Two friends from the internet try to make sense of what startup culture is doing to the world. Carly Rector is a software engineer and startup founder. Each week, she discusses current events with Teresa Kramer, TTRPG product manager and semi-professional voice actor. Their shared history lets them bridge the gap between online creative communities and the tech world with an empathetic but critical perspective.
Luxury Space Communism: Is AI Profitable?, Executive Orders, the Pope's Encyclical
Today is a Carly^2 episode with Carly Ho, a software engineer-slash-paralegal. We discuss the website isaiprofitable.com (http://isaiprofitable.com) and recent developments in AI economics, a postponed executive order from Trump and a real one from Gavin Newsom, and the Pope's AI encyclical and the value of having a variety of perspectives.
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AI economics
https://isaiprofitable.com (https://isaiprofitable.com)
Anthropic projects Q2 operating profit https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-briefing/anthropic-likely-generating-least-35-revenue-openai (https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-briefing/anthropic-likely-generating-least-35-revenue-openai)
https://stratechery.com/2026/the-spacex-ipo-and-data-centers-in-space/ (https://stratechery.com/2026/the-spacex-ipo-and-data-centers-in-space/)
AI exec orders
Trump order postponed https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/trump-ai-executive-order-postponed-why (https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/trump-ai-executive-order-postponed-why?ref=platformer.news)
Gavin Newsom order https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/05/21/governor-newsom-signs-first-of-its-kind-executive-order-to-prepare-workers-and-businesses-for-potential-ai-disruption/ (https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/05/21/governor-newsom-signs-first-of-its-kind-executive-order-to-prepare-workers-and-businesses-for-potential-ai-disruption/)
"Widening the conversation on AI" https://www.anthropic.com/news/widening-conversation-ai (https://www.anthropic.com/news/widening-conversation-ai)
Pope Leo XIV on AI https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html (https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html)
Anthropic exec remarks at presentation https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical (https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical)
26 May 2026
Nonsense Grounds: AI in Law, LLM Ethics, Google IO, AI Leaders' Response to Backlash
Today's episode is focused on AI in law, and features Sarah Frankel, an Australian laywer working in immigration.
We discuss the trend of lawyers submitting AI-generated briefs with hallucinated citations, where LLM tools can be useful for lawyers, how the problems we see in law are common across all domains, the issues that arise when you have LLMs making ethical decisions, how LLMs value facts, how changes to Google Search will affect the internet, the response of Sundar Pichai and other AI leaders to the AI backlash, and why a lot of AGI belief is more religious than anything.
Find Sarah on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-frankel-570749134/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-frankel-570749134/)
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Discussed in "AI in Law" section:
https://www.404media.co/18-lawyers-caught-using-ai-explain-why-they-did-it/ (https://www.404media.co/18-lawyers-caught-using-ai-explain-why-they-did-it/)
https://www.harvey.ai/blog/building-a-legal-coworker-with-gpt-5 (https://www.harvey.ai/blog/building-a-legal-coworker-with-gpt-5)
https://claude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industry (https://claude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industry)
https://mpathic.ai/mpact-misinformation-benchmark/ (https://mpathic.ai/mpact-misinformation-benchmark/)
https://www.anthropic.com/constitution (https://www.anthropic.com/constitution)
Discussed in Google IO section:
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-new-ai-search-will-ruin-internet-web-2026-5 (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-new-ai-search-will-ruin-internet-web-2026-5)?
https://www.platformer.news/google-agents-daily-brief-newsletters-ask-youtube/ (https://www.platformer.news/google-agents-daily-brief-newsletters-ask-youtube/)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/podcasts/our-field-trip-to-google-i-o-a-sit-down-with-sundar-pichai-system-update.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/podcasts/our-field-trip-to-google-i-o-a-sit-down-with-sundar-pichai-system-update.html)
Today's show is cohosted by Oz Brown! Oz is nontraditional software engineer who went through bootcamp at Amazon after a history doing creative work, including voice acting, and customer support, including for Xbox. We talk about the philosophy and current state of agentic coding tools, the Anthropic-SpaceX deal and the state of circular funding, and the double standards in platform content policy and copyright enforcement.
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State of AI coding tools
https://ramp.com/leading-indicators/ai-index-may-2026 (https://ramp.com/leading-indicators/ai-index-may-2026)
Are software engineers' brains rotting https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/ (https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/)
Circular finance
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-circular-deals/ (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-circular-deals/)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex (https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex)
https://www.platformer.news/did-xai-just-concede-the-ai-race/ (https://www.platformer.news/did-xai-just-concede-the-ai-race/)
Copyright/content policies and inconsistent enforcement
Kickstarter: https://www.comicsbeat.com/kickstarter-nsfw-ban-story/ (https://www.comicsbeat.com/kickstarter-nsfw-ban-story/)
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