Computer use: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
Computer use came up in 12 of 89 episodes (13%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 5% in the earlier weeks. Without TBPN, the change is too small to call a trend.
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 12 episodes behind the newest bar
- Meta Connect Reactions, Zuck's Beer Pong Controversy, ClusterMAX 3.0, New Bentley EVTBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- Runway’s Bet Beyond Video: World Models, Robotics, and the Neural OS — Anastasis Germanid…Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- Claude is BACK with Opus 5.5How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 6 times
- Opus 5.5 is great (but GPT-6 Sol is better)How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAITBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 6 times
- OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPNTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Parker's Vineyard, Personal AgentsTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 6 times
- Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic InternetPractical AI · week ending Sep 13 · said it 16 times
- How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- WE'RE BACK: Meta Addiction, Jalapeño, Tim Cook's Last Day, FlockedTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- GPT-6 Astra blew away every one of my benchmarksHow I AI · week ending Sep 6 · said it 18 times
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…ask about like how you feel the the perception around computer use has been like it felt like there were so many…”
Mike Isaac (NYT) Joins, Earnings Review, Beautiful Data Centers, Coatue is Land Maxxing
“…think they actually overindex on the computer use part of it because computer use in my mind is the literal okay you…”
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & C…
“…very interesting and confusing about the nature of current AI progress. Why has progress on computer use been so much slower than other domains? Computer use is so clearly verifiable.”
“…releases in Mayish that introduced the inapp browser computer use and artifact creation to the Codex app. That was I…”
OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
“APIs. So, in most, you know, glo like most computer use globally is on the on the internet and browser. My my main…”
“…creativity, and real-world production, and why computer use plus software means SaaS really isn't dead, at least not…”
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…so I come from uh decade of AI research. Um worked on reasoning and computer use way back. Sort of started doing AI…”
Meta Connect Reactions, Zuck's Beer Pong Controversy, ClusterMAX 3.0, New Bentley EV
“…effectively. We also see this as a powerful way to train computer use agents as well. Um so this is you know…”
Runway’s Bet Beyond Video: World Models, Robotics, and the Neural OS — Anastasis Germanid…
“…knowledge work. So inbox triage, writing emails as me, computer use, and then some cool creative use cases. I'm going…”
“…you got going on there? me as a personal use type thing, like I'm I'm able to do that. I have my three or four different Gmails logged in and so computer use can go and look at all three or four of them, which I know that with one, I can't remember if it's Hermes or Grokbot, you can also set…”
“…of finding those next tasks to unlock and then solving them. So, computer use uh basically uh improvements seems like…”
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 6 | 11 |
| How I AI | 3 | 4 |
| Latent Space | 1 | 5 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 1 | 4 |
| Practical AI | 1 | 1 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 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 “computer use” 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.