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  • #66
    April 11 · 50 min

    Another Spectre In The Shell

    It's Kris, Matt, and Steve this week. It's also Matt's last episode before becoming a father. The conversation opens with Claude Mythos, Anthropic's unreleased model that found 147 zero-days in Firefox's JavaScript engine and a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD. Steve, who's lived through before, puts it in context. The panel also discusses cooldown periods for package upgrades, the implications of nation-state hacking capability becoming available to anyone, and using AI for good. Supporter content? We've got it! This week it includes a dive into post-quantum security and state-sponsored social engineering attacks. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube. No episode of Break this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Matt's Last Episode Before Fatherhood (00:01:09) Chapter 2: The Supply Chain Crisis and Claude Mythos (00:03:18) Chapter 3: The Implications of Democratized Hacking (00:08:43) Chapter 4: The Cooldown Period Debate (00:13:00) Chapter 5: Steve's Rails Zero-Day War Story (00:18:54) Chapter 9: Using AI as a Personal Life Assistant (00:23:13) Chapter 12: Steve & East River Source Control (00:28:54) Chapter 13: Git's Design Limitations and the Stack Diffs Model (00:39:08) Epilogue (00:44:57) Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Matthew Sanabria - Host Steve Klabnik - Host Socials: Website Bluesky Threads X/Twitter LinkedIn Instagram (00:00) - Prologue (01:09) - Chapter 1: Matt's Last Episode Before Fatherhood (03:18) - Chapter 2: The Supply Chain Crisis and Claude Mythos (08:43) - Chapter 3: The Implications of Democratized Hacking (13:00) - Chapter 4: The Cooldown Period Debate (18:54) - Chapter 5: Steve's Rails Zero-Day War Story (23:13) - Chapter 9: Using AI as a Personal Life Assistant (28:54) - Chapter 12: Steve & East River Source Control (39:08) - Chapter 13: Git's Design Limitations and the Stack Diffs Model (44:57) - Epilogue

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  • #65
    April 4 · 57 min

    Snake Oil Has an Expiration Date

    It's Kris and Matt this week, and the conversation goes places. It starts with Matt going all-in on Apple and a leaked Claude Code source dump, then pivots into AI companies repeating social media's diversity-of-thought mistakes and why LLMs still can't beat "better than the average human" as a goalpost. The episode closes with a surprise detour into accounting, finance, and why double-entry bookkeeping is one of the original distributed systems. We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes a home lab infrastructure rant about terrible BMC/IPMI systems, a nuanced deep dive into corporate DEI and code-switching, Matt's chocolate shop tax war stories, LLC vs S-Corp tradeoffs, and why engineers who dismiss finance are worse engineers. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube. No episode of Break this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Matthew Goes All In on Apple (00:01:10) Chapter 3: The Claude Code Source Leak (00:08:24) Chapter 4: AI Companies and the Diversity of Thought Problem (00:14:13) Chapter 6: LLMs Are Not Better Than Humans (00:17:16) Chapter 7: AI Hype, Big Data Deja Vu, and Snake Oil (00:21:17) Chapter 8: Serial Founders Are Deadbeat Fathers (00:23:33) Chapter 9: The Hidden Heroes Who Run Companies (00:33:01) Chapter 11: Engineers Need to Respect (and Learn) Finance (00:35:03) Chapter 13: Double-Entry Accounting Is an OG Distributed System (00:50:41) Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Matthew Sanabria - Host Socials: Website Bluesky Threads X/Twitter LinkedIn Instagram (00:00) - Prologue (01:10) - Chapter 1: Matthew Goes All In on Apple (08:24) - Chapter 3: The Claude Code Source Leak (14:13) - Chapter 4: AI Companies and the Diversity of Thought Problem (17:16) - Chapter 6: LLMs Are Not Better Than Humans (21:17) - Chapter 7: AI Hype, Big Data Deja Vu, and Snake Oil (23:33) - Chapter 8: Serial Founders Are Deadbeat Fathers (33:01) - Chapter 9: The Hidden Heroes Who Run Companies (35:03) - Chapter 11: Engineers Need to Respect (and Learn) Finance (50:41) - Chapter 13: Double-Entry Accounting Is an OG Distributed System

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  • #64
    March 29 · 1 hr 35 min

    Who's Afraid of Superintelligence?

    We've got a full panel! In this episode, Kris, Matt, Steve, and Ian have a deep dive into superintelligence, AGI, and why the fear around them might say more about us than about AI. Steve draws a line from colonialism anxiety to alien invasion movies to superintelligence panic. Kris argues that a truly rational superintelligence would see that oppression consistently fails and cooperation wins. The conversation moves through whether AI is already oppressive, what it means for AI to be a subtle overlord, and why the real threats are mundane failures of leadership, not robot uprisings. We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes a philosophical tangent on whether referencing external knowledge counts as knowing, a heated debate about whether humans are hierarchical by nature, Matt's island thought experiment about hierarchy inevitably emerging, and Ian's argument that not everyone needs to be a builder. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube. No episode of Break this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Meet the Panel (00:00:54) Chapter 2: Defining AGI and Superintelligence (00:03:00) Chapter 3: The Spicy Takes: Has AGI Already Arrived? (00:11:38) Chapter 4: What Does It Mean to Know? Memory vs. Intelligence [Extended] (00:17:56) Chapter 5: A Black Perspective on Power and Intelligence (00:18:55) Chapter 6: Did They Actually Win? Dominance Hierarchies and Revolution (00:26:18) Chapter 7: AI Is Already Oppressive: Why Aren't We Worried About That? (00:33:53) Chapter 10: AI as the Subtle Overlord (00:48:55) Chapter 12: What We Should Actually Be Worried About (00:58:47) Chapter 13: Intelligence, Eugenics, and What the Word Even Means (01:08:06) Chapter 14: Naming the Machines: AI Identity and Claude's Constitution (01:22:32) Chapter 15: We vs. Me: Language, Identity, and Collective Pronouns (01:25:14) Epilogue (01:31:10) Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Ian Wester-Lopshire - Host Matthew Sanabria - Host Steve Klabnik - Host Socials: Website Bluesky Threads X/Twitter LinkedIn Instagram (00:00) - Prologue (00:54) - Chapter 1: Meet the Panel (03:00) - Chapter 2: Defining AGI and Superintelligence (11:38) - Chapter 3: The Spicy Takes: Has AGI Already Arrived? (17:56) - Chapter 4: What Does It Mean to Know? Memory vs. Intelligence [Extended] (18:55) - Chapter 5: A Black Perspective on Power and Intelligence (26:18) - Chapter 6: Did They Actually Win? Dominance Hierarchies and Revolution (33:53) - Chapter 7: AI Is Already Oppressive: Why Aren't We Worried About That? (48:55) - Chapter 10: AI as the Subtle Overlord (58:47) - Chapter 12: What We Should Actually Be Worried About (01:08:06) - Chapter 13: Intelligence, Eugenics, and What the Word Even Means (01:22:32) - Chapter 14: Naming the Machines: AI Identity and Claude's Constitution (01:25:14) - Chapter 15: We vs. Me: Language, Identity, and Collective Pronouns (01:31:10) - Epilogue

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