{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Tech","slug":"marketplace-tech-318132","podcast_index_feed_id":318132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-tech","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/af5db80cfdc39c7440ad974f15e6e23fe14d9f5c/square/834af0-20250303-marketplace-tech-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":150,"summary":"Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T22:18:47.058590+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132"},"episode":{"title":"Amid Silicon Valley scramble for AI agent productivity, \"token anxiety\" takes hold","slug":"amid-silicon-valley-scramble-for-ai-agent-productivity-token-anxiety-takes-hold","published_at":"2026-05-11T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/amid-silicon-valley-scramble-for-ai-agent-productivity-token-anxiety-takes-hold","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/05/11/ai-agents-are-10xing-productivity","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/05/11/tech_20260511_0511_MP_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MKPtech&awEpisodeId=01KR4A51DENAAC0GS3N15T8MKJ","summary":"There's a new flex in Silicon Valley: how big is your AI agent swarm? They can work on your behalf, autonomously, 24/7, on whatever goal you give them. You might think having an army of AI minions could free up some time, maybe make work more chill. But, you’d be wrong, as Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino reports.","meta_description":"There's a new flex in Silicon Valley: how big is your AI agent swarm? They can work on your behalf, autonomously, 24/7, on whatever goal you give them. Yo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":299,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-tech-318132/episodes/amid-silicon-valley-scramble-for-ai-agent-productivity-token-anxiety-takes-hold/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/amid-silicon-valley-scramble-for-ai-agent-productivity-token-anxiety-takes-hold.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}