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The AI Relay
by Jonathan Spanos
The AI Relay is a podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without getting lost in the jargon. Each week, IT professional Andrew Signore and host Jonathan Spanos break down what AI actually is, how it works, and what it means for your thinking, your work, and your everyday life. No technical background required — just curiosity.
Episodes
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Episode 15: It's Not AI Taking Your Job. It's Someone Better at AI.
Andrew connected an AI agent to an AWS account to troubleshoot a deployment error. The agent found the root cause in minutes — a specific policy ID blocking the install — and recommended a fix: exempt the policy from the rule. Andrew knew what that policy was for. If he had run the command, he...
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Episode 14: They Spent HOW Much?!
One enterprise reportedly spent $500 million on AI in 30 days. Uber burned through its annual AI budget in four months after creating an internal leaderboard that rewarded teams for using the most AI. Jonathan saw those stories and could not let them go. But Andrew's response is not simply...
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Episode 12: Why Enterprise AI Is Still Living in 2024 (And What Enthusiasts Get Wrong About It)
If you've ever wondered why big companies seem slow to adopt the AI tools everyone's excited about — the answer probably isn't what you think. Andrew works inside enterprise AI and has been building agents there for years. Jonathan builds AI agents as an enthusiast, outside any corporate…
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The Exhaustion Nobody Talks About When You're Good at AI
If you've been using AI seriously for a while and still feel like you're falling behind — this episode is specifically for that. Andrew and Jonathan both came into this recording tired. Not struggling-with-the-tools tired. Keeping-up-with-the-pace tired. And the conversation they had is one of…
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Enterprise agents versus personal agents — two completely different things called the same word
When your company talks about deploying AI agents and when you think about your own AI setup, you might both be using the word agent — but you're probably not describing the same thing at all. This episode maps out the difference between the small, task-specific agents being built inside large...
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Stop asking AI what it thinks — ask it something it can actually answer
You hand it a business plan, ask what it thinks, and it tells you it's brilliant — which is almost never the honest answer. This episode is about one of the most common mistakes people make with AI: asking open-ended opinion questions and then trusting the response. Andrew breaks down three...
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AI memory is finally getting good — here's what that actually means for you
Starting a new chat and feeling like the AI has no idea who you are is one of the most frustrating parts of using these tools — but that experience is changing fast. This episode gets into how memory in AI systems actually works, from the live context window that fills and clears during a session...
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A new model just dropped — should you actually switch?
Opus 4.7 is out and the internet is excited, but your workflow is running fine on 4.6 and you really don't want to break anything. This episode helps you think through when a new model release actually matters and when it doesn't. Andrew and Jonathan break down what a model update really is —…
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Why talking to AI feels so weird — and why that's not going away
You're laughing at a joke a computer made, or you catch yourself genuinely irritated at a response, and then you think — wait, this is just a machine. So why does it feel like talking to a person? This episode sits with the strangeness of conversational AI and actually tries to explain it, from…
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Are You Good at Prompting - or Good at Using AI?
A lot of people think using AI well means knowing the right prompt formula. In this episode of The AI Relay, Andrew Signore and Jonathan Spanos unpack why that idea is becoming less true — and why clear goals, better context, and stronger judgment matter more than “magic words.” They explore how...
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Search, Assistant, or Agent? What Job Is AI Actually Doing?
Most people say they “use AI,” but that can mean very different things. In this episode of **The AI Relay**, Jonathan Spanos and Andrew Signore break down the difference between using AI as **search**, using it as an **assistant**, and using it as an **agent**—and why those are not the same job....
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Why AI Makes Things Up (And Why It Sounds So Confident)
Why does AI sometimes give a great answer—and other times make something up completely? In this episode of The AI Relay, Jonathan Spanos and Andrew Signore explain AI hallucinations in plain English for people without technical backgrounds. They break down why large language models predict words...
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Clear Thinking, Better AI
In this episode of **The AI Relay**, Jonathan Spanos and Andrew Signore use a practical grocery-shopping app built live with AI to show what actually leads to better results: clear context, a defined problem, a useful outcome, and everyday language that is more subtle and intentional than it…
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Stop Using AI Like a Search Engine — What Most People Are Missing
Most people are still using AI like a search engine. In this episode of **The AI Relay**, Jonathan Spanos and Andrew Signore explain why that misses the bigger picture. They break down the difference between the **AI app** and the **AI model**, why **ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini** can feel...
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Episode 1: What Is AI, Really?
If you've been nodding along when people talk about AI but still feel like you're missing the full picture — this is where to start. Jonathan and Andrew trace the full arc of AI from its origins to the moment it became impossible to ignore — the shift from machine learning to generative AI that...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The AI Relay is a podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without getting lost in the jargon. Each week, IT professional Andrew Signore and host Jonathan Spanos break down what AI actually is, how it works, and what it means for your thinking, your work, and your everyday life. No technical background required — just curiosity.
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