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YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast) brings you practical conversations with the people actually building generative AI solutions. No hype, no sales pitches, just honest discussions about challenges, solutions, and lessons learned.

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MCP Was Built for Tools, Not for Agents That Write

Tool calling is easy. Shared state is not. Yuval and Iran break down why MCP struggles with writing agents, and how isolation unlocks parallel execution.
Yuval Belfer, Eran Gat
February 10, 2026
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EPISODE 17
22 min
MCP Was Built for Tools, Not for Agents That Write
Tool calling is easy. Shared state is not. Yuval and Iran break down why MCP struggles with writing agents, and how isolation unlocks parallel execution.
February 10, 2026
EPISODE 16
56 min
Why AI Leaderboards Miss the Point
Leaderboards reward averages. Production rewards execution. Yuval and Barak unpack the four gaps that turn good models into useful AI systems.
January 15, 2026
EPISODE 15
30 min
The Agent Swarm Fallacy
More agents can help. Most systems use them wrong. Yuval and AI21 CPO Or Dagan unpack the Agent Swarm Fallacy, why parallel agents are hard to…
January 14, 2026
This Deep Research Agent Ignored the Benchmark and Still Won
EPISODE 14
30 min
This Deep Research Agent Ignored the Benchmark and Still Won
Quality went up. Tokens went down. Yuval and Dean break down how Tavily’s Deep Research Agent topped DeepResearch Bench while cutting token usage by more than…
January 1, 2026

YAAP brings you real
talks with real AI builders

YAAP (Yet Another AI Podcast) brings you practical conversations with the people actually building products and features using new tech. No hype, no sales pitches — just honest discussions about challenges, solutions, and lessons learned. We talk to developers and engineers about what works, what doesn’t, and what they wish they’d known sooner. Simple, useful insights for anyone building in this space — hosted by AI21’s Yuval Belfer.

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