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Founders Unpack AI Graduation Backlash, Siri Update, and Agent Race

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"If you had a great tutor, you wouldn't sit down and say please write my paper for me." - @stevenbjohnson

The first generation raised on ChatGPT booed AI at graduation. Three founders unpack why, plus Apple's brand new Siri, NotebookLM's biggest update, and whether anyone "wins" the agent race.

This week @Jason covered these topics and more with: • Jeffrey Quesnelle (@theemozilla) building Hermes Agent at Nous Research @NousResearch • Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) Editorial Director of NotebookLM @NotebookLM and @GoogleLabs • Russ d'Sa (@dsa) building the voice infra behind ChatGPT, Tesla & Grok at LiveKit @livekit

7 moments worth your time: 1:40 Hermes Agent and the open source race 7:32 Why AI got booed at graduation 10:48 LiveKit powering ChatGPT, Tesla, Grok 27:50 The massive Siri update 52:49 "Functional AGI, unevenly distributed" 57:24 Brittle to brilliant: agents that now just work 1:02:00 Tokenmaxxing and the $1M a year engineer

11:04 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 48.9K Views
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Users praised the podcast episode unpacking AI graduation backlash and agent topics as a banger, while others dismissed the hype by predicting an AI bubble pop and calling out student hypocrisy in booing AI after using it.

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@stevenbjohnson Watch on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5BWdSqmdsPD4sBvY7SQU8z?si=aZJ7Zei8RcK7oI8rL71qbg

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FatDon Capital@FatDon420

@ThisWeeknAI @Jason @stevenbjohnson Banger Alert! 👀

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Steven Johnson@stevenbjohnson

For some reason, @Jason neglected to mention in the summary below that I also do a very poor impression of Bono near the end of this (otherwise very engaging) conversation. Thanks for having me back @ThisWeeknAI!

This Week in AI@ThisWeeknAI

"If you had a great tutor, you wouldn't sit down and say please write my paper for me." - @stevenbjohnson

The first generation raised on ChatGPT booed AI at graduation. Three founders unpack why, plus Apple's brand new Siri, NotebookLM's biggest update, and whether anyone "wins" the agent race.

This week @Jason covered these topics and more with: • Jeffrey Quesnelle (@theemozilla) building Hermes Agent at Nous Research @NousResearch • Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) Editorial Director of NotebookLM @NotebookLM and @GoogleLabs • Russ d'Sa (@dsa) building the voice infra behind ChatGPT, Tesla & Grok at LiveKit @livekit

7 moments worth your time: 1:40 Hermes Agent and the open source race 7:32 Why AI got booed at graduation 10:48 LiveKit powering ChatGPT, Tesla, Grok 27:50 The massive Siri update 52:49 "Functional AGI, unevenly distributed" 57:24 Brittle to brilliant: agents that now just work 1:02:00 Tokenmaxxing and the $1M a year engineer

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@stevenbjohnson Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCglij6GAE

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Amber Dawn@amberdawn1786

@ThisWeeknAI @Jason @stevenbjohnson Interesting what the next generation will do. The AI bubble will pop.

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Art Stavenka@stavenka

@ThisWeeknAI @stevenbjohnson Booing AI at graduation while every one of them used it to get there is the most honest thing that generation could've done. They know exactly what it took from them and what it handed back

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RP@RP_1021

@ThisWeeknAI @Jason you would if you went to college purely for the money, prestige, or external reward.

Today, is the pursuit for higher education via institutions based on an intrinsic motivation to learn or pure external?

That’s the issue.

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Amber Dawn@amberdawn1786

@stevenbjohnson @Jason @ThisWeeknAI Bono ❤️

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