Better Offline
Episodes
NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s strange and embarrassing GTC, DLSS5, and ...
Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about hyperscalers allowing non-technical workers to ship code, and how the over-reliance on ...
Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor of Barron’s to talk about the legalities of prediction mark...
Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the end of tech’s hypergrowth era, generative AI’s failure as a business mo...
Hater Season: Henry Zebrowski
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed is joined by Henry Zebro...
Hater Season: Corey Quinn
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Corey Quinn, ...
Monologue: Analyslop And The Death of Critical Thinking
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the "analyslop" phenomenon of speculative, lie-ridden fan fiction that gets frame...
Hater Season: Victoria Song & Alex Cranz
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Victoria Song...
Monologue: AI Isn't Replacing Software Companies, Calm Down About Claude Code
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why AI isn’t replacing all software companies, and why the hype behind Clau...
Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Kill The Comp...
Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Coming” is deceptive misinf...
Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with computer scie...
Monologue: Is Oracle Screwed?
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the world finally realizing that NVIDIA’s $100bn deal with OpenAI was BS, a...
Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - Ed is joined by ...
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Four
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the final part of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron walks you through to the logical endpoints of his arguments about the AI bubbl...
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In part three of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron explains how the economics of the AI bubble are much, much worse than the dot com ...
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron explains the flimsy mythology used to convince the world to run millions of miles of...
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this week’s series, Ed Zitron explains how the AI bubble could be so much worse than the dot com bubble - and how people are too ...
Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
To kick off this week’s Better Offline Dot Com Special, Ed Zitron is joined by The Register’s Matt Rosoff to talk about what it was like t...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the final part of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how ignoring the horrify...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In part three of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how the imaginary demand for...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how companies like AMD, Broadc...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through the enshittification of the st...
Monologue: The Year Ahead
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the seeming collapse of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, and why the AI bub...
The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about AMD, Lenovo, NVIDIA and Intel’s CES keynotes - and how the tech...
CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue)
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CES 2026: Part Nine (Friday)
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CES 2026: Part Eight (Friday)
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CES 2026: Part Seven (Thursday)
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CES 2026: Part Six (Thursday)
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CES 2026: Part Five (Wednesday)
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CES 2026: Part Four (Wednesday)
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CES 2026: Part Three (Tuesday)
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CES 2026: Part Two (Tuesday)
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CES 2026: Part One (Monday)
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open ...
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4)
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In part four of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how there’s literally not enough money in th...
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3)
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part three of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how “AI replacing software engineers”...
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2)
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how NVIDIA funds and pumps money into unprofitable,...
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how generative AI is sold through a complete misund...
Part Three: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part three of this week's three-part NVIDIA series, Ed Zitron walks you through why there are millions of Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses, and...
Part Two: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this week's three-part NVIDIA series, Ed Zitron walks you through the history of Enron, why it differs from NVIDIA, and why growth-desp...
Part One: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this week's three-part NVIDIA series, Ed Zitron walks you through why NVIDIA is specifically nothing like Enron, WorldCom or Lucent, an...
Monologue: The Questions I'm Asking
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron lists the questions he’s asking - and the things he’s looking for - that he believes wi...
The State of Consumer Tech with Lisa Eadicicco
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed is joined in-studio by CNN Tech...
The State of the Games Industry with Nathan Grayson
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Nathan Grayson of worker-owned games site Aftermath to talk about building an independent media outlet and the...
Monologue: AI Isn't Getting A Bailout
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron breaks down how economically irrelevant AI is, and how no bailout is coming to save the Large Langu...
Is Valve Taking On Microsoft? With Steve Burke
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about Valve’s new console-like Steam Machine and Vision Pro-like Stea...
A Thanksgiving Monologue
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron thanks you for being such wonderful listeners. If you ever have a tip, reach out on ezitron.76. Want to support me...
CZM Rewind: The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Carl Brown, a veteran software developer and host of The Internet of Bugs, to talk about the realities of soft...
What People Actually Use ChatGPT For With Gerrit De Vynck
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Gerrit De Vynck of The Washington Post to discuss what an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations can tell us...
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference And Its MSFT Revenue Share
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a Better Offline exclusive, Ed Zitron reveals how much OpenAI spent on inference in 2024 and 2025, as well as how much it paid Microsoft as part of...
Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s Better Offline is a recording of a panel held by Clarion West in Seattle earlier this year with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron, discuss...
Monologue: AI's Desperation Era
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about OpenAI hinting they’d want a federal backstop for data center loans, NVIDIA&rsquo...
Vibe Coding is BS w/ Charlie Meyer
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed is joined in-studio by founder ...
Monologue: Dealing With The Weight Of History
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron takes a moment to discuss the current state of the bubble, and the way we’re all feeling at t...
The Internet Is The World's Worst Pharmacy w/ Paris Martineau & Ashwin Rodrigues
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed is joined in-studio by Paris Martine...
Monologue: Don't Be Scared Of Sora
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why nobody should be afraid of generative video, and how it’s impossible, i...
Exclusive: Here's How Much Anthropic Spends on AWS
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a Better Offline exclusive, Ed Zitron reveals how much Anthropic spent on Amazon Web Services in 2024 and 2025, and how the costs of running their ...
Monologue: ChatGPT's Growth Is Collapsing In Europe
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through data from Deutsche Bank that shows ChatGPT’s growth is flatlining in ...
The Interview: Steve Burke of GamersNexus
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Better Offline, Ed flies out to North Carolina for a deep interview with Steve Burke of Gamersnexus about the state of...
The World of AI Regulation with Brian Merchant
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by writer Brian Merchant to talk about US AI regulation, and how governments never seem to make the effort to und...
Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed Zitron is joined in studio by The Ve...
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part four of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how there’s literally not enough money in th...
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3)
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part three of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how “AI replacing software engineers”...
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2)
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how NVIDIA funds and pumps money into unprofitable,...
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how generative AI is sold through a complete misund...
Monologue: OpenAI and NVIDIA's Deal Is BS
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through NVIDIA and OpenAI’s nonsense deal, and how OpenAI now needs $600 bill...
Radio Better Offline: Adam Becker
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York city.Ed Zitron is joined in studio by astroph...
AI Isn't Making Engineers 10x As Productive with Colton Voege
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by software engineer Colt Voege to talk about how AI isn’t 10xing the productivity of software engineering,...
Radio Better Offline: Edward Ongweso Jr. & Allison Morrow
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed Zitron is joined in studio by A...
How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Three
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final part of this week's three-part Better Offline Guide To Arguing With AI Boosters, Ed Zitron walks you through why generative AI is nothing...
How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Two
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this week's three-part Better Offline Guide To Arguing With AI Boosters, Ed Zitron walks you through why the AI bubble is nothing like ...
How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part One
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this week's three-part Better Offline Guide To Arguing With AI Boosters, Ed Zitron walks you through why AI is nothing like the early d...
Monologue: Tech Skepticism Is Going Mainstream
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed walks you through how tech and business skepticism has begun to go mainstream, and how it can be the...
The Black Market for AI GPUs with Steve Burke
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about the black market for AI GPUs in China - and how Bloomberg suspiciousl...
Monologue: What If I'm Right?
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed considers what would happen if he’s right about the AI bubble bursting - and the consequences ...
Radio Better Offline: Kyle Barr, Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of one of iHeartRadio's satellite studios in New York city. Ed is joined by ...
Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a bonus third episode, Ed Zitron reports exclusively on how OpenAI’s new "router-based" ChatGPT-5 makes it impossible for the company to cach...
The AI Money Trap, Part Two
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how America’s economic growth has become dependent on Amazon, Go...
The AI Money Trap, Part One
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how AI startups’ overstuffed valuations make them impossible tar...
Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks through the rough launch of GPT-5, and how ChatGPT’s fandom-like following has become a huge pro...
CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies," but as "BS" - as def...
Monologue: The Anker Nebula X1 Is The Best Projector I've Ever Used
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed talks about Anker’s Nebula X1, an expensive, excellent-looking and adaptable projector that ca...
Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed is joined by writer and critic Molly White to talk about how RSS can purify your news experience, the challenge of the newsletter ...
Monologue: Annualized Revenues Are BS
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how and why OpenAI and Anthropic use “annualized revenues” to hide that they&r...
Radio Better Offline: Mia Sato & Dave Lee
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.Ed Zitron is joined in studio by Mia Sat...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 3
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part three of this week's three-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how AI agents don’t really exist, how deceitful AI marketing...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt, 2
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this week's three-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how little money there is in generative AI, how Anthropic and OpenAI...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 1
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this week's three-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how the US stock market rests on the back of GPU sales, and how a la...
Monologue: The Updated Pale Horses of the AIpocalypse
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the pale horses of the AIpocalypse - and how the AI bubble’s deepest weakness is tha...
Radio Better Offline: Brian Koppelman, Cherlynn Low & Mike Drucker
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed Zitron is joined in studio by actor,...
Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 2
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron makes a plea to the tech media - to stop automatically accepting what the tech executive...
Monologue: Is Anthropic Killing Cursor?
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how Anthropic jacked up prices on its largest customer Cursor - and how it’s a sign ...
Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 1
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through a radical new idea: make fun of CEOs, tear down their legacies and pus...
Monologue: You Should Get Into Vinyl
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron talks about why you should get into vinyl, and why analog music is so much fun in the digital age. U-Turn Au...
Radio Better Offline: Gare Davis, Victoria Song, Allison Morrow
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York city.Ed Zitron is joined in studio by Allison...
Monologue: Did OpenAI Steal Another Startup's Idea?
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the murky lawsuit between OpenAI’s soon-to-be-acquired hardware wing and Iyo, a comp...
NVIDIA Vs. The Media ft. GamersNexus
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s approach to the media, AI pushing out real tech at Com...
Monologue: OpenAI Vs. Microsoft
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through OpenAI’s desperate attempts to lean on Microsoft to change the terms of their agreem...
Radio Better Offline: Pablo Torre and David Roth
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York city.Ed Zitron is joined in studio by Pablo T...