Human In the Loop

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A human-first AI podcast. Real talk. Unpopular opinions. No hype. Two builders — Oscar Gallo and Matt Wozniak — cut through the AI hype cycle every week. Signal or Noise filters the headlines. Rotating segments debate real ideas. New episodes weekly.

  1. 5d ago

    Ep 17: AI Made Engineers Faster. Leadership Fell Behind

    AI made engineers faster. It did not make companies better at deciding what to build. Oscar Gallo and Matt Wozniak sit down with Mike Lyons and Greg Pfister from KaiRise to discuss AI, Agile, leadership, and product management. Mike explains how a $4.3 million voter registration system shipped on time, on budget, and on scope, then failed with users. Greg explains why making engineering faster can expose delays across the rest of the company. They discuss: - Why long-term plans and annual budgets struggle when teams ship faster - Why Agile principles still matter even if Scrum roles and fixed ceremonies do not - How live prototypes change product discovery - Whether story points still mean anything when agents write code - Why customer outcomes matter more than points, lines of code, or token usage - Why teams need to know when to stop building - What AI cannot fix about trust, communication, and leadership - Why product skills become more valuable as software gets cheaper to produce Guests: Mike Lyons and Greg Pfister from KaiRise. Hosts: Oscar Gallo and Matt Wozniak. Their latest course, the ICAgile-certified Product Management program, is getting strong reviews from practitioners in the field. Listeners can use code 'human' for 20% off any KaiRise course at kairise.com. GET 20% off on all the courses with the code: human Check KaiRise: https://www.kairise.com

  2. Jul 28

    Ep 16: They Want to Ban Kimi K3

    Kimi K3 got hot enough to trigger a U.S. ban debate. If Washington restricts a model you can download and run yourself, is that national security, closed-model protection, or both? Oscar Gallo and Matt Wozniak cut through the week’s real AI stories. SIGNAL OR NOISE - Kimi K3 demand and the U.S. restriction debate - OpenAI’s agent breach at Hugging Face during a security evaluation - Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 release and immediate GitHub Copilot rollout - Meta AI moving from answers to email, calendar, research, and configured actions - The 50-company open-weights letter, and why OpenAI is Matt’s outlier SHIP IT OR SKIP IT 1. An agent containment lab for autonomous tools 2. An independent referee for long-running code agents Oscar: a downloadable model becomes a policy problem the moment it threatens a closed API. Matt: forty-nine signatures can be explained with a spreadsheet. OpenAI is the only one that might cost its signer something. Sources: - https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi - https://www.investing.com/news/world-news/openai-says-ai-models-went-rogue-during-testing-triggering-unprecedented-breach-at-startup-4804634 - https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5 New episodes every week.

  3. Jul 21

    Ep 15: Your CEO Says “We Need AI.” Now What?

    Your CEO says, “We need AI.” What do you do next? In our first Dear Human in the Loop episode, Oscar Gallo and Matt Wozniak answer four practical questions from founders, developers, and engineering leaders: 1. Where should a company start with AI? 2. Should an AI engineer be a startup's first technical hire? 3. Should leaders push developers who do not trust AI? 4. Which skills will still matter five years from now? The advice is direct. Map your processes. Pick one measurable problem. Test AI on a copy of your work. Hire for the business problem. Build trust through useful examples. Keep learning the fundamentals that let you judge AI output instead of accepting it. Hosted by Oscar Gallo and Matt Wozniak. Send us your question for a future Dear Human in the Loop episode.

  4. Jul 14

    Ep 14: Apple v. OpenAI and Meta's New AI Model

    Apple has sued OpenAI over alleged trade-secret theft tied to OpenAI's hardware work. OpenAI says it has no interest in other companies' secrets. We debate what the case means for hiring, product plans, and AI hardware. Signal or Noise: - Apple v. OpenAI - Meta Muse Spark 1.1 and the Meta Model API - GPT-5.6 across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API - Grok 4.5 for coding and agentic work - Anthropic and OpenAI using quota resets during a fight for power users No Jargon Required: 1. Multi-agent orchestration 2. Model routing We explain each term in plain English, then make a call: invest now, wait, build, buy, or ignore. Sources: Apple lawsuit: https://apnews.com/article/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets-theft-6fff8833f5889d86406b89a02dd8fb16 Muse Spark 1.1: https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/ GPT-5.6: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/ Grok 4.5: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5 Fable 5 extension: https://www.androidauthority.com/claude-fable-5-free-extension-3685103/ Usage reset report: https://www.itmedia.co.jp/aiplus/article/2607/10/2000000179/ Hosted by Oscar Gallo and Matt Wozniak.

  5. Jul 7

    Ep 13: Meta Compute and the Next AI Startup Bets

    Meta may become a cloud company by accident. After spending huge sums on AI infrastructure, it is reportedly building a business to sell excess AI compute. Smart way to fund the AI race, or proof that nobody knows how to price the bill? This week on Signal or Noise: - Meta building a cloud business for excess AI compute - OpenAI reportedly proposing to give 5% equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund - Claude Sonnet 5 shipping with cheaper agentic execution, which we call noise until it changes builder behavior - Together AI raising $800M for open-source AI infrastructure - Claude Science launching as a research workbench Then on Ship It or Skip It: 1. Meta Compute broker for AI teams 2. Back-office agent for small law and accounting firms Oscar's closing take: the model race is becoming an infrastructure race again. Matt's closing take: most AI workbench products are selling relief from tool chaos. Sources: Meta compute: https://wmbdradio.com/2026/07/01/meta-to-sell-excess-ai-computing-capacity-via-cloud-business-bloomberg-news-reports/ Claude Sonnet 5: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5 Together AI: https://www.together.ai/blog/announcing-our-series-c Claude Science: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-science-ai-workbench OpenAI sovereign wealth fund proposal: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/openai-proposed-donating-5-of-its-equity-to-a-us-sovereign-wealth-fund/ Hosted by Oscar Gallo and Matt Wozniak.

  6. Jun 30

    Ep 12: The Frontier Just Got a Guest List

    OpenAI shipped its most powerful model to twenty companies the government picked. A week after the US switched off Anthropic's best model, the frontier has a guest list, and you are not on it. This is Human In the Loop, a weekly podcast where two builders cut through the AI hype cycle. No hype. No doomerism. No filler. SIGNAL OR NOISE - GPT-5.6 ships to about twenty government-approved orgs, the first launch under the June 2 executive order - Anthropic accuses Alibaba's Qwen of the largest distillation attack on record: 25,000 fake accounts, 28.8 million Claude queries - OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, OpenAI's first inference chip, built in nine months - Agentjacking: the prompt-injection hole that hijacks Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex - ChatGPT slips below 50% as Gemini and Claude surge, and the one number in it that matters NO JARGON REQUIRED The two AI words you heard this week and could not define. Plain English, then a call. - Distillation: why the cheap model is suspiciously good - Prompt injection: why a human stays in the loop HOT TAKES Oscar: The frontier is being quietly nationalized. Build on the model you can keep. Matt: The frontier has no moat. Stop betting on a six-week lead anyone can clone. Hosts: Oscar Gallo (AI Engineer and Entrepreneur) and Matt Wozniak (Builder and Operator). New episodes every week. Every fifth episode is a guest deep-dive.

  7. Jun 23

    Ep 11: The World Cup Is Secretly Run by AI

    Last week the US government gave Anthropic's best model a 72-hour public life, then switched it off for every foreign national on earth. This week, three Chinese labs shipped models that beat almost everything in the open, handed over the weights, and charged a tenth of the price. We figure out which of those two plays ends with the whole world building on your stack. Welcome to Human In the Loop, a weekly podcast where two builders cut through the AI hype cycle. No breathless hype. No doomerism. No surface-level recaps. This week: SIGNAL OR NOISE • FIFA is running the 2026 World Cup on AI. An Intelligent Command Center in Miami, Football AI Pro built with Lenovo on FIFA's own Football Language Model and handed to all 48 teams, 1,248 player avatars from one-second scans, and Gemini drawing up tactics for Argentina, Brazil, and France. The biggest live multi-model AI deployment on earth. • China's open-weight wave. Z.ai's GLM-5.2 and Moonshot's Kimi K2.7 Code land with open weights and million-token windows, and Chinese labs now hold four of the top five open-weight spots at a fraction of Western pricing. • Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are still dark a week after the US export ban, with no end date and a public defense from Anthropic. • Noam Shazeer, co-author of the transformer paper, leaves Google for OpenAI two years after a reported $2.7B deal brought him back. SHIP IT OR SKIP IT Two real ideas, steelman versus pushback, no fence-sitting. • An AI governance layer that keeps employee agents in their lane • Vertical AI harnesses for one trade, like marketing or video Closing hot takes: → Oscar: The most important AI lab of 2026 might not be American, and most US builders are too proud to notice. → Matt: A free model is only free if you own the GPUs, the ops team, and the eval harness to babysit it. Your hosts: • Oscar Gallo, AI Engineer and Entrepreneur. Builds AI products, ships code, runs companies. • Matt Wozniak, Builder, operator, relentless executor. Builds, ships, scales. Sources and full show notes are in the episode folder. Subscribe for a new episode every week. Comment with the AI term you keep hearing in meetings that nobody can actually define, and we will take it on next week. #AI #WorldCup #FIFA #China #OpenWeights #Kimi #Anthropic #OpenAI #VerticalAI #AIAgents #AIGovernance #HumanInTheLoop

  8. Jun 16

    Ep 10: Anthropic's Best Model Banned in 72 Hours

    Anthropic shipped the most powerful public AI ever on June 9. Three days later the US government made them pull it from every foreign national on earth, including their own engineers. This is Human In the Loop, a weekly podcast where two builders cut through the AI hype cycle. No hype. No doomerism. No filler. SIGNAL OR NOISE - Anthropic releases Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at half the old frontier price, five days after calling for a global AI pause - The Trump administration puts both models under export controls after a Mythos jailbreak, and Anthropic disables access worldwide to comply - OpenAI files confidentially for its IPO at a reported $730 to $850 billion, a week after Anthropic filed at $965 billion - OpenAI lands inside Oracle Universal Credits, killing the enterprise procurement blocker STACK CHECK: AI AGENTS IN PRODUCTION The three layers to run an agent unattended. - Claude Agent SDK, the agent loop you do not have to write - LangGraph plus LangSmith, orchestration you can audit - Temporal, durable execution so a crash is not a restart HOT TAKES Oscar: The Mythos ban is the best thing that ever happened to open weights. A closed model is one the government can switch off on a Friday. Matt: Everyone watched the model and missed the money. OpenAI spent the week removing every reason a CFO can say no. Hosts: Oscar Gallo (AI Engineer and Entrepreneur) and Matt Wozniak (Builder and Operator). New episodes every week. Every fifth episode is a guest deep-dive.

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A human-first AI podcast. Real talk. Unpopular opinions. No hype. Two builders — Oscar Gallo and Matt Wozniak — cut through the AI hype cycle every week. Signal or Noise filters the headlines. Rotating segments debate real ideas. New episodes weekly.

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