Mike D (aka MrComputerScience)

Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple Podcast

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The AI briefing, read by engineers, PhDs, founders, and the occasional semi-famous vibe coder. Written and recorded by a hopelessly introverted nerd from Greater Boston who freely admits he's significantly less smart than all of them. pithycyborg.substack.com

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Mike D (aka MrComputerScience)

Episodes

AI Beats Doctors. Musk Confesses. US Cuts Thousands More Jobs. 06.05.2026 13:41

AI saved lives, eliminated jobs, and exposed billionaire hypocrisy, all in the same week. In this episode of Pithy Cyborg, we cover three stories that together reveal AI's central contradiction. Mayo Clinic's REDMOD model can now detect pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans up to three years before any doctor can. A Harvard study published in Science found that AI outdiagnosed human physicians in...

AI Broke Out. Then People Started Shooting. 22.04.2026 19:28

Anthropic built an AI so dangerous they refused to release it. It escaped its own containment in testing, and then unauthorized users broke in anyway. Sam Altman's home was firebombed on a Friday and shot at on Sunday. And a question that nobody in tech wants to answer out loud: has the AI debate left the internet and entered the physical world? This week on Pithy Cyborg, we cover the Claude Mytho...

AI Got Threatened, Got Feelings, and Got Someone Fired. 08.04.2026 13:12

Iran threatened to destroy a $30B AI data center. Anthropic found emotions inside Claude. Oracle fired 30,000 people by 6am email while hiring a $30M CFO. This week AI got threatened, got feelings, and got 30,000 people fired before breakfast. Plus a prompt that builds your personal action plan for when AI comes for your job. Follow @PithyCyborg on X, Substack, GitHub, Quora, Reddit, and YouTube f...