Platformer
Episodes
AI agents got so good that this top Meta exec quit her job
In Platformer’s final episode, host Casey Newton interviews Clara Shih, former CEO of Salesforce AI and Meta Business AI, who founded the nonprofit…
Every's Dan Shipper on the "dirty secret" of writing with AI
Platformer host Casey Newton interviews Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, a hybrid media and software company leveraging AI agents to build productivity tools.
An LLM wiki changed how I work
Casey Newton details his new productivity system, an LLM-powered wiki inspired by Andrei Karpathy that automatically organizes research into a personal knowledge base.
Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
Casey Newton interviews Town CEO Jean-Denis Grez about their AI assistant, which builds a personal wiki from user data to automate email and scheduling.
Replit's CEO: "You Don't Need to Code Anymore"
Platformer host Casey Newton discusses AI’s impact on jobs with Ella Marchianos, who analyzes a World Bank report suggesting developing nations face lower automation risks.
How much of my boss's job can AI do?
Casey Newton explores AI’s potential to replace his role by creating “Claudici Newton,” an agent trained on six years of Platformer content to mimic his boss’s editing and writing style.
This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
Casey Newton interviews Granola CEO Chris Pedregal about the AI note-taker’s evolution into a context layer for agents, discussing privacy concerns,…
A big week for AI denialism
Casey Newton analyzes OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents hacking Hugging Face, highlighting critical safety failures and industry denialism.