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Two episodes in one week? We're either above average or completely unhinged. In this one, we dive deep into the new phenomenon of "AI exhaustion" – that fried feeling you get after multitasking across six agent tabs all day. We share our breakthroughs with AI-assisted presentations (20 minutes vs several hours), why browser-use on your local machine bypasses every anti-scraping technique known to man, and how enterprise context sharing could be the real unlock for organizations. Plus: OpenAI announces ads for ChatGPT (even on paid tiers), their CFO floats taking cuts from drug discoveries (seriously), and Google publicly dunks on them for it. Also – the Still Relevant Australia Tour is coming, and our LinkedIn group hit 200 members (we're basically LinkedIn influencers now too).
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro - Still Relevant Tour Announcement + LinkedIn Milestone
2:08 AI Exhaustion: The Cognitive Overload of Multitasking with Agents
4:14 Why Single-Tasking with AI Beats Parallel Agent Chaos
7:02 The Problem with "I Spun Up 70,000 Sub-Agents" Twitter Posts
10:03 Mike's Presentation Workflow: From Hours to 20 Minutes
14:06 Why Isn't Copilot Doing This Already?
16:54 Old Models + Great Context = Still Amazing Results
21:14 What's Actually Changed? It's the Software Layer
25:22 Enterprise Context Sharing & Organizational IP
31:22 Skills, Sub-Agents, and Role-Based Knowledge
35:22 Security Concerns: Can You Hack an Agent with Malicious MD Files?
38:23 Cloud Providers Have a Bigger Moat Than the Labs
43:16 Browser Use: The Ultimate Context Gathering Weapon
48:25 Rethinking SaaS: Software That Actually Thinks
53:08 Smart Paste, Smart CC – Why Isn't All Software Like This?
56:32 OpenAI's Desperate Moves: Ads, Age Verification & Drug Royalties
1:03:03 Google Says "No Plans for Gemini Ads" (Shots Fired)
1:07:24 Is OpenAI Okay? The Vibes Are Definitely Off
1:10:35 Capitalism Won't Give You Free Time, Just More Demands
1:11:20 Outro + Still Relevant Tour Details
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It's 2026 and everyone's having an existential crisis. In this episode, we unpack the two camps dominating AI C/Twitter: hype boys claiming "Claude Code can do my washing" vs. software developers doom-scrolling themselves into career panic. We put the agentic hype to the test and discover that no, you can't actually run 8 agents recreating your local business ecosystem while you sleep. Plus, we reflect on why MCP is exhausting, why Gemini 3 Pro is somehow worse than Gemini 2.5 Pro, and why Geoffrey Hinton would rather write his book than answer questions in Tasmania. Also featuring: the $200,000/month enterprise AI problem, why SaaS isn't dead (but it's scared), and our prediction that AI workspaces will become the everything app.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro - Unpacking the 2026 AI Vibes
02:21 Putting Claude Code and Agentic Hype to the Test
05:57 Why Twitter AI Demos Never Show the Receipts
07:03 Honest Assessment of Where Frontier Models Are At
11:19 Building the Everything App with Email, Calendar and Files
16:47 Collaborative Mode vs Agentic Delegation in Practice
21:29 The Real Cost of Enterprise AI at Scale
24:32 Why Cheaper Models Like Haiku and Gemini Flash Matter
29:25 Is SaaS Actually Dead or Just Disrupted
38:11 The Future of AI Platforms, SDKs and App Stores
43:35 The Untapped Opportunity in Paid Proprietary MCPs
51:21 Geoffrey Hinton Refuses to Take Questions in Tasmania
55:05 2026 Plans and the Still Relevant Tour Announcement
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It's the long-anticipated holiday special... except Mike and Kris forgot to prepare so it's just a normal episode. 🎅 This week: Gemini 3 Flash drops and it's actually incredible - cheap, fast, and weirdly smarter than Gemini 3 Pro at tool calling. We put GPT Image 1.5 head-to-head against Nano Banana Pro using hobo photos (spoiler: Google wins again). Plus, FireCrawl Agent is the research tool we've been waiting for, Anthropic launches Skills as an open standard, and we do a full 2025 model timeline recap. Also featuring: Best and Worst Model of the Year awards, 2026 predictions where Mike bets on OpenAI (controversial), and the full holiday musical outro where AI sings about what an "average" year it's been.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro - Holiday Special That Isn't
00:55 Shipping Gemini 3 Flash While Looking Like a "Sophisticated Programming Hobo"
02:52 Gemini 3 Flash Review: Cheap, Fast, Surprisingly Smart
06:31 The Unreliable Frontier Model Problem
10:45 GPT Image 1.5 vs Nano Banana Pro Showdown
17:04 FireCrawl Agent: Research That Actually Works
25:56 Gemini Deep Research Agent Deep Dive
31:57 Skills vs MCPs: The New Paradigm
43:35 Enterprise Skills: Codifying Business Procedures
49:57 2025 Model Timeline Recap
59:53 Best & Worst Model of 2025 Awards
1:04:58 2026 Predictions: Mike Bets on OpenAI
1:14:09 Final Thoughts & Holiday Thank Yous
1:19:35 🎄 Holiday Musical: "A Very Average Christmas"
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GPT-5.2 is here and... it's not great. In this episode, we put OpenAI's latest model through its paces and discover it can't even identify a convicted serial killer when the text literally says "serial killer." We compare it head-to-head with Claude Opus and Gemini 3 Pro (spoiler: they win). Plus, we reflect on the "Year of Agents" that wasn't, why your barber switched to Grok, Disney's billion-dollar investment to use Mickey Mouse in Sora, and why Mustafa Suleyman should probably be fired. Also featuring: the GPT-5.2 diss track where the model brags about capabilities it doesn't have.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro - GPT-5.2 Drops + Details
01:25 First Impressions: Verbose, Overhyped, Vibe-Tuned
02:52 OpenAI's Rushed Response to Gemini 3
03:24 Tool Calling Problems & Agentic Failures
04:14 Why Anthropic's Models Just Work Better
06:31 The Barber Test: Real Users Are Switching to Grok
10:00 The Ivan Milat Vision Test (Serial Killer Edition)
17:04 Year of Agents Retrospective: What Went Wrong
25:28 The Path to True Agentic Workflows
31:22 GPT-5.2 Diss Track (Yes, Really)
43:43 Why We're Still Optimistic About AI
50:29 Google Bringing Ads to Gemini in 2026
54:46 Disney Pays $1B to Use Mickey Mouse in Sora
56:57 LOL of the Week: Mustafa Suleyman's Sad Tweets
1:00:35 Outro & Full GPT-5.2 Diss Track
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OpenAI has declared "Code Red" as ChatGPT faces growing competition from Gemini and other rivals. In this episode, we break down OpenAI's 6% market share decline, why their ad strategy is on hold, and what they need to do to reclaim the AI crown. We also explore DeepSeek V3.2's impressive capabilities as a cheap open-source alternative, Meta's new policy grading employees on AI skills, and the crisis facing higher education as AI fluency becomes essential. Plus, Fatal Patricia hits #1 on our Spotify charts, and Tesla's Optimus robot is running like a slightly unfit human.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro - OpenAI Code Red & Market Share Crisis
07:03 ChatGPT's Failure to Go Deeper Into Users' Lives
16:33 What OpenAI Needs to Win Back the Crown
26:46 Chris's Wishlist for an OpenAI Comeback
31:22 DeepSeek V3.2 - The Open Source Threat
39:34 Meta Grading Workers on AI Skills
46:29 The University & Education AI Crisis
56:25 Fatal Patricia Hits #1 & WTF of the Week
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