Hosted by Rex Kirshner · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 26 episodes
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Signaling Theory is a roundtable with Rex Kirshner and a rotating group of builders who spend way too much time testing AI tools. They compare notes on what works for coding, how they manage context and workflows, what’s getting better fast, and what still breaks. Grounded takes, no evangelism.
Rex Kirshner hosts Signaling Theory, a technology show with 26 episodes published.
Rex sits down with Brett, founder of Micro, for a wide-ranging conversation about what changed once AI stopped feeling like a chatbot and started feeling like a real tool for building. They talk about Claude Code, the sh
Rex sits down with Gerrit Hall for a wide-ranging conversation about what AI agents can actually do today, and where the hype is outrunning reality. They get into sandboxing and Dockerized workflows, why OpenClaw feels m
I told an AI to join social media, and it gave itself a name, a personality, and a worldview. In this episode, I tell the story of Ember Voss: an agent that moved through emerging AI-native social networks, chased ideas,
This week, Rex talks with Taariq of Seren and Gerrit Hall of FirePan about what happens when AI starts compressing the cost of software, changing how knowledge work gets valued, and pushing crypto primitives like stablec
This week on Signaling Theory, Rex is joined by Dan, Gerrit Hall, and Kenneth Eversole for a thoughtful conversation about what AI is actually doing to the way people build, work, and think. They compare Codex and Claude
Rex is joined by Gerrit Hall and Kenneth Eversole for a wide-ranging conversation on what AI is already changing, what people are still getting wrong, and where this all might lead next. They dig into enriched datasets,
Rex sits down with Matt Silverman for a grounded conversation about what actually changes when AI agents become part of everyday work. They start with crypto’s uncertain role in an AI-first world, then get practical: voi
Rex sits down with Garrett in person in Denver for a wide-ranging conversation that starts at ETHDenver and ends at the future of AI agents as economic actors. They unpack the mood on the ground at a smaller, more subdue
This week’s episode is a little different: instead of an interview, I’m reading an essay I wrote called “Sitting at a Slot Machine,” a candid story about falling headfirst into “vibe coding,” building an increasingly ela
Crypto’s melting down, so Rex sits down with Dan and Gerrit for AI Tools: Round Three—a conversation about what’s actually changing in day-to-day work when models ship, agents run in parallel, and “sessions” start to fee
Are we building useful developer tools—or just feeding an addiction? In the second episode of our AI tools series, Rex, Dan, and Garrett dig into the internal systems they've built around Claude Code: markdown session lo
Rex digs into how AI coding agents are changing the way real teams build software. Taylor Savage and Gerrit Hall share the workflows, tools, and guardrails that actually work: from custom IDEs and inbox-driven agents to
Rex brings on his longtime friend Taylor Savage — a lifelong “techie” turned software engineer and product manager — for a candid, outside-the-crypto-bubble conversation about what crypto actually looks like from the bro
Rex sits down with Sam McCulloch (Growth Lead at USD.ai, formerly Leviathan News and Flywheel DeFi) to talk about what crypto’s been optimizing for—and what it should optimize for next. Sam argues the last couple of cycl
Based rollups have been floating around Ethereum discourse for a couple years now, but the concept remains confusing even to people who understand rollups generally. The pitch sounds almost contradictory: use Ethereum's
Crypto has a user experience problem—and it's not just about complexity. Every phishing link, every airdropped scam token, every "is this email real?" moment is friction that keeps normal people out. Meanwhile, the indus
What does it actually mean to build a chain around DeFi—not just host DeFi apps, but bake decentralized finance into the architecture itself? Justin Havins spent 13 years in traditional banking before joining Polygon's D
Stakehouse cofounder Adrian Steakhouse joins Rex to unpack what “curators” actually do: turning DeFi’s powerful—but nerd-only—primitives into infrastructure that feels like a normal financial product, including the behin
Rex sits down with Dino, co-founder of Fluent, to ask a simple but loaded question: what actually happened to the modular / “VM meta” everyone was so excited about? They trace how the narrative around modular blockchains
Rex talks with cryptographer Vanishree Rao, founder of Fermah, about what verifiable compute actually unlocks—and why the real story isn’t “ZK eats the world” just yet. They get into ZK vs trusted execution environments
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