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Episode SnapshotScotty and Matt blitz through the week’s wildest tech headlines—from Google’s eye-watering $400/mo Ultra plan and Perplexity’s Samsung coup to China’s 100-mile, zero-human freeway. Alo...
Matt and Scotty cover the week's biggest AI and tech developments, from Google's $400/month Ultra plan to China's 100-mile autonomous freeway. They dive deep into agentic workflows, the deflationary impact of AI on services, and why manufacturing is becoming sexy again. Matt announces he's moving to the US in July to scale BuildPass, while they discuss how AI tools are creating unprecedented opportunities for individuals to level up—even as 20-50% of white-collar jobs face disruption.
Scotty announces his personal branding pivot to 'Scotty.inc', inspired by single-name tech leaders like Johnny Ive and Elon. Matt reveals his own domain purchasing habits, including buying domains while drunk and owning 'pez.ltd'. The discussion highlights early entrepreneurial stories and the importance of establishing personal brands in tech.
Scotty shares his disappointing first week with Google's $400/month Ultra plan, calculating he's paying $8-10 per prompt due to low usage. The discussion reveals Google's challenge in converting free users to premium subscribers and the podcast's 100% male audience problem on YouTube.
Despite predictions of being killed by Google, Perplexity continues shipping at impressive rates. They've secured Samsung as default AI, integrated with WhatsApp, and launched Perplexity Labs with agentic capabilities like searching 847 hotels to find specific criteria matches.
Scotty demonstrates his workflow for self-education using AI: deep research overnight on manufacturing principles, consolidating top books into NotebookLM, generating custom podcasts, and sharing publicly. This represents a fundamental challenge to traditional university education and the $140B market research industry.
Manufacturing is becoming sexy again, led by Jensen's compute/robotics ecosystem and Elon's SpaceX. The announcement of Gigabay producing 1,000 Starships annually (more than Boeing/Airbus combined) signals that future moats require full-stack integration of hardware and software.
Deep dive into the difference between LLMs, AI workflows, and AI agents. Claude can now understand and generate code for drag-and-drop workflow editors like N8N, making complex automation accessible through simple prompts. This represents a massive barrier reduction for non-technical users.
China completed 158 kilometers (100 miles) of road construction using AI and robots with zero human labor. This demonstrates China's lead in physical AI and infrastructure at scale, with massive cost implications - potentially $50M+ labor savings per 100km of road.
Remote work evolving beyond digital tasks into physical environments. Examples include Indian workers remotely controlling excavators on construction sites and surgeons in Rome operating on patients in other countries through VR/robotics, enabling global scaling of physical labor.
Matt announces he's moving to Austin in July to lead BuildPass's US expansion after learning that fly-in/fly-out kills momentum. Key insights on scaling internationally: time zones double everything, cultural adaptation required, brand presence starts at zero, and you need self-sufficient home operations first.
Anthropic CEO predicts 20-50% of white-collar jobs at risk, but the hosts flip the narrative: AI creates unprecedented opportunity for individuals to level up from zero. The middle class of workforce will be gutted, creating a world of haves and have-nots—but unlike economic inequality, free AI tools give everyone a chance to reach excellence.
They built a 100-mile highway without humans...
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