Local AI Models Are Here, Mythos Rumors, and Building an AI Agent Company

In this episode, recorded across two continents with  Mark in Fukuoka, Japan and Shashank by the Ganges River in  Rishikesh, India, the hosts dive into the rapidly evolving AI  landscape. They explore how ChatGPT has reached mass adoption even  among yoga practitioners and Ayurvedic doctors in India, discuss  the newly released Gemma 4 and its surprising quality as a local  model, debate the rumors around Anthropic's powerful Mythos model,  and examine the recent Axios npm supply chain attack. Most notably,   Mark shares his experience building a largely autonomous software  development workflow using AI coding agents and Playwright MCP —  burning through $350/month in AI subscriptions but achieving the  output of a 50-person engineering team. They discuss the future of  AI agent-driven companies and why human taste still matters in  product design.