Good Stuff 65 - Working with Agents - Buzz, Autopilot, and Flight Deck

After a short break, Pete and Andy return to the van for what turns out to be the final episode of **The Good Stuff**. They explain why the podcast is getting a new identity before diving into AI agents, social media, and the software stack they've been building.

The conversation explores using personal AI agents to filter information instead of doomscrolling, why stepping away from the AI bubble can be refreshing, and how tools like Wingman, Flight Deck and Autopilot are evolving into an operating system for agent-first businesses.

The episode closes with a discussion about why the future isn't AI replacing software, it's businesses becoming software.

**Key Moments:***

**[00:01]** The final episode of *The Good Stuff* is announced before a complete rebrand.*

**[01:15]** Looking back on 65 episodes and why this podcast succeeded when earlier attempts didn't.*

**[01:56]** Kimi K3, Buzz and autonomous OpenAI agents kick off the discussion.*

**[03:02]** Pete explains his AI news agent that reads Twitter, builds a knowledge graph and delivers one high-signal story every hour.*

**[05:41]** Andy discovers that disconnecting from social media makes him realise just how small the AI bubble really is.*

**[08:12]** Why most people still use AI very differently from the people discussing it online every day.*

**[10:05]** Remembering when Facebook was actually social—and how modern feeds lost that magic.*

**[13:06]** Weekly AI summaries, work recaps and letting agents consume information for you.*

**[15:51]** AI coding, deep work and ADHD: why agent development can feel productive yet strangely unrewarding.*

**[20:16]** Pete introduces Wingman, Autopilot, Tower and Flight Deck—the foundations of their agent operating system.*

**[29:46]** Buzz vs Flight Deck: where the ideas overlap and why they're building something different.*

**[36:19]** Socratic dialogue beats one-shot prompting for designing software with AI.*

**[46:37]** Pipelines combine deterministic code with AI agents to automate repeatable business work.*

**[48:36]** "Most stuff you value the consistency over the intelligence." Why business processes matter.*

**[55:52]** Wingman isn't the product—it's the infrastructure that lets businesses become bespoke software.*

**[01:01:49]** The opportunity isn't replacing spreadsheets—it's replacing the fragile systems businesses already rely on.*

**[01:05:16]** The podcast signs off with one final idea: deploying "intelligence snacks" throughout a business.

**Friends of the Pod:** Gigi (*No Solutions*), Steve Lee (*Presidio / Bitcoin Jam*), Matt Odell (*Citadel Dispatch*), Peter Steinberger (*Birdclaw / OpenClaw*), Rick, Lara

**Concepts Introduced:** Intelligence Snacks (small deployments of AI decision-making), Flight Deck, Tower, Autopilot, Business as Software

**Quote:** *"The business is the software eventually. Wingman isn't the product, it's the foundation that lets us codify how your business actually works. The real value isn't in the agents. It's in building the business itself into software."*