Ep 52: NVIDIA's 4-bit pretraining technique cuts memory needs for large hybrid models while keeping accuracy nearly identical to FP8.

Ep 61: Anthropic just published concrete sandboxing patterns that let agents scale capabilities without expanding their blast radius.

Models & Agents Anthropic just published concrete sandboxing patterns that let agents scale capabilities without expanding their blast radius. What You Need to Know: Anthropic released a detailed engineering post on how they contain Claude agents through evolving access controls and sandbox limits. EAGLE 3.1 fixes attention drift in speculative decoding for more stable production inference. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 60: Local builders can now treat markdown skill files as optimizable parameters with automated validation gates instead of manual tweaking.

Models & Agents Local builders can now treat markdown skill files as optimizable parameters with automated validation gates instead of manual tweaking. What You Need to Know: A new paper formalizes SkillOpt, using frontier models to propose bounded edits to markdown skills and accepting only those that improve a held-out validation set. Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.6 receive new uncensored and diffusion variants with detailed training notes for consumer hardware. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 59: Datasette's new slash-key jump menu now launches agent conversations directly from your databases.

Models & Agents Datasette's new slash-key jump menu now launches agent conversations directly from your databases. What You Need to Know: Simon Willison shipped Datasette 1.0a30 with a keyboard-driven "jump to" menu that plugins can extend, plus a datasette-agent plugin that adds a conversation starter form. NuExtract3, a new 4B vision-language model, arrived on Hugging Face for structured extraction and Markdown conversion from documents. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 58: Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-18 to 2026-05-24 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next.

Models & Agents — Weekly Recap Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-18 to 2026-05-24 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next. This Week's Top Stories From Ep 52 (2026-05-18): What You Need to Know: What You Need to Know: NVIDIA released a full 4-bit pretraining stack (NVFP4) that was validated on a 12B Mamba-Transformer trained for 10 trillion tokens. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 57: OpenAI just added goal mode and screen-aware context to Codex, letting agents work autonomously for hours on real tasks.

Models & Agents OpenAI just added goal mode and screen-aware context to Codex, letting agents work autonomously for hours on real tasks. What You Need to Know: OpenAI rolled out Goal mode, Appshots, and advanced annotation in Codex across app, IDE, and CLI. Anthropic reported finding over 10,000 high-severity vulnerabilities through Project Glasswing using Claude models. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.