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“Intelligent Machines 816 | Wednesday 23 April 2025”
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Dedicates roughly 12 minutes of a three-hour tech podcast to Cluely, replaying the launch film and debating whether hidden assistance is legitimate augmentation, dishonest interviewing, a broken hiring-process exploit, an unusable product, or simply brilliant controversy marketing behind a $5.3 million raise.
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- 0:00It's time for Intelligent Machines. Our guest this week, Harper Reed, longtime coder. He was CTO
- 0:05for the Obama campaign in 2012. He has started and sold companies to the biggest and the best.
- 0:12But now he's all into AI coding. We're getting an insight into how AI can help everyone
Open on expulsion, cheating, or “main character” controversy, then argue that the outrage itself created protection, demand, and a launch surface for Cluely's broader AI company.
Founder interviews and tech podcasts reframing backlash as proof that attention, demand, and product direction are compounding together · 26 creators · 26 posts
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