In recent years, I've mined Tyler Cowen's annual retrospective for interesting references or overlooked episodes.
This year, mostly for fun and partially to get a bit of calibration on aesthetic predispositions, I asked the Agents to do it.
Four AI coding agents were given the prompt below. Here are their one-shot solutions:
Claude Code (Opus 4.5) ·
GPT Codex (5.2 High) ·
Gemini 3 Auto ·
Grok 4.1 Thinking
I'd like to make a static web page I can host on github that focuses on Tyler Cowen's 2025 year in review podcast. The full transcript is here: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/conversations-with-tyler-2025-retrospective/
I'd like to focus on his episodes that he praised or endorsed the most, with his comments or reason why.
I'd also like to highlight references to books or articles of note - again, only items that get some meaningful endorsement and that endorsement "why" should be clear.
I'd like this to be visually scannable as a page, with clear organization of topics (podcasts vs books vs other endorsements) and visually rich but sleek in overall design.
This test was run on December 28, 2024.
Also available on my blog.