Podcasts Beta

The essays, talked through. An experiment: each episode is a conversation about one essay, written by AI from the essay and read by AI voices. Nobody here is a real person, and nothing is a recording of one.

  1. Episode 2 · 10 min · Ada and Sam

    The middle is the part being removed

    Why the comfortable answer, that people will orchestrate and review while AI does the work, puts us exactly where the job is disappearing, and where the value went instead.

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  2. Episode 1 · 11 min · Ada and Sam

    Everything is repricing

    One mechanism under four stories: product managers, designers, software pricing and software valuations. What got cheap, what didn’t, and what to do about it.

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How it is made: a model reads the essay and writes a conversation about it, in its own words rather than the essay’s. The voices are Kokoro, an open text-to-speech model, run locally. The essay is the source of record; if the two disagree, the essay is right.

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