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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

July 21, 2025

Where Are We In The Cycle? | Willy Woo

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. We are in a high-risk, high-reward phase where liquidity is the primary driver. The cycle's ultimate peak remains uncertain and heavily dependent on macro-economic policy.
  2. Brace for the Parabola. This is the late-stage bull market, where the most significant gains historically occur in short, violent bursts. Being out of the market means risking missing the entire cycle's payoff.
  3. Rotation Is in Motion. Capital has started flowing from Bitcoin to Ethereum. The next domino to watch for is a pop in large-cap alts, which would confirm a full-blown alt season is underway.
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July 21, 2025

DC Crypto Week Takeaways

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stablecoins are now institutional grade.** The Genius Act provides a clear regulatory framework, unlocking enterprise adoption and integration into traditional payment rails. Expect a wave of innovation in stablecoin infrastructure.
  2. **The future of DeFi is the next battleground.** While the Clarity Act offers key protections for developers, traditional finance incumbents are actively lobbying to limit DeFi's scope. The fight will be fierce in the Senate.
  3. **Capital formation is being supercharged.** The Clarity Act’s new token sale exemption will legitimize and streamline ICO-style fundraising, providing a powerful new tool for founders to raise capital with crypto-native efficiency.
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July 21, 2025

Can Worldcoin Fix The Internet's 99% Bot Problem?

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Proof-of-Human is Becoming Non-Negotiable. The internet is on a trajectory where >99% of activity will be AI-driven, making sybil-resistant "proof of human" a fundamental infrastructure layer, not a niche feature.
  2. Hardware is the Moat. Worldcoin bets that a specialized, secure hardware device (the Orb) is the only method resilient enough against sophisticated AI to scale a global human network, a concept crypto pioneer Hal Finney foresaw.
  3. A New GTM: Web3 Incentives, Web2 Integrations. Worldcoin’s strategy blends token airdrops to bootstrap its network (14M+ verified users) with integrations into mainstream apps (social, dating, gaming) to drive long-term, real-world utility.
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July 19, 2025

Market Melt-Up! Pump ICO! w/ Alex Good & Santiago Santos

Steady Lads Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Fiscal, Not Fed:** This melt-up is fueled by government spending, not central bank easing. Expect momentum to push assets higher before a sharp, painful correction. Have your exit plan ready.
  2. **Trade the Politics:** The cleanest narrative trade isn’t just Bitcoin; it’s politically reflexive “hated” coins (like XRP) that benefit from deregulation and have built-in, retail-heavy communities.
  3. **Beware the Treasury Trap:** Publicly traded crypto treasury companies are an attention game designed to prey on retail liquidity. While you can dance while the music plays, know that the exit door is small.
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July 18, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 121 - James Altucher TAOx

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Escape Velocity Reached: Like the early internet and Bitcoin, BitTensor has survived its infancy. Its ecosystem of 128+ subnets has created a network-effect moat that makes it incredibly difficult to disrupt.
  2. The "Front Door" Is the Next Billion-Dollar Opportunity: The most significant hurdle for BitTensor is its developer-focused user experience. The companies that successfully build simple, consumer-friendly interfaces on top of the subnets will unlock immense value.
  3. Powerful Tokenomics Signal a Supply Shock: TAO's upcoming halving, combined with its built-in utility and high staking rate, is creating a classic supply squeeze. With demand structurally increasing as the network grows, the economics point toward a significant price appreciation for the root token.
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July 18, 2025

The Great Ponzi-fication Of Markets | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Game Is Rigged, Play Accordingly. Traditional analysis is failing. The winning strategy is "grift arbitrage"—investing in assets that benefit from government spending and political connections.
  2. Bonds are Dead, Long Live Yield. With governments committed to fiscal dominance, bonds offer negative real returns. The hunt for yield is driving capital from fiat junk bonds into Bitcoin and Ethereum.
  3. Hedge for the Inevitable Shakeup. The system is fragile. Key risks like aggressive tariffs or a hawkish Bank of Japan could trigger a sharp sell-off. With volatility low, now is the time to buy cheap protection.
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