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/

Episode Summary:

Will and Brandt try to get through a whole episode without saying the two letters. What's your over-under on how far they got? Along the way: Will's new NDI camera rig, Apple's ten-thousand-dollar Mac Minis and a rumored rack-mount server, why local hosting keeps swinging back to the cloud, and Brandt's morning brief that grew from a chat message into a checkbox web page.

Discussions Include:

• Will's NDI camera overhaul, from a $200 encoder box to auto-tracking PTZ gimbals that occasionally zoom out on their own
• Apple's $10K Mac Mini configurations, the rumored rack-mount Mac server, and model companies ordering them by the thousand
• The expansion-and-contraction cycle of local versus cloud, from self-hosted email servers to running your own models
• Buzz, Block's "Slack for agents," and why one master agent isn't enough once you're running several at once
• Brandt's daily brief evolving from a chat message into a full HTML page with checkboxes

Quotable Quotes (Should you choose to share):

"It's refreshing to talk about something that's technology based that doesn't have two letters in it." - Brandt Krueger

"Whenever I get frustrated with something in software, I now ask myself: can I just build it?" - Will Curran

"It would back up, go full speed to the point where it would pop a wheelie, and then ram itself into your furniture at full speed." - Brandt Krueger

"AI has definitely made us more organized and more productive. But then why do people feel as burnt out as they did when we didn't have this technology?" - Will Curran

Thing of the Episode (TOTE):

Brandt: Roborock QV 35A - https://us.roborock.com/products/roborock-qv-35a
Will: Cronometer - https://cronometer.com

Episode Summary:

Will and Brandt return from the summer backlog to reveal how Brandt built his own terminal macro — type WTF, hit return — to auto-generate this show's rough cuts and notes. Will shares a parallel project automating his DJ mix uploads, and the two unpack why lower-effort models like Sonnet outperform flashier ones once a workflow is dialed in, with quick hits on Notion, AI agents, and iOS 27's new Siri.

Discussions Include:

• Brandt's homemade "WTF" terminal macro that auto-generates rough cuts and show notes for this very podcast
• Why dialing a workflow back to Sonnet worked better than letting flashier models like Opus and Fable run the show
• Will's Fade Out project, which auto-edits, tags, and publishes his DJ mix recordings end to end
• Barry, Will's AI agent, and the surprisingly awkward business of having an AI negotiate with contractors
• Using Notion as a shared, always-current source of truth for both work and AI agent memory

Quotable Quotes (Should you choose to share):

"It's taken it from about a 45-minute process to about a 10-minute process. And that's pretty good." - Brandt Krueger

"If there's something that you do that is repetitive, there is no reason why it can't be completely automated." - Will Curran

"We're a team here. Let's collaborate. Sometimes you go down a weird road that takes five minutes that would have taken me ten seconds to just do the work." - Brandt Krueger

"He has the ability to be on all the time, ask questions, get responses, respond immediately — it's freaking the crap out of contractors." - Will Curran

Thing of the Episode (TOTE):

Brandt: iOS 27 Beta (new Siri) - https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-unveils-next-generation-of-apple-intelligence-siri-ai-and-more/
Will: Notion - https://www.notion.com