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The MAD Podcast

The MAD Podcast is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Matt Turck, with a new episode every week.

9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 6 with an AI builder talking, mostly on data & databases and reasoning & RL.

New episodes
Weekly
Latest
Oct 22, 2026
Moments cut
9
Episodes cut
3

What its moments are about

  • Data & databases3
  • Reasoning & RL2
  • Training data2
  • AI agents2
  • Evals & benchmarks2
  • Inference & cost1

Best moments from The MAD Podcast

From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.

  1. The MAD Podcast · · 5 min

    Agents could mean 10 to 100x more database queries

    “So I think there's going to be potentially a 10 to 100x increase in volume and the number of queries that are going to hit up against databases.”
    The MAD Podcast13:44

  2. The MAD Podcast · · 4 min

    Reliable email automation starts with legible decisions

    “you can actually make individual classifiers for each of these things like smart if statements like you can now express things that you couldn't express in software before”
    The MAD Podcast18:16

  3. The MAD Podcast · · 6 min

    RL training depends on calibrated tasks and resilient infrastructure

    “The difficulty of the field is to calibrate the difficulty of questions.”
    The MAD Podcast47:19

  4. The MAD Podcast · · 2 min

    Text-to-SQL reached 99.5% at a bank, but at great cost

    “they were able to get it up to like 99.5%, which is insane. I think that is, I think that's a viable thing now if you invest the time”
    The MAD Podcast24:55

  5. The MAD Podcast · · 7 min

    RLHF made models pleasing, but raised automation expectations

    “The root of the problem to me is that RLHF actually greatly increased expectations.”
    The MAD Podcast33:27

  6. The MAD Podcast · · 5 min

    Mixture-of-experts models trade training complexity for inference capacity

    “The advantage is that at inference time, each token sees 50 billion different parameters, interact with 50 billion different parameters at a time”
    The MAD Podcast28:20

The best The MAD Podcast 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. 01Jev: The AI That Makes Decisions, Not Text - and Why It Changes Everything (Diogo Almeida)Oct 15, 2026 · 3 moments
  2. 02Mistral Is SO Back: Inside Le Chonk, the West’s Biggest Open ModelOct 22, 2026 · 3 moments
  3. 03Andy Pavlo: What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your DatabaseOct 8, 2026 · 3 moments

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