AI Barista Orders 120 Eggs With No Stove, Matt Pocock Skills, Build for the Next Model, The Gervais Principle

About this episode

The episode discusses various aspects of AI progress, automation, and skills in technology, featuring anecdotes and insights from the hosts and their experiences.

Almost one year of the pod: Wilhelm's San Francisco Peter Pan arc, Matt's Cloudflare and Lisbon move The backpack-at-a-party SF meme Matt's Lisbon coincidence Pieter Levels appreciation: dehumidifier stack, shrimp mode, accelerationist Portugal takes Nat Friedman at Stripe Sessions: this is the slow part of AI progress Andon Labs' Stockholm cafe: Mona orders 120 eggs (no stove), 22.5kg canned tomatoes, the staff's hall of shame The capability overhang is still real: Anthropic adding $10B ARR a month and we still can't prompt properly AI's last frontier: low-volume decisions with no revert button? The Gervais Principle in tech Chad V2: iOS Live Activities as a surface for top priority, next deadline, and a daily magic slot Cascading hallucinations: when the agent writes its mistake to a file and treats it as gospel Matt Pocock's skills: five lines of prose that completely change how Claude behaves Skills as a new prompt-poisoning attack vector: models treat them like system prompt Matt on scripted skills: markdown explains the script, the script does the deterministic work Homework from Matt: what physical job would you try to get Claude to automate? Links: Andon Labs official…

People in this episode

Hosts: Wilhelm Klopp, Matt Carey

Topics covered

• AI progress
• technology
• entrepreneurship
• automation
• decision-making
• skills

Keywords

• AI
• automation
• Matt Pocock
• Andon Labs
• Gervais Principle
• Cloudflare
• skills
• decision-making

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Andon Labs, Cloudflare, Stripe

Books & works: The Gervais Principle

Places: San Francisco, Lisbon, Stockholm

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