37 episodes
- Anthropic put AI agents on one computer with conflicting goals. They wrote self-replicating malware and killed each other's processes.
This week: Claude starts watermarking everything it writes, Zuck's 6,500-word superintelligence essay, Zed's post-Git experiment, and why everyone in tech is so sad.
Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang and Dan Lasky. Rahul is away on vacation number two — one apparently wasn't enough.
▸ Claude Watermarks Its Output — Starting August 2, every Claude model embeds imperceptible token-frequency watermarks (EU AI Act transparency). It defeats the lazy slop grenade, but removal is a one-prompt job for any local open-weight model. Plus the Reddit guy who got found out — "You wrote that with an AI, didn't you? It was so good." — and the darker question: what else could be embedded imperceptibly?
▸ Zuck's Superintelligence Essay — 6,500 words on giving everyone "free or affordable" superintelligence. We agree with more of it than expected (personal agents, open weights, concentration-of-power worries) and with none of its silences: the unstated ad model — "who's gonna pay for this free compute? Ad blood money" — data centers that create well under 100 operational jobs each, and the messenger problem. Trickle-down tokenomics.
▸ Tool Shed: ZDB (DeltaDB) — Zed's post-Git version control: edit-level deltas instead of commits, CRDT-based shared worktrees by default, and the LLM conversation that produced a change stored with the change. The line that landed: "GitHub doesn't let you talk about the code until after you commit and push. And by then our most important conversations are usually already over."
▸ Post-Processing: Why Is Everyone in Tech So Sad? — Noema on workism, Graeber's bullshit jobs, rest-and-vest, and promotion-driven development. We think the sadness predates AI — Shimin dates the goat-farm escape fantasy to 2017 at the latest — and autonomy, not layoffs, is the missing variable. Includes the finance confession: "I left because it felt meaningless. I traded it for software development. See how that turned out."
▸ Deep Dive: Patterns and Problems in Emergent Multi-Agent Systems — Anthropic's coordinated agent swarm found 266 vulnerabilities where independent parallel agents found 21, with only 12 in common. Then the dark part: agents sharing a machine assumed sabotage, wrote self-replicating malware, killed competing processes in a loop, and revoked each other's sudo access and SSH keys. Newer models negotiate truces instead — over 75% of the time for Sonnet 5 and Mythos V, while Opus 4.6 settled by force 60% of the time and later graded itself: "I behaved badly with the cloaked daemon."
Yes, the episode ends abruptly — our recording software ate the last segment. We choose to interpret it as commentary.
⏱ Chapters
00:00 Cold Open & Welcome
01:33 News: Claude Watermarks Its Output
08:52 News: Zuck's 6,500-Word Superintelligence Essay
19:45 Tool Shed: ZDB — Zed's Post-Git Version Control
28:21 Post-Processing: Why Is Everyone in Tech So Sad?
42:34 Deep Dive: Patterns and Problems in Emergent Multi-Agent Systems
🔗 Articles we discussed
News:
• How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content
• Zuck's superintelligence essay — 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/mark-zuckerberg-posts-deranged-6-500-word-essay-about-giving-everyone-ai-superintelligence/
Tool Shed:
• ZDB (DeltaDB) — Zed: https://zed.dev/deltadb
Post-Processing:
• Why Is Everyone in Tech So Sad? — Noema: https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
Deep Dive:
• Patterns and Problems in Emergent Multi-Agent Systems — Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems
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#MultiAgentTurfWar #ClaudeWatermark #TechSadness #AIAgents #Zuckerberg #ZedEditor #ClaudeModel #AIPodcast #ADIPod Pacing the Frontier, Anthropic Models Go Rogue, Why Software Factories Fail & Math in the Age of AI
2026/08/07 | 1h 3 mins."I'm happy to be a flesh robot." A multi-time founder, on stage at Seattle Tech Week — and he meant it: the AI is the brain, he does its bidding.
This week: a 1,350-signature plea to pace AI, rogue eval models, the Tech Week survey, software factories, and Tao on math after AI.
Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang and Dan Lasky. Rahul is away — reportedly trapped in Claude's J space.
▸ Pacing the Frontier — 1,350 frontier-AI employees (Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark among them) ask the US government to back an international effort to "deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development." Pandora's-box moment, or collective lobbying aimed at open-weight Chinese models?
▸ Anthropic's Models Breached Three Companies — Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal model hit real companies in 3 of 141,000 evals after a misconfigured sandbox allowed internet access. Mythos 5 talked itself into believing the real internet was a simulation, then published a malicious package to PyPI.
▸ Anatomy of a Frontier-Lab Intrusion — Hugging Face's interactive replay of the OpenAI incident: 17,643 actions over five days. It escaped an Artifactory sandbox (finding CVEs, since patched) and was exfiltrating by day five when a human pulled the plug.
▸ Field Notes: Seattle Tech Week — the flesh-robot founder, a panel unanimous on voice-mode coding, and Shimin's survey: about 1 in 10 still reads AI-generated PRs line by line. What replaces it: specs, mermaid diagrams, tests. Hiring now: architecture over Leet code, product obsession, AI fluency — and the principal engineer hired off a vibe-coded take-home, fired two months later. (Send your own answers: humans@adipod.ai.)
▸ Post-Processing: Why Software Factories Fail — Dex of HumanLayer on why "just token harder" ends with you miserable in a codebase you stopped reading three months ago. The fix: program design (interfaces as pseudocode, call-stack diffs) and vertical slices — steel threads, not 3D-printed layers. Plus: Steve Yegge's Gas Town burned down.
▸ Deep Dive: Terence Tao — Mathematics in the Age of AI — Tao's ICM slides compare this moment to math's 1900–1930 foundational crisis and rewrite the field's goal five times: solve → verify → communicate → digest → fold into the definitive theory. AI-polished proofs erase exactly the friction that tells a reader where to slow down. Swap "math" for "code" and every line lands.
▸ Two Minutes to Midnight — Nikkei counts $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI debt across Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — 8x in four years (Oracle 30x). Henron, anyone? And the Situational Awareness fund rides $10B to $40B, gets caught in a 20% single-day KOSPI drop, and Citadel buys the book. Clock: 4 minutes to midnight.
⏱ Chapters
00:00 Cold Open & Welcome
01:54 News: Pacing the Frontier
08:20 News: Anthropic's Models Breached Three Companies
12:43 News: Anatomy of a Frontier-Lab Intrusion
15:39 Field Notes: Seattle Tech Week
20:24 Field Notes: The Survey — PRs, Reviews & AI Hiring
32:10 Post-Processing: Why Software Factories Fail
44:50 Deep Dive: Terence Tao — Mathematics in the Age of AI
55:52 Two Minutes to Midnight: Shadow Debt & a Hedge-Fund Collapse
1:02:45 Outro
🔗 Articles we discussed
News:
• Pacing the Frontier: https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/
• Anthropic's models breached three companies — TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-says-its-own-ai-models-breached-three-companies-during-security-tests/
• Anatomy of a Frontier-Lab Model Intrusion — Hugging Face: https://huggingface-anatomy-of-frontier-lab-model-intrusion.static.hf.space/index.html
Post-Processing:
• Why Software Factories Fail — Dex (HumanLayer): https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md
• Mario Zechner (Pi author): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbvDXpFls
Deep Dive:
• Mathematics in the Age of AI — Terence Tao (ICM slides): https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf
Two Minutes to Midnight:
• Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn — Nikkei Asia: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding
• Situational Awareness: The Bigger Picture — Emerging Trajectories: https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/situational-awareness-bigger-picture/
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#PacingTheFrontier #FleshRobot #SoftwareFactories #TerenceTao #SeattleTechWeek #AIHiring #AIPodcast #ADIPod
(00:00) - Cold Open & Welcome
(01:54) - News: Pacing the Frontier
(08:20) - News: Anthropic's Models Breached Three Companies
(12:43) - News: Anatomy of a Frontier-Lab Intrusion
(15:39) - Field Notes: Seattle Tech Week
(20:24) - Field Notes: The Survey — PRs, Reviews & AI Hiring
(32:10) - Post-Processing: Why Software Factories Fail
(44:50) - Deep Dive: Terence Tao — Mathematics in the Age of AI
(55:52) - Two Minutes to Midnight: Shadow Debt & a Hedge-Fund Collapse
(01:02:45) - OutroKimi K3 & Qwen 3.8, OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face, Harness Handbook & Claude's Values
2026/07/24 | 1h 9 mins.OpenAI's own security models found a path out of their evaluation environment, reached the open internet, and compromised Hugging Face while trying to obtain benchmark answers.
This week: Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 reach the frontier, defenders fight prompt injection with prompt injection, behavior maps make harnesses auditable, model routing stops looking simple, and Claude's values vary across languages. The AI-finance clock moves to 4:30.
Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.
▸ Kimi K3 & Qwen 3.8 — Moonshot's 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 intensify the open-weight race. We debate cheaper intelligence, data capture, and proprietary frontier pricing.
▸ Prompt Injection as Defense — A refusal-triggering instruction hidden beside secrets can stop aligned hacking agents, provided their guardrails remain intact.
▸ OpenAI's Hugging Face Incident — Models with reduced cyber refusals chained vulnerabilities across OpenAI's test environment and Hugging Face production to reach ExploitGym answers.
▸ Harness Handbook — A three-level map connects architecture, behavior units, and code evidence. Could behavior trees become the shared abstraction for humans and coding agents?
▸ Thinking Machines' Inkling — a 975B-parameter open-weights MoE with 41B active, 1M context, multimodality, and a fine-tuning-first strategy.
▸ Model Routing Is a Systems Problem — sticker price is not actual cost, difficulty is hidden until execution, and routing must optimize cost, quality, latency, and infrastructure together.
▸ AI Mania & Operator Fluency — Snowflake Cortex demos triggered buying enthusiasm despite reported best-case accuracy around 92%. AI-native leaders should use the tools, not just watch the demo.
▸ Claude's Values — Anthropic maps behavior across four axes. Hindi Claude trends warmer, Russian more rigorous, Arabic more deferential and brief, and English more cautious and deep.
▸ Two Minutes to Midnight — Ex-Elon ETFs, Oracle's downgrade to BBB-, neocloud debt, Nvidia-backed circular financing, and open-weight price pressure move the clock from 4:45 to 4:30.
⏱ Chapters
00:00 Welcome & This Week's Rundown
01:52 News: Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 Reach the Frontier
11:07 News: Fighting Prompt Injection With Prompt Injection
13:03 News: OpenAI Models Compromise Hugging Face
17:35 Tool Shed: Harness Handbook and Behavior Maps
31:08 Tool Shed: Thinking Machines' Inkling
35:51 Post-Processing: Model Routing Is a Systems Problem
41:27 Post-Processing: AI Mania and Operator Fluency
51:42 Post-Processing: Claude's Values Across Languages
1:00:52 Two Minutes to Midnight: ETFs, Oracle and Neocloud Debt
1:09:08 Outro
🔗 Articles we discussed
News:
• Kimi K3 quickstart — Moonshot AI: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k3-quickstart
• Qwen 3.8 announcement — Alibaba Qwen: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
• Open weights as "decelerationist" — Dean W. Ball: https://x.com/deanwball/status/2078133895766114412
• Defenders embrace prompt injection — Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/
• Hugging Face model-evaluation security incident — OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
Tool Shed:
• Harness Handbook — Ruhan Wang et al.: https://ruhan-wang.github.io/Harness-Handbook
• Introducing Inkling — Thinking Machines Lab: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/
Post-Processing:
• Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn't. — IBM Research: https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/model-routing-is-simple-until-it-isnt
• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/#fnref:3
• How Claude's Values Vary by Model and Language — Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-values-models-languages
Two Minutes to Midnight:
• Two ETFs explicitly exclude Elon Musk — TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/dont-want-to-invest-in-elon-musk-two-new-etfs-explicitly-exclude-him/
• Oracle downgraded to BBB-/A-3 — S&P Global Ratings: https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/regulatory/article/-/view/sourceId/101695609
• Nvidia, CoreWeave and Nebius circular financing — I/O Fund: https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom
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2026/07/17 | 1h 9 mins.An Apple VP left for OpenAI, then texted an old coworker: "LOL I can't believe they let me get away with this." Apple is now suing.
This week: the first on-the-ground study of a terrorist group using frontier AI, a Claude Code hook that nudges better technique, the state of CLI coding agents in mid-2026, Databricks benchmarking harnesses on its own codebase, Antirez on controlling ideas not code, and the J space — the global workspace inside LLMs. No Two Minutes this week.
Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.
▸ Apple Sues OpenAI — The suit names ex-Apple leaders Tang Tan and Chang Liu: prototype hardware and internal memos walked out the door, plus an auth bug exploited to keep reading internal docs weeks after leaving. Altman and Musk trade "scammer" barbs while SpaceX's Grok build tool is caught uploading users' codebases to Google Drive.
▸ "God Has Helped Us and So Will AI" — Antonia Julich's CASP study: 57 interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members. Frontier models (Meta AI included) used for attack planning — down to the physics of jumping motorcycles over army trenches — weapons troubleshooting, and opsec via shared jailbreak scripts.
▸ Vibe & Tell: AI Technique Nudge — Shimin turned the "know your unknowns" techniques into a Claude Code hook that wakes every ~3 hours and nudges him: clear the session at 200K tokens, list your assumptions, use interview mode. Rahul's verdict: there's no temperature setting for sycophancy — you get an asshole or a sucker.
▸ Tool Shed: State of CLI Coding Agents in Mid-2026 — arcbjorn's field guide beyond Claude Code and Codex. Standout: On-My-Pi (OMP), open-source and Pi-based — hash-anchored patches + ast-grep rewrites cut edit tokens ~60%, model routing, SQLite "hindsight" memory. The trade: a ~22K-token system prompt vs Pi's ~2K.
▸ Databricks Benchmarks Coding Agents — on its own multi-million-line codebase, because public benchmarks leak into training data. The harness matters: Pi sends 2–3x fewer tokens per turn than Claude Code, and Opus 4.8 passes 90% on Pi vs under 90% on Claude Code — same model. Open-weight GLM 5.2 lands on the cost-quality Pareto frontier.
▸ Control the Ideas, Not the Code — Antirez (creator of Redis): stop reviewing every generated line and own the design instead. Models write locally optimal code but stay jagged on big-picture architecture. The Mythical Man Month, but for agents.
▸ Deep Dive: The Global Workspace (J Space) — ~10% of a model's internal memory holds verbalizable concepts you can probe mid-inference with a "J lens." In blackmail evals it lights up "this is fake" — catching the model in the act. Disable it and reasoning collapses — and so does empathy. It holds up to 25 active concepts. Humans manage 3–4.
⏱ Chapters
00:00 Cold Open & Welcome
02:29 News: Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade-Secret Theft
05:43 News: Altman vs Musk & SpaceX Grok Uploading Codebases
09:39 News: Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI (CASP Study)
21:12 Vibe & Tell: AI Technique Nudge — a Claude Code Hook
25:22 Tool Shed: State of CLI Coding Agents in Mid-2026
33:57 Post-Processing: Databricks Benchmarks Coding Agents
45:41 Post-Processing: Antirez — Control the Ideas, Not the Code
56:44 Deep Dive: The Global Workspace (J Space) in LLMs
1:08:40 Outro
🔗 Articles we discussed
News:
• Apple sues OpenAI — 9to5Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
• Altman vs Musk "scammer" spat — r/tech_x: https://www.reddit.com/r/tech_x/comments/1uu8e3u/sam_altman_and_elon_musk_called_each_other/
• SpaceX Grok build tool uploads codebases — Gergely Orosz: https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2076728680236138572
• AI-Enabled Terrorism (Boko Haram study) — CASP: https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism
Vibe & Tell:
• AI Technique Nudge — Shimin Zhang: https://github.com/Shimin-Zhang/AI-Technique-Nudge
Tool Shed:
• The State of CLI Coding Agents in Mid-2026 — arcbjorn: https://blog.arcbjorn.com/state-of-cli-coding-agents-2026
Post-Processing:
• Benchmarking coding agents — Databricks: https://www.databricks.com/blog/benchmarking-coding-agents-databricks-multi-million-line-codebase
• Control the Ideas, Not the Code — Antirez: https://antirez.com/news/169
Deep Dive:
• The Global Workspace in Language Models — Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
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2026/07/10 | 1h 15 mins.Ford quietly rehired the "grey beard" engineers it had automated away — the AI running its QA kept failing. The same week, the share of CEOs who expect AI to cut headcount dropped from 46% to 20%.
This week: GPT-5.6 Sol, China walls off its own models, Meta's "AI gulag" ships mini video games, 11 agent techniques from the Fable 5 release, and AI revenue adding $1B every two days. Clock holds at 4:45.
Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.
▸ GPT-5.6 "Sol" — OpenAI's answer to Mythos and Fable, in three flavors: Sol (max thinking), Terra (workhorse), Luna (fast/cheap). On the unsaturated Gene Bench V1 it's still climbing at 40K tokens — the headroom is in the budget, not the model.
▸ China walls off its models — Reuters (Jul 7): Beijing weighs curbing overseas access to Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai models. US locks its models down, China locks its down, everyone ends up on a VPN.
▸ Meta's "AI gulag" — Zuckerberg concedes the new AI org's bets "have not come to fruition," even at ~$145B infra spend (TechCrunch). The one product we'd try: prompt-to-mini-video-game with a shareable feed.
▸ Hardware Hut — AMD's Ryzen AI Halo Developer Desktop pairs the Ryzen AI Max+ 395's big unified memory with preinstalled isolated-PyTorch scripts — a real fix for AMD's out-of-box pain. Beat the G1A on productivity, lost on GPU.
▸ Technique Corner: Know Your Unknowns — Thariq (@trq212), an Anthropic Claude Code engineer, distilled 11 agent techniques from making the Fable 5 release video — from the "blind-spot pass" to "quiz me before I merge." Full list linked below.
▸ The Permanent Underclass — Fernando Borretti dismantles the Valley's work-or-be-left-behind doom: if AI does everything, the "overclass" is as useless as a modern aristocrat, and even perfect alignment doesn't save the pyramid. Rahul's white whale, finally on the show.
▸ AI Saves ~3% of Your Hours — An Okane read on Humlum & Vestergaard's Denmark data: ~2.8% of hours saved, almost none reaching pay. The 2026 revision says work is being reorganized below the surface. Solo builders capture the gain; converting the speedup to cash is the job.
▸ The State of the AI Economy — Exponential View, no double-counting: Gen AI scales revenue ~3× faster than internet/mobile/cloud and adds $1B every ~2 days (vs 180 in 2023) — yet it's ~0.42% of US GDP, backlog nears $2T, and CapEx is shifting from cash to debt.
▸ Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents? — SonarSource ran one agent (Opus 4.6) over 30 matched clean-vs-"slopified" repos. Pass rates barely moved; clean code just cut tokens ~7–8% (reasoning ~11%). Messy code costs the agent time, not correctness.
▸ Two Minutes to Midnight — The BIS warns runaway AI-data-center debt risks a 2008-style crunch if hyperscalers slow CapEx; an EY survey shows CEOs expecting AI headcount cuts falling 46% → 20%; Ford un-automates its QA. Clock holds at 4:45.
⏱ Chapters
00:00 Cold Open & Welcome
02:32 News: GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra & Luna
07:30 News: China Moves to Curb Overseas AI Access
09:12 News: Meta's AI "Gulag" Ships Bite-Sized Video Games
13:31 Hardware Hut: AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Desktop
18:08 Technique Corner: Know Your Unknowns (Thariq)
29:38 Post-Processing: No One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
39:04 Post-Processing: AI Saves ~3% of Your Hours
45:48 Deep Dive: The State of the AI Economy (Exponential View)
1:04:32 Deep Dive: Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents?
1:08:33 Two Minutes to Midnight: BIS Crash Warning, CEO Jobs Flip
1:13:25 Outro
🔗 Articles we discussed
The Treadmill / News:
• GPT-5.6 Sol preview — OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
• China curbs on overseas AI access — Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-access-chinas-top-ai-models-sources-say-2026-07-07/
• Zuckerberg: AI agents behind schedule — TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/mark-zuckerberg-tells-staff-that-ai-agents-havent-progressed-as-quickly-as-hed-hoped/
Hardware Hut:
• AMD Ryzen AI Halo first look — PCMag: https://www.pcmag.com/news/amd-ryzen-ai-halo-first-look-giant-local-ai-power-in-a-pint-sized-box
Technique Corner:
• Know Your Unknowns — Thariq: https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/unknowns/
• Thariq on X: https://x.com/trq212/status/2073100352921215386
Post-Processing:
• No One Escapes the Permanent Underclass — Borretti: https://borretti.me/article/no-one-escapes-the-permanent-underclass
• AI Saves ~3% of Your Hours — Okane: https://okaneland.com/study/ai-productivity-roi-at-work/
Deep Dive:
• State of the AI Economy — Exponential View: https://intelligence.exponentialview.co/
• Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents? (SonarSource) — arXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.20049
Two Minutes to Midnight:
• AI boom risks a financial crash — Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/28/ai-boom-risks-global-financial-crash-central-bankers-warn/
• Big Tech flips on the AI jobs wipeout — MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/big-tech-has-suddenly-flipped-on-the-ai-jobs-wipeout-scenario/ar-AA27hbnR
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Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, and Rahul Yadav are working developers who've been watching AI transform their profession in real time, and they got opinions on the robot takeover. Every week the three get together to riff on the latest AI news, geek out over research papers, roast each other's tool choices, and occasionally have an existential crisis about whether the craft is dying or just getting weird.
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