{"id":36182,"date":"2026-06-25T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=36182"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:59:16","slug":"ccatp-837","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ccatp-837\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #837 \u2014 Why AI Agents Fill Adam Engst With Dread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Stay off my lawn!&#8221;, we have Adam Engst here to talk through his recent article on TidBITS: <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/06\/24\/why-ai-agents-fill-me-with-dread\/\">Why AI Agents Fill Me with Dread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adam is an avid lover of technology and is very willing to try new things. He uses LLMs to help him write better, he uses AI tools to help him search the Internet, and he loves AI-assisted coding. But agentic AI lives in a whole &#8216;nother category for him.<\/p>\n<p>In the discussion, Adam mentioned Lex, an AI-based word processor at <a href=\"https:\/\/lex.page\/\">lex.page\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-36182-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_06_25.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_06_25.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_06_25.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_06_25.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/CCATP_2026_06_25.html\">CCATP_2026_06_25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Stay off my lawn!&#8221;, we have Adam Engst here to talk through his recent article on TidBITS: Why AI Agents Fill Me with Dread. Adam is an avid lover of technology and is very willing to try new things. He uses LLMs to help him write better, he uses AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[172,1],"tags":[7728,551,8329,5876,7133,7971,7565],"class_list":["post-36182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccatp","category-podcasts","tag-agentic-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-agents","tag-chatgpt","tag-claude","tag-claude-code","tag-perplexity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ChitChatPond_V7_300px.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36185,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36182\/revisions\/36185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}