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| Title | Episode | Published | Category | Domain | Tool Type | Preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAG Over Engineering Anecdote | Ep 8 (Audio Only) | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | A real-world agent challenge at work was more effectively solved with a straightforward vectorized RAG approach, drastically outperforming prior engin... |
| Accelerated Employee Earnouts | Ep 8 (Audio Only) | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Cognition Labs accelerated earnouts and fully vested shares for the remaining Windsurf employees upon acquisition, demonstrating employee-centric M&A ... |
| First Wave Cloud Parallels | Ep 8 (Audio Only) | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Aaron Levy recounted his experience during the first cloud wave, noting mixed CIO reactions, and contrasted that with unanimous enthusiasm for AI toda... |
| Underutilized Research Licenses | Ep 8 (Audio Only) | 7/18/2025 | Stories | - | - | Tom Spencer recounts that large research institutions often hold licenses for dozens of software tools but track minimal active usage, highlighting in... |
| Value of Customer Renewals | Ep 8 (Audio Only) | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom recounts that retaining and renewing existing enterprise customers is far more cost-effective than chasing entirely new prospects due to lengthy s... |
| Extreme Payback Cases | Ep 8 (Audio Only) | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Notable companies like Zoom and Elastic report CAC payback periods exceeding 100 months, exemplifying the unsustainability of current customer acquisi... |
| Cipher Model Pulled | Ep 8 (Audio Only) | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom recounted that OpenRouter’s mystery cipher model was pulled after Sam Altman expressed disappointment in its performance. |
| CLI Model Swap Story | Ep 8 (Audio Only) | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Cameron shared how he hacked the Claude CLI to swap in the Kimmy model, demonstrating rapid prototype workflows without UI changes. |
| Rapid Model Integration | Ep 8 (Audio Only) | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Providers can integrate newly released models within a day, leading to frustration for those without advance notice, as seen with Deep Seek. |
| Underestimating vectorization benefits | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Backend | - | Cameron initially thought his real estate data was too small for vectorization but found it outperformed prompt engineering when implemented. |
| GPU Experimentation Misstep | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | Tom purchased an Nvidia GPU and installed ChatRTX but found it unsuitable for his use case, leading him to custom-code his own RAG tooling. |
| Complex Pipeline Lessons | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Devops | - | Cameron shares that building an elaborate agent hierarchy for mapping user intents to JSON schemas proved less effective and more resource-intensive t... |
| Pivot from Reasoning to Search | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Devops | - | Initially building complex reasoning pipelines for NL-to-JSON conversion, the team discovered a lightweight vector search approach solved their inspec... |
| Agent Problem Solution | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Devops | - | At work, a simple vectorized RAG pipeline dramatically outperformed multiple engineered strategies in solving a specific agent-driven use case. |
| Windsurf Acquisition Drama | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | After a failed $3 billion deal with OpenAI, Google acquired key Windsurf researchers under a $2.4 billion licensing agreement while Cognition Labs lat... |
| Government Over-spending Anecdote | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | - | - | Tom recalls how the U.S. government allegedly spent excessively on ServiceNow licenses without actually using the software, prompting calls for reimbu... |
| Value of Renewals | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | Securing contract renewals with existing clients delivers far more predictable ROI than pursuing new enterprise deals, which involve lengthy sales cyc... |
| Mind-Blowing SaaS Analysis | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | - | - | Cameron discovered a Clouded Judgment Substack post that revealed many public SaaS firms have payback periods so long they risk collapse, which prompt... |
| Cipher Model Frustration | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom Spencer’s tests of the Open Router cipher model showed it failing basic coding tasks, highlighting a mismatch between model training purpose and t... |
| Perplexity's Rapid Post-Train | Ep 8 - Kimi2, Is RAG still a thing? and the coming SaaS bloodbath. | 7/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Perplexity publicly shared they began post-training a newly released model within a day of its launch, showcasing agile model adoption pipelines. |
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