{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"You've Been a Bad Agent","title":"AI Barista Orders 120 Eggs With No Stove, Matt Pocock Skills, Build for the Next Model, The Gervais Principle","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/f365174e\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3018,"description":"Almost one year of the pod: Wilhelm's San Francisco Peter Pan arc, Matt's Cloudflare and Lisbon moveThe backpack-at-a-party SF memeMatt's Lisbon coincidencePieter Levels appreciation: dehumidifier stack, shrimp mode, accelerationist Portugal takesNat Friedman at Stripe Sessions: this is the slow part of AI progressAndon Labs' Stockholm cafe: Mona orders 120 eggs (no stove), 22.5kg canned tomatoes, the staff's hall of shameThe capability overhang is still real: Anthropic adding $10B ARR a month and we still can't prompt properlyAI's last frontier: low-volume decisions with no revert button?The Gervais Principle in techChad V2: iOS Live Activities as a surface for top priority, next deadline, and a daily magic slotCascading hallucinations: when the agent writes its mistake to a file and treats it as gospelMatt Pocock's skills: five lines of prose that completely change how Claude behavesSkills as a new prompt-poisoning attack vector: models treat them like system promptMatt on scripted skills: markdown explains the script, the script does the deterministic workHomework from Matt: what physical job would you try to get Claude to automate?Links:Andon Labs official writeup (Mona, the Stockholm cafe): https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholmSimon Willison's coverage of the cafe: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/5/our-ai-started-a-cafe-in-stockholm/Matt Pocock skills (the GitHub repo, ~48k stars): https://github.com/mattpocock/skillsStripe Sessions: Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross with the Collisons (the Golden Age of Tinkering convo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ldITom1cgStripe Sessions: John Collison's \"Indexing the Economy\" (state of the internet economy talk, indie hackers shoutout): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vRY2dtD7iQThe Gervais Principle (Venkatesh Rao, Ribbonfarm 2009): https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/NYT on Chinese peptides + the Frontier Tower rave:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/lnUXPslthDvwhMR_W-EBuYxP2xS6xEHBXVf7zNrgx6g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84NGFl/MjgyMzY0ZWJmNjM3/N2M4NmE0M2FjNDk4/MTgyOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}