S01E35 Sleeping on MMA Mats

Andrew is building his asteroid game at 3am, Joe is napping on MMA mats, and somehow this turns into one of the more grounded conversations about AI and layoffs you'll hear right now. Once the chaos settles, Joe and the others get into something that's been quietly playing out across a lot of companies: the gap between the AI productivity gains that were promised and what's actually showing up in the work. Robert's Ferrari-and-bad-driver analogy makes an appearance — a junior designer burning through Claude tokens for six months, producing output a senior could spot as wrong in minutes. The tool wasn't the problem. Honest conversation, no tidy conclusions.