AI agents are expanding what one person can build, operate, and own.
They lower the cost of building and operating while making scattered demand easier to reach. That changes the shape of ambition. A company need not be venture-shaped. It can be founder-shaped: focused, durable, and capable of changing its founder’s life without changing the world.
Super Prompt began by exploring how humans work with AI. Now we learn by building.
We review four clips from the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast with Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO. I highly recommend Dwarkesh’s show—technical & nerdy, but excellent. Satya talks about scaffolding—the software wrapped around AI models to make them actually work. So we speak with someone building that scaffolding: Neil McKechnie runs two AI-first startups as a CTO. He discusses how he orchestrates up to twelve different language models—GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexit...
7 Nov 2025
AI Agents: Your Assistant or Theirs?
Description: AI agents from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic promise to act on your behalf—booking flights, handling tasks, making decisions. What kind of agency do these systems actually have? And whose interests are they serving? Enterprise AI agents are already deployed in customer support, code generation, and task automation. Consumer agents—ChatGPT Agent Mode, personal task assistants—face a wider gap between marketing promises and actual capabilities. The alignment problem: agents need ac...
17 Jun 2024
Power and Responsibility of Large Language Models | Safety & Ethics | OpenAI Model Spec + RLHF | Anthropic Constitutional AI | Episode 27
With great power comes great responsibility. How do Open AI, Anthropic, and Meta implement safety and ethics? As large language models (LLMs) get larger, the potential for using them for nefarious purposes looms larger as well. Anthropic uses Constitutional AI, while OpenAI uses a model spec, combined with RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback). Not to be confused with ROFL (Rolling On the Floor Laughing). Tune into this episode to learn how leading AI companies use their Spidey powers to maximize usefulness and harmlessness.
REFERENCE
OpenAI Model Spec
https://cdn.openai.com/spec/model-spec-2024-05-08.html#overview (https://cdn.openai.com/spec/model-spec-2024-05-08.html#overview)
Anthropic Constitutional AI
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitution (https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitution)
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