In this episode:

• Anthropic asks job applicants not to use AI, which is rich coming from an AI company.
• Scott and Alison unpack why scaling interviews strips the human part out of hiring.
• A study finds students using AI chatbots more often may be learning less, not more.
• AI layoffs are not delivering the financial magic CEOs keep pretending they will.
• Kevin O’Leary takes aim at work-life balance, and the episode politely suggests he may need a hug.
• The old “work harder and you’ll be rewarded” deal gets roasted for quietly removing the reward part.

Listen if you care about AI hypocrisy, broken hiring, work-life balance, fake productivity gains, and billionaires confusing burnout with ambition

Articles:

AI Hiring

AI Students

AI Layoffs

Work Life Balance with Kevin O'Leary

00:00 - Intro

03:00 - AI Hiring

09:04 - AI Students

13:22 - AI Layoffs

15:54 - Work-Life Balance

24:01 - Closing

In this episode:

• The Pope gets hung up on by customer service.
• Ask Jeeves officially exits the internet.
• Google turns search into a zero-click AI answer machine.
• Iceland proves the four-day workweek is not a fantasy.
• Chipotle says the fix for smaller portions is “just ask for more.”
• Scott somehow makes this about Subway, lettuce, and sliced ketchup.

Listen if you care about customer service rage, the death of old-school internet curiosity, Google eating the web, four-day workweeks, corporate nonsense, burrito bowl economics, and whether the Pope also hates his phone company.

00:00 - Intro: AI Wayne in the Cloud
01:37 - The Pope Gets Hung Up On by Customer Service
06:48 - Farewell Ask Jeeves and the Internet We Lost
09:42 - Google’s AI Search and the Zero-Click Era
15:38 - Iceland’s Four-Day Workweek Is Actually Working
20:00 - Chipotle Says “Just Ask for More”
22:53 - Free Toppings, Subway, and Shrinkflation Logic
24:36 - Closing: Four Episodes Deep and No Filter Left

Pope Leo

Farwell Jeeves

Google Killed Search

Iceland - 4 day work week

Chipotle CEO - Ask for more food

In this episode:

• Why “chance of rain” may be destroying everyone’s trust in weather forecasts
• The deeply upsetting existence of sliced ketchup, also known as k-chup
• The reminder that every mic is a hot mic, especially when you’re narrating your own crime
• An AI coding tool allegedly deleted a company’s production database in nine seconds
• Ontario government staff reportedly using unsecured AI tools with sensitive public information
• Alison’s AI villain origin story: real human writing being flagged as AI because apparently commas are suspicious now

Listen if you care about AI disasters, workplace stupidity, government data privacy, sliced ketchup, hot mics, and the ongoing war against pretending every terrible tech idea is innovation.

00:00 Intro: Almost Dying for the Bit
01:22 The Weather Forecast Has Been Lying to Us
04:11 Sliced Ketchup Is Real, Unfortunately
09:11 Fired Tech Workers, Deleted Databases, and One Very Hot Mic
15:12 AI Deletes a Production Database in Nine Seconds
19:45 The Problem Isn’t AI. It’s People.
22:11 Ontario Government Staff Using Unsecured AI Tools
25:02 Alison’s AI Writing Villain Origin Story
26:29 Outro

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Ketchup Slices