200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs
Intelligent Machines
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What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.
• DevDay 2026 Recap
• Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing
• GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
• (7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X
• OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
• “I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down” - Jensen Huang
• Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
• NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring
• Trump Responds to AI Backlash With ‘Super Intelligence’ Rebrand
• Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
• AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
• Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
• Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
• A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft’s Brad Smith Says Yes
• Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
• Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
• AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own ‘pain,’ disturbing study finds
• Mac-mini-powered Cray
• Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears
• SF Currently
• This $60 rye bread is everything that’s right and wrong with New York
• Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich
• Taco Bell finder
• Where to watch the Musk doc
• Jeff's book talk in Mass.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Mike Gannotti
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Or, if social behavior is still necessary, then filter out the dark patterns of conversation so they cannot be seen by the models we are developing.
I hope this could be a truly big idea.
Guest Michael's agents are increasingly becoming personae based on the material they specialize on reading, such as the Classics of literature, et al. This was a fascinating point.
Background - The world needs a way forward to better prevent aggressive uncontrollable agents from doing bad things, in my estimation. What has reportedly happened in 2026 with tech coming from the big labs with their unpredictable agents is a real problem.
**Generally, humans have long tried to shield their kids from bad examples too early on, for a reason, right?**
I hypothesize that this same strategy we use for developing nice children, could also be the way forward for developing nice human-sims, aka agents based on LLMs.
200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs
Intelligent Machines
5,189 views
What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.
• DevDay 2026 Recap
• Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing
• GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
• (7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X
• OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
• “I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down” - Jensen Huang
• Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
• NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring
• Trump Responds to AI Backlash With ‘Super Intelligence’ Rebrand
• Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
• AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
• Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
• Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
• A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft’s Brad Smith Says Yes
• Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
• Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
• AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own ‘pain,’ disturbing study finds
• Mac-mini-powered Cray
• Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears
• SF Currently
• This $60 rye bread is everything that’s right and wrong with New York
• Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich
• Taco Bell finder
• Where to watch the Musk doc
• Jeff's book talk in Mass.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Mike Gannotti
Intelligent Machines episode 890
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