AI agents: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
AI agents came up in 22 of 89 episodes (25%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (20%).
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 22 episodes behind the newest bar
- Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 4 times
- Meta Connect Reactions, Zuck's Beer Pong Controversy, ClusterMAX 3.0, New Bentley EVTBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 13 times
- Jensen’s Ezra Interview, EV News, Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc | Diet TBPNTBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- From AGENTS.md to Enterprise DeploymentPractical AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- The limiting factor—how to design an AI software factory for speed | Geoff Charles (Ramp…Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 6 times
- The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMPLatent Space · week ending Sep 27 · said it 5 times
- Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TB…TBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- Some Personal Agent News, CharlestonAI Founder Joins, 10%, Mikey Shulman, Keith RaboisTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 5 times
- Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Bria…No Priors · week ending Sep 13 · said it 8 times
- How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 3 times
- Inside the Team That Killed Mandatory Code Review — Quinn Slack, AMPLatent Space · week ending Sep 13 · said it 3 times
- Stripe built a company brain: Meet KaiHow I AI · week ending Sep 13 · said it 4 times
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvementDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 3 times
- Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson DebateTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 8 times
- WE'RE BACK: Meta Addiction, Jalapeño, Tim Cook's Last Day, FlockedTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- 🔴 LIVE From CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026TBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 7 times
- Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging FaceDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 6 times
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it 5 times
- ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…they're thinking more about their data strategy and often you want your AI agents for example to read a lot of data…”
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“…for mental health, LMNT, for electrolytes, Fin, for customer service AI agents, Shopify for selling stuff online, and Perplexity, for curiosity-driven knowledge exploration.”
Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age | Lex Fridman Podc…
“Yes, a year ago, nobody was talking about AI agents. And now, if you are a large enterprise, you probably have AI…”
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“AI security and AI privacy and AI safety. There’s a whole ecosystem of AI startups that are trying to create this future for us, where you have one AI agent that's incredible, surrounded by thousands of AI agents, keeping it safe, keeping it secure.”
“…understand what people are saying. Once you have AI agents doing all this stuff, you're going to want to know what the AI…”
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Can…
“I will go ahead and try to address this with our coding agent. So, please remove the public preview badge from the…”
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…and password resets. Um, let's let's see what's next. Uh, Meta, the AI agent company Muse, they're putting humans in…”
Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…
“…of environments for quite a while, right? Because there've been enterprises for for quite a while. Maybe just give us a sense of like leading up to AI agents, and we'll talk about agents here in a second, but leading up to AI agents... ...like what were some of the ways that you could, I guess,…”
“…extremely actionable. And so we did that. We built our own AI agent called Glass. And we gave it all the context it…”
The limiting factor—how to design an AI software factory for speed | Geoff Charles (Ramp…
“…one thing one thing you also did with the coding agents was that you broke out which are the top coding agents and they…”
The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMP
“…billion people start using, you know, personal AI agents as their digital assistant just to help make their lives…”
Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 9 | 22 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 3 | 5 |
| Latent Space | 2 | 16 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 2 | 9 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 2 | 3 |
| How I AI | 1 | 8 |
| No Priors | 1 | 5 |
| All-In Podcast | 1 | 4 |
| Practical AI | 1 | 1 |
| Cheeky Pint | 0 | 3 |
| Invest Like the Best | 0 | 1 |
| My First Million | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “AI agent” or “coding agent” 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.