YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast)

YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast)

AI21

Episodes 22
Avg. Duration 34m
Activity Active
Since May 2025
Latest Episode May 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
22%
Hosting
feed.podbean.com

About This Podcast

YAAP brings you practical conversations with the people actually building generative AI solutions. No hype, no sales pitches, just honest discussions about challenges, solutions, and lessons learned.
Listen to developers and engineers share what works, what doesn't, and what they wish they'd known sooner. Simple, useful insights for anyone working with AI — hosted by AI21's Yuval Belfer.

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Recent Episodes

Every Learner Gets Their Own Andrew

May 14, 2026 22m

The video course had a good run. Ryan Keenan from DeepLearning.ai thinks it's over. In this episode, recorded live at AI Dev 26 in San Francisco, Yuval sits down with Ryan to talk about what replaces…

Everything But the Model: Harness Engineering

May 07, 2026 26m

Everything you need to know about harness engineering, in less than 30 minutes. In this episode, Yuval sits down with Mike Chambers from AWS to unpack harness engineering - the term that's quietly…

Chunking Isn’t Dead. One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Mar 18, 2026 10m

Chunking is still one of the least-discussed but most decisive parts of RAG. In this episode, we break down why no single chunk size works for all questions, how different queries benefit from…

Stop Shipping Agents With Chat UIs

Feb 24, 2026 35m

Chat was a great prototype. It’s a terrible product.   In this episode, Yuval sits down with CopilotKit co-founder Atai to unpack why most agentic apps stall at “chat + vibes”, and why the real…

MCP Was Built for Tools, Not for Agents That Write

Feb 09, 2026 22m

MCP standardized tool calling for agents but breaks down once agents start mutating state. In this episode, Yuval sits with Eran Gat from AI21 to dig into what happens when writing agents run in…

Why AI Leaderboards Miss the Point

Jan 15, 2026 56m

Leaderboards reward “best average score.” Real users reward “answer fast, don’t hallucinate, don’t bankrupt me.”   In this special deep dive episode, AI21’s CTO Barak Lenz walks through four gaps…

The Agent Swarm Fallacy

Jan 13, 2026 30m

Running multiple agents can improve quality. Doing it right is the hard part. This time we look at the Agent Swarm Fallacy: the idea that throwing more agents at a problem automatically makes…

This Deep Research Agent Ignored the Benchmark and Still Won

Jan 01, 2026 29m

Tavily built a Deep Research Agent with production in mind. Something they could actually scale. So they did the unsexy work. They went through millions of agent logs, found where tokens were being…

Don’t Learn Distributed Systems. Just import ray

Dec 29, 2025 30m

You wanted to build an agent. You ended up debugging GPUs, scaling workers, and chasing OOMs. In this episode of YAAP, Yuval sits down with Linda from Anyscale to unpack why Ray exists and how it…

GenAI Meets Wall Street: Why Every Bank Thinks It’s a Snowflake

Dec 23, 2025 35m

Banks love GenAI. They just don’t trust it. Yet.   In this episode of YAAP, Yuval talks with Renee Lau from AWS, a financial services industry specialist who works hands on with banks, insurers, and…

Everyone’s got the same model. Now what?

Dec 15, 2025 31m

Everyone’s building on the same foundation models. So how do you stand out? For Imagen AI, the answer isn’t bigger models, it’s smarter loops. CEO Yotam Gil joins Yuval to unpack how personalization,…

The House That Builds Builders – The Origin Story of AGI House

Nov 11, 2025 11m

Three years ago, it was just a house full of friends geeking out about AI. Today, it’s where researchers, founders, and engineers collide — and where hackathon demos turn into real startups. In this…

Scraping Without Getting Sued (Or Falling Asleep)

Oct 28, 2025 48m

Everyone (and we do mean EVERYONE) needs data, and the web is the largest database humanity has ever built. But tapping into it at scale requires more than technical skills. If your product touches…

The Judge Model Diaries: Judging the Judges

Aug 26, 2025 30m

Your LLM gave a great answer. But who decides what “great” means?   In this episode, Yuval talks with Noam Gat about judge language models — reward models, critic models, and how LLMs can be trained…

S1E8 RLVR Lets Models Fail Their Way to the Top

Aug 12, 2025 49m

Think you know fine-tuning? If your answer is RLHF, you don’t. In this episode, Itay, who leads the Alignment group at AI21, gives a no-fluff crash course on RLVR (Reinforcement Learning with…

S1E6 RAG Is Not Solved – Your Evaluation Just Sucks

Jul 29, 2025 43m

RAG Is Not Solved – Your Evaluation Just Sucks Your RAG pipeline is passing benchmarks, but failing reality. In this episode, Yuval sits down with Niv from AI21 to expose why most RAG evaluation is…

S1E5 The Call Is Coming From Inside the Agent (And It Has Your Credentials)

Jul 15, 2025 49m

The Call Is Coming From Inside the Agent (And It Has Your Credentials) You’ve shipped your first agent. It works. It’s useful. It might also be a security liability you don’t even know about. In this…

S1E4 Building Enterprise RAG: Lessons from 2+ Years of Production Deployments

Jul 01, 2025 37m

Building production AI systems is hard — especially when you're pioneering entirely new categories. In this episode, Yuval speaks with Guy Becker, Group Product Manager at AI21, to trace the…

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Jun 19, 2025 0m Trailer

S1E3 You Can’t Have an Agent Without a Plan: What 90% of ’Agents’ Are Missing

Jun 17, 2025 33m

Everyone's talking about AI agents, but most of what we call "agents" are just workflows in disguise. Real autonomous agents require planning. And that, changes everything. In this episode, Yuval…

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YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast) has published 22 episodes since May 2025, covering topics in Technology.

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YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast) is currently active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 34m.

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