AI in the Loop

Dan, Toby, and Chmiel get riled by a LinkedIn post that contributes to the AI exhaustion it claims to diagnose, and use it as a jumping-off point to ask why everything in the AI conversation is starting to sound the same. They flip the "human in the loop" framing on its head, argue Anthropic's recent Claude Code throttling is just the latest in a long lineage of platform rug pulls (RIP Facebook organic reach), and stumble into Reed Hastings' line that nobody's ever going to want to watch robots play basketball — which Dan immediately tries to dismantle.

Details of the show:

• The "AI exhaustion loop" guy and what's wrong with performing overwhelm on LinkedIn
• Why Toby thinks Cannes is going to offer nothing new this year
• Dan's three (or four) categories of AI users and the missing agentic layer of the internet
• The Hollywood writer using Domain to run a virtual writers room and why "elevated use cases" matter more than agent-stacking
• "Slop that shit up"
• Toby's therapist on slowing down, and why none of them are going to do it

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