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10x Engineer joins MTS to discuss the backlash over Anthropic's silent token limit test, the tradeoffs between Claude Code and Codex for daily development, and why vibe coding should replace LeetCode in the engineering interview process.
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Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
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Brought to you by:
Granola - The AI notepad. Try it once and never go back. https://granola.ai/mts
Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com
Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com
Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts
AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com
Macroscope - AI codebase understanding for engineering leaders. https://macroscope.com/mts
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:31) OpenAI vs Anthropic Vibes and Secret AB Testing
(01:56) Developer Frustrations with Claude Pro and Token Limits
(04:24) Claude Code vs Codex and the Scarcity Mindset in Development
(07:23) XAI Acquisition of Cursor and the Future of Agent Harnesses
(09:30) Open Source Innovation and Fundamental Architecture Changes
(18:16) Replacing LeetCode Interviews with Vibe Coding Evaluations
(22:07) Countering AI Cheating in Big Tech Engineering Interviews
(27:24) Advice for New Grads and Augmenting Learning with AI Tools
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Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear
Taylor Lorenz joins MTS to discuss what makes new media experiments work, why she opposes school phone bans, and how AI-generated aesthetics and streamer culture are producing the internet's next wave of IP.
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https://x.com/TaylorLorenz
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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.
Follow MTS:
X | https://twitter.com/MTSlive
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation
Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM
Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763
Substack | https://mtslive.substack.com/
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
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Brought to you by:
Granola - The AI notepad. Try it once and never go back. https://granola.ai/mts
Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com
Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com
Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts
AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com
Macroscope - AI codebase understanding for engineering leaders. https://macroscope.com/mts
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:31) Monitoring the Situation and Experimenting in the New Media Space
(02:31) Advice for Live Shows and the Power of On-Air Debates
(07:15) Moving Beyond Media Resentment and Proactive Content Creation
(08:32) The Rise of Synchronized Human Experiences and Synchronized Streaming
(12:36) The UK Phone Ban and Smarter Technical Engagement in Schools
(15:12) The Death of Techno Optimism on the Political Left
(23:35) AI Generated IP and the Cambrian Explosion of Short Form Content
(29:59) Optimization Culture and the Body as the Final Asset Class
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Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear
Ben Smith of Semafor joins MTS to discuss Marc Andreessen's retreat from media and the group chat era that followed, how Semafor was built to go straight up the middle on a polarized media landscape, and why the digital fog of war has made it harder than ever to know what's actually happening in real-time conflicts. He also reflects on BuzzFeed's collapse, the platform risk of building around X, and what Twitter has always needed but rarely had.
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https://x.com/semaforben
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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.
Follow MTS:
X | https://twitter.com/MTSlive
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation
Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM
Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763
Substack | https://mtslive.substack.com/
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
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Brought to you by:
Granola - The AI notepad. Try it once and never go back. https://granola.ai/mts
Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com
Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com
Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts
AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com
Macroscope - AI codebase understanding for engineering leaders. https://macroscope.com/mts
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:36) Secret Group Chats and the Evolution of Modern Media Strategy
(01:34) The Legacy of Clubhouse and Real-Time Intellectual Communities
(02:58) Mark Andreessen and the Shifting Relationship Between VCs and Press
(07:37) Analyzing the Media Narrative Around the 2016 Election and Tech Backlash
(11:59) Evaluating the State of X and the Fragmentation of Social Discourse
(13:46) Digital Media Fog of War and the Difficulty of Finding Truth in Conflict
(17:42) The Collapse of Traditional Television and Everything Becoming Television
(21:34) Building Semafor and Solving the Problem of Global News Polarization
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Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear
Martin Shkreli joins MTS to discuss the OpenAI and Anthropic rivalry, why he believes optical computing will end the silicon era, and how generics, GLP-1 patent expirations, and the DIY peptide movement are reshaping pharma economics.
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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.
Follow MTS:
X | https://twitter.com/MTSlive
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Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM
Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763
Substack | https://mtslive.substack.com/
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
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Brought to you by:
Granola - The AI notepad. Try it once and never go back. https://granola.ai/mts
Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com
Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com
Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts
AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com
Macroscope - AI codebase understanding for engineering leaders. https://macroscope.com/mts
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Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear
Cremieux joins MTS to discuss China's rapid ascent to the top of global clinical trial output, the structural regulatory reforms that drove it, and what the US would need to do to close the gap. He covers novel gene therapy pipelines, the market authorization holder system, and why pharmaceutical profit margins may be the biggest bottleneck to American biomedical innovation.
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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.
Follow MTS:
X | https://twitter.com/MTSlive
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation
Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM
Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763
Substack | https://mtslive.substack.com/
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
--
Brought to you by:
Granola - The AI notepad. Try it once and never go back. https://granola.ai/mts
Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com
Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com
Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts
AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com
Macroscope - AI codebase understanding for engineering leaders. https://macroscope.com/mts
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Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear
Aella joins MTS to discuss AI doom, transhumanism, and the economic illiteracy of young people. She walks through her approach to microdosing psychedelics, her views on wireheading and gene editing, and her new creator project Please Don't Kill Us.
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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.
Follow MTS:
X | https://twitter.com/MTSlive
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation
Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM
Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763
Substack | https://mtslive.substack.com/
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
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Brought to you by:
Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to one hundred thousand dollars in credits for your startup at https://neon.com/mts
Granola - The AI notepad. Try it once and never go back. https://granola.ai/mts
Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com
Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com
Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts
AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com
Macroscope - AI codebase understanding for engineering leaders. https://macroscope.com/mts
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:17) The AI Romantic Partner Market and Gendered Differences in Demand
(01:41) Evaluating Scenarios and Evidence That Could Lower Probability of AI Doom
(04:34) Biological Evolution vs AI Training and the Internalization of Values
(06:58) Predicting Takeoff Speeds and the Potential for a Superintelligent Singleton
(15:42) Philosophy of Consciousness and the Feasibility of Digital Brain Uploading
(17:58) Transhumanism and the Risks and Merits of Human Intelligence Augmentation
(23:40) Please Don't Kill Us and Improving Content Creation Around AI Safety
(30:23) Youth Economic Illiteracy and the Impact of Obscured Policy Feedback Loops
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Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear
Balaji Srinivasan joins Erik Torenberg and Theo Jaffee on MTS to discuss why media sits upstream of politics and money, how tech can build verifiable alternatives to legacy news, and what polytheistic AI and on chain proof mean for the next decade.
https://x.com/balajis
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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.
Follow MTS:
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Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763
Substack | https://mtslive.substack.com/
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
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Brought to you by:
Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to one hundred thousand dollars in credits for your startup at https://neon.com/mts
Granola - The AI notepad. Try it once and never go back. https://granola.ai/mts
Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com
Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com
Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts
AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com
Macroscope - AI codebase understanding for engineering leaders. https://macroscope.com/mts
--Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear.
Marc Andreessen joins MTS to discuss why the shape of media determines behavior, how CNN's original "it" strategy became today's current thing cycle, and why moral panics, availability cascades, and scapegoating keep repeating across new and legacy outlets.
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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.
Follow MTS:
X | https://twitter.com/MTSlive
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation
Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM
Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763
Substack | https://mtslive.substack.com/
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
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Brought to you by:
Neon is the Postgres backend for apps and agents, built by Databricks. Start on the free plan, or get up to one hundred thousand dollars in credits for your startup at neon.com/mts
Granola - The AI notepad. Try it once and never go back. https://granola.ai/mts
Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com
Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com
Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster https://merge.dev/mts
AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com
Macroscope - AI codebase understanding for engineering leaders. https://macroscope.com/mts
--Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear.
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