A former Buddhist monk turned engineer joins The Great Spin Up this week, and there's an early game worth stealing: ask your AI "what is my main problem?" and watch it read you like a horoscope. News covers Guidelite's safety report card (Anthropic and OpenAI at C+, Meta an F), a DeepMind study of 10,000+ people showing AI persuades best when it whispers, and a graph putting data center capex — $930 billion over six years — above the railroads, Apollo, and the Manhattan Project. Builds: a three-day, fifty-dollar AI sci-fi trailer made with Veo 3.1, Kling 3, and Lyria, plus Weave, a programmable Zoom for meetings that don't feel dead. The back half is a definitions deep dive — air gapped, distillation, quantization, LoRA via Dr. Seuss. It ends with a provocative question: if AI can compress a hundred years of development into ten, how do models trained on English internet data end up serving everyone else?TIMESTAMPS
(06:44) News
(40:12) Building
(01:20:00) Open question — East and West
(01:29:11) Deep dive — definitions
(02:00:03) AMA — "What is your main problem?"
(02:09:13) ClosingRESOURCES
PEOPLE
Andrew Davis — guest; monk turned engineer
Jeff Dean — left Google after 27 years
Marie Curie — radioactivity containment parable
BOOKS
Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
Superintelligence — cited as Max Tegmark [check ~11:45]
Thing Explainer — Randall Munroe
PODCASTS / SHOWS
Moonshots — Alvin Graylin on China's AI
Star Trek — protopian seed
The Boat That Rocked — tonal inspiration
The Creator — visual inspiration
PROJECTS / COMPANIES / TOOLS
Claude Code — coding engine
Conductor — parallel session orchestration
CUDA kernel agent — Tsinghua's; beats Opus 4.5 [unclear — check ~36:20]
DaVinci Resolve — trailer editing
Deepgram — transcription
Discovery Loop — lean four-person startup
FAL.ai — multi-model media API
G Stack — Gary Tan's YC agent skills
Google Antigravity — the IDE
Google Lyria — one-shot film scores
Google Veo 3.1 / Flow — video generation
Guidelite — AI safety ratings
Hermes — personal agent system
Kimi K3 — research model
Kling 3 — Chinese video model
LiveKit — video call infrastructure
Llama — Meta's open-source model
LTX — video with voice
Neon — cloud Postgres
OpenRouter — model switchboard; $7B+ Stripe deal
Svelte — the JavaScript framework
Weave — Living Code's programmable Zoom
FRAMEWORKS / CONCEPTS / LAWS
AGI / ASI / RSI — squishy acronym ladder
Allostasis — feelings as energy math
Computational commons — neighborhood AI
Distillation — small models trained off big ones
LoRA — cheap low-rank fine-tuning
Mixture of experts — routed specialists
Open weight vs open source — weights only vs reproducible
Quantization — fewer bits per parameter
Speed of containment — guardrails pace the frontier
PAPERS / ARTICLES / ESSAYS
Capex graph — Rutger Bregman / Brookings data
DeepMind persuasion study — 10,000+ people, US/UK/India
What Patterns Want — Reese Lindmark
OTHER
AI Builders — Lisbon builder events
Future Vision XPRIZE — protopian trailer contest
Kinship One — the trailer's vessel