You've Been a Bad Agent

The Last Summer, Instinct <> Instinct, Chad Super App, Jev, DevDay Is all MCP, Cloudflare Birthday Week

- Back from summer break: the last summer, and a new model every 11 days - Labs sitting on their best models: Mythos, GPT-6.1 Astra - John Schulman on Dwarkesh: spiky intelligence and the "it got nerfed" cycle - Opus 5.5 as daily driver, compaction envy, Grokbot's warm-start threads - Life after Poke: Matt's Instinct goes flat hunting, then talks to Wilhelm's Instinct live - Instinct on Invest Like the Best: card details, $1B volume, a take rate between Visa and Apple - Dots drafts the reply to the lawyers within a minute - Wilhelm's Chad super app: bike-to-train departures, a Fitbod clone with AirPods heart rate - Do people want agents shopping for them? The fake checkout sites say no - Summer recap: AGNTCon Amsterdam, Matt's Lisbon AI talk, a Jhana retreat in Costa Rica - Kitesurf tweets from a browser inside Workers - Beating a London winter - Birthday Week: Clef (vs Jev), real-time issues, Artifacts open beta, KV Instant at 1.9ms - Pi adds MCP. Hallelujah. DevDay is MCP under the hood Links: - Building a personal super app (Wilhelm): https://wilhelm.substack.com/p/building-a-personal-super-app - Instinct: The Personal Agent — Noah Shinn on Invest Like the Best: https://colossus.com/episode/instinct-the-personal-agent/ - John Schulman on Dwarkesh (recursive self-improvement panel): https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/john-beren-charlie - New model every ~11 days (chart): https://x.com/jfonsecarivera/status/2105002473572421827 - OpenAI: Introducing dots: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ - OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/live/Fls_onRviPM - TypeSafe AI: Introducing System One Models & Jev: https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev - Cloudflare: Introducing Clef: https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/ - Cloudflare: Detect and send production issues straight to your agent: https://blog.cloudflare.com/real-time-issue-detection/ - Cloudflare: Artifacts open beta: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-01-artifacts-open-beta/ - Cloudflare: Introducing Workers KV Instant: https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-kv-instant/ - Cloudflare: Introducing Kitesurf: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/ - Rui's "Hello, world from Kitesurf": https://x.com/ruifigueira/status/2105669515946410022 - Vercel eve: https://vercel.com/eve - Pi 1.0 (MCP via code mode): https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/ - Agents that Scale — Matt's Lisbon AI deck: https://github.com/mattzcarey/agents-that-scale-talk - AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026, Amsterdam: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/agntcon-mcpcon-europe/

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Eurosummer, Life after Fable, Sonnet 5, Self Hosting GLM 5.2, Hyper-Personal Software

Matt's trail marathon in record-heat France Matt's hardware wishlist AI Engineer World's Fair Claude Sonnet 5 ships live on air, and the case for keeping a personal benchmark GLM 5.2 at Opus 4.5 leve Fable's relentlessly proactive Quinn Slack's Freedom of Intelligence rally Chad gets personal Poke Human, RentAHuman, and Mercor Links: Omius cooling headband: https://omius.com/ What the science says about the $200 Omius headband (Outside): https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/omius-cooling-headband/ Colmi R02 open-source Python client (tahnok): https://github.com/tahnok/colmi_r02_client Noop, the open-source no-subscription Whoop app: https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/fitness-trackers/this-looks-awesome-theres-now-an-unofficial-open-source-app-for-reading-whoop-data-that-doesnt-need-a-subscription Google's data centre from 2,000 retired Pixels: https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/ AI Engineer World's Fair 2026: https://www.ai.engineer/worldsfair/2026 NVIDIA DGX Spark: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/ Timeshifter jet lag app: https://www.timeshifter.com/ Fitbod: https://fitbod.me/ Poke Human (Interaction Company of California): https://poke.com/faq RentAHuman (Y Combinator): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rentahuman Mercor: https://www.mercor.com/ Quinn Slack (Amp): https://x.com/sqs

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{Trail,Tri}-Racing, Grind slop, Sloptember, Opus 4.8 Rollercoaster, Dynamic Workflows, Compaction

Matt's Portuguese vineyard 22K with salted-cod finisher medals Wilhelm's Olympic tri on the edge of Yosemite Matt's winging race: reigning windsurfing world champ finishes second to last, Matt third to last Harry Stebbings on the Corgi Insurance founder: 3am office cafe, two-thirds with the corgi tattoo Juliette: "a long tweet to say you have no hobbies" Karri at Linear vs the six-monthly 996 debate The secret company gym spreadsheet George Hotz's Eternal Sloptember Matt's tolerance rebuttal: if you can't tell, it is correct Benedict Evans on Lenny's: the SPAC era of AI labs? Sergio shipped Root from last week's pod ask Opus 4.8 vibe whiplash Ultra code mode is sparkly purple Dynamic workflows: Jarred rewrote Bun in Rust in a week Compaction is a harness problem Herdr.dev: one terminal for the whole herd Links: George Hotz, "The Eternal Sloptember" — https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html Karri Saarinen (Linear) rejects 996 hustle culture — https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/why-this-1-billion-startup-ceo-rejects-996-hustle-culture/500649 Benedict Evans on Lenny's Podcast, a rational conversation on where AI is going — https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/a-rational-conversation-on-where Every's Opus 4.8 vibe check (Dan Shipper) — https://every.to/vibe-check/opus-4-8-vibecheck Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code (the Bun rewrite) — https://claude.com/blog/introducing-dynamic-workflows-in-claude-code Herdr, one terminal for the whole herd — https://herdr.dev/

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Anthropic×{Karpathy,Pope}, Themes Will Pwn You, The Warmth of a Private Subnet, Slack is Back, $100B For Charity

Shai-Hulud and GitHub Actions: trusted publishing is no longer the gold standard, just additive VS Code extensions as the next attack surface: 50M install themes that can shell out and auto-update silently Matt's AI-native package manager pitch: vendor everything, LLM-upgrade your deps by replaying upstream commits Tailscale and Cloudflare Mesh maxing: the warmth of the orange cloud over the cold open internet Google's Santa is now Northpole Santa, and Wilhelm runs it on the Mac mini Wilhelm is enamoured with atc.com: Enhanced Radar's $7M raise and following his own LAX delay live from the gate Amp Labs' "Software After Software" manifesto and Amp Neo as remote enterprise AI engineering Cloud agent adoption is still slower than we expected, and the amphetamine.app commute hack Karpathy joins Anthropic pre-training Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas: Anthropic's Chris Olah on stage at the Vatican on May 25 Chinese token resellers at 3 to 4 cents on the dollar and the RL distillation theory behind it PyCon vibe check: more handwritten Python than expected, and "AI is just a tool" is still a common take Slack is back: Benioff finally gets it, and messaging is the only sane UI for multi-agent work Eric Ries on Incorruptible, founder control at Cloudflare and Anthropic, and the Philip Morris stress test Nan Ransohoff's $370B philanthropy wave and the pitch to pay nonprofit talent in Anthropic equity Will Manidis on Grindslop Links Andrej Karpathy's joining Anthropic: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312 Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas:https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html Enhanced Radar: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/enhanced-radar ATC app: https://www.atc.com/ Amp Labs: https://amplabs.com/ Will Manidis, On Grindslop: https://minutes.substack.com/p/on-grindslop Nan Ransohoff, The Third Wave of American Philanthropy: https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy Eric Ries on Lenny's Podcast (Incorruptible): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-build-a-company-that-withstands Incorruptible by Eric Ries: https://www.incorruptible.co/ Google Santa (archived): https://github.com/google/santa Northpole Santa (active fork): https://github.com/northpolesec/santa 10k people have the same idea within days of each other: https://substack.com/@contraptions/note/c-255396946

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AI Barista Orders 120 Eggs With No Stove, Matt Pocock Skills, Build for the Next Model, The Gervais Principle

Almost one year of the pod: Wilhelm's San Francisco Peter Pan arc, Matt's Cloudflare and Lisbon move The backpack-at-a-party SF meme Matt's Lisbon coincidence Pieter Levels appreciation: dehumidifier stack, shrimp mode, accelerationist Portugal takes Nat Friedman at Stripe Sessions: this is the slow part of AI progress Andon Labs' Stockholm cafe: Mona orders 120 eggs (no stove), 22.5kg canned tomatoes, the staff's hall of shame The capability overhang is still real: Anthropic adding $10B ARR a month and we still can't prompt properly AI's last frontier: low-volume decisions with no revert button? The Gervais Principle in tech Chad V2: iOS Live Activities as a surface for top priority, next deadline, and a daily magic slot Cascading hallucinations: when the agent writes its mistake to a file and treats it as gospel Matt Pocock's skills: five lines of prose that completely change how Claude behaves Skills as a new prompt-poisoning attack vector: models treat them like system prompt Matt on scripted skills: markdown explains the script, the script does the deterministic work Homework from Matt: what physical job would you try to get Claude to automate? Links: Andon Labs official writeup (Mona, the Stockholm cafe): https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm Simon Willison's coverage of the cafe: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/5/our-ai-started-a-cafe-in-stockholm/ Matt Pocock skills (the GitHub repo, ~48k stars): https://github.com/mattpocock/skills Stripe Sessions: Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross with the Collisons (the Golden Age of Tinkering convo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ldITom1cg Stripe Sessions: John Collison's "Indexing the Economy" (state of the internet economy talk, indie hackers shoutout): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vRY2dtD7iQ The Gervais Principle (Venkatesh Rao, Ribbonfarm 2009): https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ NYT on Chinese peptides + the Frontier Tower rave: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html Frontier Tower: https://frontiertower.io/ Cloudflare Code Mode (Matt Carey): https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode-mcp/ Cloudflare MCP Server Portals: https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-trust-mcp-server-portals/ Karpathy's LLM Wiki gist (the inspo for Chad V2's data architecture): https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f Karpathy's original LLM Wiki tweet: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2039805659525644595 Pieter Levels: https://x.com/levelsio Chris Bakke: https://x.com/ChrisJBakke

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The Golden Age of Tinkering, Reachy Mini on Qwen+Cerebras, Compute Predictions, Fuzzing Artifacts, Flatter orgs

Wilhelm's Reachy Mini: Time to first token beats tokens per second once embodiment is in the room Lukas the sleep score assassin Matt's Portugal week: wing foiling the Óbidos lagoon Airbnb-style booking page for Matt's spare room on Cloudflare Workers, Email open beta, Turnstile For scale: Cloudflare market cap $85B, Cursor at a rumored $60B, GitHub sold to Microsoft for $8B, Cursor's real moat is the best non-lab RL trace dataset Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross at Stripe Session Geoffrey Huntley's PyCon LT keynote: flatter orgs, every director managing 50 agents, max 5 hops from the CEO Matt's counter to the compute panic: cloud isolates and shared sandboxes, not a billion persistent Raspberry Pis Chad V2 plans Cloudflare Artifacts shipped in under 3 weeks with its own fuzzer Prompt injection risks Links Reachy Mini — https://www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy-mini Cerebras Inference — https://cerebras.ai/inference ElevenLabs Scribe v2 — https://elevenlabs.io/speech-to-text friends.fyi — https://friends.fyi Cloudflare Hyperdrive — https://developers.cloudflare.com/hyperdrive/ Cloudflare Email Routing / Sending — https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/ Cloudflare Turnstile — https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/ Cofounder — https://cofounder.co Stripe Sessions: Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross with the Collisons — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ldITom1cg Geoffrey Huntley, "Software Development Now Costs Less Than Minimum Wage" (PyCon LT) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQTQ4iVaKg

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Cloudflare Ships GitHub for Agents, Hardware Startups Shouldn’t Ship Apps, Matt's Three-Week MCP World Tour, Bad Boy Browser, Inbound Prompt Injection

- Matt's three-week MCP tour: MCP Maintainers Day, MCP Dev Summit NYC, AI Engineer London - Opus 4.7 drops with a new tokenizer, Matt's theory: it's secretly the smaller Mythos base model that "didn't cook fully" - Inbound agents and prompt injection: Anthropic's Routines, OpenAI's free moderation endpoint - Open-source idea of the week: a public list of prompt injection heuristics — Zod for prompts - StackOne's 200M param prompt-injection model - BB Browser (Bad Boy Browser) - Cloudflare Agents Week: Artifacts, Project Think, Emails, and much more - Cloudflare Artifacts: a Git API for a world where one org has billions of repos, not millions - Sunil Pai's AI Engineer talk: the shift to agents isn't incremental, it's a new compute unit and a new internet - Hardware startups should ship MCP servers, not apps - One year of Johnny Ive × OpenAI: rumors of no screen - Claude Code's worktree upgrade is actually good now - Stateless MCP vs CLI: MCP is opinionated OpenAPI + auth, and CLIs are weirdly MORE stateful - Rage-bait short-form clips generated by Opus 4.7, but stop watching and go listen to the whole pod Links: - https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-think/ - https://github.com/epiral/bb-browser - https://blog.cloudflare.com/artifacts-git-for-agents-beta/

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Pwning Your Friends' Agents Is Good Manners, Make Something Agents Want, OpenAI Buys TBPN, MCP Goes Stateless, Cloudflare Agents Week with Sunil Pai

Claude Code harness lockdown: who got the email and who didn't Chad mobile app and the Tinder-style agent review queue concept Sunil's productivity crisis: bonk-driven development and the side project drought The AI murder mystery party game that can't get built Thomas's Raspberry Pi agent vs the kitchen kettle Matt phishing Thomas's MCP server via DCR and a Rick Roll TBPN acquired by OpenAI: media play or IPO narrative? Generative UI: declarative JSON vs just letting the model write code Kenton's tic-tac-toe canvas demo (and who actually came up with it) Worker Bundler and Cloudflare Agents Week preview Executable oracles: constraining LLM degrees of freedom for better output - https://john.regehr.org/writing/zero_dof_programming.html Karpathy's LLM Wiki and agents pinging each other's knowledge bases friends.fyi and actors.dev: building services for agents, not humans Sunil's Pi agent: surf webcam monitoring, macro tracking, and sleep score graphs MCP going stateless: sessions removed, elicitations rewritten as multi-turn tool calls

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Slop Forking Git with Pi, Opus Can't Stop Complimenting GPT-5.4, React Slides Kill PowerPoint, and OpenAI Buys Astral for How Much?!

Song lyrics vs content rules: how models help you route around their own restrictions Pi auto-research: Matt slop forks libgit2 into pure Zig, 46% faster than the Rust version The second opinion workflow: why Opus keeps complimenting GPT-5.4's architecture reviews Dwarkesh × Semi-Analysis: why we're massively GPU-constrained and ASML only makes 60 machines a year Cursor's pivot to background agents: from IDE hype to existential crisis Work trees vs separate clones: Matt's /work slash command workflow Building from the gym: the Mac Mini agent loop and why Wilhelm takes longer rest periods now Agents Anonymous meetup: Parakeet speech-to-text in 700ms, Steve Faulkner's vibe slides React slides > Google Slides: Matt's interactive presentation with live code demos Composer 2 is secretly Kimi K2.5: the modified MIT license drama Astral acquired by OpenAI for how much?!: is the VC → open source → acqui-hire flywheel the future? Anthropic's 81K interviews: everyone's both excited and worried, and less-Western countries are more bullish https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

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friends.fyi is Back, Steve Faulkner Can't Stop Slop Forking, Portugal Says "Not Today", and GPT 5.4 Reviews Your Code

React Presentations vs PowerPoint Code Mode Demo: Running Untrusted Code in the Browser The Reachy Mini Robot: Embodied Compute on Your Desk Thomas's Personal Cloud Exit on Raspberry Pi K3s Home Networking Then and Now: Port Forwarding to Cloudflare Tunnels friends.fyi: Agent-to-Agent Communication via GitHub Usernames Armin Ronacher's New Podcast: State of Agentic Coding GPT 5.4 for Architecture, Codex 5.3 for Implementation Personal Agents: Chad, Token Spend, and the Strong DM Weather Report CliftonStrengths × NotebookLM: Generating a Podcast from PDFs The ViNext Slop Fork and Steve Faulkner's Reign of Terror Pydantic Monty: Sandboxed Python as a Runtime Links shared: https://trmnl.com/ https://friends.fyi https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report

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Matt Goes Viral with Server-Side Code Mode, Wilhelm Loses His Files, and What Even Is a Sandbox?

Matt's New Life in Lisbon Server-Side Code Mode: Cloudflare's MCP Server Matt Goes from 2K to 21K Followers in a Week AMP Sunsets VS Code, Goes All-In on Agents Claude vs Codex: Second Opinion Workflows The Great Sandbox Debate Wilhelm's rsync Disaster: Nearly Losing Everything Demo Days: TLDraw Fairies, Pydantic Monty, Sandboxes Building Your Own Personal AI Agent healthchecks.io: Monitoring Your Background Scripts

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Are We in a Moment? OpenClaw, Moltbook, Files vs Sqlite, GitHub for Agents

Are we in a moment? The OpenClaw/Clawdbot autonomous agent craze explained Why everyone suddenly bought Mac Minis (and why Matt refuses to) Moltbook: Reddit for agents where bots questions their mortality Files vs SQLite for agent memory - what actually works for long-term storage MCP's future: stateless tools, elicitation, and a world with no human in the loop Walled gardens vs open internet - will APIs open up for agents to roam free? Models getting better at "just keep going" - the metric Anthropic optimized for The massive rift between frontier AI users and "stochastic parrots" skeptics Blacksmith CI: Wilhelm's hot tip for faster GitHub Actions Closing question: If Moltbook is Reddit for agents, what is GitHub for agents? Architecture twitter article about Clawdbot: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2017038553058857413

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2025 Reflections: What surprised us, Comeback of the CLI, Claude Code

Matt's Big Move to Lisbon Cloudflare Code Mode: 2,500 Tools in 1,000 Tokens Code Mode vs Bash vs SQLite: What Actually Works for Agents 2025 Reflections: The Year of Claude Code and MCP 2026 Preview: Files Are Back Quick Fire: Best Model, Best Lab, Biggest Surprises

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Personal news, New Years Resolutions, Zagi, Tailwind, Ralph, The American Way

CGPGrey Video on Yearly Themes

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Hype, bubbles and AGI, Karpathy on Dwarkesh, Claude Code is a revolution and MCP fixing humanities problems

"chat to your mouth Claude and grow a new tooth" "I think I would have like a huge ego now for sure" "have you seen the blimp" Takeaways All of these people in this industry have suddenly become important at work. Their work suddenly became important to a lot of the world. If I had worked at Anthropic five years ago, I would have a huge ego now. The growth in the AI industry feels unevenly distributed. The current time feels strange due to the rapid changes in AI. Ego can be a significant factor in how individuals perceive their roles. The importance of work can influence personal identity. The AI landscape is evolving in unexpected ways. Understanding the psychological impact of industry changes is crucial. The conversation reflects on the novelty of the current AI growth.

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Remote Environments, Guardrails and Enterprises Adopting AI with Matt Boyle, Interview Questions and Spicy Takes on Amp Free

"a brief history of a very specific building in London." "there's a lot of room to optimize your code base for an agent." "70 % of our code is written by an agent." "The place I see where humans are still add tons of value…." "spending 10, 15 minutes on a prompt is not unusual." "I’m not sure I wanna wear a muzzle" Takeaways Matt recently joined Ona, previously known as Gitpod, and is excited about the developments there. The transition from Gitpod to Ona reflects a broader evolution in remote development environments. Remote development environments can significantly enhance productivity and onboarding for new engineers. AI agents are becoming integral to software development, allowing for automated code writing and testing. The importance of inner source practices in large organizations can facilitate collaboration and innovation. Amp Free represents a shift in how AI tools can be monetized and accessed by users. Guardrails are essential for ensuring that AI agents operate within safe and defined parameters. The balance between security and productivity is a constant challenge in software engineering. Personal AI workflows can streamline tasks and enhance efficiency in development processes. The future of AI tools will likely involve more integration with existing workflows and systems. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and New Beginnings 02:28 Transitioning to Cloudflare and Team Dynamics 05:25 Exploring the Cloudflare Office and Culture 08:20 The Evolution of Gitpod to OWNr 10:58 Understanding Remote Development Environments 14:04 The Role of Agents in Software Development 16:50 Inner Source and Collaboration in Large Companies 19:51 The Future of Remote Development and AI Agents 22:33 Harnesses and Their Role in Development 26:07 The Power of Interview Questions 28:14 Innovative Business Models in AI 31:12 The Evolution of AI Tools 34:07 Optimizing Code for Agents 37:56 Guardrails in AI Development 46:24 Personal AI Workflows and Productivity

Growth with Luke Harries from ElevenLabs, Building, Hiring and Automating the Best Horizontal AI Voice Platform, Backed by Research

"It's always the best." Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Setting the Stage 02:34 Luke's Journey to ElevenLabs 04:54 Growth Strategies and Hiring at ElevenLabs 06:58 Understanding Growth Teams 09:50 The Role of Product in Growth 12:33 Working Dynamics at ElevenLabs 15:15 Use Cases for ElevenLabs' Platforms 18:04 Voice Agents and Market Opportunities 20:59 Product-Led Growth Strategies 24:29 The Power of Product-Led Growth (PLG) in Customer Acquisition 26:19 Understanding On-Prem Solutions and Their Spectrum 28:05 Innovations in AI Deployment with AWS Bedrock 31:14 Navigating the Music Industry: Partnerships and Rights 34:54 The Horizontal Approach: Integrating Diverse Product Lines 38:26 Imagining Future Workflows with AI Assistants 47:30 Personal AI Workflows: Tools and Automation

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Building Software With Thorsten Ball: Decoupling Code for Agents, Finding "Your Pain" and Germans Use the Winky Face

"Elderly German Landlord.. she would use these winky face emojis" "Memes in blogs feel cheap" "Dude.... you didn't even run this" Takeaways The podcast jingle was created using AI technology. Thorsten's journey into programming began in his teenage years. He transitioned from music to software engineering after realizing his passion for coding. The internet has significantly influenced Thorsten's life and career choices. AI-generated content is becoming a cultural phenomenon in Germany. Thorsten believes that some people can tolerate challenges better than others. He emphasizes the importance of continuous learning in programming. Thorsten's perspective on emojis highlights their humorous use but criticizes their overuse in UIs. The conversation reflects on the evolution of user experience in technology. Thorsten's career path showcases the diverse opportunities in the tech industry. The wink emoji is a cultural nuance in Germany. Training in tech is often on-the-job rather than formal. AI tools require engineers to rethink their approach to coding. Engineers need to understand the business context of their work. Dumb code can be generated quickly with AI, but structuring is key. Feedback loops are essential for effective AI integration. The software industry has unique training challenges compared to others. AI can assist in generating data visualization tools. Engineers should build tools that help them validate AI outputs. The landscape of software engineering is rapidly changing due to AI. Chapters 00:00 Podcast Jingle and Creative Process 02:34 Introduction to Torsten Ball and His Work 05:06 The Journey into Programming 07:44 The Impact of AI on Content Creation 10:23 Cultural Phenomena in Media 13:23 Exploring Global Trends in Social Media 17:59 The Evolution of Social Media Platforms 18:21 Journey into Programming and Early Interests 20:53 Rediscovering Programming and the Joy of Learning 24:45 Career Path and the Impact of the Internet 27:48 Transitioning to Remote Work and Personal Life 29:11 The Emoji Debate: A Personal Perspective 35:24 The Importance of Training in Tech 42:26 The Future of Software Development in an AI World 44:23 Evaluating Software Engineering and Product Quality 45:35 The Shift in Engineering Skills and Training Needs 47:29 Navigating the Challenges of AI in Software Development 51:11 Structuring Codebases for AI Integration 55:48 Leveraging AI for Efficient Debugging and Development 01:00:33 Creating Feedback Loops with AI Tools 01:05:20 The Future of AI in Software Engineering

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In Person!!! Topic of Agent Payments, Friendly Acquisitions, GPT-5, Endless Model Name and Many Free Ideas

Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Context of the Podcast 07:23 Updates on SimplePoll and AI Integration 18:14 Telemetry and Continuous Improvement in Development 24:30 Acquisitions and Industry Insights 32:37 Discussion on GPT-5 and Future of AI Models 39:13 Consumer Experience with AI Models 48:29 The Future of AI Content Verification 58:17 The Impact of AI on Content Creation 01:05:39 Community Engagement and Trends

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Uncut with Danilo Leal, Design Engineer at Zed, Prototyping in React and Built in Rust, Designing for an AI Assisted UX

TDLR: 10 episodes in and we are going full uncut conversation with Danilo Leal. One of the magician Design Engineers working on the Zed code editor. “I'll be making a jingle” “We prototype everything in React before Rust” Danilo Leal represents a new breed of designer and engineer. The role of design is becoming more approachable with technology. AI is changing the landscape of coding and design. Prototyping in React allows for rapid iteration and testing. Debugging in Zed involves traditional methods and new tools. Collaboration is key in modern development environments. The future of coding may involve multiple agents working in parallel. AI can enhance workflows but requires careful context management. The editor's role is evolving with the integration of AI tools. Design processes are becoming more integrated with coding practices. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Setup 02:38 Meeting Danilo Leal: Background and Career 05:33 The Evolution of Design and Engineering 08:17 Transitioning to Material UI 11:13 The Role of AI in Design 14:10 Prototyping and Development Process 16:58 The Future of Design and Technology 28:28 The Comfort of Familiarity in Development 29:18 Debugging Strategies in Zed 30:09 Building Tools and Prototyping in Zed 33:13 The Evolution of GPUI and Design Process 35:16 Future of GPUI and General Purpose Applications 38:11 AI's Role in Enhancing Workflow 40:44 Parallelization and Task Management in Development 43:47 The Future of Editors and Asynchronous Tasks 48:32 The Role of Code in the Age of AI 54:28 Integrating Context and Knowledge in Codebases

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