The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech

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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble | Where’s Your Ed At

Technology writer Ed Zitron tears apart what he calls the overhyped generative-AI gold rush, warning it’s propped up by wishful thinking and unsustainable spending. As he bluntly puts it, “We’re in a god damn bubble,” prompting a no-holds-barred discussion on whether the boom will burst.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

Trump administration to supercharge AI sales to allies, loosen environmental rules | Reuters

Washington’s latest AI blueprint...

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Announcing molab (marimo)
Marimo debuts molab, a free, cloud‑hosted workspace for running and sharing reactive Python + SQL notebooks straight from the browser.
https://marimo.io/blog/announcing-molabOpenAI LLM Claims IMO Gold
Researcher Alexander Wei says an experimental OpenAI model solved 5 of 6 problems from the 2025 International Math Olympiad—good for a human‑level gold medal—and hints at new post‑RL training tricks.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1946477742855532918.htmlExposing the Unseen: Mapping MCP Servers Across the Internet (Knostic)
Knostic scanned the web and found 1,862 publicly exposed Model Contex...

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MCP-B – Browser Model Context Protocol | mcp-b.ai
MCP-B proposes a “USB-C for AI,” letting agents call site functions instead of clumsy click-automation. “MCP-B gives AI direct access to your website's functions instead,” promising smoother bot-to-web handshakes for everyone.
 https://mcp-b.ai/

OpenAI’s next big launch could be an AI web browser | The Verge
OpenAI is reportedly cooking up a Chromium‑based browser with a built‑in Operator agent that can book tables or fill forms for you. As Reuters learned, “OpenAI is planning to laun...

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Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec — Hacker News
Fast Apply from Morph promises near-instant AI patches, aiming to replace sluggish full-file rewrites with surgical edits. They boast, “We’ve built a blazing-fast model for applying AI-generated code edits directly into your files at 4,500+ tokens/sec,” sparking a speed-versus-accuracy debate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490863OpenAI Launches $10 M Custom AI Consulting, Challenging Industry Giants — AI Tech Suite (Jul 01 2025)
OpenAI is stepping into high-end consulting, demanding at least $10 mi...

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The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering | Phil Schmid Blog (Jun 30 2025)
Phil Schmid argues that the real differentiator in modern AI work is “context engineering,” the discipline of assembling the right information, tools and format around an LLM rather than obsessing over single-string prompts.
He quotes Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, who calls it “the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.”
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OpenAI open-source model hype | X (Tweet) (Jun 30 2025)
Researcher Yuchen Jin teas...

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Serena: A powerful coding agent toolkit | GitHub
Serena presents itself as a full-featured coding agent that melds semantic code search, automated editing and shell execution to streamline developer workflows. “Serena combines tools for semantic code retrieval with editing capabilities and shell execution.”
🔗 https://github.com/oraios/serena

Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser | nxtscape.ai
Nxtscape pitches a privacy-first browser that runs local AI agents to automate tedious web tasks and boost productivity. “We’re putting powerful AI agents (using browser-use & computer-use models) directly into Nxtscape.”

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
New arXiv research shows relying on ChatGPT dulls neural engagement and weakens writing skills compared to search or free writing. EEG readings revealed the lowest brain activity among LLM users.
Source: arXiv · June 10, 2025Amazon CEO sa...

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DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format | DuckDB Blog (May 27 2025)
DuckDB’s new DuckLake format proposes shifting all lakehouse metadata into a regular SQL database so open-format data lakes can gain true transactional speed and simplicity. “DuckLake re-imagines what a ‘Lakehouse’ format should look like,” the authors write, arguing it eliminates the maze of JSON files and external catalog services. If adopted, DuckLake could let organizations treat Parquet-backed blob storage like a fast, ACID-compliant warehouse without vendor lock-in. (duckdb.org)

Magistral | Mistral AI (Jun 10 2025)
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Hey there! Welcome to the very first Monkey Patching Podcast. We're just kicking things off today, chatting about what we've got planned for this show – nothing too mind-blowing yet, but we're excited to get rolling. If you're into data and AI talk without all the buzzword fluff, hit subscribe and join us for the ride. Trust us, it gets better from here.

Ow yeah... while we said that we would start numbering at 0, our podcast hosting platform doesn't support it 🙈

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