IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs
Summary
In this episode, hosts Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau interview Mike Ganott, a Microsoft engineer who runs a 24-person AI team of autonomous agents to build an educational platform and manage his personal life. They discuss the rise of local AI, where hobbyists use open-weight models on home hardware like NVIDIA Sparks to achieve near-frontier performance without cloud dependency. The conversation also covers OpenAI’s Dev Day announcements, including a new high-speed model requiring a $500 monthly subscription, and reveals Anthropic’s massive $42 billion loss in 2025 from their recent pros…
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