In this episode, I’m joined by Thaddius Ruszkowski, CTO at Fuzati, who’s built software platforms for over a decade, from 25-person internal workflow systems to consumer platforms with millions of users. Thadd isn’t just theorizing about AI agents; he’s running a fleet of them in parallel every day across multiple projects. We dig into what happens to value, intellectual property, and labor as production costs collapse, and why efficiency is only the opening round, not the real competitive advantage of AI. We also talk about managing parallel agents without losing your mind, the comeback of hardware, why on-prem/local will matter more than most people think, and why IP is actually more valuable now in a world flooded with slop. Plus, how he built an early chatbot trained on the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

03:12 Working With Agents

04:44 Aquinas Chat Origins

10:28 Beyond Efficiency

20:49 Net New Value

24:28 Create Net New Value

25:02 Decouple Labor From Value

27:58 Outcome Value Shift

30:26 Future Digital Assets

34:35 Three AI Futures

37:58 IP And Distribution

40:56 Local Hardware Shift

42:42 Client AI Disclosure

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