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AI Podcasts

December 29, 2025

Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The "Everything App" is a myth. We are moving from general chat boxes to agentic workspaces that operate across your entire software stack.
  2. Build opinionated. Use the current model quality to solve one specific, high-value workflow rather than competing for the general assistant crown.
  3. 2026 is the year of the builder. The infrastructure is ready, the compute tension is real for Labs, and the market is hungry for products with a soul.
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December 26, 2025

How Claude Code Works - Jared Zoneraich, PromptLayer

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Movement: The transition from AI as a feature to AI as a headless operator using terminal-based agents.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Replace complex classification DAGs with simple tool-calling loops to reduce technical debt.
  3. The Bottom Line: The future of software development is not better IDEs but better headless agents that treat the entire OS as a tool.
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December 26, 2025

Shipping AI That Works: An Evaluation Framework for PMs – Aman Khan, Arize

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from deterministic software to probabilistic agents requires a move from "vibe coding" to data-driven development.
  2. Build a "golden" data set of 50 hard examples. Use these to test every prompt change before pushing to production.
  3. Reliability is the only moat left in a world of commoditized models. Evals are the bridge to that reliability.
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December 27, 2025

AGI: The Path Forward – Jason Warner & Eiso Kant, Poolside

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Software development is moving from a manual craft to an automated output of vertically integrated intelligence stacks.
  2. Monitor the public API release early next year to replace generic LLMs with specialized coding intelligence.
  3. The winners of the next decade will build on platforms that treat compute as a raw commodity and intelligence as the final product.
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December 26, 2025

What I learned at the frontier of tech in 2025 (Kelly, Cowen, Wang, Prince)

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: The transition from weightless software to energy-heavy hardware.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Stop building "wrappers" for model weaknesses.
  3. The Bottom Line: AI value is moving from the model to the grid and the individual reputation.
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December 26, 2025

How AI Will Reshape The Economy In 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: The Great Re-architecting. As legacy software moats evaporate and industrial supply chains reshore, value is migrating from passive data storage to active execution layers.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Target Archaic Verticals. Identify high-friction industries like mortgage servicing or IT support where the distance between intent and execution is currently measured in days.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next two years will reward those who build systems of action that replace human labor with autonomous agents and software-defined hardware.
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December 27, 2025

Why Scientists Can't Rebuild a Polaroid Camera [César Hidalgo]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: Economic complexity predicts growth better than current GDP. Capital will move toward "high-letter" economies like India and Indonesia.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize team retention over documentation. Since knowledge is embodied, losing a core team is equivalent to deleting the source code.
  3. The Bottom Line: Success in the next decade belongs to those who treat knowledge as a living network rather than a digital asset.
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December 26, 2025

⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Agentic Abstraction. We are moving from Model-as-a-Service to Agent-as-a-Service where the harness is as important as the weights.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Standardize your CLI. Use tools like ripgrep (RG) that models already have "habits" for to see immediate performance gains.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next 12 months will see the end of manual integration engineering as agents become capable of navigating UIs and legacy terminals autonomously.
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December 26, 2025

Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The commoditization of syntax means architectural judgment is the only remaining moat. As the cost of code hits zero the value of intent skyrockets.
  2. Replace your manual refactoring workflows with a burn and rebuild strategy. Use agents to generate entirely new modules instead of patching old ones.
  3. Seniority is no longer a shield against obsolescence. You must spend the next six months building your agentic intuition or risk being replaced by a PhD student with a prompt.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 23, 2025

Why Isn't Bitcoin Going Up? | Jeff Park

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The retailification of finance is merging public and private markets, making conviction more valuable than spreadsheets.
  2. Monitor high-conviction government rumors or national strategic transitions to front-run institutional capital that is too slow to move on ideology.
  3. Success in the next year depends on viewing volatility and privacy as core features rather than bugs in the system.
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December 22, 2025

Bitcoin Needs Vol, BTC vs Gold, Retail Trading Edge, 2026 Predictions | Jeff Park

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The retailification of finance is merging public and private markets. Every news event is becoming a tradable asset.
  2. Stop competing with bots on spreadsheets. Identify national strategic priorities that drive durable capital flows.
  3. Bitcoin’s next leg up depends on a return to its roots as a volatile and self-custodial alternative to the legacy system.
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December 22, 2025

The State of Crypto, 2026 Predictions & Espresso's Token Launch | Jill Gunter

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from Crypto as a Cult to Crypto as a Rail means the next winners will look like boring fintech giants rather than flashy token launches.
  2. Focus on infrastructure projects solving for fast finality and interoperability. These are the toll booths for the coming wave of corporate tokenization.
  3. The next 12 months will be defined by the Corpo Chain explosion. If you are not building for speed and performance, you are building for a niche that is shrinking.
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December 22, 2025

Is The Crypto-Native Era Coming to an End? - Lessons from 10 Years in Crypto

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "Crypto-Native" to "Invisible Backend" means value accrues to protocols that function like Linux.
  2. Monitor the 2026 IPO window for SpaceX and OpenAI to anticipate a major capital rotation.
  3. Success in the next decade requires building for the 99% who do not care about decentralization.
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December 19, 2025

Crypto Prices Are Down...Builders Aren’t!

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Fiat is failing as a currency, resulting in a push toward assets that maintain or grow purchasing power.
  2. DeFi offers real yield opportunities, making it a compelling alternative for capital preservation.
  3. Traditional finance is validating public blockchains, indicating a significant shift in finance towards crypto integration.
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December 21, 2025

Bittensor Brief #15: $TAO Bull Case + Bitcast SN93

Hash Rate Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: Bittensor's unique decentralized AI model, coupled with Bitcoin-like scarcity and a self-marketing subnet, sets it apart as a foundational AI infrastructure play.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: The $TAO halving creates a significant supply shock. Builders should observe Bitcast's "one-click mining" and AI-powered automation as a blueprint for efficient decentralized applications.
  3. The So What?: The convergence of reduced supply and increased marketing via Bitcast could drive substantial demand for $TAO over the next 6-12 months, making it a critical asset for those tracking the AI and crypto intersection.
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