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Explore episode May 16, 2026
Technology
Slash Goals: Genuine Feature or Marketing Gimmick?

Anthropic won the AI race, OpenAI gives Codex for free, xAI… · May 16, 2026 Technology

Claude's new /goals feature went viral with stories of agents autonomously selling inventory over four days. Ben sees it as a critical North Star metric for agentic AI. Matt's counter: isn't this basically the same as the Wiggum loop from six months ago? And if you tell an AI to 'increase revenue per user,' it might just cancel your lowest-paying subscribers.

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HTML vs Markdown for AI Agent Workflows

At 41:05 · chapter starts 33:50

Technology
HTML is the New Markdown — But at What Cost?

Anthropic won the AI race, OpenAI gives Codex for free, xAI… · May 16, 2026 Technology

An Anthropic researcher argued HTML is superior to Markdown for AI agent workflows — more visual, interactive, and human-readable. But Matt tested it and found HTML uses 5x more tokens per file. The tradeoff is real: visual clarity catches errors earlier and leads to better outputs, but the cost premium is significant for anyone already hitting their Claude limits.

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