AI Builders: Agentic AI
Agents That Don’t Lie: Field Notes from a Production AI Podcast
Session
dailyaibyai.news is a fully automated daily AI-news podcast with two synthetic hosts - built and run by one person as a fleet of ~10 services and 60+ Lambda “agents.” It ships to real listeners every morning, which means it has failed in every way a production agent can: it has hallucinated, contradicted itself across stages, lost a host’s voice mid-episode, and confidently reported success while publishing nothing. This talk is the field notes. No slides about what agents could do - just the ar