{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI After Dark ","title":"Why This AI Startup Doesn't Use AI For Math","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/891cc9d4\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3610,"description":"Hunter Honnessy, CTO and Co-Founder at Unlimited.ai, gets into what defensibility actually looks like when anyone can vibe code a SaaS over a weekend. Conversation runs through building moats with data plus intelligence layers, why finance software doesn't have to suck, forward deployed engineering, where vibe coding leaves junior devs, a grounded take on AI fear mongering, and why 2026 is the year agentic workflows stop being primitive.\nClick here to watch a video of this episode.\n0:00:00 Defensibility in an AI-native world\n0:04:00 User delight and the wow factor as a moat\n0:07:00 Who Unlimited serves and finance's legacy problem\n0:11:00 Why business-minded CTOs ship faster\n0:15:00 Monthly releases and cutting prototypes to hours\n0:21:00 Forward deployed engineering and what keeps Hunter up at night\n0:26:00 Vibe coding and the future of junior engineers\n0:33:00 Painkillers vs vitamins and how Unlimited came together\n0:39:00 Hiring cracked engineers and the Jim Simons lesson\n0:45:00 AI as augmentation, not replacement\n0:46:30 2026 as the year of agentic workflows\n0:52:45 What's next for Hunter and Unlimited\n0:57:00 AI fear mongering vs the good news nobody reports\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_ai\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io\nhttps://www.facebook.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.instagram.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_io\nhttps://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/c0HwyU-IZhsvyIYSsSdOUiGAVx9bBJQ8wi3A6OCGZVU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NjRl/MjJmNmQyM2Q5OTAy/Y2U4OTIyMWM4ZjMy/NzMzMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}