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AI Podcasts

December 11, 2025

The State of AI Code Quality: Hype vs Reality — Itamar Friedman, Qodo

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The next frontier of AI in software isn't just *generating* code, but *governing* its quality. This shift will redefine competitive advantage.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Prioritize investments in AI-powered quality gates, intelligent code review, and dynamic testing. For builders, feed your AI tools rich, comprehensive context. For investors, look for companies building these "picks and shovels."
  3. The "So What?": The promised 2x-10x productivity gains are real, but they won't come from raw code generation alone. The next 6-12 months will see a scramble to implement agentic, context-aware quality workflows to unlock AI's true potential across the SDLC.
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December 11, 2025

Can you prove AI ROI in Software Eng? (Stanford 120k Devs Study) – Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: AI ROI isn't about adoption, it's about intelligent adoption. The gap between top and bottom performers will widen based on measurement sophistication and codebase health.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: For builders, prioritize codebase hygiene and engineer training before or concurrently with AI rollout. For investors, scrutinize AI productivity claims; ask about code quality, rework rates, and specific measurement frameworks beyond simple usage.
  3. The "So What?": In the next 6-12 months, companies that master AI integration by focusing on quality, measurement, and environment will compound their gains, while those chasing superficial metrics risk significant tech debt and negative ROI.
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December 11, 2025

No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski

No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: The future of human-computer interaction is voice-first, moving from static content to dynamic, personalized, and agentic experiences.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Defensibility in AI is increasingly found in deep product layers, specialized architectural breakthroughs (especially in audio), and robust ecosystems, not just raw model scale.
  3. The "So What?": Over the next 6-12 months, expect to see significant advancements in proactive AI agents, immersive media, and personalized education, with voice as the core interface.
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December 10, 2025

Nav Kumar: Trishool, AI Alignment, Subnet 23, Mechanistic Interpretability, Rogue LLMs | Ep. 75

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Prioritize AI Safety Research:** Invest aggressively in understanding and mitigating AI risks to safeguard humanity against potential rogue LLMs.
  2. **Support Decentralized AI Alignment:** Champion decentralized platforms like Bit Tensor and initiatives like Trishool that promote open and transparent AI alignment research.
  3. **Embrace Mechanistic Interpretability:** Drive the development of tools that enable us to understand and control the internal workings of AI models, ensuring alignment with human values.
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December 10, 2025

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI-Delegation Revolution is Here: Start experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT for delegation now. The future involves proactive machine assistants deeply integrated into your workflow.
  2. Builders & Investors: Focus on "How to Delegate": The biggest constraint isn't finding assistants, but teaching clients how to delegate effectively. Tools and services that educate delegators will win.
  3. Reclaim Your Ambition: By offloading the mundane, you free up mental bandwidth to think bigger, pursue more ambitious goals, and ultimately, control your most valuable asset: time.
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December 10, 2025

Everyone Needs an Assistant. Here’s Why.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Delegation as a Foundational Skill: Whether you leverage AI or human support, mastering delegation is paramount for unlocking personal and professional potential.
  2. Prioritize Time Ownership: Recognize time as your most valuable asset and design your life and calendar around your highest goals.
  3. Start Small, Scale Intentionally: Begin with affordable AI tools and gradually incorporate human assistance as your budget and needs evolve, building trust and compounding leverage over time.
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December 8, 2025

Building The Chip That Could Unlock AGI | Naveen Rao

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Embrace Analog:** Explore and invest in analog computing solutions to overcome the energy limitations of current digital AI systems.
  2. **Prioritize Causality:** Shift focus towards AI models that incorporate time and causality, potentially unlocking more advanced and human-like intelligence.
  3. **Support Hardware Innovation:** Invest in and foster startups like Unconventional AI that are tackling fundamental challenges in AI hardware.
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December 8, 2025

Why AI Will Have To Run On Blockchains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Blockchain is essential for AI to ensure censorship resistance and uninterrupted accessibility.
  2. Trustworthy AI agents require on-chain governance to manage assets securely and transparently.
  3. AI agents can drastically accelerate blockchain adoption and optimize corporate processes.
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December 7, 2025

Tensor Logic "Unifies" AI Paradigms [Pedro Domingos]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tensor Logic provides a unified framework for AI, bridging the gap between symbolic AI and deep learning, offering improved reasoning, transparency, and efficiency.
  2. The language addresses the limitations of current AI systems, enabling reliable deduction and facilitating structure learning through gradient descent, paving the way for more interpretable and controllable AI.
  3. Tensor Logic has the potential to advance AI education by providing a single language for teaching the entire gamut of AI. Its gradual adoption path allows developers to integrate it into existing workflows.
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Crypto Podcasts

October 13, 2025

The Most Important Video I’ll Make This Year

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Game Has Changed.** Stop trying to win by spot-buying overvalued altcoins in a market dominated by insiders. The real, sustainable edge is found on-chain through airdrop farming, which allows you to acquire tokens at a low cost basis and sell them to market hype.
  2. **Become an All-Weather Farmer.** Structure your portfolio defensively. A 50%+ stablecoin allocation is not being sidelined; it's a dry powder reserve that allows you to farm, hedge, and survive while others get wiped out. Your upside comes from farming, not from being 100% long.
  3. **Airdrops Are Your Asymmetric Bet.** Treat airdrop points as a call option on the entire crypto market. This allows you to stay risk-off with a large stablecoin position while retaining explosive upside potential if the market runs, creating a win-win scenario.
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October 11, 2025

ETH Supply Shock Could Ignite Explosive Rally

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Supply Shock Imminent: Corporate ETH accumulation is happening faster and with greater relative market impact than Bitcoin's history, creating a coiled spring for price.
  2. The Stage is Set: Profit-taking from old holders is complete, hype has died down, and leverage has been wiped out. The path of least resistance for ETH is now up.
  3. Follow the Smart Money: ETH is not just a crypto play; it's a macro-correlated, high-beta bet endorsed by some of the world's sharpest investors.
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October 10, 2025

CRYPTO MARKET CRASH EMERGENCY LIVESTREAM

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Survive First, Profit Later. The market always presents new opportunities, but only for those who preserve capital. Avoid leverage and hold significant stablecoin allocations to capitalize on moments of extreme fear, not become a victim of them.
  2. Find Your Asymmetric Edge: Farm, Don't Buy. Retail investors cannot out-trade funds with insider information. The real edge is in airdrop farming—getting into promising protocols early and selling the token to the masses who buy on inflated centralized exchange listings.
  3. The Altcoin Reckoning is Here. The belief that a rising Bitcoin lifts all boats is a dangerous assumption. Most alts are overvalued and lack a fundamental thesis beyond momentum. Prepare for a future where Bitcoin grinds higher while most of the altcoin market bleeds out.
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October 10, 2025

Why This Early Solana Investor Is Still All In | Viktor Fischer

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The L1 War Is Won.** Don't bet on new L1s. The network effects, developer mindshare, and ecosystem infrastructure of chains like Solana and Base have created an insurmountable moat.
  2. **DATs Are the Trojan Horse for TradFi.** Digital Asset Treasury companies are the key to unlocking Wall Street capital. Expect Solana DATs to drive a massive TVL re-rating in 2026 as their superior yield generation becomes undeniable.
  3. **SOL to $2,000 Is the Base Case.** This price target isn't based on meme-fueled hype, but on a model where Solana captures just 10% of the projected multi-trillion-dollar tokenized asset market by 2030.
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October 10, 2025

Polymarket's $2B Deal with ICE Changes Everything | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Founder Vision Outweighs Everything. Polymarket’s story proves that a founder with an unwavering, maniacal vision can overcome technical hurdles, regulatory threats, and brutal bear markets. Shane won by being an unstoppable evangelist.
  2. Abstraction Is the Key to Mass Adoption. The best crypto apps don't feel like crypto apps. Polymarket’s success comes from hiding the blockchain complexity, a lesson for every builder aiming for mainstream relevance.
  3. Bet on Second-Order Effects. The surge in BNB isn't about BSC's tech; it's a proxy bet on CZ's return. Smart investors look past the immediate narrative to trade the powerful undercurrents shaping the market.
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October 10, 2025

Novelty Search october 9, 2025

taostats

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Security Through Adversity: Targon’s "PTSD" from battling malicious miners forced them to build a cryptographically secure compute layer using TEEs, making their platform more resilient than siloed, trusted alternatives.
  2. DeFi Meets DePIN: They are building a transparent financial market for compute, complete with order books and derivatives. The goal isn’t just to rent GPUs; it’s to create the pricing infrastructure for the entire compute economy.
  3. The Foundational Layer: Targon is providing a verifiable, secure, and cost-effective compute service that other BitTensor subnets can build upon, potentially supercharging the entire network’s growth and competitive advantage.
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