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Members of Technical Staff

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Welcome to Members of Technical Staff: week-after-week of prestige narration from the hotbed of San Francisco tech culture. Featuring founders, funders, and fanatics, join Jayden (@creatine_cycle) and friends as they chronicle the culture, scandal, and humourlessness of the most important city of the 21st century.

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31:23

Social Media Tribes, Algorithms and the Permanent...

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2026/04/21

I turned @signulll into an ominous gray blob as we sat down in Alamo Square to talk about normal people things like how social media is tribal again, the X dot com the everything app algorithm and the permanent underclass. We also spoke to some dogs. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual eff...

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20:37

🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 RFK Announces Peptide Reclassification

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2026/04/16

RFK announces peptide reclassification! What does this all mean? Will the technology brothers finally be able to source peptides not of the sketchy Chinese kind? Is this legalization or a different thing? Are the technology brothers going too far with peptides? @maxmarchione and I covered all of this and more. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and...

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21:58

The State of AI Startups

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2026/04/13

I had @0thernet over and instead of just hanging out over coffee or tea like normal people we decided to podcast like absolute morons. Anyway this MOTS extra is timely because I got a glimpse into the state of AI startups in 2026. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditional...

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58:11

San Francisco Social Interactions

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2026/04/09

I had both @baelentina_ and @NicoleSHsing over for some tea and to discuss different social interactions you might experience in San Francisco. We broke them down into four main categories: - networking - parties - confrontation - dating Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than trad...

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47:06

🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 TBPN Acquired by OpenAI, with Theo...

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2026/04/03

I visited Theo Browne and Ben Davis to break down the monumental TBPN OpenAI acquisition and what this means for all of our favorite buzzwords like new media and AI and technology and culture and such. Theo thinks I tried too hard writing this but I'm posting it anyways. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster an...

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41:33

Getting Jacked in San Franisco

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2026/03/26

Due to popular demand I sat down for 40 minutes by myself and talked about my arms (very normal) and where to train in San Francisco. Also this is a call out to startups: ad space on my arms are for sale and i believe will become some of the most valuable real estate in San Francisco. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and app...

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30:03

San Francisco Side Quests and Goth ABGs

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2026/03/18

The weather in SF has been perfect so @NicoleSHsing (summer is literally in her name) and I set up on a park bench directly in the wind and talked about different side quests in SF and goth ABGs. Everything from robot fighting to drone slaying. This is super serious media. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster ...

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35:11

An Update on the World of Peptides, with Max Marchione

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2026/03/13

Since @maxmarchione and I last spoke a bunch of things have happened in the world of peptides from RFK's reclassification to Andrew Huberman posting to people discovering that bodybuilders got there first (bodybuilders drive the culture). So max and I caught up once again to cover all of this. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code an...

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43:39

The Politics of Tech and AI, with Noah Smith

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2026/03/05

Yesterday I visited @Noahpinion for some tea, to play with rabbits and to get political. From the tech right to old twitter vs Elon twitter to Anthropic vs DoW, we talked about the politics of tech and AI and where it might be headed Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditio...

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45:08

The AI Anxietification of San Francisco

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2026/02/26

@ashebytes and I have decided that everyone needs to get offline, find some hobbies and go touch some grass (and a woman in my case) in order to overcome this wave of AI-induced anxiety. In this episode of MOTS we address the doom and crazyposting, propose solutions and take a trip to the mall. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and...

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25:40

Are Software Engineers Screwed? with Sam Lambert

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2026/02/23

I took a trip to the PlanetScale office last week to chat with @samlambert about a couple of under-discussed topics: - AI (heard it's a big deal) - Anxiety - Are software engineers screwed? I have a feeling this MOTS extra will calm a lot of people down Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual ...

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16:33

🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 The Gay Tech Mafia

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2026/02/20

You didn't ask and I delivered! Seeing as I made an appearance in yet another mainstream publication what better way to increase my surface area for career risk than podcast about it? here are my thoughts and reactions to Wired's piece, "Inside the Gay Tech Mafia". Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with...

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47:50

Valentines Day in San Francisco, with Valentina

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2026/02/14

@baelentina_ and I cohosted a Valentines Day SF rager with @zocomputer last night. We broke down Valentines Day restaurant locations in SF, dating anxiety in SF and dating stats and we also performatively podcasted from the party itself. Very normal behaviour. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less...

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41:04

Gym Bro vs Bio Bro: Peptide Edition, with Max Marchione

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2026/02/09

I wouldn't get used to polished MOTS but I figured what better way to announce a @superpower partnership than to bring in some cameras and microphones and have a super serious debate on peptides and looksmaxxing with @maxmarchione. Tune in as we go back and forth on peptide risks and benefits, why the FDA is dragging the chain and get Max's thoughts on the new looksmaxxing craze taking over the timeline. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered so...

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36:08

The State of X Dot Com, with Roon

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2026/02/02

I turned @tszzl into an ominous gray blob as we sat down with dearest @sofi_a and @baelentina_ to discuss the state of X Dot Com the everything app and San Francisco. We covered everything from how one gets into posting, Twitter and San Francisco in the pre-Chatgpt era and how Roon got dragged on Japanese Twitter recently. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, t...

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18:09

Training with Navy Seals, with Blackbox

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2026/01/31

I took a trip to the salesforce tower to talk to the @blackboxai guys about the leaning Millennium Tower behind us, training regiments of navy seals and pushups in this MOTS extra. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditional tools.Lighthouse makes U.S. work and green-card v...

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25:06

Can a Psychic with LLMs Predict My Future? with...

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2026/01/25

Today is the day everyone finally finds out my sexuality using the power of tarot and LLMs. Dearest psychic Gillian Obrien joins to me facilitate the prediction of my future and I welcome Blackbox AI and Zo Computer to the MOTS mafia. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditi...

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16:34

🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 xAI Engineer Fired for Podcasting?

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2026/01/20

Another day another current thing in the niche San Francisco technology culture. Was Sulaiman Khan Ghori, a former xAI engineer fired for podcasting or was this some sort of grand exit? If he was fired, did he release xAI secrets or did he simply not get approval from internal comms? I have no idea but I would never let a good current thing go to waste. Join me to catch up on the drama and the timeline from today's latest talent scandal in Silicon Valley. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts ...

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77:23

The Real Perception of AI, with Anton Troynikov

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2026/01/17

While AI is eating the world, it turns out that most people don’t actually like that idea, and current messaging around AI is on track to make things worse. What are AI vibes like in places outside of San Francisco? Does the layperson see productivity gains anywhere near those of knowledge workers? What are AI leaders saying that comes across as as off-putting as humanly possible? I cover all of this and much more with Sina, and my good friend Anton Troynikov, founder of Chroma, also joins me...

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36:58

Navigating the SF Social Scene as a Straight Dude

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2026/01/10

I booked a $1k-a-night hotel room and, instead of feeling the touch of a woman, I decided to talk to myself on camera for nearly 40 minutes. Anyway, the San Francisco social scene. Is X the key to the city? Is it worth going to networking events? Are Partiful or Luma events better? Should we take a page out of the gay playbook? I cover all of this and much more so you, too, can make some friends in the centre of the universe. Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Sponsors Inference...

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