Why current AI technology can’t get us what its proponents are promising. Why the media keeps getting the AI story wrong. Why AI layoffs are just an excuse to re-hire workers for cheaper.

Punching Upwards, Episode 27 for 15 March 2026

Topic: Technology / Artificial Intelligence

🦉 No AI Content

Credits

Thanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Bennet Piater, Sir Galteran and John C. for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce it!

See Also

* Punching Upwards 22: Moltbook Madness

Sources

* Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end, Dwarkesh Patel, 26 September 2025

* The Bitter Lesson, Richard Sutton, 13 March 2019

* DHUnplugged #793: Mission Accomplished?, Dvorak / Horowitz Unplugged, 11 March 2026

* Meta just bought Moltbook, the viral social network for AI agents, Business Insider, 10 March 2026

* The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication, Simon Willison, 16 June 2025

* Jürgen “tante” Geuter

* Wading Through AI by Casey Muratori, Molly Rocket

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