IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs

IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs

Author: TWiT October 1, 2026 Duration: 2:52:34

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.

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IM 877: Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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IM 875: Florida Dad - Amazon, Anthropic, and the AI Power Struggle [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:15:12
The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovatio…
IM 873: Superman's Mustache - AI in Hollywood [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:31:07
AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on…
IM 872: Infinite Jeffs - Why the Pope's AI Manifesto Matters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:32:25
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh…
IM 871: CTRL-F Techno King - Google's Search Overhaul [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:53:48
Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.…