Can We Slow AI Down Without Losing?

Brian (0:00)

Hey, what's going on, everybody? Happy Monday. It's September 14th, 2026

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Andy (0:24)

Oh, you froze.

Brian (0:25)

So if you're just catching us, wow, you got a lot to go back and you can dive into if you like.

With me today, Andy, for now, I think a little bit as well. Amy, I look really choppy on my end. Are you?

Andy (0:39)

You're actually audio breaking up on me. I don't know whether it's on my end.

Brian (0:45)

If you can hear me, it's OK.

Andy (0:48)

I can hear you, but it's breaking up and so it's intermittent. But you have very high bandwidth, I'm sure, at your location, so it could easily be my end.

Brian (1:03)

No, it's mine. It's me.

But that's OK. I'll kick it over to you. Let me try to fix something really quick and then I'll be here.

Andy (1:11)

OK, super. All right. Well, let me kick off with some news. First of all, on the personal front, I managed over the course of the weekend while working in Astra, to chew through six different five-hour windows and yet stopped at each one of those. But it gives you a pace through which you're working, which you have to wait for the re-up. I still have a few resets left that I'm holding off to for those eventualities where I actually hit the weekly time limits.

It's worth spending a reset on that rather than on five-hour limits. So I found myself spending a good bit of time at the console there, running into the time limit for the five hours and then running into the token limit, I should say, for a five-hour window. Then coming back later and starting again. So it's a new way of working with Codex particularly. Yeah, at the same time I managed because September 15th is the third quarter estimated tax deadline for everybody who is an independent worker not getting a W2, I spent Claude code time working on a very important set of estimated tax payments to both California and to the IRS. So I was very productive over the weekend.

Anyway, you seem to have stabilized Brian and you're loud and clear now, so go ahead.

Brian (2:54)

No, it's okay. Listen, I still feel like I'm a little off on mine. But anyway, I did stop Claude. I realized Claude was running in the background. That's on me. I know better to try to run some heavy stuff through Claude code. But as things go, you get ready for the show, you pop over and you forget things are happening. Things are happening on the computer, but I need to not have them happen. Well, I'm on a camera. I think that's the main takeaway here is my computer does not like to do both at once. Beth joined this as well. Hey, Beth, happy Monday to you. Hey. We were just, obviously, I was having some choppiness, but it seems to have gone away, and Andy kind of got us kicked off here.

OK, so well, first of all, Andy, based on what you were just saying, too, as I was listening, as I was fixing here, I love the small stories of, they're small but big, right? It's like you were like, oh, I had all this kind of bigger stuff going on, and I was using Codex and all that. And also, I just made my life super easy by hopefully doing this stuff over in Claude Code that's gonna help me with taxes and stuff. And I think those are the day-to-day use cases. So, I think actually moved in 20 I don't know what the issue is at this point. Sorry, I might have to come out and go back in.

Maybe it needs the old Monday reset of the computer, you never know.

Okay, so I can see me choppy again. So I'm gonna kick it over to you and Beth, but don't start the We Must Pace, the Frontier conversation to get back. So I want to be part of that. So Dario's blog from the weekend. But I'm gonna go out and come back in because I feel like this is gonna be the whole episode if I don't.

Andy (4:35)

Okay. All right, I have a few things we can talk about that aren't about the pace, the frontier conversation, which is a big one. And so we'll talk about that in a few moments. But here's one which is a five hospital randomized trial found that an AI assistant raised sonographers' detection of fetal brain anomalies from 78% to 87%.