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[AITE.FM] AI Weekly Recap - Agent Teams, Token costs, and attention Feb 21, 2026

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[A TEASER TO OUR NEW SPINOFF VIDEO ONLY WEEKLY PODCAST ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON IN AI -- 20 MINUTES, NO FLUFF AITE.FM]

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Following our bold predictions about AI (https://telugubytes.com/087-tsunai-warning) and its impact on everything two weeks ago - Dhruv and Ravi couldn't contain their existential angst and decided to do a 20 min weekly recap with everything going on with AI in their day-to-day lives. plus a rotating crew of guests jumping in to share what's hitting different for them. This week we are joined by Sai N and Chandra Kuchi

087 - Tsun"AI" Warning 🌊 Feb 09, 2026

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Dhruv and Ravi are back to talk about the rise of agentic AI — their experience with Claude Code and Cursor, what agents actually are, and why they think a tsunami is coming for software engineers and knowledge workers.

The Tsunami Warning
1. The feeling since late 2025 — prapancham roju roju ki maripotundi
2. The COVID masks analogy — we are those people now
3. Why the folks back home aren't feeling it yet
Timeline — How We Got Here
1. GPT-2 (2020) → ChatGPT (2022) → Cursor (2023) → Claude Code & Opus 4.5 (2025)
The Evolution of AI Coding
1. Chat interface — copy-paste snippets from ChatGPT
2. Assisted coding — Cursor tab-complete, you drive, model navigates
3. Agentic coding — the agent drives, you're the passenger
4. Cursor vs Claude Code — why Claude Code wins
5. The Autopilot vs FSD analogy
WTF is a Model?
1. Giant N-dimensional matrices with weights
2. Text in, everything out
3. Bigger model, better responses
WTF is an Agent?
1. Model = brain, Agent = human
2. Agent uses the model to operate tools — like a robot with a task
Inference and Context Engineering
1. Sessions, prompting, context windows
2. SWE = Context Engineering + Verification Engineering
3. Memory, Skills, and the Matrix Kung-Fu analogy
Agent Harnesses
1. Claude Code, Cursor, Agent SDKs
Programming in English
1. It's fun, addictive, and an art
2. Communication skills over coding skills
3. Good taste, strong architecture, trash your prior beliefs
My Thesis — And How It Was Wrong
1. Thought it'd hit "IT workers" first, not Big Tech
2. But the tsunami hits the coast first — US and Big Tech have closed loops
3. Tesla car Dharavi slums lo nadavadhu — we paved 6-lane roads for AI
Knowledge Work, Manufacturing and Farming
1. Any work where you can "close the loop" is at risk
2. Manufacturing with QC — robots were always there, programming them was hard
3. Farming — mostly done
What is Still Scarce?
1. Ideas, customer acquisition, creative content, land
2. Creating software is no longer scarce
Ippudu Em Cheyyamantaru Saar?
1. We don't need SWEs, we need builders
2. Product sense, distributed systems, build-sell-ship quickly
3. The existential dread — we don't have 10 years, or 5, or even 2
4. Collective mental health crisis and economic reshaping ahead
5. The fire storm is coming

086 - Animal (2023) Jun 30, 2025

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This episode was recorded in December 2023 but published in June 2025 (sorry, listeners!)

Dhruv and Ravi dive deep into Sandeep Reddy Vanga's blockbuster Animal and what worked / didn't work for them.

Maharshi's AI OS - a reality in 2023
- Editor's note: This is even more impressive in late 2025 as we publish this
Arjun Reddy - Revisited
SRV's obsessive defense of Arjun Reddy
Animal - Expectations
Deep Dive
Animal Park
Why was it such a blockbuster?

085 - Game Changer No More? Jan 20, 2025

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Expectations on Game Changer
The fall of Shankar
The Shankar Formula
GC - What went wrong
Positives and Suggestions
Other comments
Closing thoughts

084 - Cricket World Cup 2023 Oct 08, 2023

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On the eve of India's opening match, Praveen, Aravind and Dhruv do a curtainraiser episode. We talk the tournament's timing, dew factor, thoughts on each squad, Team India team combinations and predictions. Enjoy!