You've Been a Bad Agent
Episodes
{Trail,Tri}-Racing, Grind slop, Sloptember, Opus 4.8 Rollercoaster, Dynamic Workflows, Compaction
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Matt's Portuguese vineyard 22K with salted-cod finisher medalsWilhelm's Olympic tri on the edge of YosemiteMatt's winging race: reigning windsurfing w...
Anthropic×{Karpathy,Pope}, Themes Will Pwn You, The Warmth of a Private Subnet, Slack is Back, $100B For Charity
22 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Show notesShai-Hulud and GitHub Actions: trusted publishing is no longer the gold standard, just additiveVS Code extensions as the next attack surface...
AI Barista Orders 120 Eggs With No Stove, Matt Pocock Skills, Build for the Next Model, The Gervais Principle
09 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Almost one year of the pod: Wilhelm's San Francisco Peter Pan arc, Matt's Cloudflare and Lisbon moveThe backpack-at-a-party SF memeMatt's Lisbon coinc...
The Golden Age of Tinkering, Reachy Mini on Qwen+Cerebras, Compute Predictions, Fuzzing Artifacts, Flatter orgs
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Wilhelm's Reachy Mini: Time to first token beats tokens per second once embodiment is in the roomLukas the sleep score assassinMatt's Portugal week: w...
Cloudflare Ships GitHub for Agents, Hardware Startups Shouldn’t Ship Apps, Matt's Three-Week MCP World Tour, Bad Boy Browser, Inbound Prompt Injection
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
- Matt's three-week MCP tour: MCP Maintainers Day, MCP Dev Summit NYC, AI Engineer London- Opus 4.7 drops with a new tokenizer, Matt's theory: it's se...
Pwning Your Friends' Agents Is Good Manners, Make Something Agents Want, OpenAI Buys TBPN, MCP Goes Stateless, Cloudflare Agents Week with Sunil Pai
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Claude Code harness lockdown: who got the email and who didn'tChad mobile app and the Tinder-style agent review queue conceptSunil's productivity cris...
Slop Forking Git with Pi, Opus Can't Stop Complimenting GPT-5.4, React Slides Kill PowerPoint, and OpenAI Buys Astral for How Much?!
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Song lyrics vs content rules: how models help you route around their own restrictionsPi auto-research: Matt slop forks libgit2 into pure Zig, 46% fast...
friends.fyi is Back, Steve Faulkner Can't Stop Slop Forking, Portugal Says "Not Today", and GPT 5.4 Reviews Your Code
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
React Presentations vs PowerPointCode Mode Demo: Running Untrusted Code in the BrowserThe Reachy Mini Robot: Embodied Compute on Your DeskThomas's Per...
Matt Goes Viral with Server-Side Code Mode, Wilhelm Loses His Files, and What Even Is a Sandbox?
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Matt's New Life in LisbonServer-Side Code Mode: Cloudflare's MCP ServerMatt Goes from 2K to 21K Followers in a WeekAMP Sunsets VS Code, Goes All-In on...
Are We in a Moment? OpenClaw, Moltbook, Files vs Sqlite, GitHub for Agents
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are we in a moment? The OpenClaw/Cloudbot autonomous agent craze explainedWhy everyone suddenly bought Mac Minis (and why Matt refuses to)Moltbook: Re...
2025 Reflections: What surprised us, Comeback of the CLI, Claude Code
24 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Matt's Big Move to LisbonCloudflare Code Mode: 2,500 Tools in 1,000 TokensCode Mode vs Bash vs SQLite: What Actually Works for Agents2025 Reflections:...
Personal news, New Years Resolutions, Zagi, Tailwind, Ralph, The American Way
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
CGPGrey Video on Yearly Themes
Hype, bubbles and AGI, Karpathy on Dwarkesh, Claude Code is a revolution and MCP fixing humanities problems
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"chat to your mouth Claude and grow a new tooth""I think I would have like a huge ego now for sure""have you seen the blimp"TakeawaysAll of these peop...
Remote Environments, Guardrails and Enterprises Adopting AI with Matt Boyle, Interview Questions and Spicy Takes on Amp Free
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"a brief history of a very specific building in London.""there's a lot of room to optimize your code base for an agent.""70 % of our code is written b...
Growth with Luke Harries from ElevenLabs, Building, Hiring and Automating the Best Horizontal AI Voice Platform, Backed by Research
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"It's always the best."Chapters00:00 Introduction and Setting the Stage02:34 Luke's Journey to ElevenLabs04:54 Growth Strategies and Hiring at ElevenL...
Building Software With Thorsten Ball: Decoupling Code for Agents, Finding "Your Pain" and Germans Use the Winky Face
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Elderly German Landlord.. she would use these winky face emojis""Memes in blogs feel cheap""Dude.... you didn't even run this"TakeawaysThe podcast ji...
In Person!!! Topic of Agent Payments, Friendly Acquisitions, GPT-5, Endless Model Name and Many Free Ideas
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters00:00 Introduction and Context of the Podcast07:23 Updates on SimplePoll and AI Integration18:14 Telemetry and Continuous Improvement in Devel...
Uncut with Danilo Leal, Design Engineer at Zed, Prototyping in React and Built in Rust, Designing for an AI Assisted UX
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TDLR: 10 episodes in and we are going full uncut conversation with Danilo Leal. One of the magician Design Engineers working on the Zed code editor. ...
Sub Agent or Super Agent, MCP UI Over Lunch, Bitter Lesson Learnings, Locking in on Prompts and Trying to Live in the Future
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TLDRMatt caught whitebait for dinner during his outdoor adventures.Wing foiling is a new sport gaining popularity.Sub agents are necessary for explori...
Study Says AI Makes Developers Slower? F1 Movie Review, Coding and Testing for AI, Free Perplexity and Free Ideas
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NewsThe pod has twitter/x - https://x.com/badagentpodWil’s new brand - tritanclub.comLinksBoris Tane post on Cloudflare DOs + Drizzle - https://bori...
Sunil Pai, Agents SDK at Cloudflare, Becoming Accidentally Important at Work, React Core Team, Durable Objects EXPLAINED and Future of Computing
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“UI is so over”“If all humans were perfect robots”"I just got stoned and did open source.""I rewrote their entire CLI."Sunil Pai's Backstory a...
Massive Trail Marathons, Got Parekh'd, Context Engineering Strikes Back, Armin Ronacher Shares Tips and .env Suckkksss
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Bullish on claude code""I found Soham in our ATS""these things have been like RLHF to fuck"Vibe Tunnel - https://vibetunnel.sh/Armin Ronacher on Simo...
CLOUDFLARE CONTAINERS!!! Claude Code vs AI SDK Showdown, Offsite Fun, United Sucks and Wil Goes Out Out in Berlin
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Context window… kaboom""Am I gonna get cancelled for this""United is not a good airline""Just make more money."TakeawaysIntegrations bring people t...
Structuring Codebases for AI, Claude Code in GitHub, Scale Acquired! Granola Cafe, AI Rules and More MCP
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Cortex podcast is God tier""Claude Code is the best devtool this year""gotta structure your codebase for AI"Stuff we talked about:Cortex podcast - ht...
AI Engineering is Dead? Hectic Stag Dos, Event FOMO or Not to Go and Agent Evals are HARRDDD
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We're always live.""I think evals are so hard.""AI engineering is dead."Stag do experiences can lead to unexpected personal updates.Consumer behavior...
With Lu Wilson, Teach was the Hardest Demo, Dev Rel?, Return to Office, Windsurf Acquisition and more MCP
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lu, Wilhelm, and Matt discuss the evolution and features of tldraw, "a very good whiteboard". They explore the office culture, community engagement th...
Opencode, Cloudflare, MCP MCP MCP, Scented Bin Liners and Broken Garmin Watches
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wilhelm and Matt are starting a podcast together.They discuss the differences in humor between the UK and the US.Scented trash bags are surprisingly b...