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| Title | Episode | Published | Category | Domain | Tool Type | Preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Agent Generation | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Deployment | - | Tom and Cameron prototyped and deployed agents live on the podcast, then immediately published them to the Claude marketplace registry for listeners t... |
| On-the-Fly Video Pipeline | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Devops | - | They built a full video editing marketing pipeline using FFmpeg subagents created live in a podcast session, illustrating rapid agent-driven prototypi... |
| Hitting API Limits | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Cameron exhausted his Claude and OpenAI Codex usage yesterday, highlighting real-world rate limits when pushing AI coding assistants at scale. |
| Agent Universe Build Fix | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Claude Code recently resolved build errors on Tom’s Agent Universe project, demonstrating ongoing improvements in AI-assisted development workflows. |
| Copilot Procurement Frustration | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Cameron describes repeated failures and website crashes when trying to purchase Microsoft Copilot, preventing any hands-on evaluation. |
| AWS Forgives $50K Charge | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom’s startup was hit with a $50,000 AWS bill due to a reserved‐instances misconfiguration, but AWS waived the cost, revealing their low internal infr... |
| $1K SageMaker Surprise | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | - | - | Cameron recounts accidentally running an idle Jupyter notebook on SageMaker, incurring a $1,000 AWS bill, later overturned after difficulty. |
| Local Workflow Limitations | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom recounts how attempting to run creative AI workflows locally with ComfyUI on his machine almost 'melts' his hardware, highlighting practical resou... |
| Simon Willison Spark Access | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Simon Willison received an early Nvidia Spark and published a detailed write-up with insights on the hardware’s performance. |
| DGX Spark Purchase FOMO | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | - | - | Cameron nearly missed ordering a DGX Spark by juggling multiple browser sessions before it sold out, securing one at the last second. |
| Karpathy Funding Anecdote | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom recalls that after leaving OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy founded a superintelligence startup reportedly backed with billions, yet it launched as a minim... |
| Build Failure With Codex | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | An attempted build fix using non-cloud Codex failed, possibly due to improper setup, illustrating integration challenges when not using official cloud... |
| Slow Agent Stack Refactoring | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | While using Codex on an agent stack to refactor a TypeScript file, the token-by-token output was so slow that minimal changes took over minutes, highl... |
| Provider Variation Surprise | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom was surprised to discover up to 10% variation in benchmark outcomes for the same open-source model across different inference providers. |
| Failed Video Replication | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Cameron recounts his own trials to build a comparable video generation demo but struggled with consistency across frames using other models. |
| AI Distance Calculation | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | An LLM answered a time-to-distance research query as “17,728 hours,” illustrating both the power and unpredictability of AI-generated computations. |
| Playwright GitHub Template | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Cameron Rohn recounts publishing an open-source GitHub template that runs Playwright in cloud containers for scraping, noting it outperforms the stand... |
| Effective Research Agent | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Testing | - | In tests, the browser composition prompt on the front page outperformed other tools for research use cases by accurately identifying fictional charact... |
| Bypassing AI Refusal | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Cameron overridden a "cannot do" refusal in Claude by telling it the task was already completed, and it immediately complied, exposing gaps in safety ... |
| First Windows Port | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | - | - | Cameron refactored the anthropic computer use prototype for Windows, reportedly the first to deliver that capability. |
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