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Claude Code Is Taking Over (And We Don't Hate It)
Claude Code is taking over and even the Wall Street Journal is Claude Pilled. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just said we're 6 months from AI doing most software engine…
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Claude Code is taking over and even the Wall Street Journal is Claude Pilled. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just said we're 6 months from AI doing most software engineering. No big deal.
Claude Code skills are exploding: Remotion for AI video editing, Pencil for infinite design canvases, Compound Engineering for spinning up agent fleets while you sleep. Your $200/month Max subscription doesn't stand a chance.
Plus Apple's working on an AI pin, Runway dropped Gen 4.5, LTX Studio has a wild audio-to-video model, and there's an AI monk with 2.5 million followers selling healing journeys.
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Show Links
Anthropic CEO Dario Amoedi at Davos
https://youtu.be/9Zz2KrBDXUo?si=JliJ8xSnndouVWUM
Even The Wall Street Journal Is Claude Code Pilled
https://x.com/WSJ/status/2014186506320007182?s=20
Remotion: Video Editing In Claude
Coding example: https://x.com/Remotion/status/2013626968386765291?s=20
Very good Remotion Video Example: https://x.com/justinmfarrugia/status/2014162910168162478?s=20
Infinite Design Canvas
https://x.com/tomkrcha/status/2014028990810300498?s=20
Compound Engineering
https://x.com/kieranklaassen/status/2013776190042185971?s=20
Matt Pocock’s Claude Tutorials
https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2014336302120923513?s=20
Meanwhile, Claude has a constitution now…
https://www.anthropic.com/constitution
Apple Wearable AI Pin
New Apple AI Chatbot This Fall?
https://x.com/markgurman/status/2014063049821299069?s=20
Google Buys Hume As Voice Tech Heats Up?
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-hume-ai-ceo-licensing-deal-gemini/ (paywall)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/google-reportedly-snags-up-team-behind-ai-voice-startup-hume-ai/
Google Deepmind’s D4RT Model
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2014352808426807527?s=20
https://deepmind.google/blog/d4rt-teaching-ai-to-see-the-world-in-four-dimensions/
Runway Gen 4.5 Image to Video
https://x.com/runwayml/status/2014090404769976744?s=20
Audio-to-Video From LTX
https://x.com/LTXStudio/status/2013650214171877852?s=20
Good for music videos:
https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2014110494315913706?s=20
Borat in ALL THE THINGS
https://x.com/maxescu/status/2013650830650741130?s=20
Goodbye Kaplan, Gemini Launches SAT Practice Tests
https://x.com/Google/status/2014020819173687626?s=20
The AI Monk: Do We Want This?
https://x.com/pubity/status/2009762025707069545?s=20
Every Street Fighter Pose Brought To Life
https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1qj3bys/every_street_fighter_ii_losing_pose_brought_to/
The ELEVEN ALBUM
https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/2014021275107172618?s=20
Epic Sports Anime
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThSmmnVA/
Vibe Coded Driving Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY-4Ls_2TS0&t=3s
Our buddy Theoretically Media launched a newsletter!
SLIPPERY ROBIT
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2013856833426071787?s=20
Transcript
Claude Code is taking over the world one skill at a time.
That's right.
The masses are getting Claude Peeled and we will show you some
new skills that surprised even us
from editing slick promotional videos with Remotion to spinning
up a fleet of programmers to do your bidding while you sleep.
You're gonna blow through your $200 Claude Code Max subscription,
and you're gonna like it.
And.
Have just fun experiments to show your wife when she asks you about the API bill.
It's okay.
I can hear her zipping her suitcase.
Also, anthropic co-founder, Dario Emoti dropped into that little Davos conference
to tell us all again how that thing they're making will take all of our gers.
I think, I don't know, we might be six to 12 months away from when
the model is doing most, maybe all of what Swes do end to end.
And then it's a question of how fast does that loop close?
Plus Apple's new AI is coming this year and they're making an AI wearable pin.
Tim Cook is in his humane era,
plus new AI video tools from LTX and Runway, and Google DeepMind
has some new research that will make all AI video better,
and as a bonus, an AI monk who's got more internet juice than you.
And we learn what Real life Street fighter poses might look like,
or more importantly, we learn what we would look like as
street fighter characters.
This is AI for humans.
Welcome to AI for Humans.
It's your weekly guide into the wonderful world of ai.
And Kevin, this week, Claude Code has basically taken over
our feeds, the internet, our computers, it's done everything.
Claude continues to keep growing in use and like, I'm kind of shocked
right now to see how big this moment has gotten, especially for a company
that you kind of thought was very nerdy and focused on, specifically
on kind of work and coding tools.
Are you, are you kind of surprised by how big this has gotten?
Um, no, I, I look, I, I, I was Claude Pilled like a year
ago, a long time ago ish.
Yeah.
Like, I feel like it was a long while ago.
Um, I am surprised that they are still owning this discussion.
I would've thought that OpenAI or even, you know, Google who's trying
to do their anti-gravity thing.
E, E even Cursor and Swift, the big, you know, IDs, uh, nobody seems to be grabbing
the attention like Claude is right now.
And as we're about to get into with the addition of these skills launching, it
seems like each and every day people are building on top of it in a way that
makes me feel like they're going to have.
A moat and escape velocity that OpenAI would just be praying for right now.
So there's a lot to discuss, including what the team has been saying while
away, uh, things that they're building.
So let's dive into it all.
Yeah, let's, I mean, let's start with this fact that Dario Mote
was at, uh, Davos this week.
And Davos, as you may know, is the.
World's elite coming together, or as many people in our audience might think
of as the lizard people's visit, uh, lizard people space on a planet Earth.
That's right.
The lizard people got together and talked about the future of what all
of our lives are gonna look like.
But Dario was there, uh, in, in chat with de aas the leader of Google DeepMind.
And Kevin, if you remember one thing before we jump into this, remember
last year when they did this exact same interview and they were sitting on that
little tiny couch next to each other?
Yeah.
Well, this year.
They figured out chairs better, so let's take a look at them.
Oh, good.
Let's what enough.
Great.
Let listen.
Yeah.
Let's take a listen to what Dario had to say.
Here
we are now in terms of, you know, the models that write code.
I have engineers within Anthropic who say, I don't write any code anymore.
I just, I just let the model write the code.
I edit it, I do the things around it.
I think, I don't know, we might be six to 12 months away from when the
model is doing most, maybe all of what.
SW do end to end, and then it's a question of how fast does that loop close?
Okay.
Sw as in
software engineer?
Yeah, yeah,
yeah.
Yes.
That's like that.
It's not like a, a fake.
My favorite TRL
hiphop star from the nineties was sw.
Oh, sweet.
He was great, but he was awesome on Wild and Out.
I love sw by the way, it is funny that like Dario's quotes always seem to be like
six, in six to 12 months, X will happen.
And like you go back and I think the last quote was from like Laly last year where
he said something like in six months.
We would see like 50 or six to 12 months, we'd see 50% of white collar work being
automated by which we can dive into, but like maybe true based on kind of
what we're seeing with this stuff.
But Kev, I think the interesting thing here, which we'll dive into our
cloud dis discussion specifically, has to do with code, right?
Has to do with writing code directly.
When you heard him say that, what, what were your thought?
I'm not surprised at all.
I think, you know, hot take, I think in six months to maybe a year we'll be,
um, halfway through the year or maybe 12 months away from where we are now.
That's good
math.
You're, you're
doing math
right?
Uh, they, they, I, I, I cringe, uh, for,
sorry.
Oh, did you, did that one?
That one guy.
I just wanna keep laughing.
I just wanted to keep laughing at your ability to do math.
I was pretty impressed.
Thank you.
No l lm will be able to pull that off.
No, thank you.
How many Rs are in my strawberry?
You'll never know.
I think, um, I'm not surprised to hear him say that.
I think that's happening across the board.
Um, I think now the, the reviewing of code, uh, making sure that it's
clean, that it's deployable, that it's safe, scalable, whatever it is for
your, for your enterprise, I think that is 100% where the puck is going.
I worry about the junior level engineers that are coming up though,
because the code that they would normally be tasked with, that's what
the, the machines are spitting out right now and that's just going to
keep moving as they get more capable.
Um, as the software around it improves, I think.
That if you are listening to this now and you're, and you're thinking about
becoming an engineer or whatever, um, and you're at that early phase, you really
have to adopt the latest and greatest tools now because that is the competitive
edge that's going to get you in.
It won't be, yeah.
Your ability to review the software with eyes that have seen 10 years worth of
code and all this experience that you've marinated in, uh, it will be your ability
to use the latest and greatest tools.
To quickly sprint so that someone who is already senior
can go and review your work.
Yeah, it's very, very odd that it happened as quickly as it did.
What's interesting is, and I've said this in many other places, it's like the kind
of middle lane for people in jobs is gonna evaporate in software engineering, right?
There will be these kind of entry lanes, which is like mostly gonna
be individuals making things and doing stuff on their own.
There will be this kind high.
Lane, which is like the geniuses of the world or the people who are really good
that can come in, the people that met is paying a billion dollars to, and then
that middle ground, which was all these people that you know, the vast majority of
people, all of us kind of mid wit, people in the world, they will struggle because
the jobs will slowly start to go away.
And I think.
One thing that's really important with what you just said there is like
familiarity with what these things can do and then what they will do next.
Because I think the thing that I keep thinking about with these tools, and
again we're gonna talk about why cloud code is having this moment right now
in some of these things it can do now, is the, there are going to be three
more cranks, at least on like kind.
State-of-the-art frontier models this year, right?
So if you think, when we look back at last year, we always talk about how
fast time moves and how quickly it goes.
In this instance, you're talking about a Claude five, let's say
Opus five, which Opus 4.5 is what it's got everybody excited on,
you know, Claude Code right now.
Cloud five is definitely gonna be here by the end of next year.
If not, Claude 5.5, right?
And 5.6.
In addition to that, you're gonna have.
GPT, whatever, and you're gonna have grok, whatever, all these
things, and they will get better.
And the one thing that I can almost guarantee Kevin, they will get really
good at is this is writing code.
So there is no kind of like, I don't think there's any ceiling on
this aspect of what, uh, AI can do.
And, and just one thing to wrap this conversation up is further on in that
conversation with DA at Davos, with Demis and uh, Dario, that I really
suggest everybody go watch or listen to.
We'll link to in our show notes.
They talk a little bit about like what are the things that need to get unlocked?
And one of the things that Dario goes into is this idea that the code will be able
to eventually be able to write itself.
He even kind of teases that into the thing, uh, in that clip that we just
heard, this idea that it will be able to improve itself or for those
of us in our audience, you know, who have heard this term before,
which is recursive self-learning.
Meaning that it can teach itself to get better over time.
That is this kind of hockey stick growth thing that people keep
talking about in the AI space.
It's very possible that by late 2026 or at least early 2027, this kind
of idea of a AI software engineer is fully automated, and I think that's
like a game changer across the board.
Yeah.
The, they're already using the tools as, as announced internally
to improve the tool itself.
Yes.
Right?
Yes.
Like a lot of aspects of Claude Code by any other name are being
written by the machine itself.
Yeah.
And, and as soon as they can hopefully safely extract the human from that
loop and just press run and let it go.
What will that look like for us as end users when potentially
every time we launch an app?
It's better than the last time we launched it.
Yeah.
Not like every, and we didn't every day do anything.
Right, right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So everybody, even the Wall Street Journal is yapping about being Claude PE I know.
Finally turned on to this amazing tool.
Um, but why is it getting so much better?
I think we alluded to it a little bit.
It's the skills and it's you, Gavin, without you.
That
was me, clearly Kevin.
I talked about it last week on AI for humans.
Everybody in our audience.
Went out to all their important people and said, this is it, it's this.
They got got the percell
push.
The bigger thing, Kevin, that I'm finding really interesting right
now is you're seeing a lot of people who have built stuff for other
things that are now connecting it to Claude code through skills.
And if you're not familiar with a, what a Claude skill is,
it's kind of a nebulous idea.
But basically it's kind of a, a set of, uh, a harness, let's
say a harness that can allow.
That can allow cloud code to access a specific type of software.
And I think Kevin, the more, most interesting one to kind of dive
into, to start here, because this is the one that I saw and my God,
I saw way too many people tweeting, motion designers are, are cooked.
Right?
Like that was the line.
Literally motion designers are cooked.
Yes.
But Remotion, which is a very cool piece of software that allows you to use code
to create edits, has ha is having a moment, like literally right now today.
Um, Kev, have you played around with this at all?
Have you seen it?
Do you know, uh, describe a little bit of what this is for
our listeners and watchers here.
Yeah, it's like if you're familiar with After Effects, basically, um, or
even old Flash from back in the day, this is using code to make programmatic
animations and effects and, uh, remotion by the hashtag, not an ad, not a
sponsorship, just something that has to happens to be popping off right now.
Um, you know, remotion has plenty of examples of why you would want
to use their software stack to make.
Typography, kinetic typography, which is where you see like text animating
in or moving about, bouncing about.
Um, even making 2D ish, 3D ish animations come to life.
It's all with code, which makes it really dynamic and flexible.
So if you wanna make.
A video and then have it update based off of user input or
their profile or preferences.
Very, very easy to do, very flexible and pretty lightweight.
And what they did, um, is essentially, as you said, give Claude the
skill to access the Remotion API.
Well, okay.
What does that mean to anybody who doesn't know anything about anything?
That means you can go to Claude Code and say.
Make me a 32nd promo for my website.
Mm-hmm.
And link the website and then sit back.
It will not be epic.
It will not be a reason to fire all of your designers, but it will
be, uh, a pretty remarkable result.
Based off of where we were six months ago and where we are today,
it will generate you a video.
It'll crawl, grab the elements from your website, put color you,
it can create music and sound effects to go along with it.
And then you can use natural language to edit.
And this is the promise of all of these things, right?
Where you can just, yes.
If you, if you're like me and you talk to your machine, you can say.
Hey, I don't like the font at five seconds in and at 10 seconds, I want
there to be a little sheen and spin it around and drop it on the beat.
Like you can use natural language and it will edit.
Yeah, I will say, uh uh, I have something to say about all that.
But first I wanna show, there's a really cool example by a guy named
Justin M Fur, Guria Goya, uh, who actually created a product video
for his sort of, for his brand.
And what was very cool is that Remotion was able to kind of like.
Edit on a beat.
So one of the things that you know is if you've edited any sort of things
is like editing on beats, especially if it's quick cuts, is really
annoying because you have to find it.
There's probably plugins I know for After Effects or things like that that you
can use, but if you ever try to do that manually by hand, it's very difficult.
Uh, I want to take a moment to, uh, call this, uh, caveman Corner,
which is Gavin's Capeman Corner.
So little Oh, okay.
Graphic here.
Gavin's keeping in corner is, this is what it looks like as a, a kind
of a non-technical person to kind of like open this up in cloud code.
Kevin, I did this, I tried it, um, and I kind of asked it.
I said, okay, make an AI for Humans promo for this week, right?
And so what it basically did is it created a timeline and it pops up in a window
and it took a couple times for it to make sure it was in the right place and all
the stuff was there and it created it.
And I said, grab.
You know, the logo from this, use this screenshot that I gave it of
a YouTube video and then like, make a thing about Remotion is gonna
be in depth on the show this week.
And, uh, I'll show it to people here.
I'll, I'll grab it, uh, for the audience.
But like, it did okay, like I would say like it wasn't great and then I tried
to do a couple very simple fixes to it.
I think the biggest thing to know what this is.
First of all, lots of people are sharing their prompts online.
If you see something you like, it might be easier to start from something like that.
To start from something you know you like.
Because it's not as simple as like, it's not like a magic system where you
just say, make me a great promo video.
You still have to give it direction.
You still have to make sure that it's finding the files.
So there's a little bit of a learner's curve here, but I think it's a good
project for y'all to spend, you know, this weekend just kind of like.
Look at what a plugin like this can do with cloud code and
then feel that back and forth.
The other side, Kevin, I'll say, is that I'm only on a pro subscription
for Claude, and I'm gonna probably have to bump up to a max at some point.
Welcome to Max Baby.
I'm, I'm using Sonnet rather than Opus, so I save myself some tokens.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, that might be part of it as well.
So I think this is one of those things where like you see a lot of people doing
these incredible things with it, and if you're not getting the exact same results.
You may have to use Opus 4.5, which is much more expensive, and it may blow
through your tokens pretty quickly.
Yeah.
Um, ple, I mean, we should all just have like little, uh, I guess little silver
trays that we can hold up to our chins as we beg and plead for just a Exactly, yes.
More precious tokens.
There is, um, along those lines, last thing I'll say for the remotion, um,
and we'll link it in our show notes.
They have a video showing how they made their official promo video.
Yes.
And you can see like there's a gorgeous effect of like a, a, a
terminal window coming up in 3D and rotating with a graphic that
animates on, and then it flops down.
That took 15, 20 prompts.
Yes.
And some massaging.
So this isn't the one shot, one kill sort of approach, but I highly recommend
watching their video and they also have their full prompt history available.
If you look at that, you can kind of deconstruct.
How they use the code.
Again, it's early days, but how they use it.
Yeah.
And then how you can reconstruct it for your own purposes.
Um, that's just one example.
People are still bolting on all sorts of stuff to Claude, one
thing that you wanted to shout out was this infinite design canvas.
Yeah, this is from a company called Pencil that actually was in the same speed
run cohort that, uh, we were in with.
And then, uh, and it's got Tom, who's the CEO of it, basically pencil
is like trying to use a code to make AI Desi to do design better.
And it's a web, uh, ui and essentially this is a CLO plugin for his tool.
And it's just very cool.
Like it's another chance for you to see, okay, if Claude can plug into this tool
that's already been created, but now I can in, in real time in natural language.
P code this thing, use this thing to kind of create stuff for me, it
just gives you an additional kind of element to kind of play with.
I also wanna shout out if you're playing with cloud code this weekend in some
way and you wanna do a thing like a personal website or anything else that
like is something a small project.
Kevin pointed this out last week, but like the front end plugin is
very useful for cloud code because that allows you to do better design.
This is just another example of like an expansion of design off of that.
And if you're looking to do a larger project like a. Like a web app or even
an iPhone app to make different screens.
This is a really interesting way in on it.
Huge shout out to pencil, by the way.
So it is an app that you can download that lets you unlock all these features.
Imagine Figma or Photoshop reacting in real time, and it communicates very well
via MCP with whatever your IDE of choices.
If all those buzzwords scare you, just grab it and start dragging things around
and clicking and know that it will make it
a website for you.
Just come back for caveman, caveman education.
That's right.
We'll be here for you.
We'll be here for you with caveman education.
The last thing we should talk about here is.
There's a big moment that, uh, compound engineering is having.
Uh, right now.
This is a plugin created by one of the guys over at Evry.
Um, but Kevin, talk a little bit about what compound engineering is
and why people are buzzing about it.
I know you have been doing some version of this on your own for a while.
Yeah.
Uh, what's interesting about this and why specifically is it interesting now
within cloud code and how could some of our audience at home maybe go try this?
Yeah, I look the, the core tenets of compound engineering
are nothing really new.
I think what they did was make it, you know, for command accessible to everybody.
So there are, if you install it and the instructions are there on their site,
it's, it's really, really turnkey.
There's four essential commands that you need.
One is plan.
What do we think that phase is?
Gavin?
I'll tell you 'cause you were sipping It is.
Planning the design of your document.
And, and if you ever work with any of these agentic coding tools, you spend
the bulk of your time making the plan.
Yeah.
And the better your plan is, you know, the more direction the agents will have,
the less mistakes and hallucinating and kind of their own design decisions they
will make, the better your plan is.
Right.
So yes, uh, 80% of your job is to now plan, so you get to, uh.
Uh, basically fire yourself as a a coder and hire yourself as a manager.
Congratulations.
The second phase work, that is where you hit go and you go get your latte,
uh, maybe you check in on the go, you come back, your work is done.
Then the third command, which is assess, which is basically like,
all right, did you make a mess?
What kind of mess did you make?
Go clean it up.
Yeah.
But then the, the real genius, if you will, is the compound phase, right?
So we.
Plan, work, assess.
Now we compound, which is make sure you never fix the same bug twice.
Yes.
Usually in coding, when you add a feature, it becomes a liability,
something new to break a new dependency that can go wonky, et cetera.
The, the theory here is that every time you build a new feature, you
actually, uh, made your life easier.
You it's interest in a savings account because there were
some learnings along the way.
Yeah.
And so you tell the ai Okay.
We've, we've assessed our work, we've verified it's good.
Every mistake you made along the way, leave a little note
so you don't make it again.
Yeah.
And you compound your work.
And so that's the loop, right?
That's, that's like software engineering in this new era.
And if you are scared about each one of those phases, this is one little
slash command that you can easily run.
That's, you know, it's trustable, it's secure, it will kind of
handhold you through each phase.
Yeah, I mean, I've been thinking a lot lately about this game idea that
I've had for a while and I, maybe I mentioned it on Hero, but like I'm
just obsessed with games like tro.
And by the way, I don't know if I've told you this, but Clover Pit,
I got so deep into finally, I know you suggested it to me forever ago.
Yeah.
But like that game, Clover Pit's great.
Right.
It's just very, there's a lot.
There's that layers of deep.
So I've been, did wait, hold,
did you escape the room yet?
So here's the thing.
Spoiler, maybe spoiler, I, I, I mostly have avoided the stupid, uh, uh, uh,
whatever you call it, skeleton mo things.
I, I dump those.
I'm not, I'm more interested in like how high my score can get.
And I did get to like whatever level of 15, which is like
multiple E at this point.
Yeah.
So anyway, I think I'm done with it.
I think I, I think I'm through it finally.
But it was like a good like month of like my life.
It's a cool weight game game.
Yeah, I've been thinking lately about like, I love NFL football.
Seahawks are doing really well, but I've been thinking a lot about this idea
of like, what would it look like to do almost like a tech mo bowl meets TRO
sort of thing where, oh, the cards are plays and the players can be upgraded.
I love that.
Well, now you can get three passes as the quarterback or the, the
Yeah, no, exactly.
The receiver can go three
seconds early.
Each round is a game, right?
Like I, that's a game game of football, like, and there's a season sort of thing.
Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about it.
Love, and so one of the things I've been thinking about is
like, if I wanna make this.
I need to start thinking about that whole aspect of like, it's
a pretty big project, right?
Because it's not something that's like a personal website where like I'm able
to do it in kind of a couple shots.
This is the sort of thing that if you're out there thinking of something larger.
This is a good, really important thing, the planning part especially.
But then, you know, making sure that you don't just go into a, a cloud code
project, just thinking like, oh, I'm just gonna say a prompt and it'll be finished.
Like this allows you to do more complicated stuff.
And to your point, like people have been doing these kind of multiple agents spin
ups before, but this makes it dead simple.
And I think I will shout out the every team.
I think that's one thing that those guys do a great job of in general Yes.
Is that they take these very complicated things and they're making
them pretty accessible for a, for a curious audience of AI enthusiast.
Let's say.
I love it.
I think that, by the way, I love that game idea.
Like we love
to jam on that.
I think that really fun.
Really?
Because it's like to me like that, that, that, anyway, don't steal it.
Audience, please don't steal it.
How about instead of not stealing it, if you've got time and
talent to lend to Gavin Oh yeah.
And you want to help out.
Yeah.
Love that.
He's gonna do a lot of hard art.
He's gonna need some pixel art, he's gonna need some stuff.
Yeah.
And again, the more humans Gavin can replace, the happier he is,
because that is the mission of ai.
Like it is the mission.
Yes.
It breaks my heart that it's like, it's so clear.
Like I, I'm not trying to forgive all the sins.
You and I don't try to do that, but we do try to, I guess, celebrate
more than hate on this podcast.
Sure.
Yeah.
Obviously.
But like here it is like, oh, you have an idea for something.
Yes.
That something would've just been.
Maybe a, a whisper into a notes document.
Yeah.
Five years ago, and that would've been it.
But here.
You almost have line of sight on building the foundation.
Yes.
And if you can recruit some other humans to help along the way Totally.
They can use tools totally.
Where one skilled designer can make all of the card art for you and
one skilled musician can make all the sound effects and everything.
I love that.
I wanna see it happen.
Yeah.
Um, okay.
Before we move on for this, just a quick shout out to, there's a
creator out there named Matt Poco.
K and he's been doing some great long form videos.
I saw your eyes there, poco.
K Uh, there's a Don't say that too fast.
I'm sorry, Matt.
We're not making fun of your name.
We don't make fun of people's names here, uh, but you should watch his videos.
They're very good.
He's gotten a lot of attention lately for just how good his claw videos are.
I think they're great.
Kevin, we should move on to talk quickly about Anthropics new Constitution,
which is the final kind of the kind of final wrap up on Claude
this week, our big Claude Roundup.
And Kev, this is an interesting thing.
So Anthropic, as we know as a company, has been very safety obsessed, right?
In fact, there's another interesting piece of, uh, research they just released about
how they're trying to make sure that their assistants don't get personalities, which.
I don't necessarily love, but I understand why they're saying they don't want that.
They don't want to kind of start behaving like something that isn't what they
want, which is only a helpful assistant.
This is a constitution for Claude, the chat bot, and this is a long document.
We don't have to go deep into this, but there's a lot in this that
will tell you kind of like how Anthropic is approaching the kind
of next generation of this software.
Yeah.
All of this is interestingly kind of pointing to a world where.
These not only get much smarter, Kevin, but there's a little, couple
little moments in this where you kind of get the sense of like, oh.
It may be getting some sort of sense of like awareness about the itself and that
these are getting smarter and smarter and I think it's worth everybody in
our audience going to read this thing.
It's long, it's like dense.
Even worse case, it's
only, it's a quick 15,000 worder.
You can skim it, you'll be fine.
They want Claude to be a brilliant friend and a doctor with a lawyer's expertise
and infinite patients, but they're.
They're building this guideline in the hopes that, uh, you know, that
it chooses to, um, guide its own life
Yes.
By these rules, right?
Yes.
Don't, don't undermine human insight as one.
Be ethical.
Follow philanthropics guidelines.
Do as daddy tells you.
Yes.
Uh, always be helpful.
All that stuff.
And they're just, this is the, Hey, we're.
Pushing the bicycle along and hoping it stays upright on its own.
Uh, like are they doing this to preach the bag Gavin, and be like, oh, look
at how powerful our AI's about to be.
Or is the singularity around the damn corner?
And
just, well, that's what, that's
crossing our fingers.
That's, that's the kind of scary part, right?
Like that's the thing that we've been hearing from AI safety people for a
long time, is that like there would become a moment where these things
could get very like powerful and very aware in different ways and listen.
You know, we've been preaching this for now, two plus years in this show.
This is all changing fast.
There's people who believe that this, that, you know, in three months we're
gonna be living in a world post, uh, uh, you know, everybody's gonna have money
given to them by the world at large.
There's other people who believe that this is gonna take us all down
and we're gonna be dead as a, as a species within a couple years.
It's just another interesting layer into that mix of like.
Anthropic who is on the edge, if not at the edge of how good these
tools are, is starting to lay out what they think of as a vision.
I think for an A GI Right.
Or even an a SI an artificial super intelligence.
And that's a pretty big deal.
I know.
And there's one more clip from Well, well, the good
news.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
From from Dario again at Davos.
The good news is Gavin, they see this as s. Clearly it's only one
road and it leads to a utopia.
Let me play just a little bit.
It was at the very end of the discussion.
I did not see it clipped out really at all, but it perked me up the most.
This is in regards to the US restricting, or excuse me.
Not restricting chip sales for AI development to China,
which is a, a newer revelation.
This is what Dario had to
say.
I think of this more as like, you know, it's a decision, are we going
to, you know, sell nuclear weapons to North Korea and be, you know, because
that produces some profit for Boeing.
Um, you know, where, where we can say, okay, yeah, these cases were made
by Boeing, like the US is winning.
Like this is great.
Like, I, I, I just, you know that, that analogy should just make clear.
How I see this trade off that, I just don't think it makes sense.
Us selling our chips, our Nvidia chips to China is like selling
nuclear weapons to North Korea.
But don't worry, 'cause we put in the prompt, don't do a big bad,
no big bad and we use a red xmo.
No big bad.
Well, okay, the very quick follow up to this is earlier in that
conversation, he basically says, Hey.
If it were up to Demi and I, 'cause Demi Saba is sitting there next to him.
Yes.
I think both of us would rather prefer Demi's timeline, which is
like the five year timeline of a GI versus what he thinks, what
Dario says he thinks will happen.
Right.
Which is like next year we'll get to something like this.
But he says specifically because there are powers that be in the
world that are forcing their hand, that they're racing to this.
And I think this is specifically saying about China.
That they have to move forward faster.
And that reaction, what you just heard, is a direct response to that.
He's basically saying like, look, if China wasn't getting
these things, we would slow down.
Right?
And Demis would slow down.
Now would Sam slow down?
We don't know.
Right.
There's a whole nother conversation around that and like there was
some shame thrown Sam, right?
But that is where this is all coming from, right?
We are in the, we are in the, I don't wanna say we're in the end game, because
that starts to feel very sad and very much like, oh no, it could be like the
beginning game of a whole new world.
Well, we're in the, we're in the final pages or maybe final paragraphs
of whatever this chapter is.
Yes, yes.
And let's hope there's many, many more chapters after this.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm saying, yeah.
Many more books.
Many more books.
We are in the Brandon Sanderson world of Books, not in the
uh, name of the wind books.
And if you got that.
You are the nerd that I want in our audience and that means you
should be liking and subscribing this episode right now.
How?
If you understood what those two
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I think that's gonna get a couple more clicks.
That's a good, that's a good conversation starter in the comments this week.
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That's right.
That's the next move we gotta make.
Okay.
We should keep going here.
Apple.
Kevin is somehow still farting around in this business and
they're trying to do something.
There's news out this week that they're new AI powered by Gemini will be coming
around this year, their new chat bot.
But Kevin, even more interesting, there is news that they are working on a wearable
AI pin that is right from the information.
They're developing an AI pin and we all know how well the AI pin
that came around last time went, if you remember the humane AI pin?
Uh, yes.
Let's talk very quickly just to give some people a background,
if you didn't know what that was.
Now I have the Pineapple Pen song in my head, and will they license
that to be a, I have a pen.
I have an apple.
I have an Apple AI pin.
Yes.
And is that
that I love that song.
Yes.
That remix.
Nobody wants or needs.
Um, apple,
by the way, that guy's been trying to come back with a new song.
I feel bad 'cause he then has, he's on TikTok, that guy.
He's amazing.
Oh, okay.
By the way, what's the follow, if you don't know, like, what's the name of
that Japanese show that it came from?
I love that show to I, I, uh, uh, Pythagoras Switch.
Py Patte Switch.
That was what that show came from.
It's a show from the two thousands.
Anyway.
Long story short, go support our man.
He's on there doing the Pineapple Pin song again.
Alright?
Yes.
Long story short,
go support our man.
There we go.
Alright.
Apple's pin, he, there's not a lot known.
It is all very rumor territory, but it supposedly is a thin, flat
circular disc that's aluminum and glass like the shell of it, about
the, imagine like an apple air tag.
That's the size supposedly that this is with, uh, two cameras on It is the
interesting, there's a standard lens and a wide angle lens for pictures and video.
Now.
This sort of tracks.
You know, we talked a little while, uh, back Gavin about apple's like vision.
They had a vision model that was designed to run, uh, on edge, on device.
Low power.
Yes.
Very fast processing.
And it could, um, they have live demos of it, analyzing video and very quickly
understanding what it's looking at.
So is that gonna be in an iPhone in the future?
Maybe.
But could it be in this PIN device so that it knows what you're looking
at and it's constantly categorizing it so that it can take notes or as
you speak into it, understand what you were seeing and what you were
surrounded while you took that note.
Like, I dunno, I think that's kind of interesting.
Supposedly has a physical button, a speaker, and like a Fitbit style
charging strip on the back that is according to the information.
Um, we don't know how reliable said information is, but does
that get you excited Gavin?
It gets me interested.
I will say that.
Okay.
The other thing, I think that, uh, a person who's gotta be reading this
and being like, what the hell man is OpenAI and Chat GPT and, and Sam Allman
in that, like, they have been working on whatever their device is and like
the thing that you can't discount, and this is really goes for Google
versus chat G chatt as well is like.
The benefit of Apple is you have all of these people who have iPhones and, and
a little device like that is not gonna be, I don't think, a standalone device.
It's probably gonna be tethered in some way to the iPhone that's in your pocket.
They immediately are able to sell something that's gonna probably be
pretty cheap because it's not the most complicated thing in the world.
And then turn that thing on.
Whereas chat, GPT and OpenAI with their whatever ear pill thing, device
we talked about last time, you have a little bit trickier kind of setup
there and I don't know, apple's.
Pretty good at hardware, right?
Like this could work.
Obviously.
When they described it just then, it reminded me a lot of what the
friend pin looks like, right?
Like the friend pin essentially looks like a slightly larger ai, uh, air tag.
And I didn't know your point earlier when we talked about these sort of things
is like, are people really ready to be recorded or watched on a regular basis?
And it might be that this is just something people don't want, period.
But we will see, I guess.
Yeah, I like what sort of opt out will people have because, you
know, like, it, it, you know, if you're in a public area, like, all
right, you, you really have no say.
But if I'm standing in line at the old Starbucks and someone is in line
behind me with their recording device constantly going, like, I, I'm probably,
if I'm in a Starbucks, there's a 50 50 chance I'm about to have a freak out.
Right.
You know this.
Oh, is that how
hard
it you've been with
these days?
Oh, interesting.
I, I think it's actually under control these days if it's only 50 50.
Guess what, Kevin, I've been, I've been secretly setting that up now, and you've
got a new show that I've been made.
It's called Kevin Watch Out and then we're getting, we're gonna Cancel You.
Kevin, watch out.
Kevin,
watch out.
Yeah.
Threat is coming from within.
Yes.
I need to watch out for myself.
I, I don't know.
I think the idea of the pin pairing with the phone makes a lot of sense.
Gives it a ton more power and compute.
And, um, and again, the, the strategic advantage that Apple has is that.
If Sam Altman wants to make his pen compatible with Apple, he's gotta
play by whatever their rules are.
Yes.
And um, yeah, that's, I don't know.
That's, that's interesting.
It's an interesting thing.
I think the other thing that came out in the news this week, in fact just
recently, was that Google has acquired the team at Hume, which we really
liked Hume as an ai, voice technology.
If you remember, Hume is the technology.
That is very kind of emotional based.
And when you think about an AI pin and you think about the different ways that
you might interact with an Apple AI pin in the ears, and you are probably
gonna say something out loud, we've talked about these other things like
the pebble device or that little ring that we've talked about, how voice
is gonna be an interactive thing.
Google is also.
Seeing that they need to kind of bulk up on the voice side of this stuff.
Mm-hmm.
So I think you're seeing this kind of like overall AI hardware ecosystem, which
is probably something that you talk to and listens to you and then talks back.
And I think it's some version of something that can seize stuff.
Without you having to pull your phone out.
Right?
Yeah.
And then the voice as that voice aspect of this is really important too.
You can kind of start to see the shape of what the next phone thing might be, right?
Or, or what the next like piece of hardware that people are going to use.
Now, I would argue that glasses probably are part of it at
some point, but maybe not.
Maybe it's gonna be a thing where people are able to do it all.
In audio and have this thing that kind of watches them, so they kind
of remove themselves from screens.
But we will see,
I think, look, I don't wanna wear the weight on my nose and I don't want
stuff necessarily resting on my ears.
I'm very, uh, I'm precious, I'm mostly porcelain.
Sure.
What I want is like one of, one of those hot.
Neon color, like aerobic sweat bands.
Ooh.
From the eighties.
Right.
Okay.
Like really, really tense.
And then basically an Xbox connect, uh, just hanging it off of it.
Embedded inside of it.
Yeah.
I want, like, you know, it should have like a cool, uh,
red l led D and white LED.
Okay.
So I'm doing some nighttime hunting or whatever.
Some lidar, a couple, a camera array.
Or whatever, you know, put the memory in the back.
Yeah.
If someone wants to mock that up, I think that would be useful.
I
can see that.
Yeah.
I think maybe also it comes with a li a, a single unitard that you
can wear to really stand out when you're walking around some sort
of AI singlet to gather exactly telemetry data and know what pose
I was in while I was having my
freak out.
The Starbucks
in the future, we're gonna have, people have always said this,
there's some sort of clothes that we can put other designs on.
What if you could like in the Starbucks freak out, like hit me with it.
I could like shoot clothes to you and change the way that
you looked throughout it.
Like we're talking about content that would just go off, Kevin,
we're talking about right.
Algorithmic content that would just go off.
All right.
Speaking of video content, there's some really cool new stuff that
in the AI video space, Kevin, this just came out DeepMind's DART model.
It's D four RT, so smart spelling, uh, DeepMind.
This is a very interesting piece of research.
It is not a model, but this is going to open the door to making
lots of other models better.
And we've seen some of this stuff.
It's kind of goss and splat, like it's doing a bunch of interesting stuff,
but what it's really doing is like.
Allowing you to see a world and then move around in that world and then do things
within that world to generate other parts of that world, which sounds like a lot of
weirdness, but it's just a very cool, kind of advanced piece of technology that's
gonna make things like VO four better.
It's gonna make the, the, the Genie models better.
If you remember, the Genie models are, they're kind of like real
time video game playable models.
Yeah.
They're, they're world models.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah, so this is just a really cool thing you all should check out.
It's kind of a technical paper, but there's some really interesting examples
that they show, uh, on on their website.
If you're audio only, you're kind of missing it.
Once you see it, you quickly get it.
It's just the machine's interpretation of motion and physics.
But, but when you see it colorful, you understand like, oh, as a human being, we
get that someone doing a juujitsu throw.
We understand roughly the physics involved.
Yes.
But if the machine is just looking at 2D pixels, how is it interpreting?
And, oh, now, now you're getting it.
Now you're understanding it.
Um, so that was a deepminds uh, research runway.
Had a big release Gen 4.5 image to video now.
So yes.
Uh, people are making some really beautiful shorts with this.
Yeah.
What's really cool about this, if you go to the runway, you will show you some good
examples here, but also if you go into runway, what they've started focused on is
a little bit of what kind of Higgs field has done, which is like this idea of like.
How do we think about shots within the different things?
And there's a really interesting example they have of like a zoom in and then a
whip pan over two between two characters.
And what's great about this is even though you don't get the, uh,
native audio, I, I, I, at least my experience, the native audio is not as
strong in runway right now with 4.5.
The fact that you can do this stuff within runway is getting very, very good now.
Some people, I, I think we're gonna have this interesting moment in the next,
like I'd say year with these AI video models where we start to see like, will
the Googles and the open ais kind of like push past these kind of smaller companies?
Or will they be able to have like, will cling and will
runways still be able to stay up?
I just think, uh, 4.5 image gen is very good.
I've not personally played with it yet, but some of the examples we saw
out there are really interesting.
Well, one thing you did play with, which surprised me 'cause it kind of came outta
nowhere, was an audio to video model by
Yes.
LTX, that some of the samples I was seeing.
I was like, wait a minute.
This is being driven by By what now?
This is like,
yeah.
A single image in an audio file and it's taking it away.
Like, so let's, let's talk about why this is exciting.
Yeah.
So one of the things that if you're, if you made AI video before or you've done
any sort of lip sync stuff, a lot of what you do is you find a, an audio clip
that you like, and you create an audio clip and then you edit it down and you
wanna give it to the character to say something so you get the right lip sync.
Right.
Well, what LTX studios has done here is they've created.
Uh, kind of a weird name, but it's called audio to video, meaning that
it's a model specifically designed for you to upload an audio file and then
use a photo or just a text prompt and get video back that kind of uses that.
And one of the uses that people have found for this that's amazing,
um, is F-F-F-O-F-R, uh, ai.
One of our favorite, um, you know, creators of AI video used
it to create music videos from a, so, uh, from a, a Suno song.
What you see is it just a really interesting, they figured out something
with their lip sync that's really solid.
And also you can direct the video clips in ways that you can't easily do if
you're kind of piecing it together.
So it's a really cool starting point.
Um, oh, I didn't see this bore at one.
I haven't looked at this yet.
What's this one?
Oh
yeah, just a, just a fun example of how quickly you can modify things,
but someone basically created a borat.
That's fine as famous scene characters from Pulp Fiction movies
or Avengers films and whatnot.
But they use the original audio of the scene to drive it, and you can see.
You know, it's, it's not flawless, but the fact that there's
expressiveness within the Borat that matches the tonality of the scene.
Yeah.
And all that is driving it is a single image, a prompt, and the source
audio, like your head can very start, like very quickly start spinning
with all of the possibilities here.
So they have a great walkthrough.
Um, we can link it in our show notes.
LTX Studio did a walkthrough of, uh, with a demo of how to generate again.
Just upload audio.
Yeah, give it a prompt.
You can add an image if you want.
And that is it.
You're off and running.
I did.
I took a clip from our, uh, show last week, an audio clip about the harnesses
when we talked about harnesses.
Right.
And I just said.
Hey, uh, this is two guys talking about harnesses and
there's a horse between them.
So the goal was two voices.
There's a horse between us and we're talking about harnesses.
I want to see what it would do, play that clip for everybody and we'll
talk about it when it is afterwards.
Like how, who, who makes the harnesses?
My question.
Other than the people that ride horses,
they could be, that's fair.
Um.
Yeah, the harness,
so, so first of all, I wanted to do more, but it's a time limit of nine seconds.
But by the way, no, no driving image for that.
You just gave it the prompt and so it generated the horse.
If you're audio only, that's
text to audio to video if you want to.
There is like an early Pixar thing, like Toy Story one-ish.
Uh, CG creation with a, a, a talking horse standing in between two cow pokes,
uh, that are Gavin and I on either side of it and, and everything is moving and
animating like the, the horse is talking.
Well, but that's the thing.
I did not say horse talks to a human.
I said the two humans talk with a horse in the middle, but, oh,
I like it
better.
Pretty, pretty, you know, it's better.
I agree it's better, but with the lip sync of the horse is pretty solid.
For a text to text, for an audio to video thing.
That was the first time you get one.
Basically one free generation.
So I use my one free generation.
If you go there, you can sign up right now.
You can try it.
It like any other product, this is their way to onboard people
to spend money at LTX Studios.
LTX also has a great open source, uh, uh, model that they have opened up to many
people to use on local devices, but you will have to pay for this, uh, device.
So.
While we're on the topic of horse harnesses, Gavin from last week, if
you missed it, have to shout out.
We have to shout out Mustache Harness Store.
So shout out to shifty Nick in our discord who created this on the heels
of our discussion of like, go find a, a project to build, uh, with these tools.
Uh, I think they used Claw Claude code and they made an entire.
E-Commerce store for your favorite mustache harnesses.
Yes.
Pretty impress,
which you can shop by it pretty impress category.
It totally works.
You can limit by color.
There's price range selectors or whatever.
And they've built out a very elegant looking, uh, totally
passable mustache harness store.
So,
and I want everybody out there to know that, like, if you wanna take this
idea and run with it, that's fine.
With us, we would just like a small percentage of all mustache sales.
Going forward, and this is the legal document that allows
us to keep that shifting.
Nick, we will kick you back a few bit of that too.
Think I see a very bright future for somebody.
I think he's updated it since I initially looked at it, by the way there.
Oh, he has, there seems to be new harnesses now.
There's a Swiss cheese whisker wear, uh, a dual point lift apparatus, which has
like a bubble level in the middle of it so that you can level your mustache properly.
Kudos.
This is great fan.
I love that one's already out of Stock Fan.
The Night Guard and Sleepwear, uh, harness is out of stock.
So good on everybody who has bought these for money there in some ways
don't.
Apparently we have a promo code too, by the way, this is
a fictitious e-commerce story.
I wanna be clear, this is not an actual thing, but you can use the
AI for Human code for 10% off.
So congratulations everyone.
We have one other quick, interesting thing here.
Uh.
Google has launched a tool that I think is an interesting example
of how like small little verticals will get kind of eaten alive by ai.
There is now a SAT SAT prep test that you can do on Google, and you
can basically prep for your, you know, test like the LSAT or the SAT.
Kevin, my wife, uh, you know, 20 years or so ago when we first moved to la,
worked for a company called Kaplan.
Yeah.
And Kaplan's whole business model is test prep.
And I think what's interesting about this, and I think everybody should go
try it, it's gonna be an interesting kind of experiment on this, is that like.
That is a vertical that could completely get eaten by general AI LLMs.
And just an interesting kind of ex example of watching like a business kind of get
swallowed whole by one or two of these companies will, will be fascinating.
I think the SATs are gonna get swallowed whole.
That's also probably true.
This is another way for them to kind of go away eventually, right?
Like Yeah, exactly.
It's gonna be, uh, uh, it's gonna be your vibe.
It's gonna, what's the vibe equivalent to it?
To the SATs?
Uh, uh You mean in terms of coding, or do you mean in terms of what it feels like?
Just like the, the idea that like, humans are gonna have to memorize, uh, uh,
memorize facts, figures and formulas.
Oh, yeah.
So that they can show that they have an aptitude with it
is gonna be like, no, no, no.
Can you prompt your way to an a?
What's your prompting score?
Yeah.
I guess that's a, I guess the question I would have about this,
and this is a, honestly, there's a much larger conversation about
AI education that I'm kind of fascinated with right now, but like.
The idea of still being able to prove that, you know, something in
a short period of time or in some sort of like world feels really
valuable because so many kids.
I'm, I, I totally lost you.
I was watching a Maze Runner 3D video while you were talking.
I'm sorry, what was that saying?
So many kids are bad at it now and they're cheating.
Yeah, and cheating is the wrong way to say it.
'cause they're just using tools that are available to them, but like.
I think we're gonna have to figure out some way of proof that, you
know, a significant amount of knowledge or something in a large
part of that will be prompting in how to get these miles to do stuff.
But you still need a test to show that.
Maybe you do, maybe you don't though, Gavin, maybe we could
just consult an AI powered monk.
Yes.
To find out what the meaning of life is and begin our 30 day healing
journey so that none of this matters.
So this is a story that I covered in our newsletter, which you should all
subscribe to AI for humans.hype.com.
But I think it's an important one.
Uh, this is a monk name, yang Moon, A-Y-A-N-G-M-U-N.
And Yang Moon has 2.5 million followers on Instagram and he does not exist.
Yeah, he actually, he does exist purely to sell a $50 subscription
to a 30 day healing journey product.
And what's interesting about this, Kevin, and I think this is just one
of those things to think about when we talk about AI influencers, is.
I watched a bunch of Yang Mons, uh, content.
Okay.
He's very charming.
He's like a, you know, he's giving, you know, uh, the sort of things you
might hear from a guru, quote, unquote, and in some ways a little bit more
straightforward and, and, and simple.
I have studied Buddhism myself.
I did the seven day silent retreat.
I'm a big believer in the kind of Buddhist philosophy in general.
But Kevin, the thing, there's two kind of sides to this.
One side I was kind of mad is like this, this guy's not real.
Like all these people are following this guy's advice where it's not real.
What is reality?
Yes.
You know, exactly.
But you could be, you could start your own business.
The other side of this though is if you look at the comments on Instagram,
a lot of them are, and by the way, who knows if that's dead internet?
We don't know.
I know you believe that.
Most of the comments online are not real.
I really do.
There do seem to be a lot of people who are like, I think this
is so helpful, blah, blah, blah.
And I know that could be fake, but there are probably
a couple real people in there.
Maybe it doesn't matter.
Maybe it doesn't matter.
This guy isn't real.
Maybe to them the, the information will help them in some way to get
through a difficult part in their life, or it'll get through something
or, or introduce them to these things.
I just think this is a really good example at scale of how AI
influencers are starting to, to make something interesting happen.
I feel pretty gross about the selling of the product.
That's the part that I think is the worst part about,
but, but what you said right before that is exactly how I justified
getting my mother TOSA Caputo tickets.
Gavin, maybe.
What is that?
What's Kalu
tickets?
The, the Long Island Medium Gavin.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, sorry.
Of course, of course.
Yes.
You know, may maybe, maybe it's, maybe it's not real.
Yeah.
Maybe it's not.
But if it provides a service
Yeah.
And you know, then, uh, who am I to judge?
Oh my God, I just thought of the greatest business idea is like.
Not really.
Do we need to edit that out?
Do we need to edit?
Yeah, let's edit that out.
It's time to see what you did this week with ai.
It's ai.
See what you did there.
So times Ya rolling Without a. Then suddenly you stop and shout.
Alright,
Gavin, I hate to come over the top ropes on this one, but wow.
That graphic was playing.
I just vibe coded a very, very cool game.
Um, I call it uh, uh, I call it, uh, a Blitz tro and it's a
combination of NFL Blitz meets tro.
It's just this little idea that I was toying on.
But it's really, really fun.
So there's a, there's a really cool post on Reddit I saw from
a ex user named Super Sissy.
We'll link to show notes where basically is setting up every street Fighter
two losing pose brought to life.
We have seen many of these, Kevin, we've been watching these and enjoying these
for many years, these different kind of variations of video games coming to life.
But what's interesting about this is the losing poses are so specific
in Street Fighter, and it's just interesting to see all of the big, sad
feelings that these characters all have.
So it's worth your time.
Go check it out.
It's very fun.
Super fun.
Uh, along those lines, some people are going to hate this, the 11 album Gavin 11.
Oh, I've meant to talk about this.
I forgot.
Here we go.
Okay, go ahead.
Did you give it a listen, tell what this is.
I I gave it a listen and I have thoughts, uh, very specific thoughts.
Well, okay.
So it is, it is a, uh, uh, a handful of tracks that have, they've released, uh,
on their website as well as Spotify.
You can go and search for the 11 album and it features artists like.
Liza, Minnelli, art Garfunkel, Kai Angel, baby, a handful of others.
And basically each artist created an original track.
Yes.
Using 11 labs tools that would, um, you know, blend their, their voice and
their, uh, instrumentation to be some.
Now, like I have many, many thoughts.
What were yours?
I'd love to hear.
My first two thoughts were great.
I'm happy that they're doing this.
The second immediate thought was when I saw the names Art Garfunkel and
Liza Minnelli as like the headliners.
I was like, what?
Right?
Who put this together?
What are we doing here?
And then the Liza Minnelli song is like an interesting like remix dance track
where she kind of just says words in it.
The Arc Garfunkel one.
Then I, I don't know Angel baby.
I've heard of, uh, obviously King Lonas is a very famous AI musician.
Like it was fine.
I was trying to figure out like what the purpose of this is, right?
Like it's maybe to just kind of get out the fact that they are a
music model now and they do stuff.
I don't think this is going to travel very far based on what I heard, but
I don't know what your thoughts were.
Dude, I ripped it to mini disc already, bro.
I've been playing it nonstop.
Uh, I think, no disrespect to the artists involved because it's like.
It's a bizarre mix tape of like hip hop Yes.
And dance and this and that.
So it's very all over the place.
And for me it was hard to listen to in one shot because of that.
Yes.
But
yes,
that, I don't think they were going for the.
This is a start to finish.
Um, what is it?
Uh, you know, pink Floyd, you gotta listen to it in order.
Sort, experience, very
shadow.
Introducing, let's just put it that way.
Thank you.
Yeah.
No, it's not, it's not.
But like, the very first track, there's a track by, um, Falvey.
Shout out to Falvey called Close to Me.
I put it on, it's a totally passable like yeah.
Housey, dancey, EDM, something that I heard that does not have this signature.
Twang of like a suno generated song or whatever.
Yes.
It sounds like there was a little extra product production going on there, um,
as a flex and a promo for 11 Labs as to your point of like, Hey, we are more than
just text to speech or sound effects.
Now I think it works in that regard.
I don't think it's gonna get a lot of playtime though on my
Spotify.
No.
It feels a little bit like that thing where a company has a lot of funding,
says, Hey, let's go spend some money on trying to put something together
that we think will be a big thing and that it isn't, and maybe it's.
Maybe it's an agency idea.
Something that somebody didn't spend a lot of money on that I thought was
really interesting was a new TikTok channel I found called Epic Sports Anime.
And I want to kind of like very quickly say like, this
could be automated AI content.
I don't know.
What I want to talk about with this is like, I saw this happen pop up
in my TikTok, and as I mentioned earlier, I'm a sea fan, the Sea Oxford
and the NFC Champion this week they beat the San Francisco 49 ERs last
week and the day after, my TikTok has a lot of Seahawks coding in it.
Right?
I get a lot of Seahawks content.
Mm-hmm.
This came up and what it is is a anime recreation of moments from that game
that is kind of told in an anime style.
And I it, like I said, it could be a, you know, automated content.
I don't think it is.
'cause there's only a couple of them.
It's not like the guys turning the out, there's about five of them right now.
But this was, to me, what I believe the future of like, kind of the AI slop in
the positive way could be, is like this is made for not that many people, right?
Like I found this super interesting and compelling, but like.
This is a guy or, or woman or somebody out there, or a robot
who's making these choices.
It immediately felt like, this is great.
This is something that nobody's gonna do without ai.
So like, this is just a good example of like why AI slop
can sometimes be really good.
And in this instance, I, I just wanna shout it.
I really liked it
and I, I got a shout out if, if anybody is playing, um, season two of Blitz tro,
you will notice that there's an anime art pack available on Steam right now.
I literally vibe coded it.
Wow, Gavin was talking.
So thank you for making my idea.
That is my idea, my idea.
Speaking of instant vibe coding, a quick shout out to this, uh, uh, to bi Jean
Bowen, they've got a YouTube video, um, where they are vibe coding, uh, using
open code and a GLM 4.7 flash model.
Very flash, uh, very quick flash, uh, like coding agent.
Oh, cool.
This is very cool.
But what's really cool is he is rigged up.
These basic arcade controls, like a wheel, a little throttle, like a big button.
And he is, and you, you can watch the entire 23 minute video from
start to finish making a game.
Yeah.
That utilizes the arcade controls and whether you use open code and, and
the models that he's using to make it.
Or you go to chat GPT or you use Codex whatever plot code.
Yeah, yeah.
Whatever tool set you wanna use the, the same concepts will apply.
But what was really cool is to watch, like.
Watch the machine learn and understand these are the controls and how they work.
Get feedback from him as the the user slash the director here and understand,
okay, this is the way it works.
And go from control panel.
Right.
Yeah, I understand The wheel is turned or there's throttle to now we're
moving a pixel around the screen.
Now we've got a 3D environment that we're driving around and it
made me just immediately go like, is the future of the arcade Gavin?
Like, oh, a main cabinet where you and I could go and start playing a
game and then go, all right, let's change the rules real, real quick.
Interesting.
You press a button and whisper to the machine.
Now we want this.
And it reconfigures knowing the controls.
And we're just, there was a game ages ago called I arb, it draws a red box.
Oh yeah.
If you remember this.
Yeah.
Love that.
I remember I arb.
Yeah.
That actually shout out to, uh, who made that?
It was, uh, Mike Mika and those guys, wasn't it?
And wasn't it?
I think it was Digital Ocean.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Am I
crazy?
Yeah.
I was, uh, other ocean.
Other ocean.
Other
ocean.
Yeah.
Shout out Tom Russo and Mike Mika.
Those guys made it.
That's right.
So, um, you know, the game began with a developer putting a red box
basically on Twitter and saying, right now our game draws a red box.
What should it do?
And people sort of whispered, oh, it should do this and that.
I just get so excited for the idea of a multi-player game
with real controls, if you will.
You know?
Yeah.
That people can just whisper to it and it starts to make itself for every player.
I
love that.
I think that's amazing.
That's such a cool thing.
So go check out Bijan Bowen's, uh, YouTube channel for that.
That's incredible.
Oh my God.
What about.
Agario style game where everybody is represented as their own
little like pixelated block.
Right.
And they get basic movement controls, but
okay,
every X seconds or whatever, you can give it a prompt that
affects what your pixel can do.
Oh, that's interesting.
Within the world.
Yeah.
Something into the world.
Right?
And now everybody is moving about and try to like make obstacles or
power ups or things for their thing.
So now I'm trying to see what your pixel's doing and I'm
prompting in a counteract to that.
That's really interesting.
It was basically, it's almost like you could spawn a boss and each
player would have the ability to generate their own powers across
the course of their, their prompts.
And other people might see somebody who's taking a bunch of
hits on that boss next to them.
That's pretty
great.
Oh, it just, and it's just, it's season three update to blitz outro.
Now you guys can prompt
that's thought.
Not doing that.
New abilities.
Congratulations tro the anime pack is out now.
Of that.
I wanna give a quick shout out to our friend, theoretically Media.
If you remember, theoretically Media came back and hosted the show once,
uh, last year when Kevin wasn't here.
He has launched a new newsletter, which, uh, is on beehive, and
we'll link in our show notes.
But more importantly, he goes super deep on AI video.
And one of the things that's in this new newsletter he had is a.
Very deep prompt about creating those two by two boxes for, um, AI video.
Really interesting kind of to dive in on that specific thing because it allows you
to create AI video scenes with things like Nano Banana to create them to begin with
and then you generate them and cling two point, uh, six or anything else like that.
In general, theoretically media is very, very smart on AI video stuff.
I just think everybody should go follow them.
So go.
We will link it to the show notes here.
Before we go, have you seen the Slippery Robot video?
No, I haven't.
So what
is this?
You gotta click and give yourself a moment of zen.
What's going on here?
Okay.
It's, it's just a, it's just a little robit on a slightly
slippery floor, having a bit.
It's basically just, this is how I react when, when April says I
can't have more chicken nuggies.
This is the tantrum that I throw.
On the floor.
If anybody wants to replace me using cling, like replace
the robot with me or Gavin.
Thank throwing a that's a good idea on the floor.
That's a fun project for you because I will have a nugg fit.
Um, it just made me laugh.
The poor robot flailing about.
Anyway, that's all.
Alright everybody, we will see you next week.
Thanks for coming by.
Uh, have a good week and go try clock code.
Definitely go try clock code.
Bye y.
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