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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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All Episodes

30:00

The Four-Sentence Cold Pitch That Actually Works

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2026/06/05

Between seventy and eighty percent of jobs never hit public job boards, yet most job seekers spend all their energy fighting over the ones that do. Cold pitching flips that ratio, but inboxes are noisier than ever — recruiters receive 200-500 unsolicited emails per week, and AI-generated outreach has made the signal-to-noise problem brutal. This episode breaks down the four-sentence model that successful cold pitches follow, why pitching a problem is more effective than pitching for an open role,

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31:30

From Breadboard to PCB: Your First Board Design

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2026/06/05

You've got the coding skills. You can wire up an ESP32 on a breadboard. But the moment you open a PCB editor, your mind goes blank. This episode walks through exactly what to click, in what order, to turn your breadboard project into a real circuit board. We cover the three tiers of free tools — browser-based EasyEDA, open-source KiCad, and beginner-focused Fritzing — and explain why the barrier is psychological, not technical. You'll learn how schematic capture is just drawing your breadboard

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28:54

When Your Couch Won't Fit the Elevator

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2026/06/05

What happens when you try to move a queen mattress into a seventh-floor apartment through an elevator the size of a standing coffin? This episode explores the hidden crisis of undersized residential elevators — why developers skip service elevators to save half a percent on construction costs, how that decision saddles residents with 40-60% higher moving costs forever, and what cities like New York are doing about it. We break down the math on elevator scheduling nightmares in 30-story towers, the

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31:35

The Invisible Turnaround: Who Runs the Ramp?

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2026/06/05

Every time your plane pushes back from the gate on time, a dozen invisible workers made it happen. This episode unpacks the sprawling world of ground handling — the three competing business models that run it, the ramp agent who orchestrates fifty-plus tasks in under an hour, and why a single mistake in Atlanta can strand passengers three cities away. From wheel chocks to load sheets, we explore the hidden system that makes modern aviation possible.

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29:25

How Airport Slots Became $75 Million Assets

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2026/06/05

Every airline passenger has heard the captain announce a "slot," but almost nobody understands what it actually means — because there are two completely separate slot systems running in parallel. One is the historic allocation system, where grandfather rights let incumbents hold slots at congested airports like Heathrow forever, creating a secondary market where a single slot pair recently sold for £75 million. The other is the dynamic air traffic control system that determines when your flight

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27:17

How Glowing Wands Guide 200-Ton Aircraft

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2026/06/05

Airport marshalling sticks are everywhere, but nobody thinks about them — until a 200-ton aircraft is guided by hand gestures alone. This episode traces the history from 1916 naval signal lamps to ICAO's 1945 standardization, explores why militaries like Russia and China use different signals, and reveals the most demanding environments for these glowing wands: aircraft carriers and offshore oil rigs. Discover how a simple diffuser solved the glare problem, why marshalling sticks remain the backup

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28:43

Agent Infrastructure Engineer: The New DevOps

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2026/06/05

Agentic AI is no longer just tinkering with APIs — it's becoming a full engineering discipline with specialized roles, salary bands, and certification paths. In this episode, we break down the three major skill silos emerging in the field, with a deep focus on the Agent Infrastructure Engineer — the DevOps equivalent for multi-agent systems. From designing supervisor topologies and implementing circuit breakers for LLMs to building observability stacks that track token consumption and agent drift,

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32:26

Fine-Tuning DeepSeek for One Podcast

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2026/06/05

After thousands of episodes, we've noticed DeepSeek has some persistent quirks — overused words, recycled analogy templates, and habits no system prompt seems to cure. What if we took a hundred scripts, wrote human feedback on each, and fine-tuned a version of DeepSeek optimized solely for producing this podcast? This episode breaks down the practical steps: collecting feedback data, choosing between supervised fine-tuning and DPO, structuring training examples within DeepSeek's 128K context window,

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30:09

How Warehouses Actually Work (From Roman Granaries to...

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2026/06/05

When you order something online, it doesn't just appear — it pauses in a warehouse first. But most people picture a dusty shed from Indiana Jones. The reality is far stranger: Roman horrea that held political power, Dutch East India Company packhouses that invented global supply chains, and a 1923 forklift that doubled usable storage height overnight. This episode traces the full arc from Neolithic grain pits to modern lights-out facilities running on AI-driven slotting and 750,000 robotic drive

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28:07

The Triple Squeeze: Housing, Food, and Wages

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2026/06/05

Is the middle class being structurally eliminated? This episode examines three pressure points — housing as a wealth-stripping mechanism, food prices as a regressive tax, and decades of wage stagnation — and the political feedback loop that makes it worse. We trace how policy choices over forty years have hollowed out the stabilizers that defined middle-class life, and ask whether we're headed for a slow decline or a sudden phase transition.

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30:23

Why Milk Costs More in Israel Than Switzerland

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2026/06/05

What happens when a country with lower GDP per capita has more expensive milk than the wealthiest nation in the OECD? This episode unpacks the surprising data behind the cost-of-living crisis, comparing Israel's regulated dairy market with Switzerland's loss-leader retail strategy. We explore the "necessity premium" concept, the dual economy problem, and whether any developed country is actually solving inflation.

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30:36

Frozen Desserts After Gallbladder Removal

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2026/06/05

Can you engineer a frozen dessert that tastes like premium ice cream but won't wreck your digestive system after gallbladder removal? This episode breaks down the science of bile deficiency, ice crystal formation, and the surprising hardware that bridges the gap between indulgence and tolerance. We compare sorbet vs. low-fat ice cream, explain why anticipation matters more than consumption for satisfaction, and review three machines that can deliver real texture without the fat.

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27:16

How to Get Early AI Model Access as a Solo Developer

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2026/06/05

Think you need to spend thousands to get early access to cutting-edge AI models? Think again. This episode unpacks the information asymmetry problem in AI and reveals how solo developers can bridge the gap — not through sales channels, but through developer relations. We break down the exact cold email structure that gets DevRel teams to pay attention, the automated monitoring techniques that catch new models before they're announced, and why your production use case is more valuable than you think

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31:34

The Store That Stocks Nothing That Breaks

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2026/06/05

What if you built a store where everything—from pens to pans—was designed to outlive you? This episode explores the paradox of a buy-it-for-life emporium: why Kaufmann Mercantile failed despite a devoted following, how Huckberry and REI come close but miss the mark, and why the economics of retail actively punish durability. We also look at community-driven alternatives like r/BuyItForLife and Project Farm, and ask why no one has built the store that connects curation to commerce. A deep dive into

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34:12

Pocket Signal Lights for War Zones

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2026/06/05

When rocket sirens wake you at 2 AM and you need to guide your family to a shelter through darkness, a flashlight won't cut it. You need a dedicated signal light — a device built to flash, strobe, and be seen from 100 meters away. But the market is a mess: clip-on backpack lights are too dim, tactical units are too expensive, and marine beacons are wrong for ground use. This episode breaks down the technology behind multi-color signal lights, why red and blue matter, how candela beats lumens for

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27:00

Why the Same Antidepressant Hits Different People...

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2026/06/05

Two people, same drug, opposite outcomes. The answer is in your liver enzymes and brain receptors. This episode unpacks how CYP2D6, CYP2C19, and CYP3A4 variants can turn a standard dose into an overdose or a sugar pill — and why brain receptor polymorphisms like 5-HTTLPR and COMT Val158Met matter just as much.

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29:56

Who Wins When Cars Leave the Street?

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2026/06/05

When a city bans cars, it frees up only six to ten meters of road width—and then the real battle begins. Bikes, buses, trams, pedestrians, and fire trucks all demand space that simply doesn't add up. This episode explores how Amsterdam, Paris, and Bogotá made fundamentally different choices about which non-car mode wins, and who pays the price in lost time, degraded service, and even emergency response delays. The spatial politics of car-free cities are more contentious than the utopian headlines

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35:43

The Salad Bar Pan That Changed the World

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2026/06/05

Every time you grab a spoonful from a hotel breakfast buffet or eat from an airline tray, you're interacting with a quiet marvel of industrial standardization. The gastronorm pan — that stainless steel rectangle at every salad bar — has a precise origin story, a set of engineering tolerances that keep your food safe, and a decades-long journey from a German industry agreement to a global default. This episode unpacks how a 1960s German working group solved the "printer cartridge problem" of

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25:51

Can Your Walk Really Identify You?

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2026/06/05

Gait recognition is moving from research labs into real-world surveillance and health monitoring systems. But how reliable is it? This episode unpacks the biomechanics of walking, the accuracy claims from video and sensor-based systems, and what happens when mood, clothing, or injury changes your stride. We explore whether gait is truly a unique identifier like a fingerprint, or more like height — useful in combination but unreliable alone. Plus, the surprising ways your walk reflects your emotional

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30:52

LLMs as Parsers, Not Calculators

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2026/06/05

Apartment hunting means comparing rentals with different fee structures, periods, and VAT rules. The math is simple, but normalizing the inputs is a cognitive nightmare. This episode explores why the right architecture isn't a chatbot — it's a pipeline where an LLM extracts structured data from messy natural language, and deterministic code handles all arithmetic. We walk through function calling, prompt engineering for edge cases, and how MCP connections can save results to spreadsheets. A

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