Building podscan.fm at @audiohook in public. Raising all the boats with kindness. 🎙️ tbf.fm · ✍️ tbf.link/blog

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Stats update! Since Podscan tracks the entire podcasting ecosystem, we can reliably project growth. 2026 will get very close to the pandemic anomaly levels. New podcasts are released at an all-time high. Episode counts, too. Don't sleep on this medium.
Podscan tracks every single podcast out there. And 2025 is shaping up to be the second-largest year for podcasting. Huge pandemic boost. Then, a dip. Now, pods are picking up speed. Don't skip podcasts in your marketing & reputation strategies, as a business or a professional.
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If you trim down your prompts, you’re making it worse. At best, you repeat yourself, you re-describe ideas in several ways, you go on tangents, and you explore way beyond the initial scope. More context means more clarity, at least for the LLM.
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This is how I spend my tokens
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Right now, we're in the "omg AI can write code and solve math problems, what a miracle" stage. But the true Cambrian explosion will be near-instantaneous smart inference at the edge. Real autopilot for any vehicle. No spam ever again. And that's just the obvious stuff.
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The more you think about this, the more scenarios appear. You constantly fact-check what you say or hear. A society based on proven facts, not rhetorical manipulation. Devices that assist you smartly in whatever you do, because they understand context and intent. Infinite potential.
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It looks like taking a stroll through Azeroth while watching your agents do the work has similar effects to actually taking a walk, at least on the level of “distract your conscious mind so that your subconscious can work on the other stuff”. Interesting.
is anyone in tpot actually going to commit to world of warcraft im sitting on three level 20s in the beta and did this with no drop to my productivity. in fact my productivity may have increased because now im at the computer watching codex all the time who's joining me
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A couple of my learnings reflected here: - adversarial reviews (ideally with a 3rd agent as arbiter) at every step - max coverage test suite, unit to e2e, no exceptions. TDD must be baked into agentic flows - human review matters more for non-code stuff, particularly at the architecture and decision-making stages - contextmaxxing in the repo: docs, ARDs, customer ICP descriptions, runbooks, schema commentary, all must live INSIDE the codebase, not just attached to it - contextmaxxing in the process: track every agentic conversation + changes made (via Entire or similar) and attach to ticket/PR - dev/testing DB content matters more than ever: dry runs, workflow simulations, edge case hunting, performance measuring needs to happen before things hit prod, seeds aren't dummy data; they need to be representative of prod, if not in volume, then in shape - code that works best for agents doesn't look best to humans: humans need to think of themselves as validators, not proofreaders. Comprehension is now a function of our tools, not a state of our minds. Weird, novel, and kinda scary, but things operate at speeds that typing letters into a text field can never catch up to again.
It takes a while to build the confidence, but there's no future where you're manually reviewing every line of agent code. Not much acceleration in that. You need adversarial agent reviews, you need automated testing, and maybe you spot check. That's it. From prompt to production!
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holy moly I just realized that I literally typed an "it's not this, it's that" phrase. can't tell me AI wiritng isn't doing things to our brains
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can i see proof of the effectiveness of adversarial reviews? Does it vary if you put different models against each other? What happens when you tell the same model to improve (in the same session, vs another sesssion) Who is doing this research. Am I gonna have to?
A couple of my learnings reflected here: - adversarial reviews (ideally with a 3rd agent as arbiter) at every step - max coverage test suite, unit to e2e, no exceptions. TDD must be baked into agentic flows - human review matters more for non-code stuff, particularly at the architecture and decision-making stages - contextmaxxing in the repo: docs, ARDs, customer ICP descriptions, runbooks, schema commentary, all must live INSIDE the codebase, not just attached to it - contextmaxxing in the process: track every agentic conversation + changes made (via Entire or similar) and attach to ticket/PR - dev/testing DB content matters more than ever: dry runs, workflow simulations, edge case hunting, performance measuring needs to happen before things hit prod, seeds aren't dummy data; they need to be representative of prod, if not in volume, then in shape - code that works best for agents doesn't look best to humans: humans need to think of themselves as validators, not proofreaders. Comprehension is now a function of our tools, not a state of our minds. Weird, novel, and kinda scary, but things operate at speeds that typing letters into a text field can never catch up to again.
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Why does it feel like such a MASSIVE waste of time to watch Claude deliberate and talk to itself for 20 minutes during its planning phase, but it's perfectly fine to brainstorm, discuss, draft and re-draft a spec (v4.final.2.final.md) for 2 hours in a meeting of 5 people?
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This short story by Fredric Brown, written in 1954, is my favorite hot take on AGI.
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Introducing Gemini 4 Argon, our new frontier model, rolling out to cyber defenders starting today, and more widely as soon as possible. I am really excited by the progress we have made here. Argon is priced at $2 in and $10 out during introductory pricing!
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Big news: @audiohook has acquired @podscanfm. @arvidkahl has built an incredible platform that analyzes more than 70,000+ podcast episodes every day across transcripts, contextual categories, brand suitability, brand mentions, and sentiment. I’m excited to have Arvid joining Audiohook and to keep building on what he created. We’re also opening much of Podscan’s podcast intelligence to the industry for free. More on why we acquired Podscan and what’s next: audiohook.com/press/audiohoo…
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Big news! 🎉 My podcast data platform @podscanfm has been acquired by @audiohook. If you've followed my journey, you know this isn't my first time making a call like this. FeedbackPanda taught me a lot about knowing when a partnership makes more sense than staying solo. This one's a different shape though. FBP was an exit. This is closer to a merge, and I'm not going anywhere (because I'm definitely not done yet.) And Audiohook wasn't a stranger. Podscan's tech has already been powering a piece of their platform for a while now. This formalizes a relationship that was already working, and gives me real resources to build the roadmap faster for the people who've been using Podscan every day. (Turning a customer into an acquirer has been a new one for me, but it came with free alignment and well-established trust!) I’m staying on to lead Podscan through this next chapter. Same product, same commitment to the people who've trusted Podscan with their data, just with a lot more behind it than I had solo. I sent a longer note to Podscan customers today. Sharing it here too, since a lot of you have been part of this founder journey from the start, one way or another. More soon (as I am quite literally back at work, improving the Podscan API as we speak.)
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When I got my Matic, I knew that it was a different beast than any other vacuum I had ever owned, and NOW I know why. So cool to see the founders behind such incredible tech also be so liberal with sharing their learnings. (Also, it's the best vacuum I ever owned.) (Not an ad.)
After 9 years. 16K+ family homes. 500M sqft inside real homes covered, we know home robots are being built in wrong order. So we built Matic the way nature grows a child. Finally, sharing our vision: 1.⁠ ⁠Why robots get stuck at the demo 2.⁠ ⁠Why labs can't ship robots 3.⁠ ⁠Why we started with eyes, not hands 4.⁠ ⁠The 99.999% rule in robotics 5.⁠ ⁠Where Matic is going next 1. Why most robots get stuck at demos Robot demos look brilliant in a room arranged around its limitations: familiar lighting, predictable furniture, nothing troublesome on the floor. A family’s home makes no such accommodations. There are cables, toys, shifting rugs and, occasionally, dog poop. Yes, humanoids will need to avoid that too. Repeating a task under familiar conditions of uncluttered floors is not the same as handling an unfamiliar home with all its chaos. 2. Why labs can't ship robots SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is how a robot maps its surroundings and locates itself within them. Ask most academics and they'll tell you it's a solved problem. But real homes are the most chaotic spaces that exist. There are glass doors that look like open doorways, mirrors, stairs, rugs, charging cables, and Legos placed all around. So ask yourself: if indoor mapping and navigation is "solved," where are the robots? Why aren't airports, hotels and grocery stores full of them? Calling it “solved” misses the question families actually care about: can I leave this thing alone and trust it? 3. Why we started with eyes, not hands Nature doesn't give birth to a fully working human. We took our cue from how nature develops humans: capabilities built on one another. Children learn to see before they learn to grab, and to grab before they learn to plan and handle the unexpected. Perception comes first. Manipulation follows. More complex responsibilities come after that. At every stage, the robot must earn the next job by doing its current one well enough. Before asking a robot to pick up a sock, we wanted it to understand where it was, where the sock was, and how to reach it. Most of the industry started at the top, with humanoids. We started at the bottom, with a robot whose job is to see and move through a home precisely with 1cm accuracy in any lighting condition. Floor cleaning gave that foundation an immediately useful job. It forced us to confront navigation, clutter, privacy and everyday reliability before reaching for more complex chores. The floor cleaner isn’t a detour from our larger ambition. It is how we’re building toward it. 4. The 99.999% rule in robotics At 90%, one in ten decisions is wrong, and a robot makes thousands in a single clean. That's the robot that bumps, gets lost, and falls down the stairs. Every extra nine is a new mountain. The failures get rarer, harder to find, and exponentially harder to fix. They barely even happen until they happen in your home. Matic's visual SLAM runs at 99.999% in 16K+ homes. We’re the ONLY unsupervised home robot at scale with pure vision-only full autonomy. If you ask us, the gap between 80% and 99.999% is where our 9 years of engineering went. We close that gap inside real homes. When Matic handles something imperfectly, it saves a short clip and keeps it on the device. It only leaves if the family chooses to share it. If they do, it gets labeled, fed back into the model, and every Matic gets smarter, including theirs. Families control what leaves their homes. We do the work of making the product better. Better robots earn trust > trust brings more homes > and more homes teach the robot more. 5. Where Matic is going next Phase one was perception and it's nearly done. Matic has covered 500 million square feet, 400K miles in thousands of real lived-in homes. Now phase two is going to be about manipulation. And our idea is to build a robot that doesn't just move through your home, but acts in it to eliminate even more chores. Each step must be useful today, not justified by something we promise tomorrow. The evolution of Matic is the revolution. The goal isn’t to put the most impressive humanoid in your living room. It’s giving your family time and energy back through robots that earn your trust, protect your privacy, and help without becoming another responsibility. More time for each other. Less work getting in the way. That’s Matic. Get yours today at maticrobots.com
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Dots:
22% Yes!
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22% What?
24% WHAT?!?
255 votes • Final results
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Your SaaS should have an API.
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From personal experience: build the API first, and set the MCP / CLI / interface-du-jour on top of that. That's the best way to keep permissions and capabilities aligned and you don't need to duplicate code.
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Placebo released a new song just a few hours ago, and it has this wonderful line: "Take my advice, I never use it." Great description for a lot of the influencer content on social media. (I occassionaly fall prey to that, too!)
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Haha I knew it 🤣
Whenever my analysis and inference GPU fleet starts getting 503's and 429s on the OpenAI flex tier, a new OpenAI model release is imminent. Is there a prediction market for this? 🤣
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