What happens when your coworkers are AI agents

Michael Calore: Mysterious billboards.

Lauren Goode: I was like, “What? No, keep me in the land of burrata and Caravaggio.”

Michael Calore: Well, Lauren, I’m sorry to say that you’re back on the show just in time to talk about AI agents. I know.

Lauren Goode: great.

Michael Calore: It’s something we’ve talked about a lot this year and our listeners have heard a lot about it, and we never get tired of talking about it. In fact, we have a very interesting conversation about AI agents happening today.

Lauren Goode: Well, if you can promise me fun, I’m in.

Michael Calore: I can. I can.

Lauren Goode: Okay, let’s do it. I’m excited.

Michael Calore: We cut through the hype and make real-time AI agents work for us. Or more specifically, we’re bringing in journalist and podcast host, Evan Ratliff, because he’s built a company made up of AI employees and executives, and he’s here to tell us all about it. Welcome to the show, Evan.

Evan Ratliff: It’s great to be here.

Lauren Goode: Evan, you are also an original member of WIRED. You’ve been at WIRED for a long time, haven’t you?

Evan Ratliff: I’m an old school WIRED person. I worked at WIRED very briefly, a few years ago, but I have contributed to WIRED for many decades.

Lauren Goode: And out of these two years, how long have you been gone? Because this is part of your tradition.

Evan Ratliff: Oh, it happened, yes, that was in 2009. I actually only disappeared for a month, which is crazy considering how much this has been talked about over the years. I was trying to disappear for one month by faking my death and people could find me, but it was supposed to be on my tombstone.