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Tesla’s Roadster, Car Week Takes, Unwell Beverages Shuts Down | Diet TBPN

TBPN

August 15, 2026

Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after.
Speakers: John Coogan, Jordi Hays

Topics: Technology, Business, Entrepreneurship

**John Coogan** (0:01)
We got to play the see you again goodbye like he passed away.
This is the saying goodbye to our intern, Ben Macklin.
Yeah, we need an AI video of me and him in sports cars driving along the Pacific Coast Highway and then we reach a fork in the road and he goes off to Canada and Jordi goes to Malibu or something. But every time this song hits, it's a good one, it's a good one. Anyway, we're very, very sad to say goodbye. End of an era, but the story is not over. So Weatherman, Ben Macklin, one of the greatest ever doing. Yeah, the story is not over. Anyway, there are a ton of stories that are not over. We're going to take you through a bunch of them. I want the production team to tell me if this video, which is not AI. Slaps, because it is an adaptation of Obsession from Jerry Zhang over at Lemma, YCF25. What does F stand for?

**Jordi Hays** (0:59)
Fall.

**John Coogan** (0:59)
Fall 25 Oh, because they do quarterly now. Anyway, let's play this.

**Jordi Hays** (1:03)
Hit that, baa.

**John Coogan** (1:04)
Yeah, F.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:05)
I don't know what that is about the C-mails. Can we not talk about that right now? Okay.
Sorry, it's the second time they're texting me that. I'll be right back.

**John Coogan** (1:17)
What is it, dude? I'm busy.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:20)
Okay. So what is it?

**John Coogan** (1:22)
I looked into your out of office e-mails, and she sent out replies to all 30,000 e-mails. You haven't seen Obsession.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:28)
I told her to only reply to e-mails when I'm out of office.

**John Coogan** (1:31)
But the production team has? Look, you know it's my job to service these kinds of failures for you. I think it's in the same restaurant too.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:38)
I sent 30,000 e-mails to find out it.

**John Coogan** (1:41)
It's either a lack of guardrails or the same location. I don't know, man. I'm gonna pull the traces and look into it for you.
They nailed the production. Like, the lighting, cinematography, identical.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:04)
I don't think I could function without your prompts. Calling tools on my behalf without any human oversight?

**John Coogan** (2:21)
Yes, without any human oversight.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:25)
Nika?

**John Coogan** (2:27)
Yeah?
This is a little slow, so I'm going to tell you about Railway. Railway is the all-in-one intelligent cloud provider. Use your favorite agents to deploy web app servers, databases, and more while Railway automatically takes care of scaling, monitoring, and security. It definitely has the pacing of a Hollywood film. Maybe we need to go back to the live Railera.

**Jordi Hays** (2:45)
What's the product? It basically monitors agents made by other companies.

**John Coogan** (2:50)
Jerry says, agents are taking on real economic work as runs get longer. Mistakes become expensive at best, catastrophic at worst. Today, teams find out from user complaints or never. Monitoring tools only catch what you told them to watch for, so you set up the judges. You trace the issues yourself, but agents will always fail in ways you didn't predict. That's why we built Lemma. Lemma understands what your agent is supposed to do, so it surfaces failures you never defined automatically. So Lemma sits there, watches everything that goes on. Oh, there's something that seems really odd because it's basically taking the whole context of everything that's happening in the organization and saying, okay, well, you just sent out 100,000 emails. Like, was that the right thing? You should probably flag this. This seems like an uptake in, like you would see if you start seeing an insane amount of traffic on a specific product detail page on your e-commerce site. It might be that, oh, something's, or coupon code. It might be that something's going viral on this particular SKU. Maybe you need to buy more inventory. If in the best case, maybe you're being spammed or scammed in some way, or maybe you accidentally priced your product at one cent instead of $1, or $100, so people are buying it and you need to fix that. This will do that across the entire organization in theory. Production team, what do you think about the obsession knockoff as startup launch video?
I thought it was pretty good.
Rave review.

**Jordi Hays** (4:08)
Yeah.

**John Coogan** (4:09)
Looks like the movie.

**Jordi Hays** (4:10)
Mike disagreed.

**John Coogan** (4:11)
Oh, Mike disagreed. Shot fired.

**Jordi Hays** (4:14)
Wrong lens.

**John Coogan** (4:15)
What we got? I don't know. Take some shot.

**Jordi Hays** (4:19)
He said colors off.

**John Coogan** (4:20)
Oh, the colors off. Okay. Well, the experts have waited.

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