How Do You Evaluate An AI Agent? (The Agents Season, Episode 7)
Knowing when an AI agent has failed sounds straightforward — until it isn't. Agents have a frustrating habit of finishing confidently while quietly doing the wrong thing, or looping endlessly without ...
1 Juni 31min
AI Agent Failure Modes (The Agents Season, Episode 6)
Despite what the marketing hype might suggest, AI agents are far from infallible — and if you've ever actually used one, you already know this. Today's episode dives deep into the many, varied, and so...
25 Maj 32min
Agentic Planning (The Agents Season, Episode 5)
When tackling a complex, multi-step task, even the smartest AI agent can fail without a solid game plan. This episode dives into the research around agentic planning — how agents move beyond simply re...
18 Maj 24min
Memory Management for AI Agents (The Agents Season, Episode 4)
Context windows are powerful — but finite, and surprisingly easy to overwhelm. When an AI agent is tackling a long, complex task, the information it needs has to fit inside that limited real estate, a...
10 Maj 24min
Lost in the Middle (The Agents Season, Episode 3)
Just like a memorable talk lives or dies by its opening and closing, LLMs have a surprisingly similar quirk: they pay close attention to what's at the beginning and end of their context window — and k...
4 Maj 19min
ReAct and Tool Usage (The Agents Season, Episode 2)
Before 2022, there was a wall between AI and the real world — models could reason impressively, but couldn't look anything up, run code, or check whether anything they said was actually true. This epi...
27 Apr 23min
What's an AI Agent? And Why's That Hard to Define? (The Agents Season, Episode 1)
AI agents are having a moment — and unpacking them properly takes more than a single conversation. This episode kicks off a dedicated multi-part season exploring AI agents from every angle, building u...
20 Apr 19min
Unfaithful Chain of Thought
What's actually happening when an LLM "thinks out loud"? Research on human decision-making suggests that much of the reasoning we believe drives our choices is actually post hoc rationalization — we d...
13 Apr 24min
