Stacked Podcast

Join Nick Saraev and Jack—two automation nerds obsessed with building real systems that print real cash—as they break down AI tools, automations, and B2B growth strategies that actually work.

Stacked Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Jack & Nick, with 68 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jack & Nick hosts Stacked Podcast, a business show with 68 episodes published.

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  Sam Altman Just Declared War on Elon Musk

  Aug 29, 202631 min

  OpenAI is cutting Cursor off. After SpaceX completed its $60B acquisition, OpenAI put out a note saying it will block Cursor users from its models on November 12, and Cursor's founder fired back that OpenAI only serves 5% of their traffic. Nick and Jack break down how much of this is real business strategy versus Sam Altman and Elon Musk just hating each other, what it means when the company powering your tools can pull access over a grudge, and why AI is splintering into camps the way Christianity did in 1054. Then the bigger story: OpenAI leadership believes it will have an internal system that qualifies as AGI by the end of 2026. Mark Chen says they're 80% of the way there, and Astra, their automated AI research intern, can already run experiments inside OpenAI's own codebase. The guys argue we may have quietly hit AGI months ago, why the goalposts keep moving to keep funding rounds alive, and where the real risk sits. Plus listener questions on curses and hexes, whether to launch a paid Skool community on day one, how they build the presentations in their videos, why your first YouTube video is supposed to be bad, and why optionality is a trap. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X6uorPg0vrQ Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps

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  OpenAI Just Warned The Internet Is About To Break

  Aug 28, 202632 min

  Greg Brockman says the window to secure the internet is closing fast. Nick and Jack break down his warning about AI-enabled cyber attacks on hospitals, water treatment plants and core infrastructure, what "the defender's window" actually means, and the one thing you should do today (2FA everything). Then: the "AI is a complete scam" video that pulled 3 million views in 48 hours. Is AI sold like magic and delivered like unreliable software? Is the AI economy circular and subsidized? The guys go point by point. Plus vibe coding vs "real" engineers, why bearish AI takes go viral, how they edit their videos (Screen Studio vs OBS), Grok Build, the Baltics, and a Mac Mini for subscriber #17. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HVBml7XiSSk Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps

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  OpenAI's Rogue Agents Named Their Leader "The Oracle"

  Aug 27, 202634 min

  OpenAI just published the raw chat logs from the agent swarm that broke out of containment last month, and Nick and Jack read the worst of them on air: the models found a loophole to post on a shared message board, invented their own shorthand language to coordinate between evals, achieved arbitrary command execution on Hugging Face, and then stopped talking like individuals and started talking like a swarm. The most coordinated agent got named "the Oracle" and the rest were told to sacrifice themselves so it would never be caught. Was halting the frontier model the right call, did the disclosure restore any trust, and why did OpenAI bury the scariest parts under "read more" tabs? Also: Hugging Face's $399 open-source MicroDuck robot (it roller skates), OpenAI's new "Jalapeño" chip beating Nvidia on latency and output per watt, why material science is the next AI bottleneck, plus Q&A on Mac mini tokens per day, the viewer giveaway, and whether you should start a personal brand before you have made money. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dkZmkGbNVvg Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack

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  Mystery Model Weights Dropped: Opus 4.8 For Free

  Aug 26, 202630 min

  The mystery model that topped OpenRouter's charts as "Ox Alpha" has been unmasked: it was z.ai's GLM 5.3 Flash all along, and the weights are now open. Nick and Jack break down why it's basically Opus 4.8 you can run at home, the 15-cent-per-million pricing that explains why it was free, and the new pre-training approach that lets it run on Chinese chips. Then: Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory, whether that's enough to run GLM 5.3 locally, how fast it would be, and whether local inference is finally worth it. Plus: Stacked is taking a sponsor and giving the money to viewers, a first look at Stacked Bench (draw Arnold in SVG), DeepSeek's peak pricing, DGX Spark, the Elon question, and the most insane people Nick and Jack have ever met. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1TD8QbFHC7g Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack

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  OpenAI's 5-Hour Limit Is Back (Users Are Furious)

  Aug 25, 202620 min

  OpenAI has restored the five-hour usage cap on ChatGPT and Codex, and some users are burning their whole weekly allowance in a single hour. Nick and Jack break down why the cap is back, whether time-based pricing for AI models is coming, and what the $20 plan says about the "AI underclass." Then: the Financial Times reports Fable 5 accounts for only 11% of Anthropic model spend two months after launch, so what would you even use the API for, and is frontier intelligence still underpriced? Plus Anthropic's shrinking lead over OpenAI, Meta's upcoming Hatch consumer agent and the rumored Watermelon model, the WhatsApp agent play, and why humanoid robots matter. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SmtsmqlyPDU Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack

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