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AI Rebels

Jacob and Spencer

The AI Rebels Podcast is dedicated to exploring and documenting the grassroots of the current AI revolution. Every week a new episode is posted wherein the hosts interview entrepreneurs and developers working on the cutting edge. Tune in to benefit from their insight.

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59:11

AI Is Getting Cheaper. Human Judgment Is Getting More...

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2025/12/16

AI isn’t magic, and pretending it is may be the biggest risk in tech right now. A former financial advisor turned AI founder argues that most AI products are already becoming commodities, with little defensible moat and wildly inflated valuations. He explains why real value comes not from “agentic” hype, but from deep domain expertise, careful guardrails, and knowing what not to automate. In regulated industries like finance, trust, liability, and human judgment still matter more than raw int...

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66:13

Your Next News Anchor Is AI ft. Nikolai Yakovenko,...

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2025/12/10

AI is now spotting the news before journalists even know it exists. DeepNewz’ founder reveals how their system scans real-time signals from across the internet to uncover emerging stories faster than any newsroom. He breaks down why writers are secretly relying on AI, how tiny teams are scaling like giants with agents, and where media is headed next. The conversation uncovers the shift from simple article summaries to true signal discovery and personalized news intelligence. If you want an ea...

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61:50

Beating the Machines: How Bot Spot Levels the Playing...

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2025/12/02

Most retail traders don’t realize they’re battling algorithms that execute 70–80% of all market activity. Robert Grzesik reveals how Bot Spot turns plain-English instructions into actual Python trading bots capable of running on real brokerages. The discussion digs into AI-assisted backtesting, strategy optimization, and agentic systems that can research news or sentiment before placing trades. A new marketplace for user-built algorithms hints at a future where anyone can publish or refine au...

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55:00

The Next Big AI Wave: Context Engines, Not Chatbots -...

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2025/11/13

AI note-takers are already obsolete, and Camden Bean, CEO of Ping Assistant, explains why the real power is everything that happens before and after the meeting. In this episode, he reveals how Ping is building a full-context engine for accountants that remembers every client detail, automates emails and documents, and turns hours of work into minutes. Camden breaks down the wild speed at which modern builders can create using AI, including how he built in a weekend what used to cost $40,000 ...

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62:12

Why Companies Fight Over Engineers Who Don't Write...

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2025/10/24

Austin Allred lived in his car in San Francisco teaching himself to code, and now he runs a program where students never write a single line. At Gauntlet AI, engineers learn to direct AI systems that do all the coding while companies pay recruiting fees upfront, making the entire training free for students who land $200K jobs. The model works because the skills gap has reversed: employers are now bottlenecked by talent, not the other way around. Allred's most practical insight gets overlooked...

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57:26

Plotly Thickens — How Open Source Is Powering the...

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2025/10/08

What if rebellion looked like collaboration instead of chaos? Plotly’s VP of Marketing Dominic Revita traces his journey from coding the first internet-only bank in the 90s to shaping the next generation of AI-native tools. He reveals how open source innovation and AI-driven creativity are merging to make data storytelling more human—and more powerful. The conversation dives into the philosophy behind building transparent tech that empowers rather than replaces. It’s a visionary look at the f...

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56:33

Practical AI and the One-Click Shift: Making Tech...

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2025/09/30

Derek Crager, founder of Practical AI, joins AI Rebels to explain how voice is set to become the next one-click revolution. Derek shares his journey from industrial construction to Amazon, weaving in lessons about simplicity, usability, and the power of capturing tribal knowledge. We dive into how voice AI can transform the workplace by making expertise instantly accessible and breaking down barriers to learning. Derek also unpacks the “AI gold rush,” explaining why the real winners will be t...

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57:28

From RAG to Resilience: Building AI-Ready Data...

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2025/09/23

What’s the one thing every enterprise overlooks when building AI? According to Jim Liddle, Chief Innovation Officer at Nasuni, it’s not the model, it’s the data architecture. In this episode, Jim explains why unstructured data is both the biggest risk and the biggest opportunity for enterprise AI. He highlights the persistent compliance gap around sensitive information, the challenge of fragmented storage, and the dangers of agentic autonomy without safeguards. Resilience takes center stage, ...

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59:00

Provalytics: AI, Ads & the Future ft. Jeff Greenfield

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2025/09/12

What do magic tricks and AI marketing have in common? A lot, according to Jeff Greenfield, CEO of Provalytics. In this conversation, we unpack the challenges of data privacy, the rise of Amazon and Walmart’s closed ecosystems, and why AI ads may be unavoidable. Jeff explains how his background as a magician and chiropractor shaped his approach to stress reduction and business problem-solving. It’s a fascinating, fast-paced look at how AI is reshaping advertising — and what that means for trust.

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50:18

Up-Skilling the Nation: Mike Spaeth on AI’s Race...

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2025/06/24

AI power-broker Mike Spaeth doesn’t mince words: if we fail to reskill fast, automation will wipe out one in five jobs. He points to Texas’s Alpha School, where AI squeezes a whole school day into two turbo-charged hours—proof that the education rulebook is already being torched. Spaeth calls out companies hoarding the “time dividend,” insisting that every minute saved by bots must be plowed back into people or productivity gains will evaporate. He cites Malaysia’s nationwide up-skilling blit...

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24:27

AI at Warp Speed: Work, Video, and What Comes Next

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2025/06/10

Take a front-row seat as Jake and Spencer chart AI’s breakneck advance—progress so fast that many observers still look the other way. They highlight Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s forecast that the very shape of work could shift within a decade, then demo the new Veo 3 video model, which can generate multi-scene, lip-synced video with layered vocals, background sound and “vibe”. Rounding things out, the hosts weigh deep-fake ethics and consider how lawmakers and faith communities might craft se...

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63:08

The AI That Got Me Dates: Building Tinder GPT and...

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2025/05/27

Can AI save us from the toxic digital world it helped create? In this episode, Polish AI engineer Grigorij Dudnik shares how he's building AI agents that handle our digital drudgery—from Tinder GPT that automates online dating conversations to Clean Coder that writes code autonomously. His most fascinating project puts language models on Raspberry Pi to create physical robots that make ethical decisions, like a toy train solving the trolley dilemma in real-time. Grigorij's philosophy is revol...

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46:12

High-Leverage Humans: The Rise of 1-Person Companies...

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2025/05/20

What if your next coworker is an AI agent? In this episode of AI Rebels, developer Nim shares his journey building AI Agent Dot App, exploring how solo entrepreneurs can now harness agents to do the work of entire teams. From bootstrapping with terminal-based scripts to creating sticky, memory-driven agents, Nim breaks down the evolution of autonomous AI tools, the psychology of adoption, and the legal grey zones ahead. It's a raw, insightful dive into the future of work, where personalizatio...

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62:23

Turning AI Hallucinations into NASA Innovation |...

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2025/05/13

What if the “hallucinations” we fear in generative AI are exactly what NASA needs to spot the next crisis 40 years early? In this episode, former Pentagon model‑fixer and pandemic data firefighter James Villarrubia explains how his skunk‑works team at NASA’s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions convinces large language models to dream thousands of future scenarios, then distills them to reveal the fragile linchpins of tomorrow’s air‑travel system . Alongside that mind‑bending workflow, he breaks ...

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49:10

Agents with Agency: Inside the Next Wave of...

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2025/05/06

Imagine AI that never asks and never sleeps—just thinks, decides, and acts in the background. In this episode, agent‑builder Ropirito walks hosts Jacob and Spencer through his evolution from insurance‑era rule‑bots to Nous Research’s vision of “passive‑mode” LLM agents, explains why most projects are mere tool‑wrappers masquerading as autonomy, and dishes on the hard problems—context drift, brittle web UIs, legal gray zones—that stand between today’s chatbots and tomorrow’s truly independent ...

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53:41

Transforming Finance: How AI is Reshaping Accounting,...

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2025/04/29

What if the biggest obstacle to using AI in finance isn’t the technology, but the way we think? In this episode of AI Rebels, Spencer and Jacob sit down with Jason Pikoos, Managing Partner at Connor Group, to uncover how AI is reshaping accounting, where companies are falling behind, and what mindsets are essential for the future. Packed with real-world use cases and actionable advice, this conversation will change how you see AI and your career.

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59:11

Entangled Intelligence: Elija Perrier on Quantum AI,...

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2025/04/23

What happens when a philosopher, physicist, and lawyer walks into the world of quantum AI? In this mind-expanding episode of *AI Rebels*, Dr. Elijah Perry unpacks his journey from poststructuralist theory to cutting-edge quantum machine learning. With razor-sharp insight, he explores how quantum systems might unlock new dimensions of artificial general intelligence, why AI risk needs a serious empirical upgrade, and how evaluating the identity of AI agents could be the key to safer, smarter s...

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53:55

What if we're on the wrong path to AGI? Ft. Alexander...

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2025/04/15

Is today’s AI built on a flawed foundation? In this episode of AI Rebels, Alexander Naumenko, software developer turned AI theorist, challenges the dominant paradigms of logic-driven and statistical AI. Drawing from his concept of "semantic binary search," Naumenko proposes a new model of intelligence inspired by the game 20 Questions—where intelligence is about selecting the best option under constraints, not predicting outcomes. He argues that true intelligence hinges on recognizing relevan...

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48:01

Agentive: Do AI Auditors Dream of Electric Sheep? ft....

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2025/04/08

Daniel Alberson, founder and CEO of Agentive, passionately reveals how AI is shaking up the traditionally conservative auditing industry. Frustrated by repetitive, low-value tasks early in his audit career at Ernst & Young, Alberson embarked on a journey to revolutionize the audit process. His company, Agentive, leverages advanced AI technologies, notably language models, to automate painstaking manual reconciliations and document reviews that auditors dread. https://goagentive.com/

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55:28

AI & The Future of Play Ft. DeLonn Crosby

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2025/04/01

"Are you ready to revolutionize early childhood education with tech that empowers rather than numbs?" On this energizing episode of the AI Rebels Podcast, hosts Jacob and Spencer sit down with DeLonn Crosby, founder of Say Kid, to explore how technology can transform learning for our youngest minds. DeLonn introduces 'Toy Bot'—an innovative, screen-free device that fuses voice technology with tangible play to spark creativity, boost executive function, and forge genuine human connections. Thr...

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