Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 1,140 question → answer exchanges, the host's own answers included. Speaker names were hidden during assessment. Each exchange was marked answered, partly, redirected or not addressed, with a quote as its source. Every exchange below is timestamped and plays. How it works →
These readings are observational: the transcript shows whether the question was answered directly, whatever the reason. It is an AI reading of a public exchange, never a claim about intent, and the tape is one tap away on every row. full disclaimer →
Every one of the 221 people on the record is accounted for: 6 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 207 more have their questions counted (29 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 8 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
No needle for Joelle Pineau: fewer than 8 assessed questions on raw tape, and a percentage on a sample that small would mislead. Their counts are real: 1 not answered directly in 5 assessed questions.
Joelle Pineau: every exchange, playable
The question Alex asked, then the AI assessment note from the answer. Tap to play the moment. Not addressed = the question was not engaged; redirected = acknowledged, then steered elsewhere.
All speakers
All 6 people with 8 or more assessed questions on raw tape. Click a name to see their exchanges. highest rate none identified small samples
| Person | Not answered directly (%) | Redirected + not addressed | Questions | Argument clarity /5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Kantrowitz Founder & Host, Big Technology | 23% | 18 | 78 | 4.0 |
| M.G. Siegler Author & Publisher, Spyglass | 7% | 1 | 15 | 4.0 |
| Ranjan Roy Co-author, Margins | 6% | 1 | 17 | 4.1 |
| Reed Albergotti Technology Editor, Semafor | 0% | 0 | 10 | 4.0 |
| Dallas Dolen US TMT Industry Leader, PwC | 0% | 0 | 9 | 3.9 |
| Matthew Prince Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.3 |
Percentages come from raw unedited recordings only: produced podcast audio has tangents and stumbles cut in the edit, which moves the speaker up by about 12 percentile points. The small-sample counts include the produced feed. This is a reading of a transcript. It is not an accusation of dishonesty, and there are many good reasons not to answer a question directly (confidential numbers, unreleased products, someone else's news to break).