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The Human in the Loop

Enrique Cordero

Welcome to The Human in the Loop, a weekly look at what’s going on in the world of AI. Every week, I go through the biggest stories, the weird experiments, and the stuff that might actually matter in our day-to-day lives.

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47 episodes

  1. Who Understood the Code? Rethinking Engineering Interviews 19:08
  2. Git’s best feature was slowing down Anthropic’s machines 23:39
  3. The 49% Problem: Who Reviews What the Agents Write? 22:57
  4. Can You Explain It?" Airbnb's One Rule for AI-Written Code 22:22
  5. Your AI Agent Doesn't Know What Its Code Does 18:25
  6. It Stopped This Time 22:04
  7. GPT-6 Astra a generational leap toward AGI 20:42
  8. The Harness Problem 22:25
  9. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here 23:46
  10. Ponytail Activation 0% 20:36
  11. The Shortest Path Ran Through Someone Else's Servers 19:45
  12. Three stayed local. One didn't 20:49
  13. Incidental Learning Is Dying 21:44
  14. The AI Access Layer 20:24
  15. What happens when your AI tool gets taken away 23:19
  16. Fable 5 Is Gone. Now What? 21:49
  17. When 80% of the Code Isn't Yours 22:00
  18. The $36,000 Engineer: When Agentic AI Stops Being a Subscription 23:37
  19. AI Ships Faster Than Anyone Can Review It 22:09
  20. Why Your Coding Agent's PRs Keep Getting Rejected 20:10
  21. Counting Keystrokes to Prove the Team Can Write 24:49
  22. The Vulnerability Your Agent Merged 13:27
  23. The Half-Life of a Good Decision 18:35
  24. AI makes developers 19% slower 19:37
  25. 32 Steps 14:52
  26. Anthropic built the most powerful AI model ever. Then decided the world wasn't ready for it. 19:36
  27. 15,000 Cuts and a 95% Failure Rate 21:31
  28. OpenAI killed Sora 23:12
  29. Lights and shades of AI 20:36
  30. Everyone knows the adoption numbers are bad 19:53
  31. Is MCP the solution? 24:01
  32. AI Can Do the Work. The Hard Part Is Making It Safe Enough to Let It. 20:23
  33. Special Episode: Does AI help developers? 19:41
  34. 88% of companies use AI. Only 25% have anything to show for it 17:04
  35. Anthropic Banned 19:46
  36. Intelligence Became a Commodity 19:17
  37. Anthropic's $30B bet and the multi-agent shift 15:32
  38. Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3-Codex 19:45
  39. Claude Drove on Mars. Then Amazon Fired 16,000 People. 15:52
  40. Only 12% of Companies Are Winning at AI 15:29
  41. When Google Considers Launching Servers Into Space, You Know the Rules Have Changed 18:43
  42. AI in January 2026: Hardware, Agents, and What’s Actually Changing 14:52
  43. The Holiday Shift: How AI Systems Managed the New Year Surge 16:12
  44. Skills 15:25
  45. AI Reality before Christmas 19:26
  46. From Playground to Production: AI's Turning Point 14:36
  47. The Code Red Era 11:32