Ep 01 - "I Want Your Product to Enable My Agent"
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 12 segments
Recorded June 30, 2026, 2pm Pacific. Live from AI Engineer World's Fair! Fable is still banned (as of recording time, ahem). Advice: Build for agents. We're still talking about loops, but which loops?…
Recorded June 30, 2026, 2pm Pacific. Live from AI Engineer World's Fair! Fable is still banned (as of recording time, ahem). Advice: Build for agents. We're still talking about loops, but which loops? And more receipts are demanded. LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER IN THE NEWS Model-tiers image (OpenAI forum) https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/f/0/8/f088bfcb17e4f7a8da3d2ba48d6391fa5a9201d9.jpeg Claude models page (four model cards) https://claude.com/platform/api Starbucks sizes https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/409/hot "Freedom of intelligence" tweet (Quinn Slack) https://x.com/sqs/status/2071690420548198581 Magnitude / harness-level routing https://magnitude.dev Anthropic's "Project Deal" https://www.anthropic.com/features/project-deal "The Dumb Zone" tweet (Matt Pocock) https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2071288332642812229 Regulation / CA gov tweet https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2071632971388662233 Rhys tweets to poke additional bears https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2071811069002281335 TOPIC - I DON'T WANT TO USE YOUR AGENT "I don't want to use your product's agent (Dillon quote-tweet) https://x.com/dillon_mulroy/status/2070983687785914822 Dax's original tweet https://x.com/thdxr/status/2071010042216665452 Low-level-learning PlanetScale fireside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8tRi1RYf7c A wild PlanetScale CTO appears https://x.com/NickVanWig SOCs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_operations_center Ankur Goyal / Braintrust "two mega-trends" tweet https://x.com/ankrgyl/status/2071329164125147440 Dillon's reply to Ankur https://x.com/dillon_mulroy/status/2071330371283915027 "The Primitive is the Product" - Lenny Pruss, Amplify Partners https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/the-primitive-is-the-product "I am a golden god" - "Almost Famous" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCfFCFkVSss Rita Kozlov - "Welcome to Agents Week" (the math on scaling agents to the masses) https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-agents-week/#the-math-on-scaling-agents-to-the-masses TOPIC - LOOPS & SOFTWARE FACTORIES (ROUND 2) "The Coming Loop" - Armin Ronacher https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/ Dillon's software-design skills repo https://github.com/dmmulroy/skills Rhys tweets at Sam Altman re junior engineers (etc.) https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2053177733598077340 TOPIC - RECEIPTS REQUIRED shadcn tweet ("Are you sure?") https://x.com/shadcn/status/2069054418247393389 Theo Brown tweet re moving code agents off laptops https://x.com/theo/status/2071083700385955906 Boris Cherny "five archetypes" tweet https://x.com/bcherny/status/2071379474277613732 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Dillon Mulroy - https://x.com/@dillon_mulroy / https://dillonis.online / https://twitch.tv/dillon Rhys Sullivan - https://x.com/@RhysSullivan / https://rhys.dev / https://executor.sh Sunil Pai - https://x.com/@threepointone / https://sunilpai.dev CREDITS The Next Token is sponsored by Cloudflare https://www.cloudflare.com Subscribe on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@NextTokenShow and wherever you get your podcasts.
Recorded June 30, 2026, 2pm Pacific. Live from AI Engineer World's Fair! Fable is still banned (as of recording time, ahem). Advice: Build for agents. We're still talking about loops, but which loops?…
