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

  1. 0:00
    Intro and Closet App Demo
  2. 12:00
    Sam Altman Tweet and GPT-5.6 Soul Projects
  3. 13:00
    Codex Micro Keyboard
  4. 18:00
    A Coding Agent Is Six Functions in a Trench Coat
  5. 27:00
    Agent Failure Modes: Zombie, Rogue, Stupid, Crashed
  6. 40:00
    Forward Deployed Engineers Discussion
  7. 57:00
    OpenAI Jalapeno Chip and Custom Silicon
  8. 1:09:00
    Tokenomics and Usage-Based Billing
  9. 1:17:00
    Community Vision and Closing