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The Human Bottleneck

AI video models, impersonation scams and the growing distrust of public social feeds. Andy and Pete explore the shift towards private online communities, new ways of working wit...

We launch Normie Mode, a new way to compare AI models by everyday tasks rather than technical benchmarks, then explore better interfaces for working with agents, the future of s...

AI Model Explosion

This week on Intelligence Snacks, we explore Jev and the rise of near-free decision models, what faster and cheaper judgement could mean for coding agents and business workflows...

26 September 2026

The Internet We Deserve

Pete and Andy explore FIPS, a new approach to networking that makes personal computers directly addressable, lets files and apps stay on local machines, and opens up new possibi...

18 September 2026

The AI Industry Has It All Wrong

Paul Itoi, founder of Stakwork, joins Intelligence Snacks to explain why AI agents are better at discovery than repetition. The conversation covers reliable enterprise AI, facto...

11 September 2026

The Malleable Computer

This week Pete and Andy explore how working with AI is changing as agents take on longer-running jobs, software becomes cheaper to build, and recurring work moves beyond a singl...

4 September 2026

AI Agent Economies

Piers Cockram joins Intelligence Snacks to explore what happens when AI agents can hold wallets, make payments and rent infrastructure for themselves. We get into delegated fina...

One-Person Startups

Rod Bishop joins Pete Winn and Andy David to explore AI agents, one-person startups, disappearing software moats, venture capital and why the future may belong to fast followers...

Introducing - Intelligence Snacks

Pete, Andy and Anthony explore the shift toward local AI models, private AI and model sovereignty, before diving into the architecture of modern AI systems. From orchestration l...

AI is Great for Small Businesses

An argument for why AI is asymmetrically positive for small businesses, rewarding firms built on trust, judgment, local knowledge and owned context while punishing those built o...

Most Tasks Don't Need Frontier Models

Most tasks don't need the smartest frontier model available. The real bottleneck isn't intelligence, it's how much of your own attention you have left to check the work. On the ...

What is Loop Engineering?

This week X declared prompt engineering dead and loop engineering its replacement, after the creator of Claude Code said he no longer prompts his agents, he builds loops that pr...

AI Works Better Inside a System

Recent AI progress is making it easy to believe the model is what matters. This week we make the case that for most real work it isn't, and that the reliable way to get useful o...

Is AI Actually Cheap?

Everyone says AI keeps getting cheaper. So why do the bills keep going up? This week we follow the money behind "cheap" intelligence, the subsidies quietly propping up your subs...

AI Killed the Billable Hour

The billable hour wasn't just a pricing model. It was a way of avoiding the question of what professional judgment is actually worth. AI has made that question unavoidable — and...

Personal AI You Can Trust

What are you not telling your AI? This week with Mark Suman from Maple on privacy, candour, and the work that actually moves a business.

Unruggable Productivity

Businesses racing to adopt Claude and ChatGPT are handing Anthropic and OpenAI a kill switch on their operations. Here's why that's different from any platform risk that came be...

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