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Episode 48 · Monday, 31 August 2026 · 67 min

Stop Letting Your Best Model Do The Work

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In this episode

Cursor rebuilt the exact same database six different ways. The cost ranged from $1,339 to over $10,000 on an identical task, and the win wasn’t switching to cheaper models, it was the meta.

I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan on the AI DLC, the transformation every enterprise tech org is trying to pull off right now. Why your AI bill triples while inference gets cheaper, the ROI calculator that turned a $6M lost deal into a $12M win, why Michael Levin’s work on cellular aging explains agent swarms, and a live demo of Grok Bot.

If you’re an AI builder or a tech exec staring at a token budget you can’t forecast and a CFO who wants the ROI number, you need to watch this.

Hosted by Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, co-founders of Clarity, reporting from the front lines of building an AI company.

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