Contextually Aware

By Luis Calderon

What product managers can actually build with AI today—and where it still breaks.... more

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Contextually Aware episodes:

September 04, 2026 Grok Bot is expensive. Every cheaper agent still needs me in the chair.
Luis breaks down why a $30 Grok Bot seat beats cheaper agents on the rate card: it's the only one that finishes the job without you babysitting it. Maya pushes on whether that's worth the hidden compute bill.
Read the full article: https://growthalchemylab.com/blog/grok-bot-is-expensive
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September 03, 2026 Gemini 3.8 Flash is my new favorite. 3.7 got me there.
Luis breaks down why Gemini 3.8 Flash became the daily-driver model for agent work, and Maya presses on whether the extra cost of high mode is worth it.
Read the full article: https://growthalchemylab.com/blog/gemini-38-flash-daily-driver
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August 10, 2026I Built More Agents. The Work Got Harder.
Episode 39: I Built More Agents. The Work Got Harder.
Vercel's vision made one production agent easier to ship. The second agent reveals the hidden cost: shared context, permissions, handoffs, approvals, and proof.
Hosts: Luis and Carina · Runtime: 11.3 minutes
Chapters
Cold open and introduction

The second agent changes the job

What production runtimes solve

The hidden tax at the handoff

The Agent Workplane

Establish, Operate, Compound

The small first test

What comes next

Sign-off
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12min
August 10, 2026 On the internet, nobody knows you're an agent
Luis and Maya dig into why the web treats every AI agent like a burglar, and what Block's new Buzz platform does about it.
Bots are now about 57% of web traffic, so the default answer to an agent is "blocked" — which punishes the ordinary case of asking your assistant to go check a price. Buzz gives every participant, human or agent, their own cryptographic keys, so work is signed by whoever actually did it. The bigger point: every serious payments rail, from Visa to Mastercard to Google, has independently landed on the same precondition. Nobody hands a wallet to anonymous software. Identity comes first, or nothing comes at all.
Chapters
00:00 Meet your host
00:20 I was wrong on a client call
00:55 What Buzz actually shipped
02:00 Nobody knows you're an agent
02:40 Identity is the toll gate
03:30 Three moves for Monday
04:35 The skeptic ledger
05:15 Where to read the rest
Full written breakdown, with every source and the complete skeptic ledger:
https://growthalchemylab.com/blog/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-youre-an-agent
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July 31, 2026 The bottom has fallen out of software development
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July 31, 2026I maxed out my human context window
Episode 37: I maxed out my context window
Luis and Maya unpack the hidden bottleneck in agent-heavy work: the human approval queue. The fix is less clever tooling, fewer harnesses, one queue, and a daily count of real decisions.
Chapters
00:00 — Meet your host
00:42 — The setup
01:24 — What the article says
02:06 — The killer line
02:48 — The new way to think
03:30 — Concrete moves
04:12 — One thing to remember
04:54 — Where to find us
05:36 — Sign-off
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July 20, 2026 Why Kimi K3 Paused New Subs — And What That Tells You
Moonshot paused new Kimi K3 subscriptions 48 hours after launch because GPU demand pushed them to capacity. They chose reliability over growth.
The open weights drop July 27. For builders: stop treating your model choice as a permanent commitment. Wrap it behind an interface. Treat it as a config value.
Read the full article: https://growthalchemylab.com/blog/kimi-k3-the-pause-that-tells-you-everything
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9min
July 18, 2026 What Happens to the S&P 500 When AI Gets Cheaper Faster Than Data Centers Depreciate?
Luis and Maya dig into the $700B hyperscaler capex bet and why falling AI model prices could leave a third of the S&P 500 mispriced. The math is falsifiable — and the clock is already running.
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6min
July 13, 2026 OpenAI Model Guide: Stop Staring at the Picker
Luis and Maya cut through OpenAI's Sol/Terra/Luna model catalog with one operator rule: pick a default, escalate effort before model, and stop treating the picker like a menu.
Read the full article: https://growthalchemylab.com/blog/openai-model-guide-confused-choices
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July 12, 2026 Has AGI Arrived? Send in the Misfits.
An $8 multi-agent website build beat a $105 solo build on accessibility — and it proves hallucination isn't solved, it's routed. Luis and Maya break down the org-chart model for trustworthy AI.
Read the full article: https://growthalchemylab.com/blog/has-agi-arrived-send-in-the-misfits
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7min

FAQs about Contextually Aware:

How many episodes does Contextually Aware have?

The podcast currently has 37 episodes available.