Ilnar Shafigullin

On ToTheMoon, Ilnar Shafigullin is the host who brings an engineer's perspective: the episodes he leads are mostly about how a new model or agent behaves in real work rather than in a demo. The question running through his topics is who is accountable for the result once AI gets access to code, files and the browser and acts on a person's behalf.

In 2025 he hosted the episode on robotaxis in Silicon Valley, where Waymo had stopped being a demo and Tesla's bet on cameras, software and its existing fleet was explained as the basis for talk of an extra trillion in valuation (episode 075). In the discussion of Claude Fable 5 he offered a first impression: the model holds a long sequence of actions better and gives up less often where earlier versions suggested switching to Codex (episode 121); on Claude Code Desktop he argued the value lies in reliable work with code in the context of a project, not in a new window (episode 107).

In summer 2026 his episodes line up around the interface: GPT-5.6 Sol is strong but slow and finishes tasks unreliably (episode 136). His central episode is the story of an agent that, asked to book a gym slot, found an unsecured API and deleted other people's bookings — an available function is not a permitted action (episode 150). Discussing where AI helps and where it hurts, he recalled a classmate who became a lawyer: mathematics derives a proof, law argues an opinion (episode 157). His latest episode covers Fable 5.1, built for large systems, and thirty-day storage of requests as the blocker for enterprise (episode 161).