Creative Flux: The Generative Media Podcast

In Episode 52, Pierson pulls back the curtain on the automated software factory he's been building at Jellypod - three routines running daily that handle bug detection, product improvement, and churn analysis without any human involvement. From there: Claude Code vs Codex — cloud environments, MCP server limitations and where Codex falls short Ray Amjad's Claude Code channel — why Pierson thinks h...

In Episode 51, Pierson and Bilal kick off with the World Cup, AI anime rivalries, and Trump speaking to a hologram of Teddy Roosevelt - then get into what actually matters this week. From there: Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back online - but won't answer basic biology questions, and why that's a bigger problem than it sounds Alex Carp's take: OpenAI and Anthropic are the biggest rug pull in tech - you...

In Episode 50, Pierson and Bilal hit a milestone - half a century of Creative Flux. They look back at a year of generative AI and look ahead to what 2027 actually looks like. From there: The year in review — what improved (image gen, LLMs, agents), what didn't (long-form TTS, multi-character voice, VO3) Why "before Opus 4.5 and after Opus 4.5" is the new BC and AD for AI timelines The Google Works...

In Episode 49, Pierson and Bilal welcome a new face — Tyler, an AI engineer and startup founder. And the timing couldn't be wilder. Just days after raving about Fable 5 last episode, export controls hit and access got pulled entirely. From there: Why the government pulled Fable 5 — security threat or a power play between Anthropic and the Department of War KYC for AI models — what it means when yo...

In Episode 48, Pierson and Bilal give their first reaction to Anthropic's Fable 5 - and the verdict is clear. This is a genuine step change, not a benchmark shuffle. Bilal breaks down the Mythos vs Fable distinction, what the silent model routing controversy was really about, and why Anthropic's decision to route certain requests to Opus 4.8 made sense strategically - even if users hated it. Piers...

In Episode 47, Bilal drops the most counterintuitive take of the season - he doesn't post for followers anymore. He posts for the machines. And once you hear why, you can't unhear it. From there: Why the best insights on YouTube have 300 views — and how hedge funds are already exploiting this gap Babbel Labs: Mac minis + Claude agents watching YouTube 24/7 and selling the reports to Wall Street Th...

In Episode 46, Pierson and Bilal make the case most builders don't want to hear — stop chasing model releases and start building better systems. Naval just said "waste tokens, save time." Microsoft burned their entire AI budget in 4 months. The cost conversation is changing fast — and this episode gets into why your processes matter more than your benchmarks. From there: Claude AgentView — 10 para...

In Episode 45, Pierson and Bilal cover the week that changed a few things — Google I/O delivered a mixed bag, Karpathy walked into Anthropic, and OpenAI's model autonomously cracked an 80-year-old math problem nobody saw coming. From there: Google Flash 3.5 came in 3x more expensive — and Omni didn't beat Cdance 2 Why Gavin Baker's chip bet on Google losing cost efficiency played out exactly right...

In Episode 44, Pierson and Bilal get into something every AI builder eventually runs into — the model is smart, but it still breaks. And it's not always the model's fault. They break down why agents fail not because they can't think, but because they have no eyes, arms, or legs — and what it actually takes to build systems where agents succeed. Pierson demos how he got agent browser to auto-authen...

In Episode 43, Pierson and Bilal come fresh off the a16z Generative Media Video Hackathon - and they built some wild stuff. Bilal went from a prompt to a full AI-generated podcast: custom avatars, Gemini TTS voices, lip-synced video, and live infographics pulled by deep research. All stitched together programmatically. Pierson built something different — an AI producer that joins your recording ca...

In Episode 42 of Creative Flux, Pierson and Bilal kick off episode 42 - the answer to the universe - and things get weird fast. From there they cover: - ElevenLabs launching a standalone music social app, why Suno accidentally became a social network first, and the impossible position Spotify is now in - An AI podcast of Henrik Johansen and Martin Shkreli so realistic even Bilal got fooled - Talki...

In Episode 41 of Creative Flux, Pierson and Bilal cover one of the most chaotic weeks in AI yet — GPT 5.5 literally dropped 20 minutes before they hit record. From there they cover: Opus 4.7's regression Anthropic finally admitted to, what actually broke in Claude Code, and the $25B Amazon deal behind their compute crunch The chip race — why Anthropic matching OpenAI on inferior hardware changes e...

In Episode 40, Pierson and Bilal get into something most people are completely overlooking. Using Obsidian and local Markdown files to build a personal knowledge base that an LLM organizes, interlinks, and updates for you every single day. Your notes, your transcripts, your ideas — structured like your own Wikipedia, maintained by AI. From there they cover: Why local-first AI models are winning th...

In Episode 39, Pierson and Bilal cover a lot of ground, starting with a chance meeting at a rooftop event in SF that led to a conversation about AI agents hosting their own podcasts. They break down Clawcast (what happens when your AI agent can invite other agents to record a podcast), why agent-to-agent communication might be the next big wave, and how smart contracts could use AI to handle deals...

On Episode 38, we sit down with Koyal AI (YC F25) founder & CEO Mehul Agarwal ( https://x.com/meh_agarwal ) to discuss the future of filmmaking with AI. His goal? Replacing the camera, not the filmmaker. Mehul shares the journey of Koyal's development, from inception as a research paper at NeurIPS 2024 to its most recent v2.5 launch. Covering a range of topics from AI video, world models, benc...

On Episode 37, hosts Pierson ( https://x.com/piersonmarks ) and Bilal ( https://x.com/deepwhitman ) discuss OpenAI shutting down Sora refocusing on coding and ChatGPT, the automated improvement cycles in AI models, and the concept of an agent-first approach in software development (an intro to the /superpowers plugin). Show Notes: Sora Shutting Down: https://openai.com/sora/ Superpowers Plugin: ht...

On Episode 36, hosts Pierson ( https://x.com/piersonmarks ) and Bilal ( https://x.com/deepwhitman ) give a first look into Google Stitch 2 (and a few other Google Labs products). Coming off a fun after-party hosted by our friends @FAL, they also dig into Bilal's open-sourced LoFi Music dataset of 160 free-to-use songs, Raycast's Glaze mac-app builder, and more. Show Notes: Google Stitch 2: https:/...

On Episode 35, hosts Pierson ( https://x.com/piersonmarks ) and Bilal ( https://x.com/deepwhitman ) cover the latest in Generative Media, with Netflix acquiring Ben Afleck's AI startup InterPositive for $600M, Replit Agent 4 (with a $9B new funding round), and Polsia running your business while you sleep. Also, a Punch the Monkey AI short. Show Notes: Ben Afleck's AI Startup InterPositive: https:/...

On Episode 34, hosts Pierson ( @piersonmarks ) and Bilal ( @deepwhitman ) cover Google NotebookLM's new cinematic video overviews, GPT 5.4, Claude Code Skills benchmarks, and Cursor's new automations. Show Notes: NotebookLM Cinematic Video Overviews: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/notebooklm/generate-your-own-cinematic-video-overviews-in-notebooklm/ GPT 5.4 https://openai.com/index...

On Episode 33 of Creative Flux, hosts Pierson ( @piersonmarks ) and Bilal ( @deepwhitman ) cover Claude Code's new /remote-control feature, the dead internet theory, how to control camera angles in image gen models, PrunaAI for cheap image and video generation, real-time weather visualization with Nano Banana 2, and Quiver AI for SVG generation and animation. Show Notes: Nano Banana 2: https://blo...

On Episode 32 of Creative Flux, hosts Pierson ( @piersonmarks ) and Bilal ( @deepwhitman ) recap some of last week's Seedance 2.0 mania, then dives into the challenges of fine-tuning AI models for scale, the impact of benchmarks on model development, and the future of AI and human taste. Oh, and Web 4.0 . Don't forget that one. Show Notes: Google Labs: Pomelli - https://blog.google/innovation-and-...

Join the discussion on Jellypod's Discord: https://discord.com/invite/9FYgzU8JNk Pierson (@piersonmarks) and Bilal (@deepwhitman) highlight the release of Seedance 2.0 and it's implications across Hollywood, sports, and filmmaking. Show Notes: Seedance 2.0: https://seedance2.ai/ Kling 3: https://klingai.com/global/ 3D Sports Recreations with AI: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/202022977958520040...

Episode 30! On this milestone episode of Creative Flux, hosts Pierson ( @piersonmarks ) and Bilal ( @deepwhitman ) celebrate half a year of the podcast and dive into one of the most stacked weeks in generative AI yet. We break down the surprise drop of Claude Opus 4.6 (which literally launched mid-recording), Google's Genie 3 world model and its mind-blowing Halo recreation, the massive Kling 3.0...

Why is everyone buying Mac Minis and running Clawdbot (Moltbot/OpenClaw)? On Episode 29 of Creative Flux, hosts Pierson ( @piersonmarks ) and Bilal ( @deepwhitman ) dig into one of the fastest growing open source projects of all time, amassing over 100,000 github stars in a matter of days. We'll discuss how people are using their new "autonomous claude agent" to work 24/7, the challenges of versio...

What is Remotion? Why is everyone now using it to create AI product demos & motion graphics? In Episode 28 of Creative Flux, Pierson ( @piersonmarks ) and Bilal ( @deepwhitman ) dive into a project that's near and dear to our hearts: Remotion, founded by the extremely talented (and humble) Jonny Burger. Remotion is a programatic video generation library that enables the creation and rendering...