AI Reality Check: Bad Stats, Big Bets, and Coding Agents

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 · 3 min

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Today's strongest tech-podcast moments all orbit AI moving from narrative to deployment: a viral failure stat gets dismantled, a16z explains its infrastructure war chest, and Naval argues coding agents have crossed from autocomplete into addictive junior-engineer territory.

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