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EPISODE · Oct 28, 2025 · 29 MIN

We Built a Startup in 20 Minutes Using AI Agents

from They Might Be Self-Aware · host Hunter Powers, Daniel Bishop

AI Agents Build Facebook in 20 Minutes?! Claude Code launches a full startup—auth, feed, likes, DB—before the coffee cools. Then we hire an AI CMO.AI agents built Facebook in 20 minutes. No code camp, no hype video—just Claude hammering away in a terminal while we watched the future write itself. Authentication, feed, likes, comments, database… all live before the coffee cooled. So yeah, we might’ve just built a startup in 20 minutes.Then we lost our minds and hired an AI Chief Marketing Officer—with a human assistant who doesn’t know their boss is silicon. Ethical? Productive? Insane? All three. This week, we test what happens when AI agents stop helping and start running the company.If you’ve ever wondered how close we are to an AI startup that runs itself—or just want to hear two tech weirdos argue about whether it’s “progress” or “the end”—this is your episode.🔥 Topics: Claude Code, AI business, GPT-5 leaks, AI CEOs, and what happens when the intern’s a human.⏱️ CHAPTERS00:00 AI Agents Go Rogue – Claude builds a Facebook clone in 20 minutes04:40 The Startup Singularity – Can one prompt launch a company?10:15 AI CEOs & Human Lackeys – Running marketing with machine strategy16:30 GPT-5 vs Claude Code – Who’s really replacing whom?22:45 The Ethics of Automation – When the AI hires you⚡ Listen now & get self-aware before your tools do.🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc🍎 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297▶️ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy9DopLlG7IbOqV-WD25jcw?sub_confirmation=1#AI #AIagents #Startup #ClaudeCode #GPT5

Daniel challenges Hunter’s skepticism by using Claude Code to build a functioning Facebook-like app complete with authentication, feeds, likes, and a database in just 20 minutes. The two then spiral into a thought experiment about AI-run startups, debating whether AI agents could (or should) become the CEOs and marketers of the future while humans become their assistants.

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AI Agents Build Facebook in 20 Minutes?! Claude Code launches a full startup—auth, feed, likes, DB—before the coffee cools. Then we hire an AI CMO.AI agents built Facebook in 20 minutes. No code camp, no hype video—just Claude hammering away in a...

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