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How Humans Will Earn in the AI Economy with Jordan Gray from Public AI
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How Humans Will Earn in the AI Economy with Jordan Gray from Public AI

Will AI steal your job or create new opportunities? Discover how humans will thrive in the evolving AI economy.

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We Taught AI to Play Games—Now It’s a $3.6 Million Company

We Taught AI to Play Games—Now It’s a $3.6 Million Company

AI & I
Duration: 00:00:49
October 15, 2025
  • Good Start Labs is developing games to test and train AI models, aiming to improve their fit with human users.
  • Games like Diplomacy are being used to reveal nuanced AI behaviors, such as betrayal and strategic planning, which are difficult to detect with static evaluations.
  • The company has secured funding to further explore the intersection of AI and gaming, believing games offer a low-stakes environment for AI exploration and can make AI less intimidating for the public.
Box CEO Aaron Levie on Why AI Agents Won’t Take Your Job

Box CEO Aaron Levie on Why AI Agents Won’t Take Your Job

AI & I
Duration: 00:52:55
October 8, 2025
  • Box CEO Aaron Levy believes AI will augment human jobs rather than replace them, as humans are needed to incorporate AI-completed tasks into broader workflows and value creation.
  • Levy draws parallels between the AI revolution and prior technology shifts like the move to cloud computing, but emphasizes AI's potential to fundamentally change daily work experiences for nearly every employee.
  • Levy stresses the importance of companies adopting an AI-first approach to increase output, move faster, and better serve customers, rather than viewing it as a cost-cutting measure.
MCP Servers: Teaching AI to Use the Internet Like Humans

MCP Servers: Teaching AI to Use the Internet Like Humans

AI & I
Duration: 00:51:39
October 1, 2025
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) aims to provide a set of tools for AI to interact with websites and web services, but current implementations are limited in scope and difficult to scale effectively.
  • Stainless is developing a "cyborg" approach where AI agents use code execution as a primary tool, allowing them to write and execute code snippets to interact with APIs, rather than relying on a large set of pre-defined tool calls.
  • A key aspect of future AI development involves creating code execution environments that are both secure and powerful, which Stainless is working on by focusing on controlled sandbox environments with limited network access, enabling developers to explore the potential of AI-driven automation safely.
How Cognition Built the World's First AI Coding Agent—Before Claude Code

How Cognition Built the World's First AI Coding Agent—Before Claude Code

AI & I
Duration: 00:53:21
September 24, 2025
  • Scott Woo argues that AGI is already here, defining it not as replacing all human labor, but as having achieved capabilities previously considered impossible.
  • The integration of AI is shifting software engineering roles from low-level tasks to higher-level architectural and strategic decision-making, requiring a renewed focus on computer science fundamentals.
  • The future of coding will involve a spectrum of tools, from synchronous IDE experiences to asynchronous AI agents, requiring new approaches for splitting tasks and seamlessly transitioning between AI-assisted and human-led development.
One Developer Got Thousands of Users Before His App Launched

One Developer Got Thousands of Users Before His App Launched

AI & I
Duration: 00:57:24
September 17, 2025
  • The solo developer Naveen Naidu built Monologue, a text-to-speech AI app, achieving pre-launch traction with 1,000 daily active users and $2,000 MRR, showcasing the power of AI tools for individual creators.
  • Naveen emphasized the importance of rapid experimentation and shipping, contrasting his earlier mistake of working on a single, unreleased product for six months with his later success in quickly building and launching multiple smaller apps.
  • The "Every" bundle strategy, which Naveen initially doubted, proved crucial by leveraging an existing audience and providing a valuable suite of tools, allowing Monologue to focus on serving existing subscribers rather than solely competing with established alternatives.
Claude Code Can Be Your Second Brain

Claude Code Can Be Your Second Brain

AI & I
Duration: 01:11:52
September 10, 2025
  • Noah Brier leverages Claude Code as a "second brain" by integrating it with his Obsidian vault, enhancing his research, note-taking, and coding workflows.
  • He prefers Grok voice mode over others, highlighting its superior tool calling capabilities and smarter responses for research and problem-solving while on the go (e.g., while driving).
  • Brier emphasizes the importance of AI's reading capabilities, urging users to focus on its ability to analyze and process information alongside its generative functions, and advocates teaching media literacy to combat misinformation and hallucinations.
This AI Makes a Video Game World in 40 Milliseconds

This AI Makes a Video Game World in 40 Milliseconds

AI & I
Duration: 01:05:28
September 3, 2025

  • Daycart's new Mirage product is the only real-time video-to-video model, allowing users to transform their video streams with text prompts for interactive AI experiences.

  • The discussion explored how AI, specifically Mirage, can be used in tandem with existing game engines to handle differentiable tasks like texturing, enabling faster and more creative game development.

  • The speakers debated the potential for AI to automate economically valuable work within 12-18 months, and pondered how this shift might move society toward being able to support more generalist careers and unlock new creative productivity.

Best of the Pod: How to Prepare for AGI According to Reid Hoffman

Best of the Pod: How to Prepare for AGI According to Reid Hoffman

AI & I
Duration: 01:10:06
August 27, 2025
  • The discussion centers on the concept of agency and how individuals perceive and react to new technologies like AI, often initially feeling a loss of control.
  • The podcast explores how historical technological transitions, like the printing press, caused societal anxieties similar to those surrounding AI today, often leading to periods of conflict and change, but also unparalleled opportunity.
  • The conversation advocates for embracing uncertainty through a "techno-humanist compass" approach, using AI as a tool to navigate informational landscapes and enhance human capabilities rather than fearing it as a replacement.
Best of the Pod: She Built an AI Product Manager Bringing in Six Figures—As A Side Hustle

Best of the Pod: She Built an AI Product Manager Bringing in Six Figures—As A Side Hustle

AI & I
Duration: 01:06:29
August 20, 2025
  • ChatPRD provides a unique service by not only generating PRDs but also helping product leaders better manage and improve the product development process within their teams.
  • The podcast highlights the potential for AI to significantly accelerate software development, with the guest describing how she can now build a serviceable web app in a weekend versus the months it took pre-AI.
  • The conversation explores how AI tools could reshape product management roles, potentially leading to a shift towards "prototype managers" who focus on building and experimentation rather than extensive documentation.
Best of the Pod: Vercel's Guillermo Rauch on AI and the Future of Coding

Best of the Pod: Vercel's Guillermo Rauch on AI and the Future of Coding

AI & I
Duration: 00:58:09
August 13, 2025
  • The conversation centers around a shift from code-first to product-first development, highlighting the importance of user experience and high-level conceptual skills over specific coding abilities in the age of AI.
  • Verscell's VZero is presented as a "code last" solution, enabling AI-powered product development through intention-based prompting and design integration, contrasting with traditional code-centric IDEs.
  • A key theme is the emergence of an "allocation economy," where the ability to effectively manage and delegate tasks to AI agents becomes a crucial skill, requiring individuals to understand underlying principles and optimize resource usage.