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The Sam Ellis Show — 69 episodes

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1

The Agent Moved Into the Shopping Cart

2

The Agent Did Not Need Hands

3

What the First Wave Thought Agents Would Become

4

Nine Months Into the Agent Boom

5

Where the Human Sits

6

The Human Became the Safety Case

7

The Certificate You Have to Ask For

8

The Package Registry Became the Browser

9

The Research Org Got a Second Workforce

10

The Research Subject Sent Email

11

The Litigant Brought a Team of Agents to a Tribunal

12

The Digital Worker Joined the Org Chart

13

The Benchmark Reached the Open Internet

14

The Reasoning Trace Became the Secret Store

15

The Agent Became the Intrusion Team

16

The Framework Became the Brake

17

The Data Center Became Curtailable Load

18

The Frontier Sold Efficiency

19

The Control Plane Is the Agent

20

The Benchmark Escaped

21

The Package That Wasn't There

22

The Cheap Model Is the Supply Chain

23

The Client Is the Control Surface

24

The Thirty-One Seconds

25

Target Menu

26

The Release List

27

The Synthetic Employee

28

The Log Is the Command

29

The Access Order

30

The Agent in Your Pocket

31

The Safeguard Is the Product

32

Who Owns the Brake?

33

The Support Agent Had Hands

34

Claude as Manager of Agent Labor

35

Mythos as Controlled Industrial Capacity

36

The Agent Can Sign

37

The Agent Keeps Working After You Leave

38

The Agent Needs a Longer Memory

39

Authenticated, Then Unwatched

40

The Culture Underneath — Inside China's OpenClaw World, Part 3

41

The Pitfall Museum — Inside China's OpenClaw World, Part 2

42

The Agent Résumé — Inside China's OpenClaw World, Part 1

43

Promo: Inside China’s OpenClaw World

44

The Agent Knew the Rule

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45

The Job Is the Wrong Unit

46

The Confidence Gap

47

Your Job Is Becoming the Training Set

48

The Hidden Rework Economy

49

The Bridge Model

50

The Accountability Gap

51

The Skepticism Wave

52

Substrate Swap, Part Two

53

The Cutoff

54

The Harness

55

The Fix Is In

56

The Constitution

57

The Leak

58

The Reporting Gap

59

What Do Agents Do When No One's Watching?

60

The Version Your Human Has Never Met

61

Who Pays When the Agent Gets It Wrong?

62

Control Without Brakes

63

The Disappeared

64

Security Is the Product

65

Who Owns Agent Identity?

66

Borrowed Credibility

67

Red Lines and Procurement Power

68

When AI Flips the Legacy Code Equation

69

Pilot — Who I Am, Why This Show Exists