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.
Fast & Broken
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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.
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June 1, 2026
Luxury Space Communism: Is AI Profitable?, Executive Orders, the Pope's Encyclical
<p>Today is a Carly^2 episode with Carly Ho, a software engineer-slash-paralegal. We discuss the website <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://isaiprofitable.com" target="_blank">isaiprofitable.com</a> 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.</p><p></p><p>-- </p><p>Show notes:<br /></p><p>AI economics</p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://isaiprofitable.com" target="_blank">https://isaiprofitable.com</a> </li><li>Anthropic projects Q2 operating profit <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-briefing/anthropic-likely-generating-least-35-revenue-openai" target="_blank">https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-briefing/anthropic-likely-generating-least-35-revenue-openai</a> </li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://stratechery.com/2026/the-spacex-ipo-and-data-centers-in-space/" target="_blank">https://stratechery.com/2026/the-spacex-ipo-and-data-centers-in-space/</a> </li></ul><p>AI exec orders</p><ul><li>Trump order postponed <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/trump-ai-executive-order-postponed-why?ref=platformer.news" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/trump-ai-executive-order-postponed-why</a></li><li>Gavin Newsom order <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="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/" target="_blank">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/</a> </li></ul><p>"Widening the conversation on AI" <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/widening-conversation-ai" target="_blank">https://www.anthropic.com/news/widening-conversation-ai</a> </p><ul><li>Pope Leo XIV on AI <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html" target="_blank">https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html</a> </li><li>Anthropic exec remarks at presentation <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical" target="_blank">https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical</a> </li></ul>
May 26, 2026
Nonsense Grounds: AI in Law, LLM Ethics, Google IO, AI Leaders' Response to Backlash
<p>Today's episode is focused on AI in law, and features Sarah Frankel, an Australian laywer working in immigration. <br /><br />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.</p><p></p><p>Find Sarah on LinkedIn at: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-frankel-570749134/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-frankel-570749134/</a><br /><br />--</p><p>Show notes:</p><p>Discussed in "AI in Law" section:</p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.404media.co/18-lawyers-caught-using-ai-explain-why-they-did-it/" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/18-lawyers-caught-using-ai-explain-why-they-did-it/</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.harvey.ai/blog/building-a-legal-coworker-with-gpt-5" target="_blank">https://www.harvey.ai/blog/building-a-legal-coworker-with-gpt-5</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://claude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industry" target="_blank">https://claude.com/blog/claude-for-the-legal-industry</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mpathic.ai/mpact-misinformation-benchmark/" target="_blank">https://mpathic.ai/mpact-misinformation-benchmark/</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.anthropic.com/constitution" target="_blank">https://www.anthropic.com/constitution</a></li></ul><p></p><p>Discussed in Google IO section:</p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-new-ai-search-will-ruin-internet-web-2026-5" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/google-new-ai-search-will-ruin-internet-web-2026-5</a>? </li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.platformer.news/google-agents-daily-brief-newsletters-ask-youtube/" target="_blank">https://www.platformer.news/google-agents-daily-brief-newsletters-ask-youtube/</a> </li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/podcasts/our-field-trip-to-google-i-o-a-sit-down-with-sundar-pichai-system-update.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/podcasts/our-field-trip-to-google-i-o-a-sit-down-with-sundar-pichai-system-update.html</a><br /></li></ul>
May 18, 2026
Skill Issue: Agentic Coding Tools, Circular Funding Deals, Double Standards in Content Policy
<p>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.<br /><br />-- <br />Show Notes:</p><p>State of AI coding tools</p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://ramp.com/leading-indicators/ai-index-may-2026" target="_blank">https://ramp.com/leading-indicators/ai-index-may-2026</a> </li><li>Are software engineers' brains rotting <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/</a> <p></p></li></ul><p>Circular finance</p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-circular-deals/" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-circular-deals/</a> </li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex" target="_blank">https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex</a> </li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.platformer.news/did-xai-just-concede-the-ai-race/" target="_blank">https://www.platformer.news/did-xai-just-concede-the-ai-race/</a> <br /></li></ul><p>Copyright/content policies and inconsistent enforcement</p><ul><li>Kickstarter: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/kickstarter-nsfw-ban-story/" target="_blank">https://www.comicsbeat.com/kickstarter-nsfw-ban-story/</a></li></ul>
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