YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast)
Episodes
Every Learner Gets Their Own Andrew
14 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The video course had a good run. Ryan Keenan from DeepLearning.ai thinks it's over. In this episode, recorded live at AI Dev 26 in San Francisco, Yuva...
Everything But the Model: Harness Engineering
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Everything you need to know about harness engineering, in less than 30 minutes. In this episode, Yuval sits down with Mike Chambers from AWS to unpack...
Chunking Isn’t Dead. One Size Doesn’t Fit All
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chunking is still one of the least-discussed but most decisive parts of RAG. In this episode, we break down why no single chunk size works for all que...
Stop Shipping Agents With Chat UIs
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chat was a great prototype. It’s a terrible product. In this episode, Yuval sits down with CopilotKit co-founder Atai to unpack why most agentic ...
MCP Was Built for Tools, Not for Agents That Write
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
MCP standardized tool calling for agents but breaks down once agents start mutating state. In this episode, Yuval sits with Eran Gat from AI21 to dig ...
Why AI Leaderboards Miss the Point
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Leaderboards reward “best average score.” Real users reward “answer fast, don’t hallucinate, don’t bankrupt me.” In this special deep d...
The Agent Swarm Fallacy
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Running multiple agents can improve quality. Doing it right is the hard part. This time we look at the Agent Swarm Fallacy: the idea that throwing mo...
This Deep Research Agent Ignored the Benchmark and Still Won
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tavily built a Deep Research Agent with production in mind. Something they could actually scale. So they did the unsexy work. They went through millio...
Don’t Learn Distributed Systems. Just import ray
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You wanted to build an agent. You ended up debugging GPUs, scaling workers, and chasing OOMs. In this episode of YAAP, Yuval sits down with Linda from...
GenAI Meets Wall Street: Why Every Bank Thinks It’s a Snowflake
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Banks love GenAI. They just don’t trust it. Yet. In this episode of YAAP, Yuval talks with Renee Lau from AWS, a financial services industry spec...
Everyone’s got the same model. Now what?
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone’s building on the same foundation models. So how do you stand out? For Imagen AI, the answer isn’t bigger models, it’s smarter loops. C...
The House That Builds Builders – The Origin Story of AGI House
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago, it was just a house full of friends geeking out about AI. Today, it’s where researchers, founders, and engineers collide — and wh...
Scraping Without Getting Sued (Or Falling Asleep)
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone (and we do mean EVERYONE) needs data, and the web is the largest database humanity has ever built. But tapping into it at scale requires more...
The Judge Model Diaries: Judging the Judges
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your LLM gave a great answer. But who decides what “great” means? In this episode, Yuval talks with Noam Gat about judge language models — re...
RLVR Lets Models Fail Their Way to the Top
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Think you know fine-tuning? If your answer is RLHF, you don’t. In this episode, Itay, who leads the Alignment group at AI21, gives a no-fluff crash ...
RAG Is Not Solved – Your Evaluation Just Sucks
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
RAG Is Not Solved – Your Evaluation Just Sucks Your RAG pipeline is passing benchmarks, but failing reality. In this episode, Yuval sits down with N...
The Call Is Coming From Inside the Agent (And It Has Your Credentials)
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Call Is Coming From Inside the Agent (And It Has Your Credentials) You’ve shipped your first agent. It works. It’s useful. It might also be a ...
Building Enterprise RAG: Lessons from 2+ Years of Production Deployments
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Building production AI systems is hard — especially when you're pioneering entirely new categories. In this episode, Yuval speaks with Guy Becker, G...
Trailer
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You Can’t Have an Agent Without a Plan: What 90% of ’Agents’ Are Missing
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone's talking about AI agents, but most of what we call "agents" are just workflows in disguise. Real autonomous agents require planning. And tha...
The Hard Truths About AI Agents: Why Benchmarks Lie and Frameworks Fail
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Building AI agents that actually work is harder than the hype suggests — and most people are doing it wrong. In this special "YAAP: Unplugged" episo...
Tool Calling 2.0: How MCP Is Standardizing AI Connections
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is changing how developers connect AI applications to external tools – but what exactly is it, and why should you care?...