How to cultivate expertise with local models, delegating to subagents, and we all really stopped reading, huh?
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Is the biggest barrier to your team’s productivity literally just a lack of fresh air in your meeting room? This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew dive into the rise of highly capable open source models like GLM 5.2 and the messy reality of running local AI for coding tasks. The hosts also discuss the cultural shift away from deep reading in a world obsessed with AI summaries, emphasizing the importance of protecting your first brain. Finally, they review a legendary tale from Meta's engineering history.
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- The bottleneck might be the air in the room
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- AI Erodes a Legacy of Reading
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