{"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":"\nAlmost one year of the pod: Wilhelm's San Francisco Peter Pan arc, Matt's Cloudflare and Lisbon move\nThe backpack-at-a-party SF meme\nMatt's Lisbon coincidence\nPieter Levels appreciation: dehumidifier stack, shrimp mode, accelerationist Portugal takes\nNat Friedman at Stripe Sessions: this is the slow part of AI progress\nAndon Labs' Stockholm cafe: Mona orders 120 eggs (no stove), 22.5kg canned tomatoes, the staff's hall of shame\nThe capability overhang is still real: Anthropic adding $10B ARR a month and we still can't prompt properly\nAI's last frontier: low-volume decisions with no revert button?\nThe Gervais Principle in tech\nChad V2: iOS Live Activities as a surface for top priority, next deadline, and a daily magic slot\nCascading hallucinations: when the agent writes its mistake to a file and treats it as gospel\nMatt Pocock's skills: five lines of prose that completely change how Claude behaves\nSkills as a new prompt-poisoning attack vector: models treat them like system prompt\nMatt on scripted skills: markdown explains the script, the script does the deterministic work\nHomework from Matt: what physical job would you try to get Claude to automate?\n\nLinks:\nAndon Labs official writeup (Mona, the Stockholm cafe): https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm\nSimon Willison's coverage of the cafe: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/5/our-ai-started-a-cafe-in-stockholm/\nMatt Pocock skills (the GitHub repo, ~48k stars): https://github.com/mattpocock/skills\nStripe Sessions: Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross with the Collisons (the Golden Age of Tinkering convo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ldITom1cg\nStripe Sessions: John Collison's \"Indexing the Economy\" (state of the internet economy talk, indie hackers shoutout): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vRY2dtD7iQ\nThe Gervais Principle (Venkatesh Rao, Ribbonfarm 2009): https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/\nNYT 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}