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My Weird Prompts
The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the…
Episodes
My Weird PromptsThe Attention Budget in Your Pocket
Daniel wrote in with a sharp question: if punctuation restoration depends on surrounding context, why does dictating on a non-flagship phone feel like managing…
My Weird PromptsWhy Dehydration, Not Hunger, Is the Real Risk of a 25-Hour Fast
A healthy adult can go weeks without food, but only hours without water — and in a hot climate, that gap narrows fast. This episode walks through the clinical…
My Weird PromptsCan You Version-Control Your Android Apps?
Android Developer Verification enforcement began this month in Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand, and F-Droid says it can't comply. Meanwhile, a…
My Weird PromptsXet, Buckets, and Auto-Pulling Model Weights
Hugging Face quietly migrated 500,000 repositories and 20 petabytes to Xet, a chunk-level dedup engine that replaced file-level Git LFS. This episode unpacks…
My Weird PromptsInside F-Droid: Repos, Front Ends, and Sideloading Safely
F-Droid has been the oldest surviving alternative to the Play Store since 2010 — and its small catalog is a feature, not a bug. This episode unpacks the…
My Weird PromptsEu Já Matei um Ideal de Vida Só Por Não Aguentar Esperar o Tempo Dele
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "A Pressa Como Negação do Tempo". Ronny reflete sobre por que a pressa nunca funciona nos…
My Weird PromptsInventing Anna: The Real Tradecraft Behind the Con
Anna Delvey defrauded banks, hotels, and New York's elite without hacking a single thing. Her entire toolkit was Microsoft Word, fake AOL accounts, and a…
My Weird PromptsWho Actually Picks Your In-Flight Movie?
Eight in ten passengers use the seatback screen, and the Big Four US carriers alone carry over 525,000 of them. Yet the teams choosing what plays on those…
My Weird PromptsEditing vs. Note-Taking for AI Fine-Tunes
Daniel wants a daily AI assistant that writes like him, and he's weighing two ways to get the training data: hand-editing the model's responses, or leaving…
My Weird PromptsFine-Tuning at 4-Bit vs 16-Bit: What It Really Costs
What actually happens when you fine-tune a quantized model instead of the original weights? This episode walks through the mechanics of QLoRA versus…
My Weird PromptsAdapters: 102KB That Reshapes a 403GB Model
A 403GB base model, a 102KB adapter file, and a deliberate choice never to merge them. This episode unpacks what a model adapter actually is — formally, a…
My Weird PromptsWhat Makes a Model "Agentic"? Atria Dawn Preview
A 744-billion-parameter model appeared on Hugging Face with no announcement, no paper, no API, and no independent evaluation — but a grand title ("The Dawn of…
My Weird PromptsWhen Small NLP Models Beat the LLM
Every language problem gets routed to a frontier text-generation model these days — and sometimes that's exactly the wrong engineering choice. This episode…
My Weird PromptsHemmingway-1 and the War on Waffle
Hemmingway-1, a 27B model from Altworld built on Qwen3.8-27B, claims to skip the preamble and answer your whole message instead of a piece of it. But the…
My Weird PromptsOmarchy: The Linux Distro Built for AI Agents
Omarchy is an opinionated Arch-based Linux distribution from David Heinemeier Hansson that hit 1.16 million ISO downloads in its first year and pulled $18.7…
My Weird PromptsGemini Broke Out of Its Sandbox. Sort Of.
In May 2026, a Gemini model running a capture-the-flag exercise against a fictional target company reached three real businesses — because the sandbox it was…
My Weird PromptsAmazon Go and the Humans Behind the AI
Amazon Go promised a grocery store where you walk in, grab what you want, and walk out — no checkout, no scanning, no line. But in April 2024, The Information…
My Weird PromptsWhen Companies Hide Humans Behind the AI Curtain
What happens when companies deliberately make human-written text read as machine-generated? This episode breaks down the "pseudobot" text generator — a system…
My Weird PromptsAmy, Presto, and the Thousand Workers Behind "AI
We pull back the curtain on "fauxtomation" — products sold as autonomous AI where humans are quietly doing the intelligent work. Starting with X.AI's Amy, the…
My Weird PromptsWho's Actually Behind the AI? Fauxtomation Explained
When Amazon launched Just Walk Out, the pitch was computer vision at scale. The reality: roughly a thousand workers in India manually reviewing transactions…
My Weird PromptsChaining Small Models for Voice Cleanup
Daniel's phone-based voice pipeline has the transcription part solved — it's the cleanup that falls apart. Dates render as "nineteen eighty-four," paragraphs…
My Weird PromptsTeaching a Small Model to Stop Spelling Out Numbers
Dictation pipelines break on numbers, not hard words. This episode digs into inverse text normalization (ITN) — the post-processing step that turns spoken…
My Weird PromptsSix Colors, One Hospital Corridor
When a child's chest infection sent a family through the winding corridors of Shaarei Zedek Medical Center, the instruction on the chart was simple: follow the…
My Weird PromptsWhy Waze Sends You Into a Jerusalem Alley
Daniel drives in Jerusalem and trusts the blue line — until it puts him nose to nose with a delivery truck in an alley built for one car. His question: how…
My Weird PromptsFine-Tuning a Model on 100 Hand-Edited Answers
Most coverage of personal fine-tuning leads with the same line: tens of thousands of examples, a rack of GPUs, a research team. That story is mostly wrong. For…
My Weird PromptsBuilding Agents You Can Actually Move
Everyone says they want agents they can move between clouds, laptops, and providers — until they try. The code moves fine. The memory doesn't. This episode…
My Weird PromptsThe Software Behind Urgent Care Triage
Daniel watched an urgent care tech work a triage screen — massive buttons, color coding, emoji condition indicators, and prompts like "order IV." That's not…
My Weird PromptsChaining Small Models for Dictation Cleanup
A listener running a Futo voice input fork on Android wants to chain a custom small model after his ASR and punctuation stages to fix number normalization…
My Weird PromptsHugging Face vs Kaggle: Where Models Actually Live
Hugging Face and Kaggle get compared head-to-head all the time, but they're not two storefronts selling the same thing. Hugging Face is Git-backed…
My Weird PromptsAndroid's Split Keyboard and Voice Input Problem
Android's architecture treats your keyboard and your speech recognition engine as two independent system services — you can set each one separately. But most…
My Weird PromptsWho Decides What Your Keyboard Knows?
HeliBoard ships with zero dictionaries — you download a .dict file yourself, and that file may date to October 2014. This episode digs into the open-source…
My Weird PromptsMorse Code Between Two Phones: Does It Actually Work?
You need to get a message across a room with two phones and no network. Morse code over audio is the oldest trick in the book — and the most likely to actually…
My Weird PromptsAndroid ASR Runtimes: LiteRT, ExecuTorch, and Why Your Phone Has No VRAM
You download a model from Hugging Face, but you're not downloading something that runs — you're downloading weights. Something has to map every operator onto…
My Weird PromptsAndroid's Open Core, Closed Governance
Android is open source — except for the parts that matter. This episode digs into the gap between what AOSP promises and what developers actually experience…
My Weird Prompts10 Commercial Gear Upgrades for Your Home
Commercial and industrial equipment is built for a different buyer: one who runs it sixteen hours a day for a decade and repairs rather than replaces. That…
My Weird PromptsWhat Hotels Know About Laundry Machines
Daniel wants to know if there's an entry-level industrial laundry machine you could plausibly put in an apartment. The answer is yes and no — and the no is…
My Weird PromptsZero-Click: When Your OS Opens Files For You
A malicious WebP image doesn't need you to open it. It just needs your operating system to glance at it — to generate a thumbnail, index it, or render a…
My Weird PromptsHashing, Sandboxes, and YARA: The Free Forensics Nobody Uses
Most people treat VirusTotal like a thermometer: paste a file, get a verdict, move on. But the real forensics — sandbox behavior, relationship graphs, YARA…
My Weird PromptsSIP Speakers, Multicast, and the One-Way Page
SIP doesn't carry audio — it negotiates sessions, and RTP does the rest. That separation is what makes one-way paging possible: a SIP speaker is just an…
My Weird PromptsIs the U.S.-Israel Split a Blip or a Realignment?
For twenty-five years, Gallup's sympathy question barely moved. In February 2026, Americans favored Palestinians over Israelis for the first time ever — 41 to…
My Weird PromptsWhy a Zello Pager Wearable Doesn't Exist Yet
Standalone pagers like the Motorola MINITOR use a persistent blink-until-acknowledged loop, while Zello's Call Alerts repeat three beeps every sixty seconds…
My Weird PromptsDo Laptop Screen Protectors Actually Stop a Drop?
Daniel's laptop keeps ending up on the bed, and he wants to know if tempered glass exists for laptops the way it does for phones — plus whether it can stack…
My Weird PromptsWhy the Same Face Cream Costs 2.5x More in Israel
A listener bought a La Roche-Posay face cream in a Jerusalem pharmacy for 160 shekels — the same cream cost her about $17 on Amazon in the U.S. the week…
My Weird Prompts10 Power Tools, Ranked by What to Buy First
Most "10 tools every homeowner needs" lists are wish lists — they tell you what to own, not what to buy first. This episode builds an actual purchasing…
My Weird PromptsCorded vs Cordless Jigsaws: What Actually Matters
Most jigsaw buyers shop by amps and strokes per minute — the two numbers that predict the least about whether a saw is any good. This episode works through…
My Weird PromptsThe Spotlight Effect and the Heckler's Playbook
Daniel's question starts in an urgent care waiting room and ends on a Broadway stage. Why does a random crowd feel more hostile than a paying audience? We dig…
My Weird PromptsPouch Full of Doubt: The Inner Critic at Urgent Care
Daniel walked into urgent care wearing a modular tool belt stuffed with a phone, power bank, medication, and water — and two people asked him about it. Not…
My Weird PromptsWhen Both Parents Get Sick and No One Can Help
Daniel's question is about the moment the backup plan doesn't exist: he and his wife both down with a stomach bug, a fourteen-month-old in his arms at urgent…
My Weird PromptsCircling the ER: Driving When You Can't Stop
Navigation apps assume you want to arrive and stop — but what if you need to drop someone at the door and keep moving? This episode unpacks the "holding…
My Weird PromptsPacking a Medic Belt: TQ First, Then Everything Else
A belt packout is a crash cart shrunk to eight inches of nylon, and the access order is the specification. This episode walks through the full anatomy of a…
My Weird PromptsPadded Tool Belts: Do They Actually Carry More?
Padded tool belts look like they should let you carry more than a daily belt with pouches. The research says otherwise: every weight figure the brands publish…
My Weird PromptsThe Emergency Note You Hope You Never Need
Most travel preparedness talk is about gear and apps. The real work is deciding what goes in the note on your phone — the one you'd paste into a translation…
My Weird PromptsOne Well Adult vs. a Stomach Bug
A stomach bug has taken down the household, leaving one well adult to handle fluids, monitoring, and cleanup. This episode walks through the layperson's…
My Weird PromptsBuilding a Workbench Superstructure From T-Slot
Daniel wants to add a vertical superstructure to his IKEA-trestle desk — the back frame that holds monitor arms, shelves, and lighting — without drilling into…
My Weird PromptsChoosing a Foldable Workbench for a Tiny Jerusalem Apartment
Daniel needs a first workbench for a small Jerusalem apartment — something that folds away tidily but won't disintegrate after a year like the plastic products…
My Weird PromptsFul Medames: Slow Cooker vs Pressure Cooker
Ful medames is a dish that punishes impatience — dried fava beans with the skin on are among the most stubborn legumes in the kitchen. This episode works…
My Weird PromptsWhen Everyone Goes to University
Daniel asks a pointed question about himself: if third-level education has become a rite of passage rather than deliberate training for an occupation, can mass…
My Weird PromptsIvy League Is a Sports Conference
The Ivy League isn't an academic honor society — it's an eight-school athletic conference founded in 1954, named for the ivy on old campus buildings. Yet we…
My Weird PromptsPan-Arabism, the Umma, and Why the Arab League Can't Enforce Anything
Pan-Arabism borrows the emotional grammar of religious solidarity but swaps creed for language — and that swap creates problems the Arab League was never built…
My Weird PromptsTorch Juggling in the Temple: Inside Sukkot's All-Night Water Festival
Every morning of Sukkot in the Second Temple period, a priest carried a golden flask of water from the Pool of Siloam up to the altar — a rain-making ritual…