In This Episode: What Happens to Ask Leo and MacMost as AI Evolves? When we first touched computers.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

• 00:00 GR & LN: How can Ask Leo and MacMost change to survive the AI future?
  • LN: not uncommon for me to take a question I’ve been asked and plop it into Claude and get a decent answer. (Updated example at How I Use AI at Ask Leo!)
  • What does this mean for tech support future?
• 06:58 Challenges with AI content accuracy
  • GR: Still a lot of hallucinating, and not understanding old vs new, and too much agreeing with the asker.
  • Dealing with lists
  • People don’t know how to ask the questions
• 14:53 AI limitations in suggesting and automating tasks
  • It won’t correct you when it should
• 17:32 Asking AI to clarify terminology
  • Phrasing questions right
  • Pointing people in a new direction. Educating about new stuff.
  • We do demonstrations of details.
• 26:05 Planning for a future pivot in tech support
  • 27:34 GR: “I don’t have to run faster than the bear, I just need to run faster than you.”
• 34:43 Automating log checks with Claude
  • 39:49 Learning to code and problem-solving with AI
• 45:40 Talking about the old Mac Pro
  • Not openable and fixable
• 50:00 When I first touched a computer

• 52:00 GR: Project Hail Mary
• 57:00 LN: QI – (Quite Interesting – BBC / Amazon Prime Britbox)

• 59:00 GR: https://macmost.com/my-favorite-apple-products-from-the-last-50-years.html
• 1:01:00 LN: How I Use AI at Ask Leo! – https://askleo.com/168449

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In This Episode: Apple’s Cheapest MacBook Ever. When AI makes friends with AI. Tech Bubble Insights.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

• 1:00 GR: MacBook Neo
  • I wasn’t right, but that’s OK
  • Why this is more interesting than I thought
  • The tablet-replaces-the-PC future is now dead
  • Low power opens possibilities
• 19:31 LN: What is the point behind moltbook?
  • Meta to Acquire AI-Only Social Media Platform Moltbook https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-to-acquire-ai-only-social-media-platform-moltbook-0d9cd9d6
  • https://www.moltbook.com/
  • 29:00 Why does Meta want this?
• 30:20 GR: AI Psychosis
  • https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
  • 32:50 People think the AI is talking to them
• 50:00 LN: The car wash test
  • Gemini: meh
  • Claude: fail
  • OpenAI GPT 5: fail
• 57:00 GR: Holding AI in check
• 59:00 LN: Frustrating surveys

• 1:00:00 LN: The AI Fix podcast – 5 ways the AI bubble could burst
  • VC with some very interesting perspectives on AI
  • Random for flavor of the discussion:
    • The number of hours worked by the average knowledge worker has only increased due to technology.
    • We use AI. Across every part of the business at my new firm.
    • I think there’s the potential that if we end up getting more efficient models, which everyone wants, that actually makes all of the infrastructure spend that has happened Less.
• 1:03:00 GR: Anaconda (movie 2025)
  • The Bridgerton X Naked Gun spoof that Leo was talking about is “Farkham Hall”.

• 1:05:00 LN: How Do I Gain Administrative Access to a Secondhand Computer? – https://askleo.com/12356
• 1:06:00 GR: 15 Ways the MacBook Neo Is Different From Other MacBooks

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In This Episode: Hacked Traffic Signals. Pokémon Go makes Pizza Bots. AI generated confusion.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

• 0:00 GR: Another hacked traffic signal
  • They have passwords!
  • https://denverite.com/2026/03/16/denver-crosswalks-hacked-anti-trump-message-explained/
  • 7:00 LN: Confusing parking lots
  • 12:00 Public transportation
• 16:00 GR: Pizza robots – mined from Pokemongo
  • https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/
  • 19:00 Limits of Google maps
• 21:00 LN: Benjamin Netanyahu is struggling to prove he’s not an AI clone – the future of AI
  • This is currently the worst AI we’ll see; it’s only getting better and more difficult to detect.
  • Even without AI being used, accusations of AI are an issue.
  • What happens when we can believe … nothing?
• 29:00 GR: https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/
  • Flawed because the inputs must be guessed
  • AI slop: does it hurt jobs?
  • Will it hurt spammers and junk news?
    • 32:00 LN: “Slop” – prejorative thrown about for both good/useful and bad/misleading AI usage
  • Seems to be repeating same fears we’ve had for a while, before AI
  • Bots answering questions instead of websites
  • 38:00 GR: Is a job that didn’t exist 20 years ago really “lost” if AI replaces it?
    • LN: Were buggy whip manufacturers’ jobs “lost”? And if so, was there a responsibility to somehow preserve them?

• 46:00 LN: But whatabout… !!!
  • Occasionally: an honest question about something more
  • More commonly: an attempt to one-up / bring down the original premise/content/whatnot
• 48:00 GR: If only they would add…

• 55:00 LN: Young Sherlock (Amazon Prime), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8599532/
• 56:00 GR: Fackham Hall, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29008225/

• 59:00 LN: Why Password Managers Are [Still] Safer than the Alternatives – https://askleo.com/5555
• 1:00:00 GR: https://macmost.com/macbook-neo-full-review.html

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