Fallthrough

This time, going off the rails isn't @skriptbe's fault, it's @sudomateo's! What was meant to be a rundown of the new model landscape turns into a conversation about what AI coding agents actually mean for software engineers and their identity. fallthrough.fm/ep/80

@skriptble and @sudomateo are back for a duo episode. Kris brings some hot takes about ownership, the two discuss subscriptions vs AI pricing, and question whether you should own your house. fallthrough.fm/ep/79

On this week's episode, @skriptble and @sudomateo have a topic: tension. Not the bad kind you learn to avoid, but the productive kind that, like a code smell, is worth stopping to examine. fallthrough.fm/ep/78

Steve is back on this week's episode of Fallthrough. He joins @skriptble and @sudomate to discuss Mythos, Fable, and the reason why the bans might have actually been necessary. fallthrough.fm/ep/77

Another week, another Fallthrough episode! @skriptble and @sudomateo discuss the recent export control directive issued against Anthropic for Fable and Mythos and the marketing machine that created this mess. fallthrough.fm/ep/76

On this week’s episode Fernando Duran joins @skriptble and @sudomateo to discuss Sad Servers, the state of tech interviews, and more! fallthrough.fm/ep/75

This week @sudomateo and @skriptble are joined by @goinggodotnet to discuss his latest project: Kronk, a library for accessing LLMs directly from Go. No CGo required. fallthrough.fm/ep/74

"just ban guns" "what about all the of ones that already exist" "just get rid of them" "there's 500 million privately owned guns, how exactly does one 'just' get rid of them?" Common sense solutions are often too simple to solve the problem on their own. @skriptble @sudomateo

frontier lab CEO says something crazy -> we all act shocked frontier lab CEO says something crazy -> we all act shocked frontier lab CEO says something crazy -> we all act shocked perhaps we should break that cycle? @skriptble @sudomateo

wealthy people don't manage their own money, they have people to do that for them. that's sort of the problem, those people are required by law to do a good job, and good job does not include doing things beneficial for society. perhaps we should fix that. @skriptble @sudomateo

there's mess, mess everywhere. large companies aren't well run, they are barely functional entities which somehow scrape by on a daily basis. but to everyone outside? they look like pristine well oiled machines... until they don't. @skriptble @sudomateo #business #tech

if we just maximize the lines of code we produce and the tokens we burn we might be able to ship the maximum amount possible! but did you make money? get revenue? achieve a useful goal? who cares about that stuff?? we're shipping, that's what matters! @sudomateo @skriptble

we're going somewhere, and we're going there fast! where we want to wind up, who knows, but why's that matter? look how fast we're going! #tech #llms #ai

this just in: everyone's using OpenClaw! wait, never mind, this week it's Hermes Agent! oh nope, not quite correct, now it's Pi! @sudomateo is tired of whipping back and forth between all these agents. #tech #ai #llms #agenticcoding

it's not just speed we gain from using coding agents, it's the ability to build things we conceptually deeply understanding but logistically don't know the mechanics of. not understanding one low level thing can mean a project gets abandoned. not anymore. @skriptble @sudomateo

cryptocurrencies were supposed to change everything, and then they didn't. but why is that? @skriptble thinks it's because of an inconvenient match between mental models. @sudomateo #tech #cryptocurrency #hype

is speed or friction better? @sudomateo argues that someone who's got a couple decades of experience should lean toward speed while someone with considerably less experience should lean toward friction. the struggle is the learning, we cannot forget that. #learning #llms

there's no reason to have uninformed opinions. LLMs make mistakes, sure, but so do random people on the internet. don't use "it makes mistakes" as reason to stay uninformed. it's easier than ever to learn, do it. @skriptble @sudomateo #learning #llms #knowledge

New week, new episode! This week @skriptble and @sudomateo discuss their attitudes toward writing code versus coding agents, the irony of AI companies claiming they'll replace all jobs in 6 months while having 300 open roles, and a whole bunch more. fallthrough.fm/ep/73

@skriptble found out that an optimization like setting a ZFS dataset recordsize to 4MB can become a nightmare if you throw an SQLite database in there as well. who knew that 1,000x write amplification could be so messy? #softwareengineering #zfs #filesystems