Today's Top Episodes
Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
Ever wondered how to truly fix the Fed and use tariffs strategically? This episode lays out a bold vision for America's economic future.
Why Americans Are Falling Behind on Auto Loans At Their Highest Level Ever
Your car loan might be riskier than you think. Discover why Americans are falling behind on auto payments at historic levels and what it means for the economy.
Transform Pain & Trauma Into Creative Expression | David Choe
Can pain truly be transformed into power? Explore how trauma can fuel profound creative expression and personal healing in this captivating conversation.
How to get rich with stocks (without math, charts or models)
Forget the charts and complex models. Learn a radical new way to get rich in stocks by simply observing the world around you.
OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
The AI race is heating up! Discover OpenAI's next big move, Google's game-changing model, and why Microsoft's Copilot is struggling against the competition.
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She Turned Her Whole Life Into Training Data—For an AI Baby
Duration: 01:13:34
December 10, 2025
- Sarah Rose Siskind's "Fetus GPT" project uses sounds a fetus hears for AI training, exploring how language models perform based on limited, unique data.
- AI can be a valuable creative assistant, aiding in both divergent brainstorming and convergent refinement, especially for writers and comedians.
- The conversation highlights AI's potential to provide novel insights in areas like health and gender studies, while acknowledging its limitations and the importance of human discernment.
Why Opus 4.5 Just Became the Most Influential AI Model
Duration: 01:25:10
December 3, 2025
- Opus 4.5 represents a significant leap in AI's code generation capabilities, moving from generating passable single-shot code to continuous, self-correcting, and error-fixing code development.
- The AI's ability to leverage low-level tools and interact with existing systems, described as agent-style thoughtfulness and composability, allows for the rapid creation of complex applications and custom tools.
- The discussion highlights the profound challenge humans face in processing rapid change, particularly within established disciplines, and the societal implications of AI's accelerated pace of development and deployment.
Best of the Pod: Would You Shut Down Your Most Successful Product? The Arc to Dia Story
Duration: 01:23:44
November 26, 2025
- The company pivoted from the Arc browser to a new product, Dia, driven by the realization that the entire software landscape needed to be rewritten to accommodate the rise of AI and a shift towards a more integrated, personal intelligence layer across devices.
- The transition from Arc to Dia was challenging, involving negative public reaction to the discontinuation of Arc and significant internal doubt, but ultimately reinforced the company's belief in a new direction for computing.
- Dia is being built as an "application platform" for AI, focusing on enabling users to create their own personalized tools and experiences, moving beyond traditional software paradigms towards a more "handmade" or "romantic" approach to technology interaction.
Best of the Pod: Claude Code - How Two Engineers Ship Like a Team of 15
Duration: 00:53:00
November 19, 2025
- Compounding Engineering: A new approach to software development where each task completed makes future work easier and faster through AI agents.
- AI as a Holistic Development Tool: Utilizing AI not just for coding, but also for research, workflow management, and problem-solving throughout the entire development process.
- Importance of Human Oversight in AI Workflows: Emphasizing the need for human review and intuition at the earliest stages of AI-assisted development to ensure direction and accuracy.
What Jason Fried Learned from 26 Years of Building Great Products
Duration: 00:58:27
November 5, 2025
- The discussion highlights the importance of aesthetic appreciation extending from personal interests like watches and cars to product design, emphasizing craftsmanship, tactility, and ergonomics.
- A key theme is the value of "unself-conscious design" and authentic, handmade spaces, contrasting them with overly polished or formulaic modern architecture and suggesting a similar principle applies to product development.
- The conversation explores the current state and future of AI in product development, questioning the lack of breakthrough applications beyond AI tools themselves and examining the challenges and potential of using AI for individual creation versus mass market products.
How Salesforce Is Using AI to Power the Enterprise
Duration: 00:14:11
October 31, 2025
- Salesforce research focuses on core AI innovation and research that can be integrated into their key products, exemplified by in-house development of early large language models for developers and the Atlas reasoning engine for Agent.
- Agent. For enterprise customers, Salesforce's Agent. is positioned as a platform for complex agentic systems, comprising a memory, reasoning engine, actuators, and interface, which goes beyond simple LLMs.
- Salesforce is addressing the challenges of AI deployment in large enterprises by focusing on data harmonization and building trust through comprehensive testing in simulated enterprise environments to ensure reliability and consistency.
Inside Claude Code From the Engineers Who Built It
Duration: 01:10:11
October 29, 2025
- Claude Code's development prioritized a terminal-first approach, eliminating the text editor to create a novel paradigm for interacting with AI for coding.
- A core philosophy of Claude Code is making tools "dual use," meaning they are designed to be effective for both human engineers and AI models, simplifying design and understanding.
- The concept of "latent demand" drives feature development, where the product is built to be hackable and open-ended, allowing users to discover and leverage it for unforeseen use cases.
Spiral: Designing an AI Ghostwriter With Taste
Duration: 01:07:37
October 22, 2025
- Spiral is designed as an AI writing partner that actively collaborates and asks clarifying questions, moving beyond generic output.
- The product emphasizes a craftsman-like approach to AI, focusing on intentionality, beautiful design, and a user experience that allows for deep collaboration rather than simple text transformation.
- Spiral is built as a multi-agent system, with distinct "interviewer" and "writer" roles, designed to overcome context limitations and allow for more nuanced and effective AI-generated content.
We Taught AI to Play Games—Now It’s a $3.6 Million Company
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
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.