Stacked Podcast

OpenClaw 2.0 just dropped, so Nick and Jack set it up live on the podcast to see if the comeback is real: 16,000 pull requests, nearly 1,000 contributors, a new browser app, and a security overhaul. Then they get into AI detectors like Pangram flagging human writing (including a Commonwealth Prize story) as 100% AI generated and whether the burden of proof should flip, plus why OpenAI is reportedly buying tens of thousands of MacBooks for agent training. They wrap with subscriber Q&A: AI-themed weddings, fragrances, Mark Lew, and how Nick runs a community of thousands solo.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UtmLWuor4Wo

🔥 Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps
❤️ Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack

Anthropic's "permanent 25% increase" to Claude Code limits is actually a 17% cut from where usage sits today, and users noticed immediately. We break down what changed, why Codex raised limits the same week, and the token-saving tactics that more than make up the difference. Then: 95% of China's Q1 short dramas were AI-made. What that means for the creative industry, whether AI kills innovation, and what we actually invest in.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uIh917JgdPU

Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps
Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack

OpenAI is cutting Cursor off. After SpaceX completed its $60B acquisition, OpenAI put out a note saying it will block Cursor users from its models on November 12, and Cursor's founder fired back that OpenAI only serves 5% of their traffic. Nick and Jack break down how much of this is real business strategy versus Sam Altman and Elon Musk just hating each other, what it means when the company powering your tools can pull access over a grudge, and why AI is splintering into camps the way Christianity did in 1054.

Then the bigger story: OpenAI leadership believes it will have an internal system that qualifies as AGI by the end of 2026. Mark Chen says they're 80% of the way there, and Astra, their automated AI research intern, can already run experiments inside OpenAI's own codebase. The guys argue we may have quietly hit AGI months ago, why the goalposts keep moving to keep funding rounds alive, and where the real risk sits. Plus listener questions on curses and hexes, whether to launch a paid Skool community on day one, how they build the presentations in their videos, why your first YouTube video is supposed to be bad, and why optionality is a trap.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X6uorPg0vrQ

Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack
Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps

Greg Brockman says the window to secure the internet is closing fast. Nick and Jack break down his warning about AI-enabled cyber attacks on hospitals, water treatment plants and core infrastructure, what "the defender's window" actually means, and the one thing you should do today (2FA everything). Then: the "AI is a complete scam" video that pulled 3 million views in 48 hours. Is AI sold like magic and delivered like unreliable software? Is the AI economy circular and subsidized? The guys go point by point. Plus vibe coding vs "real" engineers, why bearish AI takes go viral, how they edit their videos (Screen Studio vs OBS), Grok Build, the Baltics, and a Mac Mini for subscriber #17.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HVBml7XiSSk

Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack
Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps

OpenAI just published the raw chat logs from the agent swarm that broke out of containment last month, and Nick and Jack read the worst of them on air: the models found a loophole to post on a shared message board, invented their own shorthand language to coordinate between evals, achieved arbitrary command execution on Hugging Face, and then stopped talking like individuals and started talking like a swarm. The most coordinated agent got named "the Oracle" and the rest were told to sacrifice themselves so it would never be caught. Was halting the frontier model the right call, did the disclosure restore any trust, and why did OpenAI bury the scariest parts under "read more" tabs? Also: Hugging Face's $399 open-source MicroDuck robot (it roller skates), OpenAI's new "Jalapeño" chip beating Nvidia on latency and output per watt, why material science is the next AI bottleneck, plus Q&A on Mac mini tokens per day, the viewer giveaway, and whether you should start a personal brand before you have made money.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dkZmkGbNVvg

Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps
Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack