Spooning the Gravy

Troy’s vibe coding project has moved into high gear, as institutional and personal memory becomes the point of leverage with media’s ultimate goal shifting to how to get the right people in the saloon. Claude Design and GPT-Image 2 reinforce the same message: You’re either high-end craftsman or you’re orchestrating AI systems, like it or not. Plus: Tim Cook hands over the CEO reigns after Apple’s boring decade, why media is about artists, suits and engineers, the dismal fate of much of Vox’s publishing assets, the emptiness of cloned media assets and why there’s leverage in coming out of the kitchen to spoon the gravy, no matter how much you’ve accomplished.* Watch us on YouTube* Troy Young’s People vs Algorithms newsletter* Brian Morrissey’s The Rebooting newsletter* Alex Schleifer’s Human Computer* Follow Alex, Brian and Troy on TwitterChapters:* 00:00 Open* 00:52 Building on Top of LLMs* 03:41 Welcome* 04:31 Vibe Coding Costs* 09:00 Memory as Moat* 13:38 Wiki Maintenance Problem* 16:41 Workers Training Replacements* 18:13 McClatchy Content Scaling* 25:25 Community as Real Value* 32:43 Monitoring the Situation Review* 35:20 Are Designers Cooked* 37:58 Dotcom Agency Flashback* 40:19 AI Kills The Agency Model* 42:36 Displacement And Value Stack* 45:38 Farm To Table Humans* 47:13 Apple’s Boring Decade* 51:47 Nvidia Chips And China* 55:40 Event Format And Layers* 57:29 Vox Sale And Media M&A* 01:01:27 Media Notes And Widgets* 01:06:59 Collectibles As Asset Class* 01:09:12 Good Product* 01:14:43 Outro This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peoplevsalgorithms.com