A token is three-fourths of a word. Saying "please" costs you one and a quarter of them. Tim says it anyway. James does not. Episode 8 is about AI politeness, token optimization, and the psychological toll of being mean to a computer — including the time Tim swore at Gemini over a calendar invite and hasn't quite forgiven himself. Also: James is designing an executioner bot to do his dirty prompting for him, which Tim correctly identifies as historically terrible behavior.Read more
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#9: Give It Time to Bake
Tech loves to ship fast, iterate, and see what sticks — but who's actually running the beta test? (Spoiler: it's you, and you're paying for it.) In Episode 9, Tim and James tour the Google and Microsoft graveyards, mourn the Zune, argue that Netflix structurally cannot make a sitcom, and land on the uncomfortable truth that you don't really own anything you've bought. Plus: why Clippy was the original ChatGPT, the crab theory of software evolution, and Tim's descent into printing recipes into a binder like it's 1850. Give it time to bake — or cancel it after eight episodes, apparently that's fine now.
