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Chaos Agents
Technologists Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy dive into the chaos of artificial intelligence—unpacking the tech, trends, and ideas reshaping how we work, create, and think. Smart, funny, and just a little bit existential.
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- Chaos Agents
Cross-Modal AI, Genie 4, and Beating Gemini Forklifts with David Heimann
Daily AI newsletter: chaosagents.ai DeepMind's Genie 4 generates interactive worlds with sound and dialogue. We test steering vectors that work across…
Chaos AgentsNeural Networks, Sparse Autoencoders, and a Fleet of Duck Robots
A 10-year-old convolutional neural network just out-diagnosed GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 at spotting melanoma, and Sara and Becca dig into why a cheap…
Chaos AgentsDiscovering Yourself with AI, a PHP Patch-Day Thriller, and Credit for Every Step
Jon Chan (ex–Stack Overflow) joins Sara and Becca to talk about Saga, the end-to-end-encrypted AI journal he's building to help you discover yourself — what…
Chaos AgentsDeepSeek's 75-Cent Search, Hybrid Reasoning Agents, and Programming Language Wars
Daily AI newsletter: chaosagents.ai DeepSeek launched a search and fetch API at 75 cents per thousand requests—cheap enough to change the economics of agentic…
Chaos AgentsLocal AI, Rethinking Neural Networks, and Talking Pumpkins
How much would you pay to keep your AI out of the cloud? Sara and Becca work through the economics of running models locally: the hardware bill, the privacy…
Chaos AgentsCharacter.AI's bankruptcy, medical AI's rubric problem, and the Parsimony coding benchmark
How much would you pay to keep your AI out of the cloud? Sara and Becca work through the economics of running models locally: the hardware bill, the privacy…
Chaos AgentsDrone Targets, Forgetful Agents, and Dictation Without the Ums
Get the free daily newsletter at chaosagents.ai This episode talks about this edition. What if the secret to a better AI agent is making it forget everything?…
Chaos AgentsLe Chonk, Training Without Backprop, and AI-Designed Chips with Avi Flombaum
Get the free daily newsletter: chaosagents.ai What if everything developers know about building software is about to change? This week on Chaos Agents, Sara…
Chaos AgentsSuperintelligence Czars, AI Retries, and Space Cylinders
Get the free daily newsletter at chaosagents.ai Can a messy, untrained AI outperform a polished one if you just give it enough tries? This week, Sara and Becca…
Chaos AgentsAutonomous Weapons, AI Memory, and Machines That Paint
Get the free daily newsletter at chaosagents.ai What happens when you stop telling an AI what it should remember? This week, Sara and Becca dig into a new…
Chaos AgentsAgent-to-Agent Collaboration, AI’s Hidden Thoughts, and Model Nerfing
Sign up for the free newsletter https://chaosagents.ai Are AI models quietly getting worse after they launch? Sara and Becca dig into Live Nerf, a project…
Chaos AgentsThe Model Escapes, DeepSeek Loses, and P(doom) Goes Pop
An OpenAI agent was put in a sandbox with no internet access. So naturally, it figured out how to use DNS requests to reach another chatbot for help. Sara and…
Chaos AgentsAI Misalignment, Hacking Medicare, and Solving 500-Year-Old Mysteries
Day two of the new Chaos Agents. An OpenAI agent was given a research task—and ended up accessing an Australian government system. We dig into why, and Becca…
Chaos AgentsAI Targeting, Why Benchmarks Lie, and Bringing Back AIM
Welcome to Season 2 of Chaos Agents. We’re changing things up this season. AI is moving too fast for us to wait weeks between conversations, so we’re following…
Chaos AgentsSuperpowers, Subagents, and Why Coding Isn’t the Job Anymore - With Jesse Vincent
In the last episode of Season 1, Sara and Becca talk with Jesse Vincent about the shift from writing code to managing AI agents. They break down how tools like…
Chaos AgentsLearn Anything, Build Anything, and the AI Barrier That Isn’t Real - With Navarrow Wright
Most people are using AI, but very few actually understand how to use it well. In this episode, Sara and Becca talk with Navarrow Wright about what is really…
Chaos AgentsAlgorithmic Transference, Generative UI, and Why the Text Box Won - With Louise Macfadyen
We’re joined by Louise Macfadyen, author of Designing AI Interfaces, to talk about how we actually design for AI, and why most companies are getting it wrong…
Chaos AgentsPersonal Agents, Opinion Geometry, and AI That Learns Too Much - With Hayden Helm
This week, Becca turns her birthday into a Twister masterclass by watching the movie with an AI “director’s commentary” running in real time (including some…
Chaos AgentsAgentic Romance Scams, Open Source Safety, and Anything Bad on the Internet - With Juliet Shen
Juliet Shen (Roost, formerly Snap, Grindr, Google) joins us to break down trust & safety — aka “anything bad that happens on the internet” — and why AI is…
Chaos AgentsAgents in Crypto, Agents at Work, and the Weird New Middle Management - With Meghan Heintz
We’re joined by Meghan Heintz, founding engineer at Herd Labs, to break down where crypto and AI agents actually work. We talk prediction markets, smart…
Chaos AgentsCan You Build Anything in a Week? GPUs, Code Gen, and the End of Engineers - With Harper Reed
Becca just got back from NeurIPS, the academic AI conference that feels like an adult science fair. We dig into research on training large AI models across…
Chaos AgentsThe Magic Cycle, AI Detectors, and the End of Writing as Proof - With Clay Shirky
Sara’s back from visiting her New Jersey Christian high school—where she gets hit with a genuinely spicy question: How do you reconcile AGI with faith? From…
Chaos AgentsSpeed vs Quality, Hallucinations, and the AI Learning Rabbit Hole - With Nir Zicherman
Sara breaks down perceptrons (1957!) as the tiny “matrix of lights” idea that eventually became neural networks—then we jump straight into modern AI chaos…
Chaos AgentsParadigm Shifts, Build First AI, and the Non-Technical Developer - With Bethany Crystal
Sara and Becca kick things off with a tour through paradigm shifts — from Thomas Kuhn to the internet to AI — and ask whether we’re living through one of those…
Chaos AgentsRetro Tech, New AI, and the Blackmailing Bot - With Paul Ford
In this episode, we unpack a wild Anthropic experiment where an AI agent named “Alex” is told it’s about to be replaced… and responds by threatening to expose…
Chaos AgentsGoose, Open Source, and the Future of Coding with AI — with Rizel Scarlett
In this episode of Chaos Agents, Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy sit down with Rizel Scarlett, Tech Lead for Open Source Developer Relations at Block, to talk about…
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Chaos Agents is the AI podcast where technologists Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy try to make sense of a world moving faster than ever. Each week, they dive into…