753: No-Talent AI Clowns

753: No-Talent AI Clowns

From Grumpy Old Geeks by Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

July 2, 2026 · 1h 7m · Episode 753

About this episode

The episode discusses the negative impacts of the AI revolution on jobs and industries, highlighting various companies and their struggles with automation and AI technologies.

The AI revolution keeps delivering exactly the future nobody asked for. A low-skill hacker used Claude Code and Codex to compromise fourteen companies with prompts so vague they could've been written by your uncle trying to reset his AOL password. Ford, meanwhile, spent millions trying to automate engineering before sheepishly rehiring the graybeards who actually know how cars work. Brown University discovered what happens when half your class outsources economics homework to ChatGPT, Meta ran out of AI compute after borrowing Google's, Oracle is warning investors that the AI data-center bubble could implode for approximately every reason imaginable, and contractors hired to improve AI models are secretly using AI to generate the training data. Congratulations, everyone: we've successfully invented photocopying a photocopy until all that's left is gray mush. The collateral damage keeps piling up. Volkswagen is reportedly preparing to slash another 100,000 jobs, Hyundai workers are threatening to strike before Boston Dynamics' humanoid robots take theirs, California has launched an AI layoff tracker because somebody figured we'd better start counting, and the "almost homeless"…

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Hosts: Jason DeFillippo, Brian Schulmeister, Dave Bittner

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Organizations: Ford, Brown University, Meta, Oracle, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Amazon

Places: Australia

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