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Episodes

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 15, 2025

Local LLM Infrastructure and Deployment. AI-Powered Development Tools and Coding Assistance. AI Security Vulnerabilities and Safety Research. Efficient Small Model Innovations. Multimodal AI and Creative Applications

Dec 15, 202519 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 12, 2025

Privacy Meets Production: Local AI Tradeoffs. Branch Routing Tackles Context Amnesia. No-Code Fine-Tuning Gets a Streamlit Interface. Decentralized Training Enters Production. Turning Autoregressive Models Into Diffusion LMs

Dec 12, 202536 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 11, 2025

Transformer Authors' New Model Sparks Debate. Step Game Reveals AI Social Reasoning Styles. Cold Start Mystery: When GPUs Won't Load Fast. Small Model Beats Giants on Hard Math. Intel's Math Agent Trades Verbosity for Code

Dec 11, 202525 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 10, 2025

LLM-as-Judge Falls to "Confident Idiot" Problem. Prompt Kernels and Local Model Wrangling. FP8 Quantization Brings Big Models to Small GPUs. Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation. DeepSeek V3.2 Claims Gold at Math and Programming Olympiads

Dec 10, 202523 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 09, 2025

Local RAG Gets Simpler With MCP. Navigating the Local LLM Hardware Maze. New Models and Quantizations Push Boundaries. Orchestrating Agents and Workflows. Claude Code Meets Telegram for Remote Control

Dec 09, 202523 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 08, 2025

Smarter Memory for Giant AI Models. Emoji Smuggling and Agent Security Risks. RAG Strategies for Enterprise Codebases. Open Source Research Tools Gain Ground. Agent Swarms and Coding Workflows

Dec 08, 202526 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 05, 2025

GPU Ownership vs. API Costs: The Hidden Math. Cascade Agents: Smarter Model Routing. SmallEvals: Tiny Models for RAG Evaluation. FIXXER: Local AI for Photo Workflows. CUA: Local Computer Agent for 8GB VRAM

Dec 05, 202511 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 04, 2025

Abliterated Models: Norm-Preserving Guardrail Removal. AMD Strix Halo: Budget AI Inference Arrives. Developer Tools: Proxies, Monitors, and Pipelines. Graph Databases and Memory for AI Agents. Video Generation: Longer, Better, Faster

Dec 04, 202524 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 03, 2025

Small Orchestrator Model Outperforms GPT-5. SFT From Scratch Reveals Debugging Realities. Qwen3 80B Next Lands in LM Studio. New Tools Tackle RAG Debugging and Memory. Developer Tools for Codex and OpenWebUI

Dec 03, 202526 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 02, 2025

GPU Showdown: Single Card vs Multi-GPU. Auto-Tuning Llama.cpp for Peak Performance. Blackwell NVFP4: Pain and Payoff. Modular RAG and Open Voice Agents. Claude's Self-Organizing Agents

Dec 02, 202525 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – December 01, 2025

Consumer GPUs Master FP8 Training. CUDA Kernel Fusion Speeds llama.cpp. MCP Tools Tackle Context Bloat. Desktop Clients and Learning Resources. Cybersecurity AI Goes Open Source

Dec 01, 202520 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 28, 2025

AMD Strix Halo Cluster Benchmarks. LLM Inference Fundamentals Explained. GeoVista Brings Web Search to Geolocalization. Agent Framework Chaos Meets Better Tooling. Privacy-First Chat UI Challenges Defaults

Nov 28, 202535 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 26, 2025

Custom Quantization Beats Pre-Built Models. Function Calling Pushes LLM Limits. Latency Optimization Goes Beyond Model Size. NVIDIA's Jet Models Target Edge Deployment. GPU Wars: ROCm Versus CUDA Reality Check

Nov 26, 202531 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 25, 2025

Vulkan's Uphill Battle Against CUDA Dominance. Semantic Compression Sparks Skepticism and Interest. Agent Debugging Tools Seek Community Validation. Fine-Tuned Models Face Off on Structured Output. Blackwell GPU Support Gaps Frustrate Early Adopters

Nov 25, 202524 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 24, 2025

Privacy, Hardware, and the Local Stack. Agent Architecture and Orchestration. Research Breakthroughs and Model Efficiency. Security, Vulnerabilities, and Exploitation. Core Engineering and Cryptography

Nov 24, 20259 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 21, 2025

Local multimodal systems and compression. Adversarial attacks and security breaches. Engineering effective agent workflows. Research frontiers and hardware physics

Nov 21, 20259 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 20, 2025

VRAM math goes mainstream. Tool calling finally behaves. From DAGs to actors. AI-first IDEs and unified APIs. Multimodal models meet lifelike speech

Nov 20, 202514 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 19, 2025

Scale-out, not cold starts. AI infra under attack, better telemetry. RDNA 4 FP8 unlocks big gains. Training-free 4K images, faster video VAEs. Agents need rails, not vibes

Nov 19, 202514 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 18, 2025

Consumer PCIe reality check. When prompts become pulpits. Search tools and MCP plumbing. Open source dependence and GPU stacks. Agentic AI meets cybersecurity

Nov 18, 202513 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 17, 2025

Half‑trillion runs at home. ShadowMQ and layered defenses. Agents need safer environments. Practical tools for RAG ops. Grounded vision models mature

Nov 17, 202512 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 13, 2025

Local LLM engineering gets sharper. MCP agents need observability. Leveling up everyday workflows. Diffusion MoE language model lands. Imaging: from benchmarks to relighting

Nov 13, 202513 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 12, 2025

Sharper vision through focus. Local runners get management layers. Protocols, skills, and costs converge. Agents: ensemble beats assembly line. Coding speed meets local generation

Nov 12, 202515 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 11, 2025

Agent guardrails move forward. Offensive testing meets hardening. Agentic coding, without the slop. RAG that plans and reasons. Vision-language goes agentic and embodied

Nov 11, 202512 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 10, 2025

Kubernetes stacks meet RAG reality. Codebases documented by agents. Agents, from orchestration to learning. Post-training, precision, and reasoning. Security mishaps and defenses

Nov 10, 202513 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 07, 2025

Fine-tuning giants, locally. Open agents and research stacks. Safety, security, and control layers. Foundation model research advances. Developer workflows and orchestration

Nov 07, 202513 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 06, 2025

Vision models: quirks and fixes. DIY acceleration, docks, and odd RF. Agents: training, routing, and specs. Security: link triggers, MCP hygiene. Scale: trillion-parameter “thinking” and trillion-dollar capex

Nov 06, 202513 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 05, 2025

Agent skills, memory, autonomy. Coordinating agents at scale. Tooling, formats, and developer UX. AI IDE security and supply chain. Long-context attention and embeddings

Nov 05, 202513 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 04, 2025

Agent frameworks go local-first. Performance wins: GPUs and kernels. LLM security: structure can bite. New multimodal models and OCR. High‑res diffusion and voice

Nov 04, 202513 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 03, 2025

Local AI stacks meet reality. Efficient diffusion on AMD GPUs. RAG UX, context engineering, extraction. Agents, from indie builds to swarms. Long context and GUI agent research

Nov 03, 202519 min

AGI Dreams Podcast – November 02, 2025

Multimodal memory and perception. Real-time vision super-resolution. Beyond attention for long contexts. Do LLMs truly reason?. Rails for accountable agents

Nov 02, 202513 min
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