IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone

IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone

Author: TWiT September 3, 2026 Duration: 2:43:50

Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.

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IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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Duration: 2:37:02
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IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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IM 883: Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:35:27
Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up. How Claude marks AI-gener…