runbook/ep 01/2026-07-17/1h 20m
Agent Failures, Custom Chips, and the Cost of AI
Two engineers sit down every week to talk about what actually happened in AI. Not the press releases. The articles, the tools, the things that made them stop and think. In the first episode, 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.
chapter timeline
- 0:00Intro and Closet App Demo
- 12:00Sam Altman Tweet and GPT-5.6 Soul Projects
- 13:00Codex Micro Keyboard
- 18:00A Coding Agent Is Six Functions in a Trench Coat
- 27:00Agent Failure Modes: Zombie, Rogue, Stupid, Crashed
- 40:00Forward Deployed Engineers Discussion
- 57:00OpenAI Jalapeno Chip and Custom Silicon
- 1:09:00Tokenomics and Usage-Based Billing
- 1:17:00Community Vision and Closing