# Behind the Craft Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/shows/behind-the-craft/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy. [Best AI podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/ai-podcasts/) Lab and founder interviews · [No. 17 of 37 AI podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/ai-podcasts/#behind-the-craft) Behind the Craft is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Peter Yang, with a new episode every week. 9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 3 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and coding agents. Also [No. 9 of 18 tech podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/tech-podcasts/#behind-the-craft). - [Peter Yang](https://realalpha.app/hosts/) **New episodes** Weekly **Latest** Oct 18, 2026 **Moments cut** 9 **Episodes cut** 3 What its moments are about - AI agents 6 - Coding agents 5 - Building AI products 5 - Evals & benchmarks 1 - Enterprise AI 1 ## Best moments from Behind the Craft From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here. 1. Behind the Craft · Sep 27, 2026 · 3 min **[Build trust in a bot by turning observed runs into skills](https://realalpha.app/s/build-trust-in-a-bot-by-turning-observed-runs-into-skills/)** > “I think one thing I always try to encourage people to do, you know, whether you're a pstack user or not is to actually spend the time to sort of observe the bot or agent doing” Behind the Craft [39:50](https://realalpha.app/v/xZ5TEaleUdg/?t=2390) 2. Behind the Craft · Oct 11, 2026 · 5 min **[A Greptile score loop makes agents fix their own PRs](https://realalpha.app/s/a-greptile-score-loop-makes-agents-fix-their-own-prs/)** > “Anytime Greptile gives any sort of feedback or a score under five out of five, the grep loop fires. It takes in the feedback. It writes the code. It pushes to GitHub.” Behind the Craft [24:22](https://realalpha.app/v/8rEAkEvhhcQ/?t=1462) 3. Behind the Craft · Oct 4, 2026 · 7 min **[A design system helps engineers and agents ship consistently](https://realalpha.app/s/a-design-system-helps-engineers-and-agents-ship-consistently/)** > “everything behind the scenes is tokens and components and uh yeah it's all it's all reusable not just the human but for agents too” Behind the Craft [20:26](https://realalpha.app/v/3IF3H5dxU3U/?t=1226) 4. Behind the Craft · Sep 27, 2026 · 5 min **[An eng lead bot that only delegates lets one person run agent swarms](https://realalpha.app/s/an-eng-lead-bot-that-only-delegates-lets-one-person-run/)** Lauren has an eng lead bot that never does work itself and only delegates to engineer bots, which spawn cloud agents. Her agent-friendly codebase means PRs sometimes auto-merge before she reads them. 5. Behind the Craft · Oct 11, 2026 · 5 min **[Make agents prove a bug exists and prove the fix](https://realalpha.app/s/make-agents-prove-a-bug-exists-and-prove-the-fix/)** > “it forces the agent to prove that this bug actually happens. Right. Because sometimes it just might have been user error.” Behind the Craft [12:30](https://realalpha.app/v/8rEAkEvhhcQ/?t=750) 6. Behind the Craft · Oct 4, 2026 · 4 min **[An internal agent can become a tool everyone improves](https://realalpha.app/s/an-internal-agent-can-become-a-tool-everyone-improves/)** Sam shows Nacho, an internal assistant connected to company data that helps answer questions and investigate issues. It grew from a side project, with no single owner. ## The best Behind the Craft episodes Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar. 1. 01 [We Built Grok Bot. Here Are Our 14 Best Bots | Peng Zheng & Lauren Tan](https://realalpha.app/v/xZ5TEaleUdg/) Sep 27, 2026 · 3 moments 2. 02 [How to Use AI to Survive (and Even Enjoy) Meetings | Sam Stephenson](https://realalpha.app/v/3IF3H5dxU3U/) Oct 4, 2026 · 3 moments 3. 03 [The 4-Step Agentic Engineering Workflow I Use to Ship Real Apps | Ras Mic](https://realalpha.app/v/8rEAkEvhhcQ/) Oct 11, 2026 · 3 moments ## The 4 guests we’ve cut - [Sam Stephenson](https://realalpha.app/builders/sam-stephenson/) Co-founder, Granola 7 moments - [Ras Mic](https://realalpha.app/people/ras-mic/) Full-stack engineer 3 moments - [Lauren Tan](https://realalpha.app/people/lauren-tan/) 2 moments - [Peng Zheng](https://realalpha.app/people/peng-zheng/) Lead designer, SpaceXAI 2 moments ## Recent episodes - Behind the Craft **[The Internet Was Just Hacked. 6 Things You Need To Do Now](https://realalpha.app/v/nXMlSq4aFBg/)** 3.9K views · Oct 22 - Behind the Craft **[Claude Duet Is Here! (Better than Grok Bot?)](https://realalpha.app/v/D-pz8L1orVI/)** 70K views · Oct 21 - Behind the Craft **[How to Edit YouTube Shorts With AI (Free Skill)](https://realalpha.app/v/NWll-9p84b4/)** 3.9K views · Oct 21 - Behind the Craft **[The 4-Step Agentic Engineering Workflow I Use to Ship Real Apps | Ras Mic](https://realalpha.app/v/8rEAkEvhhcQ/)** Ras Mic · Full-stack Engineer [21:29](https://realalpha.app/v/8rEAkEvhhcQ/?t=1289) of 47:01 · Oct 11 - Behind the Craft **[How to Use AI to Survive (and Even Enjoy) Meetings | Sam Stephenson](https://realalpha.app/v/3IF3H5dxU3U/)** Sam Stephenson · Co-founder, Granola [19:25](https://realalpha.app/v/3IF3H5dxU3U/?t=1165) of 33:18 · Oct 4 - Behind the Craft **[We Built Grok Bot. Here Are Our 14 Best Bots | Peng Zheng & Lauren Tan](https://realalpha.app/v/xZ5TEaleUdg/)** Peng Zheng & Lauren Tan · SpaceXAI [39:29](https://realalpha.app/v/xZ5TEaleUdg/?t=2369) of 45:04 · Sep 27 ## Host this show? Add the badge to your site. 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