Episode Summary:

Will and Brandt weigh Apple's new folding iPhone Duo, a sluggish watchOS 27, and the Recap feature that's somehow both creepy and useless. Then it's token limits, resets, and an $18,000 Mac Studio for running AI locally, before Brandt climbs onto his soapbox: stop blaming the technology and start regulating the behavior, whether it's AI, Flock cameras, data centers, or social media.

Discussions Include:

• The iPhone Duo as an "iPad 1 versus iPad 2" moment, and why watchOS 27 has Brandt eyeing an upgrade he resents
• Apple's Recap always-listening mode and the new legal gray area of transcribing everything
• Hitting usage limits, Will's reset that left 24 hours to burn a week of tokens, and the case for local AI on an M5 Ultra Mac Studio
• Why the real AI risk is people, not the machines, and banning behavior instead of technology from Flock cameras to social media
• Vibe-coded apps replacing subscriptions, from Squarespace to Carrot Weather, and the new AI-powered Shortcuts

Quotable Quotes (Should you choose to share):

"They tried so hard to make it inoffensive that they've made it useless." - Brandt Krueger

"I realized I had twenty-four hours to burn a whole week's worth of tokens." - Will Curran

"I'm not worried about AI killing us. I'm worried about dumb people doing dumb stuff with it." - Brandt Krueger

"How many people are against AI? I'm like, guys, the cat's out of the bag." - Will Curran

Thing of the Episode (TOTE):

Brandt: Libro.fm - https://libro.fm
Will: MOGICS Super Bagel - https://packhacker.com/travel-gear/mogics/super-bagel/