Applied Wizardry
by Yaniv Bernstein
Latest episode
How Michael Batko gets AI to do the busywork
How Michael Batko gets AI to do the busywork
About this podcast
A podcast for engineers and technical founders about how we build with AI: the engineering behind the magic. Hosted by Yaniv Bernstein, a multi-time founder and engineering leader (PhD in computer science, ten years of engineering at Google, VP Engineering and COO at Airtasker, CTO and co-founder of Vera).
Episodes
- How Michael Batko gets AI to do the busywork · 58 minThe outsized returns from AI come from revenue growth, not cost-cutting—yet 99% of businesses outside the tech bubble have barely started exploring it. Michael Batko, former…
- How to keep your software secure when the bad guys have AI too, feat. Patrick Collins and Simon Harloff · 49 minThe frontier models that refuse to help you hack your own software are, paradoxically, making you less safe—while open weights models like DeepSeek Flash V4.1 will comply, cost a…
- Where humans still matter when agents write the code · 51 minThe traditional GitHub-style pull request review is a waste of opportunity cost for most code changes in the agentic era. Yet simply removing it without a replacement invites…
- 12 models, one daily driver: OpenRouter's Peter Walker on how teams choose AI · 55 minPeter Walker, Head of Insights at OpenRouter and previously at Carta, sees how about 120,000 US organisations use AI models every day. He expected their usage to spread across…
- Cutting AI coding token costs, with Dave Slutzkin · 59 minDave Slutzkin, co-founder of Antiburn, joins Yaniv to break down what actually drives token costs in agentic development and how to bring them down. They cover how caching…
- Introducing Applied Wizardry · 1 minApplied Wizardry is a podcast for engineers and technical founders about how we build with AI: the tools, the numbers and the trade-offs, practitioner to practitioner. Hosted by…
