The engineering behind the magic
About the show
"When art critics get together they talk about form and structure and meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."
We talk about the turpentine tokens.
Applied Wizardry is conversations with the founders and engineers building with AI: what they use, what works, what breaks, and how it changes their teams and businesses. It's for people who already build with AI and want to do it better.
For software engineers, engineering leaders and technical founders who build with AI every day.
Guests are practitioners, and we talk specifics: tools, costs and results. Claims are tested against real experience. Tools and platforms are covered on their merits, and any partners are disclosed.
What we cover
Six pillars
Frontier
New models and tools, and what they change for builders.
Factory Floor
How software gets made now: workflows, tools and agents.
Trust
Evals, code review, security and quality.
Org & Economics
Team structure, hiring, and the cost of building.
Arbitrage
Opportunities that exist now and may not last.
Platforms
Infrastructure and platforms for building with AI.
Your host
Yaniv Bernstein
Engineer · founder · podcaster · Sydney
- PhD
- Computer science
- 10 yrs
- Engineering at Google
- VP Eng
- and COO at Airtasker
- CTO
- and co-founder of Vera
- 300+
- episodes as co-host of The Startup Podcast
Multi-time founder and engineering leader. PhD in computer science, ten years of engineering at Google, VP Engineering and COO at Airtasker, and CTO and co-founder of Vera.
Yaniv builds his own startup hands-on with AI coding tools, on Cloudflare Workers, and co-hosted more than 300 episodes of The Startup Podcast.
Get in touch
Guests, ideas and partnerships
Building something with AI that other engineers should hear about? Have a story about what worked, what broke, or what it cost? We'd like to hear it.
yaniv@appliedwizardry.ai