YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast)

YAAP brings you practical conversations with the people actually building generative AI solutions. No hype, no sales pitches, just honest discussions about challenges, solutions, and lessons learned. Listen to developers and engineers share what works, what doesn't, and what they wish they'd known sooner. Simple, useful insights for anyone working with AI — hosted by AI21's Yuval Belfer.

YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast) is a technology podcast hosted by AI21, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

AI21 hosts YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast), a technology show with 25 episodes published.

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  Episode #26

  OpenAI Banned Me for Building This

  Aug 18, 202617 min

  Most agent-browser tools bolt on through MCP. Corey J. Gallon, Managing Director at Rexmore, ripped that out. He built Chrome Agent, which talks to Chrome directly over the DevTools protocol (CDP). That means his agent can share his actual browser session: watch it work, take over mid-task, even beat CAPTCHAs along the way. Yuval and Corey get into why Playwright MCP fell short, what it actually means to hand an agent your exact browser context, and the scraping and outreach workflows this unlocked. Then the twist. OpenAI tried to ban Corey for "cyber abuse." No explanation given. He asked them, politely, what he was even accused of, and they backed down within days.

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  Episode #25

  Your Code Doesn't Need to Be Readable Anymore

  Aug 4, 202622 min

  Geoffrey Huntley hasn't hand-written code in over two years. He's the guy behind the Ralph Wiggum technique, he thinks Git is end of life, and he's rebuilding source control, operating systems, and programming languages from scratch just to see what survives. His new bar for code: explainable, not readable. Also why he ditched Anthropic and OpenAI for a $300-a-year Chinese model.

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  Episode #24

  The Model Routing Paradigm That Changed My Mind

  Jul 21, 202621 min

  Model routing sounded solved: cheap stuff to the small model, hard stuff to the big one. Turns out that's how you blow your budget. Tomás Hernando Kofman, founder of Not Diamond, on why naive routing breaks your KV cache, why routing at scale is really a reinforcement learning problem, and why cheaper models mean you spend more, not less.

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  Episode #23

  Every Learner Gets Their Own Andrew

  May 14, 202622 minS0

  <p>The video course had a good run. Ryan Keenan from DeepLearning.ai thinks it's over.</p> <p>In this episode, recorded live at AI Dev 26 in San Francisco, Yuval sits down with Ryan to talk about what replaces the current online courses - and why the answer isn't another format: it's a conversation. They dig into why Jupyter Notebooks are out, why React is in, how Andrew Ng's voice clone became a teaching assistant, and what it actually takes to make learning feel personal at scale. The one-size-fits-all era of online education is ending. What comes next is wilder...

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  Episode #22

  Everything But the Model: Harness Engineering

  May 7, 202627 minS0

  <p>Everything you need to know about harness engineering, in less than 30 minutes.</p> <p>In this episode, Yuval sits down with Mike Chambers from AWS to unpack harness engineering - the term that's quietly taken over the AI developer conversation. They dig into what a harness actually is (spoiler: it's everything outside the LLM), how it differs from context engineering and scaffolding, and why getting agents into production has been so hard. Along the way: MCP's rocky debut, OpenClaw's calendar-clearing chaos, and why multi-tenanted agent architecture is harder than it sounds - but doesn't have to be.</p>

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