This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed human.

Welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Osvaloshin and I have a confession to make.

Since co-founding my own business, Collider scope, I almost always have a LinkedIn tab open on my browser and find myself checking it multiple times a day.

And if you spend any time on LinkedIn, you know it's impossible to ignore the flood of viral posts about how AI is changing the world.

But in the back of my mind, I've had this nagging question.

How many of these anxiety-inducing posts about AI are actually written by AI?

Today, I'm joined by Evan Ratliff, host of the hit podcast Shell Game, which I'm proud to say

is on the ColliderScope Network.

And Evan's here to tell us about a bizarre and revealing LinkedIn AI caper.

He wrote about it for Wired with the headline, My AI Agent Co-founder Conquered LinkedIn.

Then it got banned.

Evan, welcome back to Tech Stuff.

It's always great to be back. Good to see you. Many of our listeners are, of course, familiar with Shell Game.

But for those who aren't, can you just lay out what we need to know about Shell Game and Kyle and your relationship?

So for this season of the show, I basically decided to kind of test out or investigate the premise of the one person, one billion dollar startup. Now, my startup wasn't a billion dollar startup, let's say, but what that means is basically this notion of a startup where all of the employees or other figures in the company are AI agents, except one human.

So the human was me.

A co-founded startup, I had two AI agent co-founders, three other employees.

We launched a company called Rumo AI.

We have a product that's called SlothSurf.

And in the show, I'm sort of documenting what that's like and the experience of dealing with these AI agents all the time. But you did this, because you were making a podcast as well as a

startup, you do something which not all agentic AI small business owners do, which is basically

...