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Conversations with the founders and engineers building with AI: what they use, what works, and what breaks.
How Michael Batko gets AI to do the busywork
November 12, 2026 · 58m
The outsized returns from AI come from revenue growth, not cost-cutting—yet 99% of businesses outside the tech bubble have barely started exploring it. Michael Batko, former Startmate CEO and now founder of Hourglass AI, joins Yaniv to discuss how he helps companies of 20-100 people with no engineering team build bespoke AI systems. The conversation covers the company 'AI brain' built from structured Markdown files, the skills-based collaboration model that prevents teams from rebuilding the same tools, and why behaviour change is the hardest part of any AI transformation. For engineers and founders, the episode is a practical look at what actually works when AI building is cheap but maintenance and adoption remain hard.
Cutting AI coding token costs, with Dave Slutzkin
October 15, 2026 · 59m
Dave Slutzkin, co-founder of Antiburn, joins Yaniv to break down what actually drives token costs in agentic development and how to bring them down. They cover how caching differs between Anthropic and OpenAI, when to reach for which model and thinking mode, and why the habit of compaction matters more than any other optimisation. If you're spending real money on AI-assisted development, you'll come away with concrete tactics for cutting token burn without cutting capability.