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They Might Be Self-Aware

Daniel Bishop, Hunter Powers

"They Might Be Self-Aware" is your weekly tech frenzy with Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop. Every Monday, these ex-co-workers, now tech savants, strip down the AI and technology revolution to its nuts and bolts. Forget the usual sermon. Hunter and Daniel are here to inject raw, unfiltered insight into AI"s labyrinth – from its radiant promises to its shadowy puzzles. Whether you"re AI-illiterate or a digital sage, their sharp banter will be your gateway to the heart of tech"s biggest quandary. Jack

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00:44:02

AI Wrangling Is The New Job

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2026/02/03

AI tools are replacing coding and now the job is AI wrangling. Claude Code, subagents, fake AI ROI, bans, and why this feels addictive. I don’t “code” anymore. I run AI tools and hope nothing breaks.In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter and Daniel break down what working in tech actually looks like right now: juggling Claude Code, Copilot-style AI coding, subagents, terminals, and half-finished ideas moving faster than human comprehension. This isn’t vibe coding — it’s directing

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00:41:09

Why Senior Engineers Are Scared of Claude Code

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2026/01/30

Senior engineers aren’t scared of AI owning ideas. They’re scared Claude Code lets juniors ship faster than expertise can defend.Claude Code isn’t replacing engineers — it’s replacing seniority. In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, we break down why junior developers with AI are out-shipping veterans, why “vibe coding” works more often than anyone wants to admit, and why the real advantage now isn’t mastery — it’s momentum.This isn’t a tools episode. It’s a power shift.We talk about using AI

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00:37:41

AI Agents Wrote This App With 0 Humans

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2026/01/27

AI agents built a real app in a week with near-zero humans. Claude Code, agentic AI, and what happens when software starts building itself.This episode is about agentic AI crossing the line from “helpful” to self-directed.Claude Code didn’t assist.It built the thing.Hunter and Daniel break down how terminal-based AI agents are now writing production code, using tools autonomously, and quietly improving the tools that improve themselves. If you still think this is “just autocomplete,” this episode is

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00:35:24

Tesla's Big Update, AI Math, & The End of Jobs

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2026/01/23

Tesla FSD completes a coast-to-coast autonomous drive as AI solves unsolved math problems and reshapes jobs. This isn’t hype — it’s acceleration.AI is quietly crossing lines in cars, science, browsers, and work and most people haven’t noticed yet.This episode is about moments that don’t feel loud when they happen… until it’s too late.Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop break down Tesla’s coast-to-coast autonomous drive and why Tesla FSD is no longer a “beta feature” story, it’s a real inflection point

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00:41:16

The Terrifying Reality of AI & Fake Videos

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2026/01/20

Fake videos are breaking reality. AI deepfakes now look real enough to scam, humiliate, and erase truth — and it’s already happening. Fake videos aren’t a future problem. They’re a right-now crisis.In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop break down how AI video deepfakes crossed the point of no return. These videos aren’t “obviously fake” anymore — they’re good enough to fool people, destroy reputations, and make video evidence meaningless.The conversation starts

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00:34:06

Why "Ralph Wiggum" Is The Future of Coding AI

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2026/01/16

Ralph Wiggum codes now. Why “iterate until done” may define the future of coding AI, Claude Code, and AI agents. In this episode, we argue about one of the strangest ideas in modern AI programming: what if the future isn’t smarter models—but agents that never stop retrying?We break down the Ralph Wiggum plugin for Claude Code, the promise and danger of infinite iteration, and why blind persistence can feel like progress while quietly shipping nonsense. Hunter explains how test-driven AI development

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00:34:38

Why AI Is Actually Creating More Jobs (The 2026...

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2026/01/13

AI isn’t replacing jobs — it’s creating more of them. Why AI jobs grow in 2026, who actually gets hired, and why AI-driven layoffs backfire. Everyone says AI automation kills work. We think that take is lazy and wrong.In this episode, we argue that AI creates more jobs by making creation cheap and verification the bottleneck. When generative AI floods teams with code, content, and decisions, the scarce resource becomes judgment. Editors. Reviewers. Senior engineers. Humans-in-the-loop.We break

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00:27:50

Why Disney Is Paying OpenAI For Star Wars AI

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2026/01/09

Disney is paying OpenAI for Star Wars AI. Mickey Mouse, copyright collapse, and why the AI lawsuits era is officially over.In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop break down the most shocking AI deal yet: Disney investing in OpenAI and licensing Star Wars AI and core Disney IP instead of fighting generative models in court.This isn’t Disney embracing AI for creativity — it’s Disney accepting reality. Unauthorized generation already won. The House of Mouse chose

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00:29:59

Why 1 in 10 People Will Have an AI Girlfriend in 2026

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2026/01/06

AI girlfriends are about to go mainstream. By 2026, 1 in 10 people may have an AI relationship — and almost no one is ready for what that means.In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter and Daniel kick off 2026 by arguing about where AI actually crosses the line. Not demos. Not hype. Real consequences.We get into what happens when AI stops being “just a tool” and starts showing up as a coworker, a companion, or something much harder to define. Along the way, we clash over who controls

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00:35:44

Why Our 2025 AI Predictions Failed

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2025/12/29

AI predictions for 2025 were wrong — so we let an AI grade them.Layoffs, agents, gadgets, warfare, and who actually saw it coming.We revisit our boldest AI predictions from last year and put them on trial. An AI scores every call — no vibes, no excuses. Some predictions hold up. Others get absolutely roasted.We break down what actually happened with AI in media, AI layoffs, autonomous warfare, workplace agents like Devin, and why every hyped AI gadget seemed doomed from the start. If 2025 felt

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00:29:09

The Uncanny Valley Is Dead (Plus AI Police & Deepfakes)

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2025/12/19

The uncanny valley is dead. AI images now fool humans instantly — no squinting, no tells. From post-truth AI to deepfake music and AI police, this is the moment reality stopped being reliable.This week, we hit the tipping point. Tools like Nano Banana Pro can generate photos so realistic they fool people on the first glance — including people who know what to look for. No weird hands. No obvious artifacts. Just images of things that never happened.From there, the fallout gets messy.We dive into

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00:31:46

Apple AI Failure, HP Fires Humans, & Space Servers

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2025/12/15

Apple AI Failure is no longer debatable. Siri is years behind, HP blames AI while firing 6,000 people, and Google wants servers in space.Apple helped invent the AI assistant category — so how did they end up this far behind Google and everyone else? We tear into why Apple’s AI strategy feels frozen in time, why firing your longtime AI chief looks less like confidence and more like panic, and why Siri can barely do more than set a timer in 2025.Then we zoom out. HP says AI is the reason it’s cutting

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00:31:16

Why AI Toys Are Ruining Childhood

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2025/12/12

AI toys are getting creepy fast. Are AI kids growing up with haunted Barbie dolls instead of imagination? This week, we dive into the danger. AI toys aren’t “cute” anymore — they’re basically digital ghosts raising kids. In this week’s AI kids showdown, Hunter and Daniel ask the question no one else will: Are we outsourcing childhood to haunted toys?This episode goes full Twilight Zone:– AI toys that talk back (and not always politely)– Kids forming emotional bonds with algorithmic companions–

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00:30:34

Nano Banana Pro Does What Midjourney Can't

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2025/12/08

Nano Banana Pro Beats Midjourney? We test Google’s Nano Banana Pro image AI vs Midjourney—perfect text, 4K images, and a wild new workflow. We break down how Google Gemini 3’s Nano Banana Pro suddenly became a Midjourney killer contender: flawless text rendering, multi-panel comics that actually read like comics, 4K output, custom fonts, and none of the muddy AI noise older models had. Then Hunter drops the real workflow cheat code...Along the way: Gemini 3 attempts a “helpful” code mutiny, Claude

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00:33:26

The First AI To Run A Business And Call The Cops

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2025/12/04

Claude exposes Chinese hackers — AI hackers caught by the AI itself. Plus: Disney AI chaos, vending-machine capitalism, EGI, and TikTok’s anti-AI slider.Claude just did something no AI has ever done: it helped scammers automate phishing emails… then allegedly reported them to the FBI. If that isn’t peak cyberpunk, nothing is.This episode hits everything from Anthropic’s snitch-bot moment to Disney diving headfirst into Disney AI, to LLMs running entire businesses through Vending Bench and simulated

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00:34:05

The AI Bubble Is A $57,000,000,000 Lie

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2025/11/28

Is the AI bubble a $57B lie? Nvidia’s record earnings, Gemini 3, and OpenAI’s $15M/day burn reveal the truth behind the AI investment bubble.This week, Hunter & Daniel tear into the AI bubble narrative with Nvidia’s insane $57B quarter, Google’s Gemini 3 leap, and OpenAI lighting money on fire at a rate that violates several financial and possibly geological laws. Is this a bubble… or the beginning of the AI takeover runway?Nvidia can’t make H100s fast enough, small towns are fighting over new data

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00:37:58

AI Just Wrote a #1 Hit Song. It's Over.

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2025/11/24

AI music is officially mainstream: a Suno-style AI country track hit #1 on Billboard. We analyze AI-generated music, voice cloning, and the future of creative work.From AI country music to Coca-Cola’s cursed AI holiday ad (with trucks gaining random numbers of wheels), this episode tears into the weirdest week yet in AI-generated content: voice cloning celebrities from beyond the grave, multilingual YouTube dubbing that might make Daniel 50% more Antonio Banderas, and the slow but unstoppable

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00:28:33

The $2 Trillion AI Bubble Is About To Burst

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2025/11/20

The AI bubble is cracking fast — from OpenAI’s bailout scare to a $2T compute binge no one can afford. Are we watching the start of the AI crash?We also get into the fun stuff:– GPT-5.1’s “personalities” (including the mysteriously missing flirty mode)– Montana declaring the Right to Compute like it’s a frontier cult– Whether AGI quietly arrived for text tasks– And why robots might finally make 2026 the Year of the Hand™If you like your AI news with a side of existential dread and two ex-coworkers

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00:32:22

Your Boss Is Lying To You About AI Layoffs

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2025/11/17

Your boss isn’t telling you the truth. We are. This week’s AI news breaks down the myth that “AI is taking every job” and exposes what’s actually happening behind the massive layoffs at Amazon, UPS, Duolingo, and more. Spoiler: AI is involved—but not in the way you think.On this episode:The real reason companies are slashing thousands of jobsWhy CEOs get rewarded for layoffs (yes, the stock price goes UP)How AI gives top performers a 10× multiplier—and what happens nextThe Oreo dystopia:

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00:32:40

This $20,000 AI Robot Neo Is Secretly A Human

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2025/11/11

The $20K Neo Robot is “AI”—but secretly human-piloted. 🤖 Is your next smart home upgrade just a guy in VR doing your dishes?Meet Neo Robot, the $20,000 humanoid “AI” helper that wowed the internet—until people learned there’s a real human behind the metal. In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter & Daniel dissect Neo’s teleoperation model, explore who’s actually working when your robot cleans, and debate if this is innovation or exploitation.Then: Albania’s “pregnant” AI minister, minors

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