Background Noise

By Tony Bryden, Nathan Roarty

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Episodes: 22

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Two humans explaining AI so your Grandma can understand it. Tony Bryden and Nathan Roarty take one thing a week — ChatGPT, Claude, AI agents, prompts, whatever just happened — and explain it with quirky analogies, lots of tangents and rabbit holes, and no jargon. If Grandma can understand it, they did their job.  Hosts Tony Bryden and Nathan Roarty are friends and colleagues at an AI company who got tired of hearing this stuff explained badly. It's AI for beginners without the beginner's tone: expect apple pie, top-loading VCRs, and somebody's Mum's knitting. Expect no keynote voice, no vendor demos, and no unexplained jargon.  

The views and opinions expressed on Background Noise are those of the hosts and guests alone and do not reflect the official policy or position of their current or former employers, or any company or organization they are affiliated with. Content is for general informational purposes only and should not be taken as professional, technical, or legal advice.

(Cover art background: spectrogram by Aquegg, released into the public domain via Wikimedia Commons.)


Episode Date
Ep 9 Preview: Knitting a Cardigan, an SDLC Analogy for the Ages, So Grandma Can Understand It
Nov 14, 2026
Episode 9 Preview: Software Development Lifecycle Disruption
Nov 13, 2026
Episode 9 Preview: Can AI Knit Your Sweater
Nov 12, 2026
Episode 9 Preview: The Software Development Lifecycle Disruption - A Layered Approach
Nov 11, 2026
Episode 5 Preview: Prompting Updates
Nov 11, 2026
Episode 6 Preview: AI Guardrails
Nov 11, 2026
Episode 9 Preview: The Software Development Lifecycle Disruption
Nov 10, 2026
Background Noise - Episode 9: Software Dev Lifecycle Disruption So That Grandma Can Understand It
Nov 10, 2026
Episode 9 Preview: AI in the Software Development Lifecycle Disruption
Nov 10, 2026
Episode 8 Preview - AI: Double Standards in Judgment
Nov 01, 2026
Episode 8 Preview - AI: Good or Bad Actors?
Oct 31, 2026
Episode 8 Preview - AI: The Sabotage Myth
Oct 30, 2026
Episode 8 Preview - AI's Dark Side: Bryden's Warning
Oct 29, 2026
Episode 8 Preview - AI Agents: Worse Than Humans?
Oct 29, 2026
Episode 8: What Do You Say When Grandma Asks You What You Do For A Living
Oct 29, 2026
Episode 7: Prompting the Zodiac - Can AI Be Trusted - So that your Grandma can Understand it
Oct 15, 2026
Episode 6: AI Abroad, Astrology and more so Grandma can understand it
Oct 06, 2026
Episode 5: Update! AI Prompting Evolves so Grandma can understand it
Oct 04, 2026
Episode 4: Different AI Models so Grandma can understand it
Sep 16, 2026
Episode 3: AI Prompting so Grandma can understand it
Sep 06, 2026
Episode 2: Hygiene, Habits, and Staying in Control: AI Governance so Grandma can understand it
Sep 03, 2026
Episode 1: Introduction to LLMs so grandma can understand it
Aug 23, 2026