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

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We talk about what's happening in Data & AI every week (well, most weeks). No buzzword bingo or marketing fluff—just honest conversations about the tech that's changing everything. Sometimes we go off on weird tangents about programming languages, tech/startup life, or whatever shiny object caught our attention. Whether you're knee-deep in code or just curious about AI, come hang out with us!

  1. AWS Went Down, Sora Under Fire (Again!?), Claude 4.5, Music Without Musicians

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    AWS Went Down, Sora Under Fire (Again!?), Claude 4.5, Music Without Musicians

    (00:47) - Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores (08:41) - [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance (17:23) - Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime (23:43) - Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are (29:58) - Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 (34:36) - Amazon outage breaks much of the internet Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores | 2025-10-19 https://www.brusselstimes.com/1798519/musicians-miss-out-as-belgian-retailers-turn-to-ai-generated-music-in-storesJapan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime | 2025-10-15 https://www.theverge.com/news/799938/japan-government-openai-sora Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are | 2025-10-19 https://www.theverge.com/tech/801899/opera-neon-ai-browser-trial-run [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance | 2025-10-17 https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1o8szk0/r_plain_english_outperforms_json_for_llm_tool/ Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2025-10-15 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5 Amazon outage breaks much of the internet | 2025-10-20 https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/ Thanks for listening! ❤️Sign up for our newsletter at newsletter.monkeypatching.io

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  2. Tiny Brains, Big Gains: No-GIL Python, $300k OSS, and Europe’s Chip Power Play

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    Tiny Brains, Big Gains: No-GIL Python, $300k OSS, and Europe’s Chip Power Play

    (00:57) - Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks (09:15) - Python 3.14 will change the way you parallelise code (18:21) - How I made $300K from an open-source side project (dual licensing) (26:10) - Dutch government takes control of China-owned chipmaker Nexperia (31:50) - simonw/claude-skills (36:59) - LSEG and Microsoft transform access to AI-ready financial data (40:10) - Inside The Controversy Around Strava’s Runna app (52:31) - Avoid these AI coding mistakes (PostHog) Articles discussedLess is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks - https://alexiajm.github.io/2025/09/29/tiny_recursive_models.htmlPython 3.14 will change the way you parallelise code - https://valatka.dev/2025/10/11/on-python-3-14-parallelization.htmlPython 3.14 new features (Real Python) - https://realpython.com/python314-new-features/How I made $300K from an open-source side project - https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1o2vs66/how_i_made_300k_from_an_opensource_side_project/?share_id=2czSk7aY9kiccTRYONA0b&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=3In rare move, Dutch government takes control of China-owned chipmaker Nexperia - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/dutch-government-intervenes-chinese-owned-computer-chip-firm-nexperia-2025-10-12/simonw/claude-skills - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/claude-skills/LSEG and Microsoft transform access to AI-ready financial data in customer workflows - https://www.lseg.com/en/media-centre/press-releases/2025/lseg-and-microsoft-transform-access-to-ai-ready-financial-data-in-customer-workflowsInside The Controversy Surrounding Strava’s New Run-Coaching App—And What We Thought After Trying It - https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a68152711/runna-app-controversy-review-i-tried-it/Avoid these AI coding mistakes - https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/avoid-these-ai-coding-mistakesSign up to stay up to date on our shenanigans: newsletter.monkeypatching.io ❤️

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  3. Ship Real AI Agents Now: AgentKit + ElevenLabs, Deloitte’s GPT Faceplant, and the 17× Dot-Com Bubble Claim

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    Ship Real AI Agents Now: AgentKit + ElevenLabs, Deloitte’s GPT Faceplant, and the 17× Dot-Com Bubble Claim

    Thanks for listening to the MonkeyPatching Podcast! Today we discuss: (00:40) - Agent Workflows | ElevenLabs Documentation (06:12) - Introducing AgentKit | OpenAI (Oct 06 2025) (13:26) - Pay yourself first | HEY World (Oct 04 2025) (22:47) - Tiny lab-grown brains could help build the next generation of computers | TechSpot (Oct 06 2025) (26:25) - Deloitte admits AI hallucinated quotes in government report, offers partial refund | TechSpot (Oct 07 2025) (36:31) - The AI bubble is “17 times” the size of dot-com, analyst warns | MarketWatch via Morningstar (Oct 03 2025) (44:15) - Which Table Format Do LLMs Understand Best? (Results for 11 Formats) | Improving Agents (Sep 30 2025) (49:57) - Managed MCP servers for secure data agents | Snowflake Blog Talk to you soon!

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  4. Sora 2, Claude 4.5, and the $100M Bet

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    Sora 2, Claude 4.5, and the $100M Bet

    Report: Fivetran in talks with dbt Labs over multibillion-dollar big-data merger https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/28/report-fivetran-talks-dbt-labs-multibillion-dollar-big-data-merger/ Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot is reportedly an employee-only test of Siri’s AI upgrades https://www.theverge.com/news/787046/apples-veritas-siri-ai-chatbot OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/openai-takes-on-google-amazon-with-new-agentic-shopping-system/ OpenAI announces Sora 2 and AI video and audio app that allows for user ‘cameos’ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-announces-sora-2-ai-video-audio-app-rcna234753 Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5 Chrome DevTools (MCP) voor uw AI-agent https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp?hl=nl Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem https://www.theverge.com/news/785136/spotify-ai-slop-impersonation-disclosure Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/databricks-will-bake-openai-models-into-its-products-in-100m-bet-to-spur-enterprise-adoption/ Thanks for listening!

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  5. DeepSeek R1 $294k + Alibaba AI Chip + Judge Halts Anthropic

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    DeepSeek R1 $294k + Alibaba AI Chip + Judge Halts Anthropic

    Bigger and Better Worlds — World Labs https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/bigger-better-worlds AI as teleportation — Geoffrey Litt https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/09/10/ai-as-teleportation.html Introducing Shuttle Cobra — Shuttle https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/09/18/introducing-shuttle-cobra Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper — Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03015-6 Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20 (Hacker News discussion) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273747 Vibe Shift? Senior Developers Ship nearly 2.5x more AI Code than Junior Counterparts — Fastly https://www.fastly.com/blog/senior-developers-ship-more-ai-code Albania appoints world’s first AI government ‘minister’ to root out corruption — Euronews https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/09/12/albania-appoints-worlds-first-ai-government-minister-to-root-out-corruption Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold — The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/775230/anthropic-piracy-class-action-lawsuit-settlement-rejected Thanks a lot for listening! ❤️ (00:27) - World Labs — “Bigger and Better Worlds” (04:31) - Geoffrey Litt on “AI as Teleportation” (12:54) - Shuttle — Introducing “Cobra” (19:17) - DeepSeek R1 — peer-reviewed costs & methods (22:19) - Alibaba’s H20-class AI chip debate (28:56) - Senior developers ship ~2.5× more AI code (40:02) - Albania’s AI “minister” for public tenders (44:22) - Judge pauses Anthropic $1.5B book-piracy settlement (52:19) - ByteDance — “SeedDream 4.0” (quick note)

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  6. AI’s Wild Week: Apple Sued, Anthropic Pays $1.5B, Mistral Raises €1.7B — Plus Atlassian Buys Arc Maker & Azure Hit through Red Sea Cables

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    AI’s Wild Week: Apple Sued, Anthropic Pays $1.5B, Mistral Raises €1.7B — Plus Atlassian Buys Arc Maker & Azure Hit through Red Sea Cables

    Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological activity https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mistralai_mistral-ai-raises-17b-to-accelerate-technological-activity-7371045632284971008-KOtm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAUumq8B49UW7m9VV5ijr01USsCOWMSQaGw The Three Faces Of Generative AI https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-three-faces-of-generative-ai Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/ Anthropic reaches $1.5 billion settlement with authors in landmark copyright case https://fortune.com/2025/09/05/anthropic-reaches-1-5-billion-settlement-with-authors-in-landmark-copyright-case/?utm_source=perplexity Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-sued-by-authors-over-use-books-ai-training-2025-09-05/?utm_source=perplexity Microsoft Says Azure Service Affected by Damaged Red Sea Cables https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-06/microsoft-says-azure-service-affected-by-damaged-red-sea-cables Why language models hallucinate https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate/ Tidbits: AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168854 WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/ The MIT-Pay Me Or Get The Fork Out License https://barts.space/the-mit-pay-me-or-get-the-fork-out-license/ Thanks for listening! ❤️

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  7. China’s Practical AI, AI Crawler Clicks, AI Music & Jobs Impact

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    China’s Practical AI, AI Crawler Clicks, AI Music & Jobs Impact

    Nano Banana — https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/ China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter. — https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a-different-vision-for-ai-it-might-be-smarter-581f1e44 Bear is now source-available — https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/ A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry — https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-crawler-traffic-by-purpose-and-industry/ Creators use AI to spark their music careers — https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-music-suno-udio-551308748c84c774c3c5ecd89aa93904 The rise of the AI influencer — https://www.ft.com/content/cb859409-dd3d-400d-9225-4a14d351bd20 Python: The Documentary | An origin story — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0&ab_channel=CultRepo%28formerlyHoneypot%29 Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence — https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/ Sorry, a bit of a late release due to some technical issues over at Riverside.Ow yes, and Bart finally ordered a new mic after this episode. Thanks for listening! ❤️

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  8. AI Bubble Fears, AWS CEO Slams Layoffs, DeepSeek V3.1 & Google’s 33x Efficiency Jump

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    AI Bubble Fears, AWS CEO Slams Layoffs, DeepSeek V3.1 & Google’s 33x Efficiency Jump

    Thanks for listening! ❤️ Chapters (01:55) - MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing (08:14) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (14:22) - DeepSeek-V3.1 Release (18:55) - Build vs Buy in the Age of AI (27:02) - Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year (34:38) - Mirage: AI UGC game engine (39:58) - Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions (45:17) - AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally (50:08) - imagestyles.ai (51:36) - Sick of Fancy (South Park S27E3) (53:56) - ElevenLabs V3 (most expressive TTS) Discussed articlesMIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing — https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/ AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' — https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/ DeepSeek-V3.1 Release — https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821 Build vs Buy in the Age of AI — https://www.svpg.com/article-build-vs-buy-in-the-age-of-ai Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year — https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-the-energy-cost-of-ai-queries-by-33x-in-one-year/ Mirage: AI UGC game engine — https://dynamicslab.ai/ Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions — https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00191 AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally — https://blog.google/products/search/ai-mode-agentic-personalized/

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We talk about what's happening in Data & AI every week (well, most weeks). No buzzword bingo or marketing fluff—just honest conversations about the tech that's changing everything. Sometimes we go off on weird tangents about programming languages, tech/startup life, or whatever shiny object caught our attention. Whether you're knee-deep in code or just curious about AI, come hang out with us!

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