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Chaos Agents

Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy

Technologists Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy dive into the chaos of artificial intelligence—unpacking the tech, trends, and ideas reshaping how we work, create, and think. Smart, funny, and just a little bit existential.

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32 episodes

  1. Anthropic's IPO, Weight-Space Biosignals, and Discovering Mayan Sites with AI 24:34
  2. Nvidia's $250B Spy Scandal, a Voice Synth That Growls, and One H100 for 4.57x the Price (~86) 23:06
  3. Postman's Sneaky Agent Hook, a Chess-Crushing 1995 Pentium, and a Ceiling Robot 17:20
  4. Rewriting an AI's Brain by Hand, Glasses That Hear You Mouth Words, and a Transformer That Shuffles Its Own Layers 25:15
  5. Le Chonk Ships, DOOM as a Neural Net, and Attention Heads 25:56
  6. Cross-Modal AI, Genie 4, and Beating Gemini Forklifts with David Heimann 32:59
  7. Neural Networks, Sparse Autoencoders, and a Fleet of Duck Robots 26:54
  8. Discovering Yourself with AI, a PHP Patch-Day Thriller, and Credit for Every Step 36:36
  9. DeepSeek's 75-Cent Search, Hybrid Reasoning Agents, and Programming Language Wars 22:58
  10. Local AI, Rethinking Neural Networks, and Talking Pumpkins 22:45
  11. Character.AI's bankruptcy, medical AI's rubric problem, and the Parsimony coding benchmark 31:06
  12. Drone Targets, Forgetful Agents, and Dictation Without the Ums 17:18
  13. Le Chonk, Training Without Backprop, and AI-Designed Chips with Avi Flombaum 22:52
  14. Superintelligence Czars, AI Retries, and Space Cylinders 14:35
  15. Autonomous Weapons, AI Memory, and Machines That Paint 22:36
  16. Agent-to-Agent Collaboration, AI’s Hidden Thoughts, and Model Nerfing 26:31
  17. The Model Escapes, DeepSeek Loses, and P(doom) Goes Pop 21:07
  18. AI Misalignment, Hacking Medicare, and Solving 500-Year-Old Mysteries 22:12
  19. AI Targeting, Why Benchmarks Lie, and Bringing Back AIM 21:53
  20. Superpowers, Subagents, and Why Coding Isn’t the Job Anymore - With Jesse Vincent 41:59
  21. Learn Anything, Build Anything, and the AI Barrier That Isn’t Real - With Navarrow Wright 55:27
  22. Algorithmic Transference, Generative UI, and Why the Text Box Won - With Louise Macfadyen 49:08
  23. Personal Agents, Opinion Geometry, and AI That Learns Too Much - With Hayden Helm 57:07
  24. Agentic Romance Scams, Open Source Safety, and Anything Bad on the Internet - With Juliet Shen 46:25
  25. Agents in Crypto, Agents at Work, and the Weird New Middle Management - With Meghan Heintz 50:34
  26. Can You Build Anything in a Week? GPUs, Code Gen, and the End of Engineers - With Harper Reed 58:59
  27. The Magic Cycle, AI Detectors, and the End of Writing as Proof - With Clay Shirky 53:47
  28. Speed vs Quality, Hallucinations, and the AI Learning Rabbit Hole - With Nir Zicherman 48:37
  29. Paradigm Shifts, Build First AI, and the Non-Technical Developer - With Bethany Crystal 50:36
  30. Retro Tech, New AI, and the Blackmailing Bot - With Paul Ford 51:39
  31. Goose, Open Source, and the Future of Coding with AI — with Rizel Scarlett 53:20
  32. Chaos Agents Trailer 2:33