AI Agents Are Becoming Team Leads

Beth Lyons (0:00)

Hey, everybody. Welcome. Today is Friday, September 18th, and we are on episode 815, which seems wild, but they do just keep, they keep coming. There we go.

I am Beth Lyons with me in the studio. Today is Andy Halliday, and we expect at least one other to jump in the door at some point. Andy, how are you doing?

Andy Halliday (0:26)

I'm a little under the weather today, but not too bad. I generally take advantage of my already highly experienced immune system.

Viruses like this cold that I've picked up.

Beth Lyons (0:43)

I used to refer because I have really bad reactions to the COVID vaccines. I used to refer to that which occurred as a 36-hour immune party. My body is just like doing maneuvers to practice. What's happening?

Andy Halliday (1:00)

I found with the COVID vaccines particularly, and now I don't have any reaction to them at all. But originally, I wanted to be super vaccinated.

Instead of getting the half dose that they normally give you on the second time you get a vaccine, I had been issued two cards. I used the other card to get my first vaccine on my second one, and they gave me the full dose, and I had a very severe reaction. My wife and daughter actually had to get on top of me to stop the convulsions that I was having. Oh, yeah, it was something else. But my experience was across all of the COVID vaccines that I've taken, I am super vaccinated.

I'm an older guy, so I have to protect myself that way. I found that it was almost to the minute, 24 hours after the shot. Gone. No more reaction. My immune system worked, and yours is 36, but mine works that process for 24 hours and then it's done.

Beth Lyons (2:06)

Yeah.

Andy Halliday (2:12)

Which has nothing to do with AI by the way.

Beth Lyons (2:14)

No, we're just chatting, and we're going to get to AI, in fact, and Brian is not here because he's doing a project, and one of the things that I told Andy right before, he's doing a project with data that I had created through Assembly AI and this morning I look at my thing, maybe all of you can relate, and I said, oh, good, let's just put those files in a zip file so that I can give that to Brian, and Claude says, well, they're all named Assembly AIJSON. And I'm like, they weren't when they came in.

I didn't rename them. Oh, right, and it's of course, the wisdom that rename them is not the wisdom that I'm talking about.

Andy Halliday (3:05)

It would be helpful if there were some human readable data in the file name that you could use to select one.

Beth Lyons (3:13)

Well, they're in dated folders, right? And the reason-

Andy Halliday (3:18)

So they came in in sequence. That's good. Okay.

Beth Lyons (3:21)

No. Well, I do actually as part of what I capture from each show, there are dated folders for each episode.

It's just, I've had several conversations about, hey, if the file gets out of its dated folder, it now loses that information. The file should carry the date. It does, I'm sure, carry the date in the JSON, because this is a transcript. So each file will have the date said in it somewhere.

Andy Halliday (3:57)

Yeah. So your next step, of course, is to ask co-work to go in and append a date to every single one of the filenames, and it'll do in about 30 seconds.

Beth Lyons (4:13)

Not for the 800 episodes, 850 in episodes that we have, but it's a little longer.

But yes, it's just that piece of, we have talked about this so many times, and I do understand the reason that that decision is made, is because when you're running code, it's actually helpful if you're going to run code on each file, that the file name is the same. And I'm like, hey, regex exists, like you can ignore the date in the file name, and then just like, you can still do it. I don't agree. But anyway, that's my, that's my story. That's my AI story this morning. Just a little adrenaline and anger to get the day kicked off, the show kicked off. Andy, what are you thinking about in terms of AI?

Andy Halliday (5:12)

Well, I wanted to start off with something fun because it's Friday. And that is that this is in the context of AI smart glasses, right, that have cameras built into them. And this is a privacy issue because apparently there's some way that users of the meta-ray-band ones with the little light that goes on when it's recording, they could hack that in a way that turned off the light. So they could be recording when there was no visible indication that you're in the room recording everyone.