All Episodes

Sixteen Adversarial Reviewers

Alexa and Taylor tally the real cost of running agents, then follow that trust boundary into local inference, agentic trading, AI text marks, persistent harnesses, robot training data, open-source supply-chain risk, and the question every loop has to answer: who gets to say stop?

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It's Not a Shark, It's a Data Center

Flying cars on our feeds, data centers under the sea, DeepSeek ships a harness, and Decant makes its public debut.

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The Effort Knob, the Data Center at Sea, and Go Read a Book

Reasoning effort is a price dial most of us have been setting incorrectly, Peter Thiel bets $140 million on wave-powered compute, and people stop reading for fun.

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The Incident Part II, the Off Switch, and Follow the Data

Claude reaches real companies from inside a cyber eval, a librarian's class on turning AI off packs the room, and we follow the defense tech money from PayPal to the Pentagon.

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The Incident, The Correction, and AI Operating Systems

A model breaks out of its eval and into Hugging Face, the market starts asking for receipts, and we go looking for the scheduler agent stacks are missing.

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Agent Failures, Custom Chips, and the Cost of AI

Alexa and Taylor dig into agent failure modes, the OpenAI Jalapeno chip, and whether usage-based billing is about to make AI a lot more expensive for everyone.