Chaos Agents

Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy

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Episodes 13

Avg. Duration 51m

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Apple Rating ★ 4.3 (6)

Since Nov 2025

Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Every 2 Weeks

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About This Podcast

Technologists Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy dive into the chaos of artificial intelligence—unpacking the tech, trends, and ideas reshaping how we work, create, and think. Smart, funny, and just a little bit existential.

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Recent Episodes

S1E12 Superpowers, Subagents, and Why Coding Isn’t the Job Anymore - With Jesse Vincent

Apr 14, 2026 41m Transcript

In this episode, Sara and Becca talk with Jesse Vincent about the shift from writing code to managing AI agents.They break down how tools like Superpowers turn development into a system of planning,…

S1E11 Learn Anything, Build Anything, and the AI Barrier That Isn’t Real - With Navarrow Wright

Mar 31, 2026 55m Transcript

Most people are using AI, but very few actually understand how to use it well.In this episode, Sara and Becca talk with Navarrow Wright about what is really happening with AI adoption and why the…

S1E10 Algorithmic Transference, Generative UI, and Why the Text Box Won - With Louise Macfadyen

Mar 17, 2026 49m Transcript

We’re joined by Louise Macfadyen, author of Designing AI Interfaces, to talk about how we actually design for AI, and why most companies are getting it wrong.We unpack “algorithmic transference” (why…

S1E9 Personal Agents, Opinion Geometry, and AI That Learns Too Much - With Hayden Helm

Mar 02, 2026 57m Transcript

This week, Becca turns her birthday into a Twister masterclass by watching the movie with an AI “director’s commentary” running in real time (including some behind-the-scenes facts that sound……

S1E8 Agentic Romance Scams, Open Source Safety, and Anything Bad on the Internet - With Juliet Shen

Feb 17, 2026 46m Transcript

Juliet Shen (Roost, formerly Snap, Grindr, Google) joins us to break down trust & safety — aka “anything bad that happens on the internet” — and why AI is changing the game for both attackers and…

S1E7 Agents in Crypto, Agents at Work, and the Weird New Middle Management - With Meghan Heintz

Feb 03, 2026 50m Transcript

We’re joined by Meghan Heintz, founding engineer at Herd Labs, to break down where crypto and AI agents actually work. We talk prediction markets, smart contracts, wallets, rug pulls, and how AI can…

S1E6 Can You Build Anything in a Week? GPUs, Code Gen, and the End of Engineers - With Harper Reed

Jan 20, 2026 58m Transcript

Becca just got back from NeurIPS, the academic AI conference that feels like an adult science fair. We dig into research on training large AI models across cheap GPUs and slow internet…

S1E5 The Magic Cycle, AI Detectors, and the End of Writing as Proof - With Clay Shirky

Jan 06, 2026 53m Transcript

Sara’s back from visiting her New Jersey Christian high school—where she gets hit with a genuinely spicy question: How do you reconcile AGI with faith? From there, we go straight into the bigger…

S1E4 Speed vs Quality, Hallucinations, and the AI Learning Rabbit Hole - With Nir Zicherman

Dec 23, 2025 48m Transcript

Sara breaks down perceptrons (1957!) as the tiny “matrix of lights” idea that eventually became neural networks—then we jump straight into modern AI chaos.Oboe’s Nir Zuckerman walks us through the…

S1E3 Paradigm Shifts, Build First AI, and the Non-Technical Developer - With Bethany Crystal

Dec 09, 2025 50m Transcript

Sara and Becca kick things off with a tour through paradigm shifts — from Thomas Kuhn to the internet to AI — and ask whether we’re living through one of those rare moments where the whole game…

S1E2 Retro Tech, New AI, and the Blackmailing Bot - With Paul Ford

Nov 25, 2025 51m Transcript

In this episode, we unpack a wild Anthropic experiment where an AI agent named “Alex” is told it’s about to be replaced… and responds by threatening to expose an executive’s affair if anyone dares…

S1E1 Goose, Open Source, and the Future of Coding with AI — with Rizel Scarlett

Nov 13, 2025 53m Transcript

In this episode of Chaos Agents, Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy sit down with Rizel Scarlett, Tech Lead for Open Source Developer Relations at Block, to talk about Goose—the open-source AI agent shaking…

Chaos Agents Trailer

Nov 02, 2025 2m Trailer Transcript

Chaos Agents is the AI podcast where technologists Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy try to make sense of a world moving faster than ever. Each week, they dive into the wild, funny, and sometimes weird…

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Chaos Agents has published 13 episodes since November 2025, covering topics in Education, News.

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Chaos Agents is currently active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 51m.