004: Claude 5x is all you need w/ Josh Pigford

This week Ian is joined by Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics, to talk about Codex Sites, Alphabet raising money for AI, Josh's personal AI setup, and so much more. Sponsored by Bento - https://bentonow.com 00:00 Intro & Introducing Josh 03:31 Microsoft Scout & AI Token Spend 16:07 Josh's AI Setup 21:25 Codex Sites 26:25 Q&A 36:14 Alphabet Raising $80 Billion 37:50 Anthropic Submits An S-1 40:02 Opus 4.8's Mixed Reception Links: Josh Pigford https://joshpigford.com Microsoft Scout https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/micro... Uber caps AI spend https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/ube... Codex Sites https://developers.openai.com/codex/s... Conductor https://www.conductor.build Polyscope https://getpolyscope.com Alphabet's trying to raise $80 billion https://blog.google/alphabet/investor... Anthropic submits an S-1