240: AI Cowgorithm Disrupts The Herd (Presented by Warp)

This week, Robbie and Adam sip on whiskey from the Muff Liquor Company and dive deep into the chaotic state of AI development, Jensen Huang's wild claims about AGI and token spending, and whether we've accidentally turned developers into Ralph Wiggum loopers. They debate auto research workflows, day shift versus night shift coding strategies, the death of MCP servers, AI cow herding collars disrupting agriculture, and why Ghostty's Mitchell just joined Vercel's board. Along the way, they cover vertical terminal layouts, United's new relax row seating, OpenClaw's inability to follow instructions, and why scoring mechanisms might be the key to making AI actually useful.

Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz

In this episode:

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:00:36 Sponsor: Warp and Cloud Agents
• 00:01:19 AI Context Problems & The AGI Debate
• 00:09:58 Jensen's Hot Takes: Token Spending & AGI Claims
• 00:13:54 Is MCP Dead? The Protocol Nobody Needs
• 00:16:35 AI Cowgorithm Disrupts The Herd
• 00:21:32 OpenCode Gives Money to Pie Contributors
• 00:43:17 Auto Research: The Night Shift AI Worker
• 00:49:06 Gia Framework: The Compiler Revolution
• 00:55:02 ChatGPT Ads & Data Selling Concerns
• 01:05:51 Whiskey Tasting: Muff Liquor Company
• 01:15:21 Wrap Up & Where to Find Us

Links

• Muff Liquor Company: https://muffliquorcompany.com/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw

• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• Pi: https://pi.ai/

• MCP (Model Context Protocol): https://modelcontextprotocol.io/

• Auto Research: https://github.com/karpathy/auto-research

• Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/

• CMUX: https://github.com/cmux/cmux

• Peon Ping: https://github.com/peon-ping/peon-ping

• Railway: https://railway.app/

• Vercel: https://vercel.com/

• Gea: https://geajs.com/

• Impeccable Design Skills: https://impeccable.style/

• Radiant Shaders: https://radiantshaders.com/

• Mitosis: https://github.com/builderio/mitosis

• Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/

• Ember: https://emberjs.com/

• Svelte: https://svelte.dev/

• Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/

• TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

• React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/

• Diablo: https://diablo.blizzard.com/

• Lucid Motors: https://www.lucidmotors.com/

• United Airlines Relax Row: https://www.united.com/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner

• Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/ChuckCarpenter

• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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