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AI Layoffs, Compute Costs & Agents | Naveen Rao & Alex Finn on This Week in AI Episode 16

aired Jun 04, 2026 · 54.0m
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Summary

Everyone is freaking out about AI costs.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, know, including: Headlines about the problem are now absolutely pandemic.

Key takeaways
  1. 01We have product manager shipping production code
  2. 02We have product manager shipping code
  3. 03I think the other part of it is real in that the intelligence you get out of a model is still not the same as a human
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