Jul 17, 2026

Fable 5 as Advisor: Anthropic's Two-Model Pattern for Smarter, Cheaper Agents (Ep. 1010)

The episode explores Anthropic's "advisor strategy," a novel AI agent pattern that combines a fast, cheap "executor" model with a frontier-class "advisor" model. This allows for mid-task consultation within a single API call, resolving the tension between cost and capability. Benchmarks show simultaneous improvements in quality and cost reduction, demonstrating that AI progress is shifting towards intelligent model composition rather than just larger models.

Jul 16, 2026

Imagination Engineering — Eve Bouffard, Head of Design, Y Combinator

Eve Bouffard of Y Combinator introduces "Imagination Engineering," arguing that powerful AI shifts the human challenge from execution to ideation. She showcases personal experiments like an AI-generated website from her public thoughts, a tool visualizing historical geniuses, and custom productivity aids. Bouffard highlights AI's role as a "rocket ship for the mind," enabling rapid learning and software creation on demand.

Jul 15, 2026

GLM-5.2: The real security risk? Plus: Vibe hunting, the end of CVSS and updates on Lightwell

This podcast explores the implications of open-weight AI models like GLM-5.2 for cybersecurity, CISA's new four-variable vulnerability prioritization model, the rise of AI-assisted 'vibe hunting,' and the commercial launch of IBM and Red Hat's Lightwell for securing open-source software. It highlights the tension between AI capabilities for attackers and defenders, the challenges of rapid vulnerability remediation, and the need for new "trust infrastructures" in the AI era.

Jul 14, 2026

Forward Deployed Engineering at Cursor — Pauline Brunet

Pauline Brunet, VP of Forward Deployed Engineering at Cursor, details how FDE drives AI adoption in enterprises. She distinguishes FDE from traditional services, outlines the 'magical unicorn' FDE profile, shares Cursor's project-based co-development approach, and offers best practices for team structure, customer engagement, and measuring ROI.

Jul 13, 2026

Why a Nation Can't Outsource Its Frontier AI - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI)

Alistair Pullen, CEO of Cosine, discusses the UK's sovereign AI initiative, born from US export controls. He outlines Cosine's unique economic model, competing with "millions" against "billions" by licensing models instead of hosting inference. Pullen delves into why open models lag frontier systems, emphasizing active parameters and post-training data. He explains Cosine's innovative approach to "slop" through process-based RL and credit attribution, advocating for runtime proof in code review. The conversation covers their hierarchical "Swarm" sub-agent system, the challenges of memory, and advanced synthetic data generation, concluding on the geopolitical impact of export controls as an unexpected catalyst for UK AI.

Jul 13, 2026

The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn’t Enough — Dan Biderman, Engram Co-founder & CEO

Engram co-founder Dan Biderman discusses building AI that learns from users, critiquing long context, RAG, and compaction's limitations. He introduces Engram's approach of compressing knowledge into "cartridges" and model weights via continual learning and gradient-based updates, aiming for "intuition" over retrieval. The vision extends to personal, "Tamagotchi" AI models and addresses the critical need for token efficiency and "doing more with less" in both enterprise and personal AI.