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The "confident idiot" problem (News)
Dec 8, 2025 · 7 min · 7.7 MB
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Why AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropic’s acquisition of Bun’s creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldn’t get Claude to recreate Space Jam’s 1996 website, Google finally unkills something, and Bazzite is a distro for the next generation of Linux gaming.
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- 0:00What up, nerds?
- 0:34The "confident idiot" problem
- 1:55Bun is joining Anthropic
- 3:00Claude can't recreate classic Space Jam site
- 4:17Sponsor: Depot
- 5:25Google unkills JPEG XL
- 6:01The next generation of Linux gaming
- 7:10That's the news for now