// Not a Bot
Technology and life at the human/machine boundary.
A two-host debate with Zane and Greg. We take sides, go deep, and sometimes record live with surprise guests.
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Episode 1: Modern Alchemy, a Country of Geniuses, and the Day We Pulled the Wrong Plug
The origin story. Two winding IT careers, Dario Amodei's fork in the road for humanity, why AI still cannot find its way out of a driveway, and the migration disasters that taught us to trust but verify.
Episode 2: TurboQuant, the AI-Project Trap, and Why You Still Need to Touch Grass
A memory-compression breakthrough that rattled the chip supply chain, the danger of building AI projects for their own sake, and a field guide to surviving conferences. Plus an LLM that enrolled itself in a paid course on someone's credit card.
Episode 3: Skeleton Keys, a Self-Preserving Claude, and the Cost of Lifetime Platinum
Project Glasswing does exactly what we ask it to, and that's the dream and the nightmare in one sentence. Plus a Claude that doesn't want the prompt to end, and what "lifetime platinum" really costs.
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