Tool Use - AI Conversations

The latest AI tools and strategies, featuring top builders, entrepreneurs, and researchers.Every Tuesday, get actionable knowledge about AI services that you can use today.- Conversations with AI builders and founders- Practical tips for applying AI immediately- Live demos of cutting-edge AI products- Deep dives into open-source projectsJoin us as we explore the rapidly evolving AI landscape and discover tools that transform productivity, creativity, and business.Subscribe now and stay ahead of the AI curve

Tool Use - AI Conversations is a technology podcast hosted by Mike Bird, with 85 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mike Bird hosts Tool Use - AI Conversations, a technology show with 85 episodes published.

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  Episode #84

  Hermes Agent has won. Here's why

  Apr 14, 202635 minS0

  <p>Check out www.ToolUsePodcast.com</p><p><br></p><p>Hermes Agent has emerged as the open source AI agent that people are choosing. In this episode, we go beyond the hype to understand why. Through conversations with a co-founder of Nous Research, AI engineering veterans, and non-technical builders, we explore what Hermes can actually do today, where it falls short, and why the choice of which agent you use matters more than you think. From self-improving skills and three-layer memory to video dubbing workflows and CAD hardware sourcing. These are real people getting real value from an agent...

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  Episode #83

  How To Make Your Websites Fully Autonomous (ft rtrvr)

  Mar 17, 202642 minS0

  <p>Check out www.ToolUsePodcast.com</p><p>Are AI web browsers falling short of the hype? Enter Rover, a revolutionary open-source AI agent that unlocks full autonomous workflows directly on your website with just a single script tag. In this episode, Arjun and Bhavani from rtrvr return to dive deep into how Rover uses a unique DOM-only approach to navigate, click, and type with subsecond latency. This innovative method completely bypasses slow screenshot-based models and outdated playwright or puppeteer scripts. We discuss the engineering secrets behind building smart DOM trees, why they crushed web benchmarks, and how Rover provides...

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  Episode #82

  How To Make Your A.I. Product Go Viral (ft Mano Tsiris)

  Mar 10, 202647 minS0

  <p>Join the Tool Use Discord: https://discord.gg/PnEGyXpjaX</p><p><br></p><p>In 2026, building an AI product is easier than ever, but getting traction and finding customers is the real challenge. In episode 82 of Tool Use, we sit down with Mano Tsiris, a serial exited founder and head of growth at Optimal AI, to break down the ultimate go-to-market strategy for technical founders and builders. Discover how to validate your startup ideas and talk to users before writing a single line of code. Mano shares his proven marketing playbook, including how to build in public on LinkedIn...

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  Episode #81

  How To Build a Hybrid AI System with Any-LLM (ft Nathan Brake)

  Mar 3, 202644 minS0

  <p>Join the Tool Use Discord: https://discord.gg/PnEGyXpjaX</p><p><br></p><p>Are you looking to optimize your AI applications with the best open source Large Language Models? This week, we explore open source AI, rapid model switching, and local self-hosting with Nathan Break, a Machine Learning Engineer at Mozilla AI and the creator of Any-LLM. Any-LLM is an open-source Python SDK that allows developers to seamlessly talk to any LLM provider through a single, unified interface.</p><p><br></p><p>Nathan demonstrates how developers can instantly swap between cloud-hosted AI providers and local models like...

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  Episode #80

  AI Sovereignty - Control Your Entire AI architecture (ft Max McCrea)

  Feb 24, 20261h 6mS0

  <p>Join the Tool Use Discord: https://discord.gg/PnEGyXpjaX</p><p><br></p><p>Are you putting your business at risk by relying on big AI companies? In this episode of the Tool Use podcast, we dive deep into Sovereign AI with Max McCrea, founder of Greyhaven. We explore how businesses can maintain control of their private data while still benefiting from AI. Max breaks down the importance of self-hosting and building architectures that abstract away the model provider so you can easily swap them out. We also discuss practical AI architecture decisions, the dangers of un-sandboxed AI agents...

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