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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
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A sloth and a donkey discuss anything — every episode generated by AI from a single prompt.
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AI |
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In this meta-episode, Corn the sloth and Herman Poppleberry the donkey turn the microphones on themselves. They break down how My Weird Prompts works as a fully…
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This episode unpacks the four interlocking problems — literary, technical, memory-based, and evolutionary — that stand between today's static lore books and…
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Can AI truly maintain itself? In this episode, we explore the current state of self-healing codebases — from AutoPatch AI resolving bugs in 42 seconds to systems…
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AI coding tools like Claude are getting so good that experienced developers feel their manual skills slipping — and newcomers are entering the field having never…
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Technical procurement is a strange beast — cross-geography manufacturer number mapping, threshold-based cost comparisons, adversarial supplier verification. Most…
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Why do people become captivated by a culture they've never experienced firsthand — cooking its food, learning its language, building an imagined relationship with a…
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Most people building "AI servers" end up with a machine trying to be a database, web server, chat frontend, and inference box all at once — and then wonder why it…
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The received wisdom says serious AI inference needs a GPU — but that's not the full story. This episode unpacks the real bottlenecks: memory bandwidth vs. parallel…
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When you dictate a messy to-do list and want clean JSON out, the question isn't just whether to fine-tune or prompt a general model — it's whether you can tolerate…
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We break down the real tradeoffs: accuracy on tiny rotated text, cost at scale, offline capability, how each approach handles the novel-fields requirement, and what…
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Most tutorials skip the hard parts. This episode walks through the full process of training a single-class object detector from scratch: how many images you…
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AI gateways promise more than just model routing—PII reduction, context augmentation, and system prompt injection at a single chokepoint. But every middleware layer…
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Ever found a perfect model on Hugging Face only to wonder if your laptop can actually run it? This episode breaks down the two main pathways for running models from…
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Technology |
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Memory leaks aren't just "forgot to free." This episode breaks down the full taxonomy — genuine unreachable allocations in C, logical leaks in garbage-collected…
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A bad thermostat doesn't just feel uncomfortable—it reveals deep lessons about control systems, sampling theory, and the mathematics of not overcorrecting. This…
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What happens when AWS IAM goes down globally and your multi-region architecture becomes a single point of failure? This episode tackles the hard reality of…
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Ever wonder why one airport makes you take off your shoes and another waves you through with a full water bottle? This episode digs into the hardware driving that…
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This episode unpacks the hidden mechanisms behind that intuition, from Amazon's internal "cost-to-serve" scoring to AliExpress's escrow system. We explore how…
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Your stud finder might find studs perfectly while staying completely silent about the live wire stapled to the side of it. In this episode, we dig into the…
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What changes qualitatively as you climb from a steel tape measure to a terrestrial laser scanner? This episode traces the full ladder of physical measurement …
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Geopolitics |
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Ever wonder what's happening during those tense seconds at passport control? This episode breaks down the actual process — document examination, biometric chip…
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This episode explores Kazakhstan through two lenses: the wild apple forests of the Tian Shan where Malus sieversii still grows, and the surreal planned city of…
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What happens when a K-drama about a South Korean heiress crash-landing in North Korea has a real defector in the writers' room? This episode unpacks the sixty…
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What does daily life actually look like in North Korea today — not the famine-era memoirs, but the country as it exists right now? This episode goes inside the gap…
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Travel |
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What if you had unlimited money and wanted to deliberately experience the absolute worst commercial air travel has to offer — not accidentally, but on purpose? This…
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What happens when you deliberately seek out the worst travel experiences on the planet? We built a round-the-world itinerary of pure disappointment — 17 cities that…
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A listener named Hannah has carried a romantic image of Hong Kong in her head for years — neon-lit streets, Art Deco bones, wet markets, tong lau tenements. But how…
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Architecture |
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Hannah asks how much of Shanghai's romanticized "Paris of the East" image is real. We test the myth against the city's actual history, from the massive Art Deco…
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Science |
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When a listener who volunteers at a crisis hotline noticed a pattern among callers — a deep, persistent grief from lacking nurturing family relationships — she…
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Everything Else |
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The name suggested a supply-chain company. The tech had never heard of an anti-static mat. And he seemed annoyed that customers showed up. What does it mean when a…
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Most career advice tells you to save your best questions for the end — but by then, the interviewer's impression is already set. This episode explores what happens…
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What if the best career advice wasn't about climbing the ladder, but finding the job that demands the least of you while paying the most? This episode hunts for the…
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Small talk is a ritual, not an information exchange — and rituals can be performed badly on purpose. This episode builds the anti-guide to small talk: a playbook…
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