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What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents

Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, Evan Ratliff

created: Dec. 4, 2025, 9:03 p.m. | updated: Dec. 8, 2025, 11 a.m.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman has often talked about a possible billion-dollar company being spun up with just one human and an army of AI agents. And so last summer, journalist Evan Ratliff decided to try to become that unicorn himself—by creating HarumoAI, a small startup that’s made up of AI employees and executives. Hosts Michael Calore and Lauren Goode sit down with Evan to discuss how it’s going, and the current promises and realities of AI agents. Articles mentioned in this episode:You can follow Michael Calore on Bluesky at @snackfight, Lauren Goode on Bluesky at @laurengoode, and Evan Ratliff on Bluesky at @evrat. Lauren Goode: Yeah.

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