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AI Podcasts

January 8, 2026

Automating Large Scale Refactors with Parallel Agents - Robert Brennan, AllHands

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Software maintenance is moving from a manual craft to an industrial process. As agents handle the toil of migrations and security, human engineers will focus entirely on high-level system design.
  2. Batch by Dependency. Use the OpenHands SDK to visualize your codebase as a graph and deploy agents to solve the leaf nodes first.
  3. Companies that master agent orchestration will clear their tech debt backlogs in weeks instead of years, creating a massive competitive advantage in product velocity.
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January 8, 2026

DSPy: The End of Prompt Engineering - Kevin Madura, AlixPartners

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: Software is moving from imperative instructions to declarative goals.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Port your most expensive GPT-4 prompts to DSPy signatures and run them through a BootstrapFewShot optimizer.
  3. The Bottom Line: Brittle prompts are the new technical debt. Building with a declarative framework ensures your system improves as models get cheaper.
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January 9, 2026

Spec-Driven Development: Sharpening your AI toolbox - Al Harris, Amazon Kiro

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. We are moving from probabilistic prompting to neurosymbolic reasoning where the LLM is a component of a larger structured system.
  2. Install MCP servers for your specific documentation and task trackers. Ground your agent in reality to reduce the manual verification loop.
  3. Engineering rigor is returning to the AI era. Builders who adopt structured workflows will outpace those stuck in the "prompt and pray" cycle.
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January 8, 2026

AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Capital is replacing labor as the primary driver of productivity.
  2. Prioritize investments in incumbents with massive distribution or lean startups that swap payroll for compute.
  3. The US remains the primary engine of growth but the internal divide between tech hubs and the hinterland will widen as AI concentrates wealth.
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January 9, 2026

Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The decoupling of parameter count from active compute via sparsity means intelligence is becoming a software optimization problem as much as a hardware one.
  2. Audit your agentic workflows for turn efficiency rather than just cost per token.
  3. In a world of infinite tokens, the winner is the one who can verify the truth the fastest.
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January 7, 2026

Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "adding machines" to "human cognition" models is an 80-year correction finally hitting the vertical part of the S-curve.
  2. Prioritize application-specific models that backward-integrate into the stack.
  3. AI is a physical and digital build-out that will define the next decade of global power.
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January 6, 2026

Who Controls AI's Future? The Battle for GPU Access | CoreWeave SVP

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from general-purpose compute to specialized AI infrastructure mirrors the rise of Snowflake in the data era.
  2. Audit your current cloud spend to identify where generalist latency is throttling your GPU goodput.
  3. Performance bars move every two years. If your infrastructure isn't purpose-built for AI today, you will be priced out of the market tomorrow.
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January 5, 2026

Welcome to AIE CODE - Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: The transition from LLMs as chat interfaces to LLMs as logic engines. As models move from text prediction to logic execution, the value moves from the model itself to the verification systems surrounding it.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit the stack. Prioritize the integration of agentic coding tools like Jules to shorten the feedback loop between ideation and deployment.
  3. The Bottom Line: Code is the only medium where AI can self-correct and scale without human intervention. The next 12 months will be defined by who can turn raw model power into reliable, self-healing code.
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January 5, 2026

Claude Agent SDK [Full Workshop] — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Moving from "Model-as-a-Service" to "Environment-as-a-Service" where the harness matters as much as the weights.
  2. Replace your bespoke API tools with a single bash tool. Use a well-structured file system.
  3. The next year belongs to builders who stop treating LLMs as chatbots. They will treat them as system administrators.
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Crypto Podcasts

October 17, 2025

Gold Hits All-Time Highs, Stablecoin Adoption, and Historic Liquidations | Roundup

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Four-Year Cycle Is Dead.** The absence of a parabolic, post-halving rally confirms a new paradigm. Investors should expect more sustained, multi-year growth fueled by institutional adoption and macro trends, pointing to a strong 2026.
  2. **Stablecoins Are Capital Formation Engines.** The primary use case isn't peer-to-peer payments; it's a new financial primitive for funding real-world assets. This is crypto’s killer app for institutions.
  3. **DeFi's Transparency Wins.** The recent liquidations proved that while CeFi remains a house of cards with opaque risks and preferential treatment for insiders, DeFi’s transparent, on-chain systems offer superior resilience.
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October 17, 2025

DAS Takeaways, Crypto’s Largest Liquidation Ever & Have We Peaked? | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Great Bifurcation Is Here.** Institutional capital is flowing into Bitcoin and Ethereum, but the flash crash proved the altcoin market is a liquidity desert. Do not mistake ETF inflows for broad market support.
  2. **DeFi Won the Battle, CeFi Won the War (For Now).** Protocols like Aave performed perfectly, but the system's reliance on centralized exchange oracles was the critical point of failure. The future is hybrid, but the current integration is dangerously fragile.
  3. **Cash Flow Is King.** The era of vaporware is ending. From DATs to new tokens, the market will no longer tolerate projects without a clear path to revenue. The music has stopped for assets without a viable business model.
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October 17, 2025

Is the Crypto Bull Market Over? Gold All-Time Highs, Crypto Whipsaws: Are We Topping or Resetting?

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Leverage is the market's double-edged sword. The $19B flash crash was a cascade failure driven by leverage, not fundamentals. It exposed the fragility of perpetual exchanges and the critical risk of Auto-Deleveraging (ADL) even for sophisticated traders.
  2. Wall Street is tokenizing everything. Larry Fink and BlackRock are building the operating system to move trillions in traditional assets on-chain. This isn't a speculative bet; it's a core strategy to capture a massive, untapped global market.
  3. Infrastructure is maturing, but risks are shifting. While core DeFi protocols proved bulletproof under stress, centralized exchanges and their oracle dependencies remain a systemic weak point, as shown by Binance's API failures and the resulting market chaos.
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October 17, 2025

Crypto Has Topped.

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Altcoins Are Cooked. A decimated retail buyer base combined with relentless selling pressure from insider token unlocks creates a structurally bearish environment for the entire altcoin complex.
  2. Farm, Don't Buy. Stop being exit liquidity. The winning strategy is to farm airdrops to acquire tokens for free and become the one who sells at launch.
  3. Capital Preservation is King. The "one more 2x" mentality is a trap. Protect your gains by holding significant stablecoin reserves and acting quickly to de-risk. Take care of the downside, and the upside will take care of itself.
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October 17, 2025

Global Liquidity Cycle & the Worldwide Rush Into Hard Assets | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hard Assets Are The Only Exit. Governments must monetize their staggering debt, making monetary inflation hedges like gold and crypto essential. Gold’s recent surge is the canary in the coal mine, signaling a major catch-up move for Bitcoin is imminent.
  2. Forget the Trade War; Watch the Capital War. The real global conflict is financial. The US is building its future on digital dollars (stablecoins), while China is anchoring its system to gold. This divergence will define capital flows for the next decade.
  3. The Bitcoin 4-Year Cycle Is Dead. Treat Bitcoin as a global macro asset driven by liquidity and its relationship with gold. Its recent price consolidation is a sign of distribution from old hands to new institutional players, setting the stage for its next major move.
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October 15, 2025

Kyle Samani Thinks Solana Will Overtake Bitcoin and ETH

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Utility Trumps Scarcity: The most valuable crypto asset will be the one powering the most economic activity, not simply the one with the most predictable supply.
  2. Solana’s Technical Roadmap is Key: A future state with multiple concurrent block producers will give Solana a decisive advantage in censorship resistance and performance over its rivals.
  3. Bet on SOL to Flip BTC: Samani’s core investment thesis is that as Solana’s real-world adoption becomes undeniable over the next decade, SOL is positioned to become the world’s number one crypto asset.
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