Two ways the walls are coming down: AI you can trust (a second set of eyes checks the first), and AI that comes to you (it ships into Slack, where you already work). Slack is becoming the launch surface for AI products — same thesis as two websites: the software comes to you.
SAY IT RIGHT ON AIR · the cuts + corrections:
CUT “Trump White House is over / Dario” — that’s a WIRED newsletter’s anonymous intrigue, NOT a Dario quote. Don’t say it.
STALE “ChatGPT lost the majority” — broke 6/16 (last week’s window). Don’t run it as new.
CUT “Grok Imagine beat Sora/Veo” — one blog, partly false, May launch.
CORRECT Anthropic ID-to-use-Claude is selective, not universal. Say “selective,” or skip.
NUMBERS: Boring’s pricing isn’t published yet, so don’t quote a price; same for any bookmark / search-volume figures (Sakana, agent-seo) — attribute them, don’t state as fact.
APPLE / iPHONE: Reuters quoting Apple’s stated reason (not a press release). Apple gave no reason the iPhone’s excluded — don’t guess “carrier contracts.”
DEMO FLAG Confirm BEFORE air whether Olga’s free Slack connector still works in Marketing HQ or the @Claude path is now paid-gated (Claude Tag replaced the old app 6/23).
0 · Cold Open
The hook — lead with what they get
~15 sec. Viewer value first, the demo is the vehicle. No callback ritual.
“Every AI company is racing to put its agent where you already work — and you can finally trust AI to check its own work. Here’s what you actually get from both this week.” Then straight into the news.
1 · News Block
A-block + B-block (verified)
Say the news first, then riff. Lead with Sakana (the most-saved one). ~20 min.
The subagent story. Credit Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh, June 24). No coding required.
The arc
The moment: you ask AI “is this good?” and it says “Looks great!” — but the mistakes are still right there. The thing that made the work is the worst thing to review it (same memory, same blind spots).
The fix, plain: bring in a SECOND AI with a blank sheet — a subagent that only sees the finished work, so it can’t inherit your blind spots. Even better: a panel of three, each a different reviewer.
What we did, live: three blind reviewers (everyday viewer / tough producer / relentless fact-checker) on our OWN news rundown. The fact-checker caught us — the RAISE story was labeled “official” but the source is AP (a wire service), wrong label. We fixed it before it reached you.
Steal this: never let AI grade its own homework. New chat, paste only the finished work, give it a role, run it three times. Honest caveat: it costs more and not every note is right — the reviewers surface, the human decides.
Slack Is the New Launch Surface — and a Product I Love Using
The opportunity + Boring Marketing as the example. Credit James / Boring warmly. Olga drives, Chris pushes the bear case.
AI companies ship their agents into Slack for instant distribution, where teams already work. Salesforce opened the door, then tightened it with API limits; really it’s chat (Teams is bigger). The rule: use Slack as a doorway, not your foundation — own your brain and your data.
The example I love
Credit + the wow: James’s Boring Marketing agent profiled PageMotor with eerie accuracy and found a real land-grab — “agent SEO,” a category nobody owns yet. Genuinely excellent research.
The riff: I took its #1 recommendation and shipped it as a real page on my own site — live at pagemotor.com/agent-seo — in one sitting. AI research to a published page, fast.
The takeaway: pair great research with your own tools on your own site. That’s the two-websites thesis in action.
PRESENT DD2 FROM THE LOCAL FILE — episodes/ep47/pre-show/ep47-slack-deck.html — so the 7 Boring screenshots load. The web slides link above is the backup (captions only, no images).
4 · Funding — closes the show
The Geography Illusion
AI = $4.68B across 77 cos (41.1% of all venture $). Funding is the closer.
Looks like a crash from last week’s $11.64B — but that was a China week. Strip it and US AI funding nearly tripled ($1.34B → $3.74B, 80% of all AI dollars). The money went to infrastructure (Baseten $1.5B, Groq $650M — running models, not building them). Kicker: Mirendil’s $200M seed at a $1B valuation.
Don’t trail off. “The walls between where you talk and where your software lives are coming down. Own your data and your brain, use Slack as a doorway — not your foundation.” Then ask for the subscribe, clearly. Judge the episode by conversion, not the clock.