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So Chris, this week we finally give our GPT-5.5 impressions (it's actually great), introduce our new AI co-host Moshi (who immediately embarrasses himself), argue about whether the OpenAI/Jony Ive phone is genius or doomed, witness Grok 4.3's unhinged infinite emoji meltdown, declare Opus 4.7 the first-ever Anthropic regression, get excited about GPT Real-Time Voice 2.0 as the future of agentic workflows, debate whether token prices will ever come down, and play the worst diss track in show history. Watch my spud.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro & Introducing Our New AI Co-Host Moshi
1:39 - Trying to Break Moshi: The Illegal Cigarette Trade Test
2:30 - OpenAI's Jony Ive Phone: Do We Need a Device?
5:07 - Telegram Agents & GPT Real-Time Voice 2.0 Dream
7:38 - The Supervisory Agent: Managing Your Agentic Workflow
9:05 - Wait... Are We Accidentally Validating the OpenAI Phone?
11:37 - GPT-5.5 First Impressions: Actually Really Good
14:36 - 5.5 vs Opus 4.6: Different Strengths
17:00 - Opus 4.7: The First-Ever Anthropic Regression
20:25 - Grok 4.3: Infinite Emojis & Absolute Chaos
21:22 - 🎵 DISS TRACK: "Watch My Spud"
24:24 - Grok Specs & All Models Deprecated in 18 Days
27:04 - Grok Voice in Tesla Is Actually Next Level
31:03 - Token Pricing: The Subscription Problem Nobody Can Solve
39:16 - AI Disruption Cycles & The State of the Industry
44:39 - BONUS TRACK:🎵 "It's Hard Being Me"

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So Chris, this week... a LOT has happened. We're back to regular programming (maybe), and back with our average takes. Nothing's changed.

GPT-5.5 just dropped today - but you can't even use it in the API. Vaporware? OpenAI is charging MORE than Opus 4.7 and we haven't even tested it yet. Meanwhile Claude Opus 4.7 landed a couple weeks ago and... the vibes are off? Mike's actually going BACK to 4.6. Something's wrong.

But the real star: OpenAI Image 2. This thing is genuinely terrifying. We committed what can only be described as "parody fraud" - faking a council letter so realistic Mike's own mother fell for it on a phone call. Then Chris posted a fake development approval with the mayor's real name into a local Facebook group and had to delete it when someone tagged the actual mayor. The forgery capabilities are absolutely unhinged.

Also: GLM 5.1 is so good Mike forgot he switched to it. Kimi K 2.6 is criminally underrated. VCs are paying 70% of your real token costs. Consumers pay only 5.5% of actual cost. The everything app war is ON. The SaaS-pocalypse is real. And we made two new diss tracks.

Chris made a graffiti sign in LA. It says "This Day in AI." It was the best artwork in the class. That tells you everything.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro & We're Back (Don't Over-Commit)
1:14 - Overview: Everything That Dropped While We Were Gone
2:56 - GPT-5.5: Vaporware? Not Even in the API
4:57 - Benchmarks vs Reality: Nobody's Excited About OpenAI Models
5:50 - GLM 5.1 & Kimi K 2.6: Secretly Just As Good?
8:15 - The Everything App Race & Product Layer War
8:56 - Token Economics: You're Only Paying 5.5% of Real Cost
13:08 - We Burned $1.5M in Cloud Credits in 2 Months
16:13 - "$30/Month Is Too Expensive" (It Actually Costs $700)
19:25 - Where Is Google?? TPUs Should Flatten Everyone
22:01 - Agentic Tasks Are 10-50x More Expensive Than Chat
25:07 - OpenAI Workspace Agents: Glorified Zapier?
27:01 - Single Agent vs Multi-Agent: How Do You Actually Work?
33:06 - Building Automation Is HARD (Our Support Shame)
35:33 - OpenAI Image 2: The Fraud Episode Begins
44:16 - FRAUD DEMO: The Fake Council Letter (Mum Falls For It)
49:16 - FRAUD DEMO 2: Chris Posts Fake Mayor Letter on Facebook
52:17 - Fake Receipts, Bank Statements & Can Forgeries Be Detected?
57:25 - Claude Opus 4.7: The Vibes Are Off
59:51 - Mythos Preview: "Pics or It Didn't Happen"
1:01:56 - 🎵 DISS TRACK: "Point 7" (Opus Destroys Everyone)
1:03:30 - Kimi K 2.6 Deep Dive & 🎵 New Diss Track
1:08:34 - The Everything App War & SaaS-pocalypse
1:13:51 - Death of Per-Seat Pricing & Agent Security
1:22:37 - Final Thoughts: The Time for Pretending Is Over
1:28:22 - 🎵 Full Tracks: " Point 7" & "Kimi You're So Fine 2.6"

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So Chris, this week... we've been having way too much fun with the AI again. OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.4 and 5.4 Pro, and holy shit - we finally have a ball game. This might be the first OpenAI model that genuinely competes with Opus 4.6 for agentic work.

But here's where it gets wild: we rebuilt Trello AND Microsoft Teams from scratch using single prompts. Not mockups. Fully deployed, working apps with authentication, video chat, the works. You can literally sign up and use them right now.

Plus: We roast Gemini 3.1 (it's a disgrace for agentic workflows), break down the insane $30/$180 per million pricing on 5.4 Pro (who is this for??), and discuss why every $99/month SaaS tool might be about to die. Chris declares his programming skills "useless" and honestly... he might be right.

We also demo our actual workflow - running 5 agent tabs simultaneously, delegating everything, and why we barely visit websites anymore. The AI workspace IS the operating system now.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro & Housekeeping (We Screwed Up the Link)
1:26 - GPT-5.4 First Impressions & Specs
3:12 - Chris's Testing: 40 Minutes to Solve a Problem
4:51 - Knowledge Work Improvements (Catching Up to Anthropic)
6:38 - Computer Use vs Browser/Terminal Debate
8:07 - Why We Don't Need Computer Use Anymore
9:53 - Teaser: We Built Full SaaS Apps Today
11:19 - Tool Search API & Skills Integration
13:20 - The Speed Problem (It's a Plodder)
15:12 - GPT-5.4 Pro Pricing Reaction ($30/$180 WTF)
18:14 - Someone Rebuilt Minecraft in 24 Minutes
19:46 - Gemini 3.1 Roast: "It's a Disgrace"
22:36 - DEMO: Trallo (Full Trello Clone)
29:03 - DEMO: Macrosoft Teams (Working Video Chat!)
33:30 - The SaaS Collapse Theory
36:42 - AI Workspace as the New Operating System
38:57 - Forcing Features onto Entrenched Software
43:32 - "My Programming Skills Are Useless" - Chris
46:06 - The $12 Million Legacy Software Opportunity
51:06 - Beyond Code: Forms, PDFs, Knowledge Work
55:28 - How Fast Will This Change Everything?
56:31 - Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Quick Take
59:36 - The Delegation Lifestyle (5 Agent Tabs Running)
1:01:24 - Mike's Workflow Demo
1:04:31 - Cognitive Overload Problem
1:06:04 - Release Date: 2 Weeks (Drop Punishment Ideas!)

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