native Mac app that can transcribe speech by running a model locally on a MacBook's Neural Engine. It's fast, it's free, and a good reminder that I don't always need a frontier model!

Episode 81 - How on earth do AI watermarks work?

An AI watermark works by letting a secret function, not a random number generator, determine which word is selected from the words the model was already willing to say next.