ABCs for Building The Future
ABCs for Building The Future
Podcast Description
If we don't fully understand ourselves, then how can AI understand us?
Bootstrapping epistemicme.ai to solve this in the open, and giving you the nitty gritty behind-the-scenes details of startup life.
We feature founders, entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists, and builders interested in building a better future together. People doing big things with big stories to tell, from the frontlines. And we share our own story in real-time with radical transparency, of building this global open source venture in public.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes such as AI personalization, belief modeling, and human values in technology, with episodes delving into topics like hyper-personalization in health AI, the philosophical foundations of AI alignment, and the intersection of technology and personal growth.
Weekly coverage on the latest AI news with informed takes from hosts Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, Co-Founders of Clarity building on the frontlines of the AI era.
Every week you’ll get…
AI News + Takes: strategic perspectives for tech executives and builders
AI Memes: laughs for all who work in the tech industry
What’s The Meta?: the best tactical advice for builders
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We ran a cheap open model against Sonnet 5.5 on 100 real conversations from a client’s chatbot. GLM 5.3 Flash passed 89 to Sonnet’s 90, and it cost 90% less and ran twice as fast.
I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan on the week AI agents got a regulator and personal agents went mainstream. The FTC looking into OpenAI and Anthropic, Cloudflare and Databricks launching their own decision models, Claude Code mods vs Codex plugins, the OpenAI Dev Day 2026 recap, and why building a plugin might be the best distribution move you can make right now.
If you’re an AI builder or a tech exec who’s still paying to -model prices for every chat, you need to watch this.
Timestamps:
00:00 The FTC is looking at OpenAI and Anthropic
00:47 The agenda
01:25 Who’s liable when an agent causes harm
05:36 Jensen Huang: safety is an engineering problem
06:18 Cloudflare and Databricks ship decision models
08:42 What a decision model actually is
12:16 How we use decision models in Clarity
18:10 Claude Code mods vs Codex plugins
25:25 Agents are becoming the interface
30:25 OpenAI’s five kinds of misalignment
35:46 GLM 5.3 lands in Cursor
36:45 GLM Flash vs Sonnet on 100 real chats
39:33 OpenAI Dev Day 2026 recap
47:20 Personal agents: Muse, Grok Bot and Dot
56:39 Build a plugin, ride the distribution
59:56 Digital twins as your personal benchmark
1:03:35 Wrap up
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