episode/ep 01/2026-07-17/1h 12m

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.

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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