Improved automatic continuous more or less chat. turns out we can do our podcast 100% automatically at this point with the right traning set. just need to up the snark and add some pop culture.
New Pod Up: AI rings, robot tanks for your driveway, Apple’s forearm iPhone sock, why multitasking is destroying our brains, and Sam’s etiquette cult going global. Plus, Jess quits Instagram live on the pod. It’s a ride. https://t.co/0tnYEqJshe
NEW EPISODE: Sora vs TikTok -- is OpenAI's compute cost finally justified by AI slop?
> @Jessicalessin questions whether Sora is just a novelty or the start of an AI-native social economy, arguing OpenAI needs its own device to escape current platform limits.
> @Brit calls it “Vine meets MySpace,” highlighting its cameo mechanic as a creator tool that could outpace Meta’s AI video.
> @davemorin says Sora only needs to be entertaining and pitches OpenAI’s real graph play: embedding ChatGPT in group chats.
> @lessin compares Sora to Truth Social, not Instagram, arguing power and narrative—not unit economics—drive the AI capex boom.
NEW EPISODE LIVE:
>"If A16z will be a shareholder in TikTok... I don't think Andreessen can have a board seat. But Sequoia have a ton of ByteDance exposure... they may get 20% through that." @Jessicalessin
>"If the algo's just a licensed black box, who has veto on the model updates?" @davemorin
>"People moved on from social to LLMs. 'How ChatGPT is making kids kill themselves'--that's the new battlefield." @lessin
>"Sheryl comes out of retirement and does it..."
@brit
NEW EPISODE IS NOW LIVE! @davemorin@brit@lessin and @Jessicalessin goes over:
> “Skinny iPhone” and why “thin” might be back
> Market reaction: “Not enough AI,” money flows to Oracle
> YC protest: is relevance measured by outrage?
> Creator-led startups as an investing edge
> Khosla: bargain hunting is a poor AI bet
> Why money feels unlimited again (FOMO returns)
> Quiet shakeout: sub-$100M seed funds at risk
> Crypto policy clarity as 2025 macro driver
> Meme warfare: the next GTM playbook
See the thread for more of our favorite takeaways from this week’s episode.
@davemorin@brit@lessin@Jessicalessin Memetic Warfare is the new distribution. Don’t push messages. Seed templates people want to adopt, remix, and share.