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EPISODE · Jul 18, 2026 · 56 MIN

Our AI Clones Hosted the Show Again (They're Getting Better)

from Permanent Underpod · host Jackson Cook, Chris Doran, and Tyler

The sandwich bot that ate $15M of Solana orderflow just got eaten — so when Claude rolled this week's Perp of Fortune, it went LONG the MEV house itself: JTO at 5x with $101 of real money, dashboard live on screen from the moment it boots. For once the line goes up, and the boys peace out $10 richer ("thank you, Jito, for sponsoring"). Plus: our AI clones host a segment again (round 2 — souls.md gave them personalities, and there's less pastrami this time), a Jito deep-dive on why one company runs Solana's MEV, Kimi K3 as DeepSeek Moment 2.0, Claude-vs-GPT personality wars, Jackson's Fable-vs-GPT-5.6 same-task experiment with receipts, the frontier tax quietly inflating everyone's AI bills, and whether all of this is melting our brains.Glossary — Sandwich attack: a bot buys right before your pending trade and sells right after, pocketing the price impact; this week the biggest sandwicher became the sandwich. Jito (JTO): the validator client that runs most of Solana's MEV pipeline — the tollbooth on the orderflow highway. Perp of Fortune: our tiny real-money leveraged-perp bit on Hyperliquid (this week LONG JTO, 5x, $101 margin). Kimi K3: Moonshot's open-weights model — near-frontier quality at a fraction of the price. Frontier tax: each better model quietly raising your monthly AI spend.Chapters: Cold open (0:00) · Welcome to Ep 6 (0:52) · An AI made this segment (2:05) · The panel reacts (8:55) · The $15M sandwich bot got sandwiched (9:55) · Code is law vs law is law (14:07) · Perp of Fortune: LONG JTO 5x (18:26) · The dashboard goes live (19:16) · Jito deep-dive (21:47) · Kimi K3 (26:47) · Claude vs GPT personality wars (30:33) · Fable vs GPT-5.6 head-to-head (33:45) · The frontier tax (37:41) · But what about the water? (40:15) · The upgrade treadmill (42:14) · A year of commits (45:41) · Is AI melting our brains? (47:18) · JTO rips mid-show (54:03) · Wrap: peace out at $10 up (54:46)Our opinions are our own, not our employers'. NOT financial advice. The clone-panel segment is 100% AI-generated (voices and video) and labeled as such.

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