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David Pierce — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
David Pierce has appeared on 16 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Vergecast. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What David said
“They're called glassholes... it is eye level. It is how we look at each other. And I think that is just such a hurdle to overcome.”
— David Pierce on the social challenge of smart glasses.
“I'm gonna write a four thousand word screed on the verge dot com about why that's a stupid idea. I don't put cameras on your freaking watch. What do you want to have the nostril shot at all times?”
— David Pierce on the idea of a camera-equipped smartwatch.
“Any person who is a remotely functional developer would know how to fix this. I do not.”
— David Pierce, on his keyboard shortcut bug
“This is also one of the reasons I like to do this episode from time to time is to make people realize the horrors they are putting onto other people when they take calls in environments like this.”
— David Pierce
“This is multiple orders of magnitude better than anything we've tested so far. This is nuts.”
— David Pierce, on the Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro
“A lot of these branding decisions, I truly believe are done for investors without the consumer in mind at all. Can you think of someone in your life that would be like, 'Oh yeah, Siri AI, can't wait'?”
— David Pierce
Episode appearances
16 In 2026, a punk cover of a Disney song from A Goofy Movie went viral on TikTok. The cover was not made by a band. It was generated by Suno, an AI music platform, and it was pushing the actual…
“I am perpetually fascinated by the pebble index, which is basically just a little ring with a button that you bring up to your mouth like a spy and you say, ‘Remember to call Alison on Monday.’”…
Netflix is turning into YouTube — and that might be the plan. The Vergecast hosts David Pierce and Nilay Patel argue that Netflix has drifted from its long-held position as the indispensable…
The Vergecast: Our Favorite Tips for Logging Off The Verge staff are not, by their own admission, a group that is famously good at being offline. But when host David Pierce gathered a handful of…
The video game disc is dead Sony announced it will stop producing PlayStation discs entirely by January 2028. Microsoft is testing a feature that would let you attach a digital game to a disc,…
A tornado tore through Rivian’s factory in Normal, Illinois, four days before The Verge’s Andy Hawkins was scheduled to visit. The storm ripped a hole in the ceiling of the building where the…
"I don't know what to do with this" The Vergecast's vibe coding challenge kicked off with a disarmingly honest confession from executive editor Jake Kasternakis: he built a tool that pulled every…
Of course Meta thinks gambling is the future The Vergecast's David Pierce and Nilay Patel recorded this episode from wildly different time zones — Patel from a sweltering Cannes Lions advertising…
In 2026, Apple raised prices on iPads and MacBooks by up to $500, and the Apple TV now costs $200. The reason, as David Pierce explains on The Vergecast, is an "era of AI driven shortages of…
The new Google Home Speaker costs $99, comes in a bright red that David Pierce specifically requested, and sounds dramatically better than an Echo Mini. It is also Google’s first smart speaker in…
Victoria Song, The Verge’s wearables expert, has tested nearly every pair of smart glasses on the market. She has worn them in Italy, on the New York City subway, and in her own home. Through all…
"Every pair of things that you wear on your face has died in this way." That is the blunt framing David Pierce and his co-host bring to their analysis of Snap’s newest AR glasses, called Specs.…
The best headphone mic we've ever tested David Pierce starts the episode with a confession: he has long believed headphone microphones are "a severely underrated bit of technology." Most headphone…
The Mythos mess and your AI questions, answered On a Friday afternoon in June, Anthropic got a call from the U.S. government: shut down access to its new models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, within 90…
The MacBook Neo is out, and the reaction has been rapturous. David Pierce and Nilay Patel both bought one for themselves, justifying the purchase as research for the podcast. Patel’s wife was…
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