Meta-Harnesses, Medical Midjourney, and Why Specialists Are Cooked

This week, Robbie and Adam are back together to catch up on life, AI workflows, and whether agents can actually fix themselves when they break. They dig into barrel bourbon batch 38, token limits at work versus unlimited at Shopify, open code burning through budgets, work trees for parallel agent tasks, Claude's quiet hours spam, and why fable was secretly just a better harness. Along the way, they debate impeccable's art direction grilling you like Matt Pocock, StarPod video integration, mid journey medical imaging as the future of wellness, TSA bag scanners that should be fully AI by now, CodeRabbit versus Copilot for PR reviews, self healing loops that never actually heal, robot lawnmowers named Jeff that can't find their chargers, smoked cocktails in bongs at Cannon, and why the meta harness layer is probably going to die soon.

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In this episode:

Chapters

00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions

00:06:32 Token Limits & The Subsidized AI Era Ends

00:13:18 Fable AI: The Great 8-Hour Experiment

00:20:20 Work Trees, Code Reviews & Vibe Checking PRs

00:24:34 Impeccable Design System & The Art of AI Prompting

00:32:01 Tinder for Algos: Automated Design Workflows

00:37:14 The Harness Wars: Skills, Memory & Tribal Knowledge

00:44:22 Meta-Harnesses, Flu, Eve & The Specialist Problem