Jake Kastrenakes

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2,813 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 18 Sep

Jake Kastrenakes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 5.

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The Vergecast · The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

I'm also extremely curious exactly how much power you can get out of open local models that you can run yourself these days. matched

Right. matched

Uh you can do something on the Mac Mini. matched

You can do something a little bit better on a Mac Studio if you spec it out. matched

But at some level, these open models are are they just they don't hold a candle to the the tip top flagship models from open AI. matched

anthropic. matched

And if you want to do the beefiest work, you're probably just paying those and you're running your whatever agentic harnesses so you can have a hundred different agents in a bot swarm uh, you know, run all of your coding for you. matched

story. matched

I I I mean I would dramatically prefer to talk to these things locally and it just does not feel like an option. matched

And to the extent that I even could run something on my computer that is, you know, somewhat capable, I'm like matched

Listen, this computer is gonna fall apart if I ask it too many questions for this LLM. matched

Like I I I don't want to destroy my MacBook Air just to get some some bad AI answers. matched

Okay. matched

So a couple other things about these. matched

Number one, we should point out there are some price hikes here. matched

Everything's getting more expensive. matched

They actually very quietly hid a pretty big price hike for the Mac. matched

Mac mini. matched

All the news is that it went up by $100. matched

But that's because they dropped the 256 gigabyte config. matched

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