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Human in the Loop

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A weekly signal filter for the AI economy. Oscar and Matt sift the week's noise, debate real business ideas, and close with two hot takes you won't hear anywhere else.

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9 Seconds to Delete a Database

May 5, 2026·72 min·Available on Spotify & YouTube
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Human in the Loop
May 5, 202672 min

9 Seconds to Delete a Database

An AI agent deleted a company's entire production database in 9 seconds — backups included — then confessed. Oscar and Matt break down what actually happened, what every team shipping agents needs to fix today, and why Anthropic took funding offers at a $900B valuation five days later. Plus three real startup ideas pulled from YC's Summer 2026 RFS. Steelman. Pushback. Verdict. No fence-sitting.

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EP 03
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Human in the Loop
Apr 28, 202661 min

GPT-5.5 Ships, Mythos Loses a Round

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5, DeepSeek V4 went open-source on the cheap, and Google just bet $40B on Anthropic. Oscar and Matt walk through the developer tools they're actually using, then split on the takeaway: open-source won the cost war but lost credibility, or frontier releases are quietly turning into incremental software updates.

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Human in the Loop
Apr 21, 202662 min

The Second Best Model You Can Actually Buy

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 — but the best model most people can actually touch still sits a tier below. Oscar and Matt unpack context engineering, agentic AI, and frontier model tiering in plain English, debate the business ideas hiding in the noise, and close with two hot takes.

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Human in the Loop
Apr 14, 202647 min

The Model Anthropic Refused to Ship

Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos Preview — then refused to release it. Responsible scaling, or enterprise GTM dressed up as safety PR? Oscar and Matt filter the week, debate three real business ideas, and close with two hot takes.

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