AI Cowgorithm Disrupts The Herd (Presented by Warp)
Author: Skill Issue Studios
April 16, 2026
Duration: 1:16:51
This week, Robbie and Adam sip on whiskey from the Muff Liquor Company and dive deep into the chaotic state of AI development, Jensen Huang's wild claims about AGI and token spending, and whether we've accidentally turned developers into Ralph Wiggum loopers. They debate auto research workflows, day shift versus night shift coding strategies, the death of MCP servers, AI cow herding collars disrupting agriculture, and why Ghostty's Mitchell just joined Vercel's board. Along the way, they cover vertical terminal layouts, United's new relax row seating, OpenClaw's inability to follow instructions, and why scoring mechanisms might be the key to making AI actually useful.
Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz
In this episode:
Chapters
00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
00:00:36 Sponsor: Warp and Cloud Agents
00:01:19 AI Context Problems & The AGI Debate
00:09:58 Jensen's Hot Takes: Token Spending & AGI Claims
00:13:54 Is MCP Dead? The Protocol Nobody Needs
00:16:35 AI Cowgorithm Disrupts The Herd
00:21:32 OpenCode Gives Money to Pie Contributors
00:43:17 Auto Research: The Night Shift AI Worker
00:49:06 Gia Framework: The Compiler Revolution
00:55:02 ChatGPT Ads & Data Selling Concerns
01:05:51 Whiskey Tasting: Muff Liquor Company
01:15:21 Wrap Up & Where to Find Us
Links
Muff Liquor Company: https://muffliquorcompany.com/
Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
Claude: https://claude.ai/
Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
Pi: https://pi.ai/
MCP (Model Context Protocol): https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
Auto Research: https://github.com/karpathy/auto-research
Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/
CMUX: https://github.com/cmux/cmux
Peon Ping: https://github.com/peon-ping/peon-ping
Railway: https://railway.app/
Vercel: https://vercel.com/
Gea: https://geajs.com/
Impeccable Design Skills: https://impeccable.style/
Radiant Shaders: https://radiantshaders.com/
Mitosis: https://github.com/builderio/mitosis
Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/
Ember: https://emberjs.com/
Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/
TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
Diablo: https://diablo.blizzard.com/
Lucid Motors: https://www.lucidmotors.com/
United Airlines Relax Row: https://www.united.com/
Connect with the hosts
Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/ChuckCarpenter
Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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