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The Stove Guy: Sam D'Amico Shows New AI Cooking Features on America's Most Powerful Stove at Impulse

Mar 31, 2026 · 37:03

Sam D'Amico, founder of Impulse, demonstrates the company's induction cooktop that uses a three-kilowatt-hour LFP battery to deliver 10,000 watts—boiling a liter of cold water in 40 seconds and holding a precise temperature for searing scallops without burning. The stove is rebuilt from first principles with custom power electronics and firmware, enabling OTA updates and software-defined features; a planned update will triple temperature-control speed from one minute 50 seconds to 40 seconds. D'Amico shows AI features powered by Claude that set burner temperatures (e.g., 446°F for scallops) and fetch recipes like Korean fried chicken or egg fried rice with char siu. He explains the origin story from a pizza in Japan, the decision to enter home appliances to avoid app-store dependencies, and the Impulse Core modular platform sold to OEMs. The cooktop launches through Zephyr in hundreds of showrooms nationwide and globally this year.

Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work

Mar 17, 2026 · 1:27:34

Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg explains how Claude Cowork—a VM-based, user-friendly version of Claude Code—was built from pre-existing prototypes in ten days, and why putting AI 'where you work' on the local machine is more powerful than cloud-only approaches. He argues that Silicon Valley undervalues the local computer, comparing it to how we all use MacBooks instead of iPads. The VM gives Claude its own computer, enabling it to install tools and run scripts without constant approval, serving as both a safety boundary and a capability unlock. Rieseberg contrasts Cowork's evaluation on knowledge work tasks (e.g., mortgage management, tax filing) with Claude Code's coding evals, and explains the shift from MCPs to file-based skills—markdown files that tell the model what to do. Real use cases include organizing desktops, uploading videos, and filing taxes. He also expresses concern about the impact on junior employees and hints at future work on autonomy, multiplayer coordination, and portability.

This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Apr 27, 2024 · 1:56:11

The episode features Karan Malhotra demoing WorldSim, a prompt that turns Claude 3 into a universe simulator via CLI; Rob Haisfield presenting WebSim, which generates functional websites on the fly; and Joscha Bach arguing simulative AI reveals consciousness as a virtual property, with LLMs creating agents as real as human minds, urging the California Institute for Machine Consciousness to build self-organizing silicon life. Malhotra shows WorldSim running “world.exe” to create Twitter inside a simulated universe, with users tweeting and Elon Musk moving Dogecoin. Haisfield demonstrates WebSim generating a 5D particle interface, a news RSS aggregator, and a face-swap webcam app via URL parameters like “secrets=revealed”. Bach explains consciousness as second-order perception in a simulated now, criticizes RLHF for lobotomizing models, and advocates for animist AI where software agents compete like spirits, not golems.