The AI Riff (Ep 10)

🧠 Episode 10: When AI Gets Ahead of Itself | The AI Riff

This week, Mario and Rob riff on some big swings in AI that might just be airballs. We dive into the latest study showing AI coding agents still struggle to match junior devs—while Rob confesses he definitely isn't one. (Seriously, don’t let him near your repo.)

Then it’s off to the bleeding edge: OpenAI reportedly wants ChatGPT to take payments...but is this the right use case or just mission creep? We question whether the "AI checkout assistant" is the future or a product-market mismatch.

Finally, we decode Mario’s essay on "machine money"—and what happens when AI makes cash but humans get left with the IOUs.

Highlights:

- Why AI for dev work still needs babysitting
- The real reason payment flows in ChatGPT feel off
- Who gets rich when AI earns and we don’t?

Article Links:
1) METR Coding Study (https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/)
2) OpenAI's Payments Plan - Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-working-payment-checkout-system-within-chatgpt-ft-reports-2025-07-16/)
3) Machine Money Essay by Mario DiBenedetto (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sam-altman-machine-money-explained-mario-dibenedetto-gawde)

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