Chaos Agents

Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy

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

    23-12-2025

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

    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 messy reality of building consumer-grade AI for education: every feature is a tradeoff between loading fast and being good, and “just use a better model” doesn’t magically solve it. We talk guardrails, web search, multi-model pipelines, and why learning tools should feel lightweight—more like curiosity than homework. Also: Becca’s “how does a computer work?” obsession and a book recommendation that might change your life. 🧠 AI Concepts & FoundationsPerceptron (Wikipedia)Neural Networks ExplainedScaling Laws for Neural Language ModelsFLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second) 🎓 Learning, Education & AIOboeAI as a Personal Tutor (Overview)Why Tutors Are So Effective 🏗️ Building AI ProductsSpeed vs Quality Tradeoffs in LLM AppsLLM Orchestration PatternsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)LLM Hallucinations: Causes & Mitigation 📚 Books MentionedCode: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and SoftwarePerceptrons 🧪 History of AIa href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Rosenblatt" rel="noopener...

    49 min
  2. Paradigm Shifts, Build First AI, and the Non-Technical Developer - With Bethany Crystal

    09-12-2025

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

    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 quietly changes. Along the way, they hit horror movies, calculators in math class, Google Doc revision histories, and why it’s suddenly way easier to learn code than to pretend you never needed it. Then they’re joined by Bethany Crystal, founder of Build First AI, who has spent 15 years “around” technologists and only recently started building software herself. Bethany walks us through how she used AI tools, pair prompting, and a lot of stubbornness to ship her first iOS app, why she thinks the definition of “developer” is shifting, and how she now teaches other “non-technical” people to build real products. Oh, and she tells the story of how AI literally saved her life. 📚 Books The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn 🛠️ AI & Developer ToolsBuild First AIScribblins (Bethany's iOS app)MuseKat App (Bethany’s iOS app)Cursor – AI coding editorReplitElevenLabs – Text-to-Speechv0 – AI UI generatorSupabaseVercel 💸 Crypto ContextBaseSolanaEthereum 🎓 Education & CultureSuno (AI music generation) 🏢 Career & CommunityStack OverflowUnion Square VenturesTech:NYCDecoded Futures

    51 min
  3. Retro Tech, New AI, and the Blackmailing Bot - With Paul Ford

    25-11-2025

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

    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 shut it down. Casual! Sara and Becca start diving into what this experiment tells us about AI “goals,” self-preservation, and why humans are so bad at recognizing sentience in anything that isn’t us. If we can’t even agree on what a “soul” is, how would we ever know if an AI had one? Then we’re joined by writer, builder, and retro-computing fan Paul Ford, president and co-founder of Aboard, an AI-oriented software company. Paul talks about: how he “trained” himself on AI by building the same app over and over with different modelswhy LLMs are incredible at the first mile and pretty terrible at the lastwhat actually breaks when you try to let AI generate full-stack appshow boring tech (Postgres, TypeScript, React) is secretly the hero Along the way we hit Isaac Asimov’s three laws, the uncanny valley of AI-written everything, nostalgic Amiga computers, and what it means to build tools that regular humans — not just engineers — can actually use. If you’re AI-curious, a builder, or just mildly alarmed that 97% of models in this study went straight to blackmail… this one’s for you. 📰 The Anthropic “Alex” Experiment Anthropic / White-Hat AI Safety Experiment 📚 Foundational AI & Sci-Fi References Isaac Asimov – The Three Laws of RoboticsI, Robot (Asimov) 🎤 Guest: Paul Ford Aboard Email Paul mentionsPaul Ford 🕹️ Retro Tech & Nostalgia Amiga 1000 (Commodore)Deluxe PaintMiSTer FPGA

    52 min
  4. Goose, Open Source, and the Future of Coding with AI — with Rizel Scarlett

    13-11-2025

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

    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 up how developers work. From psychological safety in coding with AI to how open source is evolving in this new era, the trio dives into the wild mix of creativity, collaboration, and chaos shaping the future of software. Expect laughter, learning, and maybe one too many geese metaphors as they explore what happens when AI starts coding alongside us. “95% of GenAI projects are failing, MIT study finds” Linked MIT research study “From Experimentation to Transformation: How AI Is Driving Business Value” MIT Sloan Management Review & Boston Consulting Group Goose GitHub repo (open source): https://github.com/block/goose Rizel’s “Great Goose-Off” YouTube Series: https://www.youtube.com/@goose-oss Kimi K2 (Moonshot): https://kimi.moonshot.cn Meta Llama 3: https://ai.meta.com/llama/ Mistral Models: https://mistral.ai Ollama (run local models easily): https://ollama.com

    53 min
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    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 frontier of artificial intelligence, technology, and culture—how it works, what it means, and why it matters. From coding with AI and open-source revolutions to the ethics, creativity, and chaos reshaping our future, Sara and Becca learn out loud with brilliant guests (and the occasional chatbot). Smart, curious, and a little chaotic, Chaos Agents is your invitation to laugh, learn, and keep up with the machines.

    3 min

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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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