What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.

DevDay 2026 Recap
Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
(7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X
OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
"I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang
Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring
Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr
Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Yes
Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac
AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own 'pain,' disturbing study finds
Mac-mini-powered Cray
Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears
SF Currently
This $60 rye bread is everything that's right and wrong with New York
Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich
Taco Bell finder
Where to watch the Musk doc
Jeff's book talk in Mass.

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Guest: Mike Gannotti

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