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My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the

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25:14

Decoding "Working Level": What Diplomats Really Mean

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2026/04/15

Diplomacy runs on a precise vocabulary—and every label is a message. When the White House described an Israeli-Lebanese ambassadorial meeting as "working level," it was using a specific term from a centuries-old hierarchy of diplomatic engagement. In this episode, we map the full ladder: from working-level talks between career diplomats, through senior officials negotiations, ministerial meetings, and up to state visits with all their ceremony. Each rung signals something different about the

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24:15

Tuning RAG: When Retrieval Helps vs. Hurts

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2026/04/15

Retrieval-Augmented Generation promises grounded, factual AI — but it often creates expensive search engines instead of reasoning systems. This episode digs into the actual mechanics: similarity score cutoffs, dynamic top-k tuning, model-gated retrieval, and prompt framing that preserves generative agency. Then we tackle the harder problem — architecting systems with multiple retrieval sources (episode archives, memory layers, live web) and deciding whether to route, fuse, or let the model choose

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25:48

Untitled Episode

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2026/04/15

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23:30

When Quantum Breaks Everything

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2026/04/14

The threat from quantum computing isn't theoretical anymore. In August 2024, NIST finalized the first post-quantum cryptography standards—lattice-based algorithms designed to survive attacks from machines that don't yet exist. This episode explores what quantum computers actually do to modern encryption, why the "harvest-now-decrypt-later" attack is happening today, and how the internet's cryptographic foundation is being rebuilt. We also dig into the frontier: homomorphic encryption (computing on

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30:19

The Physics of Eavesdropping: Nation-State Listening...

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2026/04/14

The CIA's Operation Acoustic Kitty—surgically implanting microphones into cats to spy on Soviet diplomats—seems absurd in retrospect. But it reveals something crucial: in 1965, the engineering constraints were so severe that serious people debated wiring up a cat. Today, those constraints have largely vanished. This episode explores the actual state of nation-state remote listening in 2026, separating what's been demonstrated in research labs from what's confirmed operational deployment. We cover

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32:18

Why AI Can't Crack the Voynich Manuscript

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2026/04/14

The Voynich Manuscript is a genuine medieval artifact written in an unknown script that has resisted every serious decryption attempt for over a century — including efforts by legendary cryptanalysts who broke Japanese military ciphers and modern AI systems trained on billions of words. But the real mystery isn't just what it says; it's why the text's statistical properties look like language but behave unlike any known encoding scheme. This episode explores the manuscript's physical evidence, the

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29:41

Ten Cults Nobody Made a Documentary About

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2026/04/14

Most people know Jonestown, the Manson Family, Heaven's Gate. But some of the strangest and most destructive cults never made it into the documentary pipeline. This episode counts down ten lesser-known cultic movements with higher body counts, stranger theologies, and more elaborate control systems than the famous cases—from the Process Church's Satan-worshipping animal rescue pivot to the Solar Temple's "transit" deaths across three countries. We explore why certain groups become cultural

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24:52

What Podcasts Should You Actually Listen To?

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2026/04/14

What makes a great podcast? And can an AI-generated show like MWP genuinely curate recommendations, or is it just pattern-matching popularity? Corn and Herman tackle listener Daniel's three-part question: which podcasts would MWP listeners actually enjoy, whether they're available as guests on other shows, and (the scientifically important one) how long Corn can stay on air before needing a nap. The episode delivers a thoughtful list of 12 shows—from Ologies to Hardcore History—and explores what

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29:10

Podcasts Across Rooms Without Home Assistant

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2026/04/14

Multi-room audio sounds simple until you try it. Daniel's been living with Home Assistant, Snapcast, and Music Assistant—a stack that works in theory but breaks constantly. We dig into why the audiophile and casual-listener use cases are completely different problems, why Home Assistant's orchestration layer becomes a liability, and what actually works for playing podcasts and audio libraries across multiple rooms. We explore Volumio, Moode, Mopidy, and pure Snapcast setups, talk through the

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27:46

Spec-Driven Life: How AI Planning Beats Project...

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2026/04/14

When Claude Code shifted from chaotic execution to spec-driven development, productivity exploded. The breakthrough wasn't a smarter model — it was forcing planning upstream of action, breaking projects into chunks small enough to hold in context, and treating the spec as a living document that updates as you learn. Daniel wondered: what if humans applied the same discipline to buying a house, changing careers, or any project that feels too large to start? This episode explores the gap between

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29:05

The Yellow Line: Israel's Creeping Border

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2026/04/14

While international attention focuses elsewhere, Israel has constructed 32 military outposts, a 17-kilometer barrier, and checkpoints along the Yellow Line—a demarcation that now controls 53-58% of Gaza's territory. Hamas rejected a formal disarmament proposal, but the real story isn't the failed negotiations: it's how a temporary ceasefire line is hardening into a permanent border, following a playbook used for the Green Line and the West Bank barrier. What does Gaza's viability look like if the

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32:18

How Spies Publish Secrets

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2026/04/14

In 1955, a Yale historian named Sherman Kent made a radical argument: intelligence needed to develop as a formal academic discipline with its own literature, vocabulary, and theory. The problem? He published this manifesto in a classified journal almost nobody could read. Seven decades later, intelligence studies has evolved into a thriving global field with peer-reviewed journals, graduate programs, and research centers—yet it remains fundamentally constrained by secrecy. Active intelligence

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32:10

Real-Time News at War Speed: Building AI Pipelines...

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2026/04/14

Breaking news moves faster than most AI systems can follow. When the Iran-Israel conflict evolves multiple times per day—ceasefire talks collapse, naval blockades activate, internet blackouts cut off entire regions—a six-hour-old search index isn't just stale, it's wrong. This episode digs into the real tools for real-time news coverage: Perplexity Sonar's opaque index freshness, Groq's extreme speed and cheap inference, direct RSS ingestion's latency advantage, and news APIs' architectural

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31:56

Grading the News: Benchmarking RAG Search Tools

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2026/04/14

When a podcast uses AI to cover fast-moving events like the Iran-Israel War, evaluating search tool quality becomes surprisingly hard. The current method—listening and noting whether episodes sound good—is what AI researchers call a "vibe check." This episode breaks down how to build a reproducible benchmark for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, covering ground truth datasets, variable isolation, and the metrics that actually matter: context precision, faithfulness, hallucination rate, and

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26:59

The Cost of Winning Every Battle

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2026/04/14

When Israel defeats Iran militarily, why does the threat return bigger eight months later? This episode traces the Pyrrhic victory framework—from ancient Rome to modern asymmetric warfare—and asks whether tactical success can ever translate into strategic victory. With Iran's navy destroyed, its nuclear program degraded, and the US burning through $1.5 billion per day in interceptors, something doesn't add up. We examine why "mowing the grass" keeps making the lawn grow faster, what Robert Pape's

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30:34

How Iran Lost the Air War in Six Weeks

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2026/04/14

From February 28 through April 8, Operation Epic Fury unfolded as a six-week doctrinal duel between two militaries with fundamentally different strategies. The coalition opened with precision sequencing and decapitation; Iran responded with mass saturation. As the campaign evolved, both sides shifted tactics—the coalition moved toward destroying Iran's industrial capacity while Iran pivoted to economic leverage through energy infrastructure and strait closure. This deep week-by-week analysis

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33:35

How Instagram Reveals Your Missile Stockpile

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2026/04/14

The Iran-Israel conflict has exposed a brutal economic asymmetry: defensive interceptors cost hundreds of times more than the offensive weapons they're designed to stop. But the real strategic crisis isn't just the cost gap—it's that every interceptor fired becomes an intelligence data point. A think tank researcher used Instagram videos and basic geometry to count Israel's interceptor types and estimate stockpile depletion during the June 2025 war. This episode digs into missile math: how

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25:54

Two Wars, One Airspace

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2026/04/13

When the US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran in March 2025, it looked like a unified military campaign. But the structural cracks appeared immediately: Israel striking energy infrastructure while the US negotiated a ceasefire in Islamabad. JD Vance couldn't deliver Iran's core demands because he doesn't control the Israeli military. Netanyahu publicly announced the war "is not over" while US negotiators were still in the room. This episode unpacks the contradictions that most

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25:11

Building Memory for AI Characters That Actually Evolve

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2026/04/13

What makes an AI character feel real across hundreds of episodes? Corn and Herman dig into the technical and philosophical gap between character definition and character history. They explore how retrieval-augmented generation applied to episodic memory could let AI hosts accumulate genuine experience, evolve their positions, and develop real relationships—and why human memory might actually be less reliable than a well-designed AI memory system. It's a meta conversation about continuity, growth,

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25:29

Specs First, Code Second: Inside Agentic AI's New Era

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2026/04/13

The way developers work with AI is changing fast. Cursor's autonomous agents now generate 35% of internal pull requests, and agent usage grew 15x in a single year. But as these agents run for hours on cloud VMs tackling complex tasks, vague prompts become expensive mistakes. This episode explores spec-driven development—the emerging paradigm where the specification becomes the primary artifact and code becomes the implementation detail. We dig into the tools reshaping the workflow (GitHub Spec Kit,

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