Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 316
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Gender skew: Male
Listener location: Australia
YouTube: 8.8k subscribers
Instagram: 119 followers
Page updated: Nov 4, 2026 · How we check this data
Contact Information
Publicly listed emails
ybernstein@gmail.com
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Host
Chris Saad - Product strategist, startup operator, and adviser with experience at Google, Uber, and technology startups.
Yaniv Bernstein - Startup operator and entrepreneur with experience at Google, Uber, and early-stage ventures.
Booking Intelligence
Booking Requirements
Recent Guest Discussions
Rob Snyder - Product-market Fit, Customer Pull, Unavoidable Customer Needs, Founder Blind Spots, AI Applications, And Trust In Human-shaped Software.
Matt Cook - Team Debt, Ai-native Organizations, Startup Hiring, Engineering Compensation, Headcount Planning, And Software Factory Builders.
Paul Orlando - Market Timing, Technology And Behavioral Shifts, First-mover Advantage, Startup Failure, Business Models, And Evaluating Why A Product Should Succeed Now.
Recent Topics
Episodes
Where humans still matter when agents write the code
October 31, 2026
The traditional GitHub-style pull request review is a waste of opportunity cost for most code changes in the agentic era. Yet simply removing it without a replacement invites complexity death spirals and unbounded product behaviour that agents cannot unwind. James McGill and Haziq Nordin join Yaniv to argue that engineers should stop reading diffs line-by-line and instead scan for architectural complexity, shift accountability to spec quality, and build new verification patchworks of end-to-e...
OpenRouter Head of Insights on how to choose the right model
October 24, 2026
Companies now use an average of 12 models per month, yet the biggest hidden variable isn't which model you pick—it's the inference provider serving it and whether your cache hit rate stays above 85%. Peter Walker from OpenRouter explains how the same open-weight model can have wildly different cost and performance depending on the provider's caching policy, latency tail, and whether a stealth provider is reselling your prompts. The conversation covers why agentic workloads broke c...
Applied Wizardry: Cutting AI coding token costs, with Dave Slutzkin
October 16, 2026
Follow Applied Wizardry on its new feed to keep getting every episode.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 concre...
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