• Gunnar is now fully agentic. Skills and the inner loop. Capital vs Labor. Capital wins again.
  
• La-Z-Boy repair tip + free parts ($16 S&H)
  
• Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw
  
  • Moltbook
    
  • Moltbook leaked Andrej Karpathy’s API keys
    
  • MOLTBOOK EXPOSED: The New AI Scam That Fooled Everyone
    
• D&G Mailbag via Erich Morisse: The Clanker Games
  
  • Fun fact: Clanker
    
• A Viral Chinese Wristband Claims to Zap You Awake. The Public Says 'No Thanks’
  
  • WAT Medical product page
    
• Postal Arbitrage

We Give Thanks

• Erich Morisse for the Clanker Games tip!

• Agentic Google App Scripts
  
• Fake Music!
  
  • Iron Man ( Soul/Funk) Version 2
    
  • Don't You (Forget About Me) ( Soul)
  • See also: The Klezmonauts -- Oy to the World: A Klezmer Christmas
• Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data
  
• China foes get worse results using DeepSeek, research suggests — CrowdStrike finds nearly twice as many flaws in AI-generated code for IS, Falun Gong, Tibet, and Taiwan
  
• AVIF: The Avian Image Format

Cutting Room Floor

• I made headphones with integrated CD player, remote control, battery, disc storage, and jewel box compartment
  
• Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL
  
• Phishy URL: Are your links not malicious looking enough?
  
  • See also: https://pc-helper.xyz/adware-bot/ransomware_launcher_tool.exe?attachment=overwrite&firewall=exploit&id=c280
    
• URL Lengthener
  
  • See also: https://www.namitjain.com/tools/url-lengthener/r/🔥/the/😵‍💫/going/mega?data=aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZkZ3Nob3cub3JnJTJG

• Cursor and Claude Code: PARA Auditor, Let Me AI That for You, Botany Battle. Abundance!
  
  • “You won’t lose your job to a tractor, but to a horse who learns to drive a tractor”
    
• Star Wars - Return of the 80s Miami (Parody Music Video)
  
• These 5G Protection Sticker Ads Are Hilarious
  
• ‘E-tattoo’ could track mental workload for people in high-stake jobs, study says
  
• Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
  
• I really don’t like ChatGPT’s new memory dossier
  
  • Seinfeld: Worlds Are Colliding!
    
  • Meanwhile: New judge’s ruling makes OpenAI keeping a record of all your ChatGPT chats one step closer to reality

Cutting Room Floor

• The Backdooms: Running DOOM on a QR Code
  
• Texan, Trapped in a William Faulkner Novel, Contemplates Energy Bill
  
• Need to relax? The Internet Archive is livestreaming microfiche scans to a lo-fi beats soundtrack

Listeners will learn:

What “large action models” (LAMs) are, and how they differ from large language models
How AI agents are already reducing friction in Salesforce and Slack
Why AI success depends on access to high-quality, actionable data
What’s driving the shift toward small language models and what that means for secure, on-device AI
Why “agent-washing” is the new “AI-washing”—and how to spot it
What makes a truly impactful agent vs. a glorified chatbot
Dave’s favorite sci-fi robot, a monkey’s paw superpower wish, and what tech breakthrough he thinks is coming next

Key Topics:

[00:00] Intro & Dave’s blog: “5 AI Predictions for 2025”
[03:00] What’s an AI agent? Why they’re different from GenAI
[07:30] Real-world examples from Salesforce: Agentforce in action
[14:00] The importance of APIs for agent success
[15:45] Government use cases & security considerations
[18:00] Internal AI agents that reduce toil (meeting schedulers, IT help, expense reports)
[22:00] Cylon references & the power of digital labor in public sector
[29:00] Small Language Models: Why smaller might be better
[36:00] LLM Routers explained
[38:00] Fun Tech Talk Q&A (Superpowers, overhyped trends, sci-fi names)

Resources Mentioned:

📖 Dave's Blog: 5 AI Predictions for 2025: Opportunities Tech Leaders Must Seize This Year
💡 Trailhead Learning Platform from Salesforce: Learn to build your own agent
🤖 Help.Salesforce.com – Try Agentforce
📺 Forbidden Planet (Robby the Robot)
🐒 Monkey’s Paw story reference

Special Guest: Carolyn Ford.