Issue No. 40Week ending Sunday, October 4, 2026507 episodes · 2183 articles
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Agentic: how often the top podcasts talk about it.

Agentic came up in 18 of 89 episodes (20%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (18%).

18 of 89episodes, four weeks to Sep 27

Share of episodes, four weeks at a time

23%May 1012 of 5213%Jun 76 of 4620%Jul 514 of 6924%Aug 213 of 559%Aug 305 of 5520%Sep 2718 of 89
Share of episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover that said “agentic” at least twice, in blocks of four weeks. Each label is the block's last Sunday. The newest block is the orange bar on the right.
The 18 episodes behind the newest bar

Earliest mentions in our archive

The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.

“I have reasonable record-keeping on this, so I... And especially with all this AI-led agentic, like, reprocessing of notes and press, and so on,…”

Founders Podcast · week ending Jan 18 · Watch at 39:32 ↗

Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify

“…developer infrastructure platform for the agentic era. And importantly, just like Ferrari, the crucial part is that…”

Acquired · week ending Apr 12 · Watch at 53:30 ↗

Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio)

“…since 2122 with GPT3, but the unlock in 2024 was agentic AI and that was the first glimpse of it. and and we bu we…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 4:01 ↗

Replit CEO: Why Coding Models are Plateauing & Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified | Amj…

“…how commerce itself is becoming agentic. At Stripe, we think about this in…”

Cheeky Pint · week ending May 3 · Watch at 13:55 ↗

Stripe Sessions 2026 | Indexing the economy

“…human aspect to it? Can we figure out agentic commerce so that agents can do that? Um, and then the other thing that…”

How I AI · week ending May 3 · Watch at 10:02 ↗

How a non-technical founder built a $100K ARR meme company | Jason Levin (Memelord CEO)

“Not fine tuning. Just like the the agentic scaffold that you use. Do you have a different harness for anthropic,…”

Latent Space · week ending May 3 · Watch at 14:02 ↗

⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founde…

Most recent mentions

The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.

“…this year. So basically they are feeling the reasoning era, the agentic era, uh one one job, one one process in Harvey…”

TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 3:08 ↗

Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…

“…run, you know, an actual agent in an quote 'enterprise' environment... ...which seems to be really fascinating. We recently had on someone from the Agentic AI Foundation who is kind of stewarding the Model Context Protocol and agents.md and and those sorts of things. So, very relevant kind of…”

Practical AI · week ending Sep 27 · Listen at 2:22 ↗

From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment

“…always been coding evals long horizon agentic programming I mean from day one that was always…”

Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 56:30 ↗

The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMP

“…to be close to fable 5.1 on most work. So good at agentic coding task. Good to the things that claude be clotting.”

How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 2:32 ↗

Claude is BACK with Opus 5.5

“…has invented to make these models more agentic. And there's still a lot of edge there. So at 8090 we have a labs…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 26:55 ↗

Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…

Which shows say it

ShowLast four weeksAll weeks counted
TBPN614
20VC with Harry Stebbings416
Latent Space211
How I AI23
Practical AI22
No Priors17
All-In Podcast13
Cheeky Pint04
Lenny's Podcast04
Acquired01
Dwarkesh Podcast01
Founders Podcast01
Invest Like the Best01
Lex Fridman Podcast01

More trends

Episodes in the newest four weeks:

How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “agentic” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.

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