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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Swoopy Cars. I'm your friend David Pearce, and here's a tiny little bit of inside baseball podcast shenanigans. I have been making more and more video stuff over the last couple of years. Podcasts are shifting to videos in ways that, frankly, I continue to be deeply conflicted about. I am mostly an audio podcast consumer. I spent most of my career making audio podcasts and learning how to do this thing on video in a way that is both video first and audio first has been really interesting and really challenging. It has also meant that the way my home office looks is very important. Um, I want you to understand, if you're watching this, every single thing in this room that you can't see is a mess. There's a giant shelf full of just unordered crap over there. There's a bunch of bubble wrap over here from a thing that I was taking out. There's a giant load of. Of clean laundry right on the other side of the camera. There's just a lot going on. But the newest thing is we're also spending a lot of time making more clips out of our shows, because that is the main way people find stuff now is through clips on their feeds. I think that is increasingly just a kind of content, but it is also a way that people discover our shows. So, thinking more about clips, what that has meant is that I have to sit further back from the camera because otherwise we get a lot of social videos that are just like my face, social media sort of smushed into the screen, and it's like I'm yelling at you out of your phone. The solution is I have to sit further back so there's more room to crop around my face, which has just led to some hilarious furniture decisions. Like, I bought what I would call like a fancy TV dinner tray table. This is the sort of thing you're supposed to, you know, put next to your couch or in front of you so you can work. I now have it sitting in front of my desk at the exact height so I can sit further back but still use a mouse and keyboard. Um, this is, I guess, my new podcast setup. I have my desk, and then I have my tiny desk, and then I have my chair, and there are 0 inches of space between the chair and the background. This is what we do to make video podcasts. Luckily, I bought a really great microphone arm that moves around, so that has made life easier. Anyway, hopefully this all looks good and sounds good, and this is gonna be a great podcast. We are gonna do two things on today's show. First, Tim Stevens, a freelance tech and automotive journalist who writes for the Verge, A lot is going to come on and talk to us about AI design in cars and the ways in which AI might be able to shrink the amount of time it takes to make cars and all the things that that might change about cars. Then Hayden Field is going to come on and talk all about just some of the goings on in the AI business. There's a lot happening, a lot of fast moving stories, whether it's Claude versus Codex, whether it's anthropic versus the US Government. Hayden and I just have a lot to catch up on. We're gonna do that. Then Hayden's gonna stick around and talk about AI and job loss and whether those two things actually have anything to do with each other. Really fun hotline question. Excited to get to that. All that is coming up in just a second. But first I have to figure out how to have my keyboard and my mouse on this thing because I'm realizing this tray table I bought too small. Huge mistake. Wish me luck. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back.
