Episodes

  • Navigating Silent Failures in AI: Strategies for Effective Oversight

    Navigating Silent Failures in AI: Strategies for Effective Oversight
    Aug 21 2026
    Why do AI systems silently fail? How can you set up a system that produces results while also reviewing and validating the work? This week on the show, Calvin Hendryx-Parker returns to discuss his recent talk "Orchestrate Agentic AI: Context, Checklists, and No-Miss Reviews."
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Improving NumPy Performance on Free-Threaded Python

    Improving NumPy Performance on Free-Threaded Python
    Aug 14 2026
    What bottlenecks were preventing NumPy from scaling on free-threaded Python? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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    46 mins
  • Programmatically Developing LLM Prompts With DSPy

    Programmatically Developing LLM Prompts With DSPy
    Aug 7 2026
    How can you move from manually writing prompts for an LLM application toward defining them programmatically? This week on the show, Brett Kennedy returns to discuss his new book "Building LLM Applications with DSPy."
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Should You Understand Your Entire Python Codebase?

    Should You Understand Your Entire Python Codebase?
    Jul 31 2026
    Should you understand the entirety of your codebase? How familiar are you with Python's built-in functions? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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    57 mins
  • Configuring a Versatile LLM Harness & Scraping the Web With Scrapy

    Configuring a Versatile LLM Harness & Scraping the Web With Scrapy
    Jul 24 2026
    Which is more important, the model or the "harness" around an LLM? What are ways to assemble an efficient agentic developer workflow? This week on the show, Ayan Pahwa joins us to discuss harnessing, web scraping, and self-hosting Python applications.
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    58 mins
  • Free-Threaded Python's History & uv in Production

    Free-Threaded Python's History & uv in Production
    Jul 17 2026
    How many attempts have been made to remove Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)? How do they compare to the current approach? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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    51 mins
  • Constructing and Judging Modern Agentic Workflows

    Constructing and Judging Modern Agentic Workflows
    Jul 10 2026
    How can you improve your LLM agent systems through specification enrichment? What are the advantages of having an LLM act as a judge within an agent system? This week on the show, Senior IEEE Member and Quality Engineer Suneet Malhotra joins us to discuss building and evaluating agentic architecture.
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    59 mins
  • Running Python Locally in a Sandbox

    Running Python Locally in a Sandbox
    Jul 3 2026
    How do you avoid the risk of running a Python application locally that could be malicious, break your code, or leak private data? How can you create a sandboxed local environment using WASM and MicroPython? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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    46 mins