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YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast) brings you practical conversations with the people actually building generative AI solutions. No hype, no sales pitches, just honest discussions about challenges, solutions, and lessons learned.
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OpenAI Banned Me for Building This
MCP wasn't enough, so Corey J. Gallon wired his agent straight into Chrome. It could share…
Yuval Belfer, Corey J. Gallon
Your Code Doesn’t Need to Be Readable Anymore
Readable code was always a compromise for humans. Explainable is the new bar. Yuval and Geoffrey…
Yuval Belfer, Geoffrey Huntley
The Model Routing Paradigm That Changed My Mind
Models are cheap. Routing them well is not. Yuval and Tomás break down why naive model…
Yuval Belfer, Tomás Hernando Kofman
Every Learner Gets Their Own Andrew
Courses are built for everyone. That means they're built for no one. Yuval and Ryan unpack…
Yuval Belfer, Ryan Keenan
Everything But the Model: Harness Engineering
No harness, no production. Yuval and Mike break down what harness engineering actually is, why MCP…
Yuval Belfer, Mike Chambers
Chunking Isn’t Dead. One Size Doesn’t Fit All
There is no perfect chunk size. Different questions need different views of the data, and fixed…
Yuval Belfer, Niv Granot
Stop Shipping Agents With Chat UIs
Chat was a prototype. Not a product. Yuval and Aai break down why agent apps fail…
Yuval Belfer, Atai Barkai
MCP Was Built for Tools, Not for Agents That Write
Tool calling is easy. Shared state is not. Yuval and Iran break down why MCP struggles…
Yuval Belfer, Eran Gat
Why AI Leaderboards Miss the Point
Leaderboards reward averages. Production rewards execution. Yuval and Barak unpack the four gaps that turn good…
Yuval Belfer, Barak Lenz
The Agent Swarm Fallacy
More agents can help. Most systems use them wrong. Yuval and AI21 CPO Or Dagan unpack…
Yuval Belfer, Or Dagan
This Deep Research Agent Ignored the Benchmark and Still Won
Quality went up. Tokens went down. Yuval and Dean break down how Tavily’s Deep Research Agent…
Yuval Belfer, Dean Sacoransky
Don’t Learn Distributed Systems. Just import ray
You wanted to build an agent. You ended up debugging GPUs. Yuval and Linda break down…
Yuval Belfer, Linda Haviv