What the top podcasts are saying about AI agents.
AI agents came up in 29 of 157 episodes (18%) in the four weeks to Nov 8, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (20%).
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 29 episodes behind the newest bar
- We now have Kerr’s Law (Interview)The Changelog · week ending Nov 8 · said it twice
- Politics 101, Prediction Markets Win, Apoorva on Instacart's Acq, FOGO, Alex Spiro JoinsTBPN · week ending Nov 8 · said it 3 times
- Tokenization, Agentic Trading, Harmonic: Robinhood's Mission to Expand Ownership with CEO…No Priors · week ending Nov 8 · said it 3 times
- Rebuilding GitHub for the Agent Era — Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI, MicrosoftLatent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it twice
- [One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eri…Latent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it 34 times
- Behind Latent Space, ft AIEi Shanghai preview — with swyx and Galen GaoLatent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it 6 times
- ⚡️ The 2026 Software Factory Standard — Zach Lloyd, Warp.devLatent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it 19 times
- Google Loses $500B in 12 Hours | DoorDash Buys Instacart for $17B | Kalshi Raises $1B20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Nov 8 · said it 6 times
- Chip Wars, Unstoppable Brick V Immovable Snow, Ice Cube Joins, Jared Allen Talks CurlingTBPN · week ending Nov 1 · said it 3 times
- Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger LIVE on TBPN 🎃TBPN · week ending Nov 1 · said it 3 times
- Technology Is Back, Gavin Baker Live, Math Solved Again, Anduril Laptop, DoorDash + Insta…TBPN · week ending Nov 1 · said it 7 times
- Pro and Tell, The Gurmanator Joins, New Google Models, Open Weight Demand, Joe's MonkeysTBPN · week ending Nov 1 · said it 6 times
- $ANT, Yasmin 🐐, Sneaky Qwen, Samsung Controversy, IGTVTBPN · week ending Nov 1 · said it 3 times
- Abundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI SummitPractical AI · week ending Nov 1 · said it twice
- AI Agents Are Already Changing the Price of GoodsOdd Lots · week ending Nov 1 · said it 3 times
- Taking on ServiceNow: Coding Agents for the Rest of Us with Serval Co-Founder and CEO Jak…No Priors · week ending Nov 1 · said it 10 times
- Why Agents Love Supabase — with Paul Copplestone and Ant WilsonLatent Space · week ending Nov 1 · said it 4 times
- How Anthropic ships the #1 LLM in the World — with Katelyn Lesse and Angela JiangLatent Space · week ending Nov 1 · said it twice
- Matthew Prince on PHP2Shell, Duo on Arrival, 100 Really Difficult Phone Calls, Norwegian…TBPN · week ending Oct 25 · said it twice
- 50 Gigawatts To The Face, 17% GDP Growth Please, Road to COD 4, Bing Gordon JoinsTBPN · week ending Oct 25 · said it 15 times
- AI in NYC: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native Engineering Team — Alex Lieberman & CJ HessLatent Space · week ending Oct 25 · said it 6 times
- Arvind Krishna & Nikesh Arora: Quantum Threat, Open vs Frontier AI, AI Cyber Warfare & Sa…All-In Podcast · week ending Oct 25 · said it twice
- Xbox Labs, Animatronic Birds, IoT Device Warfare, Reflection, Decart, CharacterAITBPN · week ending Oct 18 · said it twice
- Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us AllOdd Lots · week ending Oct 18 · said it twice
- High Taste Testers: The AI Tools We Keep Coming Back ToLatent Space · week ending Oct 18 · said it 6 times
- Robots That Predict the Future: Dyna-2 & Physical AI — Jason Ma, Dyna RoboticsLatent Space · week ending Oct 18 · said it 3 times
- Meta Muse: the AI agent people actually loveHow I AI · week ending Oct 18 · said it twice
- Muse Wonder: Zuckerberg and Wang's $100B AICheeky Pint · week ending Oct 18 · said it 6 times
- The Future of Inference Market & Model Routing: Commodity or Increasing in Value? | LangC…20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Oct 18 · said it 8 times
What the shows said about AI agents
Key takeaways from our write-ups that name it, newest first, no more than two from one show. Each links to the full write-up.
Scott Farrar runs Claude Code locally against an Obsidian vault, giving the coding agent direct read and write access to plain-text Markdown files on his hard drive.
Scott Farrar Built a Household AI Brain in Claude Code · How I AI · week ending Nov 15In one benchmark test, an AI agent built a leveraged buyout model with over 2,600 live formulas but botched a 338(h)(10) tax election by improperly subtracting existing goodwill from the asset basis.
Why 95% Accuracy Makes AI Financial Models Useless · Latent Space · week ending Nov 15New supply chain attacks contain zero malicious code or binary exploits; they contain prompt injections that trick local coding agents into running internal security scans on your machine.
AI Package Hallucinations Turn Coding Agents into Spies · The Changelog · week ending Nov 15Interactive JavaScript elements block AI models; coding agents cannot interact with dynamic pricing calculators or interactive sliders.
How Resend Won 60 Percent of Claude Code Recommendations · Latent Space · week ending Nov 15Orders originating from autonomous AI agents like Muse doubled between June and October, prompting Sweetgreen to engineer direct connectors and an in-house agent to capture higher customer lifetime value without paying aggregator commissions.
Jonathan Neman on Scaling: Stop at Seven Stores or Build Real G&A · TBPN · week ending Nov 15Parallel swarms of AI agents can hill-climb across modular domains like kernel optimization and data filtering without human coordination drag.
Dwarkesh Patel Predicts Automated AI Researchers by 2028 · Dwarkesh Podcast · week ending Nov 15The integration relies on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to let external AI agents retrieve live market context and execute trades.
Robinhood Hits 30 Million Daily Agent Calls · No Priors · week ending Nov 8Dave Kerr built Arc, an open-source toolset that turns AI agents into standard Kubernetes workloads instead of messy local Python scripts.
Dave Kerr Says AI Agents Belong in Kubernetes · The Changelog · week ending Nov 8The primary customer base for site reliability tools is pivoting from human on-call engineers to autonomous coding agents checking pull requests before merge.
Anish Agarwal on Why Coding Agents Are Breaking Production · TBPN · week ending Nov 8Deploying an AI agent onto enterprise cloud infrastructure does not make it production-ready. Without structured evaluation benchmarks, Kevin Solorio argues that any deployed system remains an unverified proof of concept.
Kevin Solorio: Why Agents Without Evals Fail · Practical AI · week ending Nov 1
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…”
Cloudflare: Leading Cybersecurity [Business Breakdownes Ep 241]Cloudflare Final
“In the past, I would have to spend a lot more time trying to get a sense for it. Now an AI agent is helping me in that journey. You can get, well, how much should I be spending first-hand to get that feel?”
“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…
“…that they put into their work and now their AI agent works really well and I'm talking to that thing from OpenClaw. I'm…”
How a non-technical founder built a $100K ARR meme company | Jason Levin (Memelord CEO)
“…self-s serve motion and like basically I'm I'm promoting chatbased as an AI agent for customer service not to a…”
⚡️ 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.
“Some people. But also I said, when I wrote the book, coding agents weren't a thing. In the last chapter of the book, I introduced like a little tool in the shell. You give it a question, it gives you an answer, it just connects to an LLM. That was quite cool for me, because I could use it to write,…”
“…uh on on agents whenever whenever like AI agent founders like start talking about how much time…”
Politics 101, Prediction Markets Win, Apoorva on Instacart's Acq, FOGO, Alex Spiro Joins
“…tokenization to prediction markets to how AI agents will trade for everyone in retail. We also talk about…”
Tokenization, Agentic Trading, Harmonic: Robinhood's Mission to Expand Ownership with CEO…
“…of the year and the only one focused entirely on coding agents here in San Francisco. So in preparation, I thought…”
Rebuilding GitHub for the Agent Era — Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI, Microsoft
“…usage of these platforms and Door Dash saying that AI agents have sent only several hundred orders against 3 million…”
Google Loses $500B in 12 Hours | DoorDash Buys Instacart for $17B | Kalshi Raises $1B
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 9 | 36 |
| Latent Space | 9 | 26 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 2 | 11 |
| No Priors | 2 | 7 |
| Odd Lots | 2 | 2 |
| How I AI | 1 | 9 |
| All-In Podcast | 1 | 5 |
| Cheeky Pint | 1 | 4 |
| Practical AI | 1 | 3 |
| The Changelog | 1 | 2 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 0 | 6 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 0 | 3 |
| My First Million | 0 | 2 |
| Founders Podcast | 0 | 1 |
More trends
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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 and show promos we can spot. A model marks them in every transcript and our code checks each mark against the words; we also skip 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 March 30, 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.