IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs

What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.

• DevDay 2026 Recap

• Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing

• GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

• (7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X

• OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

• "I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang

• Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System

• NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring

• Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand

• Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI

• AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI

• Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr

• Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

• A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Yes

• Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs

• Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac

• AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own 'pain,' disturbing study finds

• Mac-mini-powered Cray

• Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears

• SF Currently

• This $60 rye bread is everything that's right and wrong with New York

• Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich

• Taco Bell finder

• Where to watch the Musk doc

• Jeff's book talk in Mass.

Hosts: Leo Laporte (twit.tv/people/leo-laporte), Jeff Jarvis (twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis), and Paris Martineau (twit.tv/people/paris-martineau)

Guest: Mike Gannotti (smfworks.com)

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