April 2, 2026
Why government payroll projects implode due to hidden rules, and how private payroll providers became essential, state-deputized tax collectors.
March 26, 2026
Patrick McKenzie dissects the Delve scandal, exposing 'compliance theatre,' the viral nature of SOC2, and the line between startup naughtiness and fraud.
March 19, 2026
Unpacking consumer debt collection: a broken system built on bad data, legal exploitation, and scalable abuse of vulnerable debtors.
March 12, 2026
Explore inference engineering, the engine driving real-world LLM deployment. Learn about agentic systems, open models, and future AI adoption.
March 5, 2026
Payment security has been a decades-long game of whack-a-mole, evolving from leaky shared secrets like CVVs to smartphone-based authentication.
February 26, 2026
Government contracting is a web of legacy rules and vendor capture, leading to poor citizen services. Experts discuss paths to reform.
February 12, 2026
Fraud isn't random; it's infrastructure. By studying the 'APIs of evil,' we can learn to better defend our own complex systems.
January 29, 2026
Patrick McKenzie demonstrates how Claude Code solved a real, revenue-losing business problem in 30 minutes, showcasing a seismic shift in coding.
January 22, 2026
Biopharma R&D productivity is declining. Ruxandra Teslo's CTD Project aims to reverse this by creating a public library of failed trials' data.
January 15, 2026
AI is reshaping customer service, moving beyond siloed orgs and flawed metrics to deliver coherent, instant support and create new career paths.
January 8, 2026
Regulation E is the powerful, decades-old consumer protection law that makes banks liable for fraud, a rule now being challenged by Zelle.
January 3, 2026
A year in review of Complex Systems: Exploring AI's impact on coding & art, top episodes, and laundering niche ideas into corridors of power.
December 26, 2025
Intentional regulatory carve-outs and outsourced program management create a gift card "accountability sink," leaving scam victims with no recourse.