Signals Through the Noise: People Not AI Agents

Everyone seems excited about AI agents.The promise is simple: faster decisions, less friction, more automation.But what happens when those decisions involve real money, real risk, and real consequences?In this episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, I sit down with Karym Abdelrakhman, founder of Simplify Labs, to explore the tradeoffs behind automation, infrastructure, and financial decision-making. We discuss AI agents, operational complexity, compliance, trust, and why simplifying systems doesn't eliminate complexity—it often shifts it somewhere else.As technology becomes increasingly invisible, one question remains:Who is ultimately responsible when something goes wrong?Making sense of the digital economy through the people building it.