You've Been a Bad Agent

You've Been a Bad Agent

Wilhelm Klopp & Matt Carey

Episodes 27
Avg. Duration 1h 5m
Activity Highly Active
Since May 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
Consistency
59%
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feeds.transistor.fm

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Wil and Matt discuss tech, startups, and building really cool things with AI. Sometimes joined by (actual expert) friends.

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{Trail,Tri}-Racing, Grind slop, Sloptember, Opus 4.8 Rollercoaster, Dynamic Workflows, Compaction

Jun 02, 2026 1h 7m Transcript

Matt's Portuguese vineyard 22K with salted-cod finisher medalsWilhelm's Olympic tri on the edge of YosemiteMatt's winging race: reigning windsurfing world champ finishes second to last, Matt third to…

Anthropic×{Karpathy,Pope}, Themes Will Pwn You, The Warmth of a Private Subnet, Slack is Back, $100B For Charity

May 22, 2026 1h 26m Transcript

Shai-Hulud and GitHub Actions: trusted publishing is no longer the gold standard, just additiveVS Code extensions as the next attack surface: 50M install themes that can shell out and auto-update…

AI Barista Orders 120 Eggs With No Stove, Matt Pocock Skills, Build for the Next Model, The Gervais Principle

May 09, 2026 50m Transcript

Almost one year of the pod: Wilhelm's San Francisco Peter Pan arc, Matt's Cloudflare and Lisbon moveThe backpack-at-a-party SF memeMatt's Lisbon coincidencePieter Levels appreciation: dehumidifier…

The Golden Age of Tinkering, Reachy Mini on Qwen+Cerebras, Compute Predictions, Fuzzing Artifacts, Flatter orgs

May 05, 2026 1h 14m Transcript

Wilhelm's Reachy Mini: Time to first token beats tokens per second once embodiment is in the roomLukas the sleep score assassinMatt's Portugal week: wing foiling the Óbidos lagoonAirbnb-style booking…

Cloudflare Ships GitHub for Agents, Hardware Startups Shouldn’t Ship Apps, Matt's Three-Week MCP World Tour, Bad Boy Browser, Inbound Prompt Injection

Apr 17, 2026 1h 19m Transcript

- Matt's three-week MCP tour: MCP Maintainers Day, MCP Dev Summit NYC, AI Engineer London- Opus 4.7 drops with a new tokenizer, Matt's theory: it's secretly the smaller Mythos base model that "didn't…

Pwning Your Friends' Agents Is Good Manners, Make Something Agents Want, OpenAI Buys TBPN, MCP Goes Stateless, Cloudflare Agents Week with Sunil Pai

Apr 06, 2026 1h 8m Transcript

Claude Code harness lockdown: who got the email and who didn'tChad mobile app and the Tinder-style agent review queue conceptSunil's productivity crisis: bonk-driven development and the side project…

Slop Forking Git with Pi, Opus Can't Stop Complimenting GPT-5.4, React Slides Kill PowerPoint, and OpenAI Buys Astral for How Much?!

Mar 20, 2026 1h 22m Transcript

Song lyrics vs content rules: how models help you route around their own restrictionsPi auto-research: Matt slop forks libgit2 into pure Zig, 46% faster than the Rust versionThe second opinion…

friends.fyi is Back, Steve Faulkner Can't Stop Slop Forking, Portugal Says "Not Today", and GPT 5.4 Reviews Your Code

Mar 13, 2026 1h 24m Transcript

React Presentations vs PowerPointCode Mode Demo: Running Untrusted Code in the BrowserThe Reachy Mini Robot: Embodied Compute on Your DeskThomas's Personal Cloud Exit on Raspberry Pi K3sHome…

Matt Goes Viral with Server-Side Code Mode, Wilhelm Loses His Files, and What Even Is a Sandbox?

Feb 23, 2026 1h 19m Transcript

Matt's New Life in LisbonServer-Side Code Mode: Cloudflare's MCP ServerMatt Goes from 2K to 21K Followers in a WeekAMP Sunsets VS Code, Goes All-In on AgentsClaude vs Codex: Second Opinion…

Are We in a Moment? OpenClaw, Moltbook, Files vs Sqlite, GitHub for Agents

Jan 30, 2026 57m Transcript

Are we in a moment? The OpenClaw/Clawdbot autonomous agent craze explainedWhy everyone suddenly bought Mac Minis (and why Matt refuses to)Moltbook: Reddit for agents where bots questions their…

2025 Reflections: What surprised us, Comeback of the CLI, Claude Code

Jan 24, 2026 1h 1m Transcript

Matt's Big Move to LisbonCloudflare Code Mode: 2,500 Tools in 1,000 TokensCode Mode vs Bash vs SQLite: What Actually Works for Agents2025 Reflections: The Year of Claude Code and MCP2026 Preview:…

Personal news, New Years Resolutions, Zagi, Tailwind, Ralph, The American Way

Jan 10, 2026 1h 24m Transcript

CGPGrey Video on Yearly Themes

Hype, bubbles and AGI, Karpathy on Dwarkesh, Claude Code is a revolution and MCP fixing humanities problems

Nov 23, 2025 1h 3m Transcript

"chat to your mouth Claude and grow a new tooth""I think I would have like a huge ego now for sure""have you seen the blimp"TakeawaysAll of these people in this industry have suddenly become…

Remote Environments, Guardrails and Enterprises Adopting AI with Matt Boyle, Interview Questions and Spicy Takes on Amp Free

Nov 15, 2025 56m

"a brief history of a very specific building in London.""there's a lot of room to optimize your code base for an agent.""70 % of our code is written by an agent.""The place I see where humans are…

Growth with Luke Harries from ElevenLabs, Building, Hiring and Automating the Best Horizontal AI Voice Platform, Backed by Research

Oct 12, 2025 51m Transcript

"It's always the best."Chapters00:00 Introduction and Setting the Stage02:34 Luke's Journey to ElevenLabs04:54 Growth Strategies and Hiring at ElevenLabs06:58 Understanding Growth Teams09:50 The Role…

Building Software With Thorsten Ball: Decoupling Code for Agents, Finding "Your Pain" and Germans Use the Winky Face

Sep 14, 2025 1h 10m Transcript

"Elderly German Landlord.. she would use these winky face emojis""Memes in blogs feel cheap""Dude.... you didn't even run this"TakeawaysThe podcast jingle was created using AI technology.Thorsten's…

In Person!!! Topic of Agent Payments, Friendly Acquisitions, GPT-5, Endless Model Name and Many Free Ideas

Aug 27, 2025 1h 10m Transcript

Chapters00:00 Introduction and Context of the Podcast07:23 Updates on SimplePoll and AI Integration18:14 Telemetry and Continuous Improvement in Development24:30 Acquisitions and Industry…

Uncut with Danilo Leal, Design Engineer at Zed, Prototyping in React and Built in Rust, Designing for an AI Assisted UX

Aug 12, 2025 1h Transcript

TDLR: 10 episodes in and we are going full uncut conversation with Danilo Leal. One of the magician Design Engineers working on the Zed code editor. “I'll be making a jingle”“We prototype everything…

Sub Agent or Super Agent, MCP UI Over Lunch, Bitter Lesson Learnings, Locking in on Prompts and Trying to Live in the Future

Aug 06, 2025 57m Transcript

TLDRMatt caught whitebait for dinner during his outdoor adventures.Wing foiling is a new sport gaining popularity.Sub agents are necessary for exploring context windows in AI.A2A and MCP servers are…

Study Says AI Makes Developers Slower? F1 Movie Review, Coding and Testing for AI, Free Perplexity and Free Ideas

Jul 18, 2025 1h 9m Transcript

NewsThe pod has twitter/x - https://x.com/badagentpodWil’s new brand - tritanclub.comLinksBoris Tane post on Cloudflare DOs + Drizzle -…

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