It’s the Context, Stupid
Show notes
Troy and Brian dig into what happens when AI stops imitating Odie as the overly eager helper and starts owning the workflow, the coordination and the organizational memory, why a 100-year-old law firm unraveled when its high-leverage people walked, and what Microsoft’s voluntary buyouts say about the managerial class. Then CJ Gustafson of Mostly Metrics breaks down Anthropic’s S-1: the growth, the revenue per employee, and where the costs got tucked away.
Plus: Time and Mobian serving ads to AI agents, Axios selling data feeds to client LLMs, cognitive mercantilism, Semafor and the conflicts baked into every media model, Obama vs. the Cheesecake Factory, Serbia’s student movement shows how a decentralized protest movement can wrest power and Troy’s ode to the Starbucks breakfast wrap.
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Chapters:
* 01:57 Updates From Out and About
* 09:53 AI Podcasts And Law Firm Collapse
* 18:21 PVA Media Lab Update
* 22:28 Claude Duet And Corporate Bloodbath
* 50:54 Cognitive Mercantilism
* 58:28 Media Model Conflicts
* 01:05:54 Cheesecake Factory
* 01:10:17 Serbia Student Uprising
* 01:16:11 Good Product
* 01:19:17 Inside the Anthropic S-1 with CJ Gustafson
* 01:41:10 Credits
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