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AI Podcasts

January 9, 2026

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

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "vibe coding" to "spec-driven" engineering.
  2. Implement EARS-formatted requirements in your AI prompts.
  3. Determinism is the ultimate feature for AI-assisted development.
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January 8, 2026

Post-training best-in-class models in 2025

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Intelligence is decoupling from scale. As reasoning becomes a commodity, the value moves from the size of the model to the proprietary nature of the training data.
  2. Use TRL or Unsloth for single-GPU fine-tuning. Prioritize cleaning your instruction sets over increasing your training iterations.
  3. The future belongs to those who own their data pipelines. If you can distill elite reasoning into a 350M parameter model, you win on latency, cost, and privacy.
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January 8, 2026

Intelligent Robots in 2026: Are We There Yet? [Nikita Rudin] - 760

The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Moving from Blind Locomotion to Semantic Navigation defines the next frontier.
  2. Prioritize modular architectures that use off-the-shelf VLMs for task orchestration.
  3. Expect the first value-positive humanoid deployments in late 2026.
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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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Crypto Podcasts

August 11, 2025

Did ETH Just Signal Alt Season?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH is the bellwether for risk. Its current rally is the starting gun for an "ETH alt season." Use ETH's strength as a barometer for when to be aggressive with altcoin allocations.
  2. Buy breakouts, not bottoms. The most profitable strategy is to wait for assets to break their downtrend, then ride the reflexive narrative loop. Aave (AAVE) and Aerodrome (AERO) are prime examples of this setup.
  3. Aerodrome is a conviction play. With superior tokenomics, a dominant position on Base, and a direct pipeline to Coinbase's retail army, Aerodrome has a clear path to becoming a breakout star of this cycle.
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August 11, 2025

Vitalik Buterin: How Ethereum Becomes The World Ledger

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Privacy as a Feature, Not a Product. The next major user-facing push will be to embed privacy tools directly into mainstream wallets, shifting privacy from a niche cypherpunk concern to a default user experience.
  2. Scale L1, Anchor L2s. The roadmap focuses on a strong L1 as the ultimate settlement and asset-issuance layer. This keeps the sprawling L2 ecosystem economically aligned and prevents fragmentation by making the L1 indispensable.
  3. ETH is the Economic Glue. A strong ETH is essential for coordinating incentives across the ecosystem. It is the core economic asset that aligns the Foundation, L2s, DeFi apps, and users, preventing the community from fracturing.
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August 11, 2025

The 10 Year Vision For Solana Mobile

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Platform, Not Phones.** Success for Solana Mobile isn't another phone sale; it's getting another manufacturer to adopt its platform. The end goal is to be the crypto equivalent of Android—a foundational layer for a world of hardware.
  2. **Go Global or Go Home.** The US is a sideshow. The real action is in the wildly diverse international market, where hundreds of device makers are looking for a competitive edge. This is where Solana Mobile plans to win.
  3. **Ecosystem as the Engine.** The strategy hinges on empowering the ecosystem to "go nuts." If the core team has to scale massively, it’s a sign of failure. True success is when hardware builders and dApp developers drive the platform’s growth organically.
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August 11, 2025

How Sovereign Is Solving Crypto's Throughput Problem with Preston Evans

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Specialization Over Generalization. For demanding use cases like exchanges, purpose-built rollups have a massive edge over L1s. They can be hyper-optimized for a single function without being constrained by the needs of a diverse ecosystem.
  2. Performance Is the Product. Sub-10-millisecond finality isn't a vanity metric; it's the fundamental requirement to bring serious financial markets and liquidity on-chain. Sovereign is making on-chain performance competitive with centralized finance.
  3. Revenue Before Token. In a direct rejection of the "launch-and-pray" model, Sovereign is building a sustainable business via a revenue-share on its core technology. The team has no plans for a token until a clear, long-term value accrual mechanism exists.
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August 10, 2025

Stablecoins Are Taking Over

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Scale is Real: At $28 trillion in annual volume, stablecoins have already surpassed Visa and Mastercard combined, proving the infrastructure is ready for primetime.
  2. B2B is the Killer App: The most powerful immediate use case isn't speculation, but something far more practical: B2B payments. The efficiency gains are too large for corporate treasurers to ignore.
  3. TradFi is Scrambling: Wall Street has moved from dismissal to active investigation. Sell-side analysts are now quantifying the threat stablecoins pose to legacy payment networks, signaling a major paradigm shift.
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August 8, 2025

GPT-5, Trump’s Crypto Executive Order, and Ethereum’s Bullish Saga | Roundup

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Narrative is King: The market is consolidating around two core narratives: Bitcoin as a store of value and Ethereum as a productive, tokenization platform. Ethereum's yield gives it a clear valuation edge for institutional capital.
  2. Politics is the New Catalyst: Crypto is no longer just a tech story; it’s a political one. Trump's 401k executive order represents a landmark shift, potentially unlocking trillions in retirement funds and mainstreaming digital assets.
  3. DeFi's Second Act is Here: The next wave of growth will be driven by institutional-grade DeFi. Yield-bearing assets are bridging TradFi capital on-chain, and digital asset treasuries are becoming the "osmosis" cells for this massive capital transfer.
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