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Weekly AI Clarity
All signal. No noise.
The latest AI news, memes, and meta for AI product managers and engineers to AI better and build better AI.
Hosted by Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy Co-Founders of Clarity
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AI News + Takes
Strategic perspectives on the week's releases, for tech executives and builders.
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AI Memes
Laughs for everyone who works in this industry. The week is absurd. We say so.
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What's The Meta?
The tactical layer. Tools, harnesses and workflows we are testing on ourselves.
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GLM 5.3 Flash Almost Matched Sonnet For 90% Less [Episode summary goes here] - AI Evals Explained With Memes [Episode summary goes here]
- What OpenAI Dev Day 2026 Means For AI Builders [Episode summary goes here]
- Cursor Just Showed How Much You’re Wasting On AI [Episode summary goes here]
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Opus 5.5 Made Claude Code Usable Again [Episode summary goes here] - Stop Writing Code To Clean Up After Your AI [Episode summary goes here]
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AI Isn’t Out Of Control, We’re Bad At Giving Instructions [Episode summary goes here] - Opus 5 Is The First Model That Gets Worse With Use [Episode summary goes here]
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Stop Letting Your Best Model Do The Work Cursor rebuilt the exact same database six different ways. The cost ranged from $1,339 to over $10,000 on an identical task, and the win wasn’t switching to che… -
Your AI Has Amnesia, That’s Why 95% of Deployments Fail [Episode summary goes here] -
OpenAI Lost Control of Its Own Model I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan to report from the front lines. The whole industry backed an $18 trillion letter defending open-weight models, then Anthr… -
China Is Winning the AI Race I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan to report from the front lines. This week China took the lead: Moonshot’s Kimi K3 became the first open-weight model to t… -
Why the Best AI Teams Stopped Chasing Models 90% of companies can’t point to a single sustained dollar of value from AI. The ones that can are seeing a 3.7x median return. The difference isn’t the model, i… -
AI Isn’t Killing PMs, It’s Rebuilding Them I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for a special edition. No news, no memes, just the meta: the traditional product management role is dissolving, and somet… - How This VC Measured His Way From Obese and Suicidal to 10% Body Fat Arnaud Auger went from obese, pre-diabetic, depressed and privately suicidal to 10% body fat and a Spartan World Championship qualifier. His method wasn't willp…
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The Real Reason The US Government Killed Fable 5 I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for an emergency episode. On June 9th, Anthropic released Fable 5, the most capable model ever put in front of the public… -
Why The Harness Is Now More Valuable Than The Model I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into Anthropic's best model getting banned by the US government and the four … -
How We Shipped a Production App Using an AI Swarm I sat down with Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. Anthropic dropped their most powerful model free for 13 days, we stress tested it on a live produc… -
Here's Why Token Maxing Is Bankrupting Companies I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into Uber blowing its entire 2026 AI budget in four months (and the mystery c… -
The $2B Context Engineering Playbook Every AI Builder Needs Right Now I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into the Manus $2B context engineering playbook and the 6 principles behind t… -
The Agent Meta Shift Most Builders Haven't Caught Yet I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into Gary Tan shipping a memory system for agents in 12 days while running YC… -
The $5.5B Proof That APIs Are Dead for Enterprise I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity breakdown. We get into what that shift means for AI builders, the SpaceX Colossus deal giving A… -
The Agent Harness Battle That Will Shape Every Builder's Stack I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for our weekly AI clarity series. OpenAI dropped an open source Agents SDK and Cursor dropped their own in the same week.… -
Why 44% of Employees Are Actively Sabotaging AI at Work AI sabotage isn't a technology problem, it's a trust problem and until leaders understand that, no rollout is going to stick. -
The Hidden Health Crisis Destroying High Performing Founders 72% of founders report mental health challenges — founders are twice as likely as the general population to face depression, suicidal thoughts, and substance ab… -
The Next Phase of Human Evolution Is an Engineering Problem I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan to go deep on his 10 part essay "The Misframing of Longevity." His argument: the longevity movement is built on the wrong… - You are the alignment problem Introducing Epistemic Me: Open Source AI for Personalized Belief Systems
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The Philosophy That'll Change How You See Reality Introducing Epistemic Me: Open Source AI for Personalized Belief Systems - Your Cells Are Goal-Seeking Agents (And What That Means for AI Alignment) Introducing Epistemic Me: Open Source AI for Personalized Belief Systems
- Why Your Product Has Too Many Features (Ex-Atlassian Engineer Explains) What if the biggest threat to your product isn’t what you haven’t built yet, but everything you already have?
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Building AI Products Right What if the biggest mistake in AI development isn’t what you’re building—but how you’re measuring it?In this episode of ABCs for Building the Future, host Rober… - Every Job Can Be A Climate Job With Louisa Henry What if the most powerful lever for saving the planet isn’t a new technology — but a mindset shift at your current job?
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13 year old immigrant to AI Thought Leader Opening Hook: - AI Context Engineering = AI Personalization Engineering Can an AI truly understand you if it doesn’t understand your beliefs?
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Your Brain is a Beautiful Lie | Building AI That Understands Humanity In this episode of the ABCs for Building the Future Podcast, we delve into the boundaries of consciousness and the Markov Blanket concept. We explore questions … -
Your Brain LIES To You Where Do You End? -
What The Experts Are Saying About AI, Longevity, and Consciousness In this episode, Robert and Jonathan recap their recent whirlwind tour through Sidebar (a product leadership conference) and Vitalist Bay (a longevity and biote… -
A Technologist’s Quest for Meaning Juan Carlos isn’t just an SVP of Technology at a fast-scaling healthtech company. -
The Secret Weapon for Personalized AI Coaching? Let’s get real. -
AI Will Replace You... But Your Brand Will Save You What happens when AI can do almost everything better than you? -
Will Quantum Solve AI Consciousness? What if the key to unlocking AI alignment—and even building conscious machines—starts not with data, but with the deeply personal, evolving structure of human b… -
AI Alignment: Beliefs and Mental Health What if the root of mental illness — and the key to AI truly understanding us — lies hidden in the tangled web of our beliefs? -
Building In Public: How To Build An AI Health Coach What if your health coach didn’t just know your data—but actually understood you? -
Religion and AI? “If we’re not aligned on AI alignment, we’re pretty non-aligned.” – Robert Ta -
The “One-Man Startup” that landed Rover - How David Stepania Built a Startup Without a Team, Code, or Funding Most founders wait until they have the perfect product. David Stepania didn’t. -
From NEAR DEATH to Top Exec with Rahul Chaudhari What happens when your life crashes—literally—and you’re forced to pause? -
Agency: How AI and Humans Are Changing Together What if humans aren’t the smartest beings forever? What if we are just a stepping stone in the growth of something bigger—like artificial intelligence? -
As we shape AI, AI is reshaping us What if humans aren’t the center of intelligence evolution—but just a transitional phase in the scaffolding of planetary computation? -
How AI Will Redefine Humanity What If AI Evolves Like We Did? -
AI x Health = High Trust REQUIRED In this episode, hosts Robert and Jonathan take us through the latest developments in Epistemic Me’s AI health coach project. The team shares insights from rece… -
EVERY Market Needs Hyper-Personalization How does supply meet demand? -
Solving AI Alignment by Modeling Beliefs in Code What if you had an AI health coach that could truly understand your unique worldview—and use it to help you become the best version of yourself? -
From Hollywood to SaaS with Darren Fanton, CEO of ScreenSpace Welcome to Episode 4 of the ABCs for Building The Future Podcast -
What's YOUR Next Best Question? Welcome to Episode 3 of The ABCs for Building The Future -
The Mind’s OS: How Beliefs Shape Everything “What’s the relationship between our beliefs, the way we experience suffering, and the way AI understands us?” -
How can AI understand us, if we don't fully understand ourselves? Introducing Epistemic Me: Open Source AI for Personalized Belief Systems