All Episodes
Vanishing Gradients — 76 episodes
Agentic Engineering and the Lost Art of Verification
Next Level AI Evals for 2026
Privacy Theater Is Not Privacy Engineering: What It Actually Takes to Ship Safe AI
LLM Architecture in 2026: What You Need to Know with Sebastian Raschka
Episode 72: Why Agents Solve the Wrong Problem (and What Data Scientists Do Instead)
Episode 71: Durable Agents - How to Build AI Systems That Survive a Crash with Samuel Colvin
Episode 70: 1,400 Production AI Deployments
Episode 69: Python is Dead. Long Live Python! With the Creators of pandas & Parquet
Episode 68: A Builder’s Guide to Agentic Search & Retrieval with Doug Turnbull & John Berryman
Episode 67: Saving Hundreds of Hours of Dev Time with AI Agents That Learn
Episode 66: The Agent Paradox - Why Moderna's Most Productive AI Systems Aren't Agents
Episode 65: The Rise of Agentic Search
Episode 64: Data Science Meets Agentic AI with Michael Kennedy (Talk Python)
Episode 63: Why Gemini 3 Will Change How You Build AI Agents with Ravin Kumar (Google DeepMind)
Episode 62: Practical AI at Work: How Execs and Developers Can Actually Use LLMs
Episode 61: The AI Agent Reliability Cliff: What Happens When Tools Fail in Production
Episode 60: 10 Things I Hate About AI Evals with Hamel Husain
Episode 59: Patterns and Anti-Patterns For Building with AI
Episode 58: Building GenAI Systems That Make Business Decisions with Thomas Wiecki (PyMC Labs)
Episode 57: AI Agents and LLM Judges at Scale: Processing Millions of Documents (Without Breaking the Bank)
Episode 56: DeepMind Just Dropped Gemma 270M... And Here’s Why It Matters
Episode 55: From Frittatas to Production LLMs: Breakfast at SciPy
Episode 54: Scaling AI: From Colab to Clusters — A Practitioner’s Guide to Distributed Training and Inference
Episode 53: Human-Seeded Evals & Self-Tuning Agents: Samuel Colvin on Shipping Reliable LLMs
Episode 52: Why Most LLM Products Break at Retrieval (And How to Fix Them)
Episode 51: Why We Built an MCP Server and What Broke First
Episode 50: A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products -- With Hamel Husain
Episode 49: Why Data and AI Still Break at Scale (and What to Do About It)
Episode 48: How to Benchmark AGI with Greg Kamradt (ARC-AGI)
Episode 47: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch of Code Slop with Joe Reis
Episode 46: Software Composition Is the New Vibe Coding
Episode 45: Your AI application is broken. Here’s what to do about it.
Episode 44: The Future of AI Coding Assistants: Who’s Really in Control?
Episode 43: Tales from 400+ LLM Deployments: Building Reliable AI Agents in Production
Episode 42: Learning, Teaching, and Building in the Age of AI
Episode 41: Beyond Prompt Engineering: Can AI Learn to Set Its Own Goals?
Episode 40: What Every LLM Developer Needs to Know About GPUs
Episode 39: From Models to Products: Bridging Research and Practice in Generative AI at Google Labs
Episode 38: The Art of Freelance AI Consulting and Products: Data, Dollars, and Deliverables
Episode 37: Prompt Engineering, Security in Generative AI, and the Future of AI Research Part 2
Episode 36: Prompt Engineering, Security in Generative AI, and the Future of AI Research Part 1
Episode 35: Open Science at NASA -- Measuring Impact and the Future of AI
Episode 34: The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized
Episode 33: What We Learned Teaching LLMs to 1,000s of Data Scientists
Episode 32: Building Reliable and Robust ML/AI Pipelines
Episode 31: Rethinking Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI
Episode 30: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 2)
Episode 29: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 1)
Episode 28: Beyond Supervised Learning: The Rise of In-Context Learning with LLMs
Episode 27: How to Build Terrible AI Systems
Episode 26: Developing and Training LLMs From Scratch
Episode 25: Fully Reproducible ML & AI Workflows
Episode 24: LLM and GenAI Accessibility
Episode 23: Statistical and Algorithmic Thinking in the AI Age
Episode 22: LLMs, OpenAI, and the Existential Crisis for Machine Learning Engineering
Episode 21: Deploying LLMs in Production: Lessons Learned
Episode 20: Data Science: Past, Present, and Future
Episode 19: Privacy and Security in Data Science and Machine Learning
Episode 18: Research Data Science in Biotech
Episode 17: End-to-End Data Science
Episode 16: Data Science and Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Episode 15: Uncertainty, Risk, and Simulation in Data Science
Episode 14: Decision Science, MLOps, and Machine Learning Everywhere
Episode 13: The Data Science Skills Gap, Economics, and Public Health
Episode 12: Data Science for Social Media: Twitter and Reddit
Episode 11: Data Science: The Great Stagnation
Episode 10: Investing in Machine Learning
9: AutoML, Literate Programming, and Data Tooling Cargo Cults
Episode 8: The Open Source Cybernetic Revolution
Episode 7: The Evolution of Python for Data Science
Episode 6: Bullshit Jobs in Data Science (and what to do about them)
Episode 5: Executive Data Science
Episode 4: Machine Learning at T-Mobile
Episode 3: Language Tech For All
Episode 2: Making Data Science Uncool Again
Episode 1: Introducing Vanishing Gradients