The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech

We talk about what's happening in Data & AI every week (well, most weeks). No buzzword bingo or marketing fluff—just honest conversations about the tech that's changing everything. Sometimes we go off on weird tangents about programming languages, tech/startup life, or whatever shiny object caught our attention. Whether you're knee-deep in code or just curious about AI, come hang out with us!

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AI News Weekly 🚀 Copilot Edge, Open-Source Model Wars, Tencent 3D, & Trump-China Regulation Clash

Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe! The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble | Where’s Your Ed At Technology writer Ed Zitron tears apart what he calls the overhyped generative-AI gold rush, warning it’s propped up by wishful thinking and unsustainable spending. As he bluntly puts it, “We’re in a god damn bubble,” prompting a no-holds-barred discussion on whether the boom will burst. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/ Trump administration to supercharge AI sales...

Jul 30, 2025•29 min•Ep. 9

OpenAI IMO Gold, AWS S3 Vectors, MCP Server Exposés, Sovereign Clouds & the Capex Surge

Thanks for listening—subscribe and leave a review! Announcing molab (marimo) Marimo debuts molab , a free, cloud‑hosted workspace for running and sharing reactive Python + SQL notebooks straight from the browser. https://marimo.io/blog/announcing-molab OpenAI LLM Claims IMO Gold Researcher Alexander Wei says an experimental OpenAI model solved 5 of 6 problems from the 2025 International Math Olympiad—good for a human‑level gold medal—and hints at new post‑RL training tricks. https://threadreader...

Jul 23, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 8

Agents, Paywalls, and Browser Battles: The Race to Control AI's Digital Highway

Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe! MCP-B – Browser Model Context Protocol | mcp-b.ai MCP-B proposes a “USB-C for AI,” letting agents call site functions instead of clumsy click-automation. “MCP-B gives AI direct access to your website's functions instead,” promising smoother bot-to-web handshakes for everyone. https://mcp-b.ai/ OpenAI’s next big launch could be an AI web browser | The Verge OpenAI is reportedly cooking up a Chromium‑based browser with a built‑in O...

Jul 17, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 7

$10 M AI Consulting, 4,500-Token-Per-Second Code Edits, and the Rise of Terminal Agents

Thanks for listening! Subscribe and follow wherever you get your podcasts. Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec — Hacker News Fast Apply from Morph promises near-instant AI patches, aiming to replace sluggish full-file rewrites with surgical edits. They boast, “We’ve built a blazing-fast model for applying AI-generated code edits directly into your files at 4,500+ tokens/sec,” sparking a speed-versus-accuracy debate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490863 Op...

Jul 09, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 6

Context Hacking, Open-Source Hype & Synthetic Bands

Thanks for listening, leave a review! ❤️ The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering | Phil Schmid Blog (Jun 30 2025) Phil Schmid argues that the real differentiator in modern AI work is “context engineering,” the discipline of assembling the right information, tools and format around an LLM rather than obsessing over single-string prompts. He quotes Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, who calls it “the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.” phil...

Jul 02, 2025•54 min•Ep. 5

Tiny Teams, Loud Unlocks, and Rogue AI

Thanks for listening! Make sure to leave a review ❤️ Serena: A powerful coding agent toolkit | GitHub Serena presents itself as a full-featured coding agent that melds semantic code search, automated editing and shell execution to streamline developer workflows. “Serena combines tools for semantic code retrieval with editing capabilities and shell execution.” 🔗 https://github.com/oraios/serena Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser | nxtscape.ai Nxtscape pitches a privacy-first browser that ...

Jun 27, 2025•50 min•Ep. 4

AI Agents, Brain Fog & Caveman Coding

Welcome to The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech — where we keep it real, techy, and far from buzzword bingo. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts, or visit us at monkeypatching.io 🧠 Episode Topics & Links Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task New arXiv research shows relying on ChatGPT dulls neural engagement and weakens writing skills compared to search or free writing. EEG readings revea...

Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 3

Apple ‘Illusion of Thinking’ Debate, DuckLake Lakehouse & Magistral AI

Welcome to Episode 2! We'd love to hear your feedback ❤️ DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format | DuckDB Blog (May 27 2025) DuckDB’s new DuckLake format proposes shifting all lakehouse metadata into a regular SQL database so open-format data lakes can gain true transactional speed and simplicity. “DuckLake re-imagines what a ‘Lakehouse’ format should look like,” the authors write, arguing it eliminates the maze of JSON files and external catalog services. If adopted, DuckLake could let organization...

Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 2

Our First Episode!

Hey there! Welcome to the very first Monkey Patching Podcast. We're just kicking things off today, chatting about what we've got planned for this show – nothing too mind-blowing yet, but we're excited to get rolling. If you're into data and AI talk without all the buzzword fluff, hit subscribe and join us for the ride. Trust us, it gets better from here. Ow yeah... while we said that we would start numbering at 0, our podcast hosting platform doesn't support it 🙈 Thanks for listening! Much love...

May 06, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1

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