We've published episode 82: Token Maxx: Fury Road. Happy Listening!
Token Maxx: Fury Road
On this week, we've got Kris, Matt, and Dylan! Yes, Dylan is back to...
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We've published episode 81: I, Builder. Happy Listening!
I, Builder
Kris and Matt have a pretty big question they're trying to answer this...
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We've published episode 80: Everything Agentic All at Once. Happy Listening!
Everything Agentic All at Once
Another week, another deep episode! Kris and Matthew are back and this...
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We've published episode 79: Landlord of the Rings. Happy Listening!
Landlord of the Rings
Kris and Matthew are back for a duo episode, and Kris has a hot take:...
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We've published episode 78: Under Pressure. Happy Listening!
Under Pressure
On this week's episode, Kris and Matthew have a topic: tension. Not the...
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We've published episode 77: The Spy Who Banned Me. Happy Listening!
The Spy Who Banned Me
It's Fallthrough time! In this episode, Kris, Matthew, and Steve get...
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We've published episode 76: Of Fables and Mythos. Happy Listening!
Of Fables and Mythos
Another week, another Fallthrough! In this episode, Kris and Matthew get...
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We've published episode 75: Shall We Play A Game?. Happy Listening!
Shall We Play A Game?
Matt and Kris welcome Fernando Duran, the creator of SAD Servers, the...
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We've published episode 74: Pull the (AI) Lever, Kronk!. Happy Listening!
Pull the (AI) Lever, Kronk!
Matt and Kris welcome back Bill Kennedy who's been working on Kronk, AI...
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Where are you going today? Well, we're going to go over down route 53, then head down bedrock ave, and in no time we'll be going down the highway. But where are you going? We expect to hit 85 within the first 20 seconds of hitting the highway! But where are you going? I just told you!
From the outside, complicated problems seem simple to solve. Have a gun violence problem? Simple! Get rid of the guns. What's hidden is the path dependence. For example, how exactly do you suggest we get rid of half a billion guns? @skriptble.me @matthewsanabria.com #commonsense #problemsolving
At some point, we can't place the blame on frontier AI lab CEOs for saying insane things. We keep giving them a platform. And more importantly, rarely do we take the history of claims they've made to weigh new ones. That's the first change we need to make. @skriptble.me @matthewsanabria.com
Wealth management is a weird trap that makes the entire system worse while making sense at each step of the way. It's a weird twist of Simpson's Paradox. We won't fix problems like this without fixing the whole system. @skriptble.me @matthewsanabria.com #business #wealthmanagement #tech
Some believe that large companies are well run, @skriptble.me questions whether they've actually peered at the insides. There is mess everywhere, seemingly unlimited chaos, and a bunch of people barely holding the entire thing together. Elegant this is not. @matthewsanabria.com #tech #business
We love to focus on metrics as a proxy for accomplishing real things. "Look how fast we're shipping!" "Look at how many lines of code I wrote!" "Look at how many tokens I used!" But did you actually do anything useful with that stuff? No? Oh, okay then. @matthewsanabria.com @skriptble.me #tech
Just install OpenClaw! Wait, no, I mean just install Hermes Agent. Wait, never mind, scratch that, just install Pi! The whiplash of these recommendations is giving @matthewsanabria.com a headache. There must be a better way. #tech #llms #codingagents
For many, not having to write the code means they can move faster. But domain knowledge is tricky, because it means that not knowing how to implement one small component of a larger project can stall the entire thing. Coding agents fix that. @skriptble.me @matthewsanabria.com #tech #codingagents
Cryptocurrencies were poised to change the world, and then they didn't. Many believe it was because they were overhyped, @skriptble.me has a different theory: they matched people's mental model of money even though that mental model is incompatible with actual finance. @matthewsanabria.com #crypto
@adamhjk.me thinks that we should just let the LLMs go wild, but @matthewsanabria.com sees the value in continuing to do tasks ourselves that LLMs might automate. While those with decades of experience benefit from the speed, those with less experience benefit from the friction and the struggle.
Holding informed opinions today is foolish. We had web search before, but they had friction to learning something. With LLMs the barrier to deeper knowledge has been removed. It'll get things wrong, but a nuanced wrong opinion is better than an uninformed one. @skriptble.me @matthewsanabria.com
We've published episode 73: Dependencies All The Way Down. Happy Listening!
Dependencies All The Way Down
Another week, another Fallthrough! In this episode, Kris and Matthew...
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@skriptble.me wanted to optimize a ZFS dataset for the data it'd be storing, so he set the recordsize to 4MB. When he started actually using the dataset he was greeted with minute long stalls. The problem? An SQLite database causing 1,000x write amplification 😬 #softwareengineering #zfs #filesystem
Move Fast and Break Things wasn't the first phrase but it was the most blunt and honest. Tech as an industry loves to prioritize speed over all else, including any sense of direction. With AI tools, we've doubled down on this and it's made things much worse. @skriptble.me @matthewsanabria.com #tech
Epistemic markers are phrases like "I think", "I guess", "maybe", and "certainly". They tell us how confident the speaker is in what they are saying. Their usage has been declining for decades, but AI leaders have taken it to an entirely new level. @skriptble.me @matthewsanabria.com #language #tech
Collective action often requires collective suffering to achieve collective gains. But if we allow people to leave the collective without consequence, or worse, allow those who would participate in the gains to undermine the work of the collective, we will not achieve progress. @skriptble.me #unions
Coding agents are great. We can build projects we never thought possible. But it also reduces the hands on keyboard time we all have writing code. This can lead to atrophy of those programming skills. We need to find a balance between prompting and programming. @matthewsanabria.com #tech #llms
In some ways, the way people are acting around AI makes sense: the business is incentivized by shareholder pressure to invest heavily in it and employees are incentivized by the business to invest their energy into it. If want this to change, we need systemic fixes. @matthewsanabria.com #tech
We often treat load-bearing infrastructure in software ecosystems an unserious way. When catastrophic things happen in software ecosystems we rarely make the systemic changes requires to ensure it won't happen again. @matthewsanabria.com #infrastructure #software #softwareengineering
We've been told the world is run by incredibly strategic multi-billion and multi-trillion dollar companies, but for those who work inside them, it feels like nothing could be further from the truth. Would these companies function if all the EAs stopped working? @skriptble.me @matthewsanabria.com
The open source world was designed for a world where there was more friction for doing things. With LLMs a lot of that friction has been removed. Sometimes that means we have to ask a potential contributor "are you a human?". @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy #opensource #tech #llms