Adam and Dax discuss web technologies, the internet, and the future of (basically) everything.
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The goal of this podcast is to create a place where people discuss their inside views about existential risk from AI.
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One of the Best Episodes We've Seen From the Standpoint of Water
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57:11Teej sits in for Adam to chat with Dax about OpenCode, Heex, building an auto-scaling gym how to fix your garden and your grass, chickens + kids + LEGO, and what the deal is between Prime and Sabrina Carpenter. Links: Phoenix.Component — Phoenix LiveView v1.0.12 Home Anthropic AI Code Editor TerminalDotShop Accessories Tomato Investment Trump Tours…
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Dax's Lack of Stress, Confusing AI Models, and Organizing Twitter
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1:05:27Dax has to work on his lighting, Adam's wondering if Dax ever gets stressed, an updated on OpenCode, the confusing AI models (still), DHH and Twitter fights, and OpenAI introduces Codex as the show ends. Links: Zack Kanter on X DHH on X DHH on Facebook-Free Business Linear DHH on Apple and Linux Typefully Minimal Theme for Twitter / X Julius Introd…
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Millennial Coders , Air Travel, and is AI the Best or the Worst?
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1:17:17There's a new Pope and Dax (almost) knows him, new lighting, the fun of being a random at a wedding, AI is maybe going to save us or maybe not, and what techniques should we hang on to and what should we leave in the past? Links: Cursor - The AI Code Editor Windsurf (formerly Codeium) - The most powerful AI Code Editor Roo Code – Your AI-Powered De…
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Humanoid Robots, Flying a Drone, and Programmers Rapping
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58:01Why hasn't Adam gotten the humanoid robot servant he's been promised, the current state of AI programming, what happened in Miami, renting a yacht and buying a drone, recording a song in a studio, and where in the world should Adam and Dax move? Links: React Miami Supabase | The Open Source Firebase Alternative DJI Mini 4 Pro - Mini to the Max - DJ…
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Docs in MCP, Elon and Plinko, Finances with Dax, and a Big Announcement
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1:05:59Prepping for React Miami while Adam tries not to catch the plague, where are the tariffs at this week, moving off Astro, building docs in MCP, financial literacy is underrated, using Claude in AWS or Google Cloud, and why aren't more people playing to win? Oh and a 👼 🎉 Links: Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing React M…
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Termai, SSTPhone, Young Men, and Tariffs
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1:09:05Adam's excited about Termai, they debate whether they're in the prime or twilight of their careers, what even is CoPilot and Microsoft's AI approach, Dax's plans for building the SSTPhone, what's happening with young men, and what's happening with tariffs—and are they related? (No.) Links: Kujtim (@h_kujtim) / X Kujtim on X: “Working on something r…
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OpenAI and MCP, Poking Replit, and Terminal's Launch Week
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1:03:44Terminal's launch week was also a bad week for CEOs, prepping for ReactMiami, Adam unintentionally pokes Replit, thoughts on the new AI image models, and Dax updates Adam on the world news he missed while travelling. Links: OpenAI ChatGPT Users Are Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI mod…
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Sam Lambert Returns: Building Great Things by Playing the Long Game
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1:27:17Sam Lambert returns to chat about the launch of PlanetScale Metal, the importance of looking past averages, constraints of working with Amazon, how building good software is like building an airline, thoughts on the standard software dev playbooks, advice for younger developers, and reflections on killing the free tier at PlanetScale. Links: Sam La…
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Claude Code, MCP, Free Will, and the Price of Maple Syrup
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1:06:30Adam's hooked on Claude Code, why the sudden panic over MCP (model context protocol), OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Claude, why is Sam Altman so annoying, do we believe in free will, and are we on the slow decline of America—and more importantly, will Dax have to learn a new language?! Links: Claude Code Overview - Anthropic Home - OpenAPI Initiative Work…
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Aaron Boodman on Building Zero, Local-First, and Living in Hawaii
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1:16:10Aaron Boodman joins us to chat about his tech journey from building Greasemonkey, working on Google Chrome, being obsessed with sync on the web, Replicache, to his new project, Zero. Links: The Expanse (novel series) - Wikipedia Zero Zero Bugs Greasemonkey - Wikipedia Linear – Plan and build products Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime SST M…
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Tapas, Longer Lasting Flu, and AI as the Way to Keep Up With News
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41:07Is the flu lasting longer this year, why is it so hard to keep up with conspiracy theories, Dax has an AI based social news app idea, what is really quantum computing, and Adam's trying to sort out the crazy world. Links: Tomorrow Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory - YouTube Elon Musk’s startup rolls out new Grok-3 chatbot as A…
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DOGE, o3-mini vs Google Flash, Why Sports, and Why Horowitz > Andreessen
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1:02:32What is happening with Musk and DOGE and government, who does the USA owe money to, o3-mini vs Google Flash vs avante thoughts, what does Dax watch instead of sports, Adam makes a case for why sports matter, and should Adam trust Marc Andreessen or Ben Horowitz? Links: OpenAI o3-mini | OpenAI Claude Gemini Flash - Google DeepMind GitHub - yetone/av…
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How Dangerous Can AI Get, Dax is Down on DeepSeek, and AI First App Development
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1:09:31Dax is finally warming up in frigid Florida, AI isn't as dangerous as everyone thinks it is, DeepSeek is full of holes, Adam's concerned about techno signatures, and what does it mean to have AI first app development? Links: Lex Fridman Podcast Anthropic dax pranked by claude Granola Superhuman Email Productivity Dax’s Remote Dev Setup video Bare M…
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Being a Great Person, Adam's Diagnosis, LinkedIn Parents, and AI Money
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1:07:51Adam discusses a bipolar diagnosis, do we want to be great people, therapy and therapists who help therapists with therapy, inauguration thoughts, the Stargate announcement, money invested in AI, and LinkedIn parenting quotes. Links: Peer Support: A Safe Space Richard Feynman DeepSeek Google Quantum AI Sponsor: Terminal now offers a monthly box cal…
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Adam Got Suckerberg'd, Humanoid Robots to Do Our Laundry, and Apple AI Sucking
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1:07:10Why is it so difficult to optimize a router at home in 2025, Dax has boring drone plans, where are our humanoid laundry folding robots, Adam's got a new JavaScript framework coming, Zuckerberg isn't cool again and Dax is happy, Explode from Nikita Bier, Grok vs ChatGPT vs Google vs Apple AI, and Sam Altman is a Zuckerberg lizardman. Links: NICGIGA …
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Miami is Cold, Adam's All in on AI, Dax Cracks YouTube, and Kids Are Expensive
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1:13:39We're back! Dax has complaints about Miami's weather, exploring a potentially "dumber" way to buy coffee, childcare costs, Dax has figured out YouTube, Adam is re-evaluating his approach to using AI coding assistants, how has Prime affected Rust. The most important thing you need to know is that the episode wraps up with a quirky mention of "urine …
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A real fear of heights, Typecraft's set up and content on YouTube, working in hard mode in the terminal, development with Ruby on Rails, developers selling coffee, plant based vs meat eating, and tracking holiday traditions and family KPI's. Links: Kevin Shen - We Design Video Studios 🎥✨ (@theKevinShen) / X Dream Studio Typecraft typecraft Developm…
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Dax kicks off an open source rant, plastics, TSA security theater and the connection to rich people getting murdered, Adam wonders if he can become a romantic or if he's stuck being a disconnected robot, and thoughts on building an API. Links: dax on X: “openauth beta is here you’re gonna wanna watch this video more info in thread OpenAuth Beta | S…
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Dax's CSS Journey vs Adam's Exercise Journey
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1:06:44Dax recites every line of CSS he's ever written, what it's like teaching your partner to code, Adam relearns the importance of exercise and is mad about it, American football and F1 as product lessons, and Adam's getting into hard sci fi. Links: Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML. Does Adam say "button" weir…
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Adam Talks a Lot of Shit for Someone From the Ozarks
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1:11:57Legal notice: this is an international recording (we think). Adam pitches Dax on SST adding analytics and other things he wants SST to build, justifying flying first class, Dax is such a 'lil bro, Adam is learning how to curse more in public, how to assess a new hire in engineering, and the controversy over never hiring anyone over 30. Links: SST J…
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The Psychology of Adam and the Strategy of AWS
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1:18:29Dax explains Canada, where has Adam actually been to, Dax hates pants, AWS announcements, a $10,000 pizza, the psychology of Adam, and should we want to improve ourselves? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at [email protected]. Topics: (00:00) - Burp (00:33) - Ladybirds, washrooms, and …
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NYC Event, OCaml, and Dax Explains Steaks to Adam (Vegan Edition)
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59:09What are Adam and Dax - and Terminal - doing in NYC this week? And what do they need to build for it? Why is OCaml involved? Adam realizes he hasn't been using AI in regular life, watching YouTube to sort out trauma, and did we all waste our 20's? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at sliceoffalittlepieceofba…
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Offending Everyone by Sharing Tough Moments, The Video, and Politics
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1:15:14It's annoying when they skip a week but Adam and Dax explain why, Dax's Default, how did Adam's phone break, politics happened and we have some theories, Liz's Theories, and Dax considers getting hair while Adam ponders getting a wig. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at sliceoffalittlepieceofbacon@tomorrow.…
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Time Moves Slowly, Friendships Drifting, and Adam Learns Something New About Dax
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53:57Time and friendships drifting slowly, what's going on with drones, movies made with iPhones, Dax is going to do something for the first time this year, is not being online a sign of mental health, naming things is hard, and Ghossty explained. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at sliceoffalittlepieceofbacon@t…
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New JavaScript Framework, Does Adam Feel, and a New Story Arc for Dax?
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55:01Is Adam going to leave Twitter for real this time, new JavaScript frameworks, buying zero.com, is Adam content or just busy, a new story arc for Dax, and Adam needs your help running for local government to save his view. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at [email protected]. Avatar: T…
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Vite, Docker, Hurricane Update, Board Games, and Pixar Movies
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40:43Adam's gonna slow fade for 100 more episodes, Vite announces their round, what about Docker, playing board games, remaking the same story over and over, and all the good Pixar movies. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at [email protected]. VoidZero | Next Generation Tooling for the Web …
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Rita Kozlov on Building In Public, Cloudflare's Birthday Week, and How Long Software Actually Takes
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1:03:18Rtiz talks with Dax about building towards an event like Cloudflare's birthday week, launching and getting feedback from the community, Cloudflare's platform journey, how long it actually takes to develop software, Dax's experience with containers, and weather in various parts of the country. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. O…
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Dax Is Definitely Not Sponsored By Cloudflare and Adam is Definitely a Real Human Being
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48:52Hear how Dax got into some trouble this week, Adam wishes he could be less midwestern, being mad at people in your dreams, Cloudflare container like stuff, who gets to DDOS everyone, gaming on PC vs streaming, and how to kill drain flies. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at sliceoffalittlepieceofbacon@tomor…
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Working Remote, AWS Lags, and Dax Explains the Economy
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58:53Adam has dreams of a perfect gated community, Statmuse's mobile app getting accepted, why is Amazon returning everyone to the office, has AWS fallen behind, Dax explains the economy to Adam, Adam catches up on Twitter email sending drama, and did Terminal Coffee save PHP? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at…
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DHH Talks Apple, Linux, and Running Servers
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1:29:42DHH talks with us about his journey back to Linux, Apple's control over the App Store, setting up servers on the web, and tries out Terminal coffee. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at [email protected]. HEY — A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals HEY — Apple vs…
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The Kids These Days Don't Know How To Do It Right 👴
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48:37Dax is sick, but his voice sounds amazing so you should still listen, we streamed a basketball game in Dallas, rented a Lambo, went to Laracon 2024, muse on VPS complexity, InstantDB impressions, kids not knowing how to program properly, taking the right size bets in a startup, and going viral on Twitter in 2024. Want to carry on the conversation? …
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Native vs Web, Managers, and What's Happening Today in Dallas
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44:29We're flying (or in) Dallas as you listen to this - ps who is actually listening to this? We chat native vs web apps, backend vs frontend, managers vs no manager jobs, and how Dax defines what's worth glorifying. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at [email protected]. Laracon 2024 StatM…
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Owain Evans - AI Situational Awareness, Out-of-Context Reasoning
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2:15:46Owain Evans is an AI Alignment researcher, research associate at the Center of Human Compatible AI at UC Berkeley, and now leading a new AI safety research group. In this episode we discuss two of his recent papers, “Me, Myself, and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs” and “Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent S…
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Adam's moved his office, the arbitrary nature of exercise, prepping for the Laracon basketball game, Dax explains breaking at the Olympics, Dax sliced off a nice piece of bacon, how you can email us, trying to find your doctor and electrician for life, and taxes and humidity in Florida. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send…
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The History of the World and How it Scales with Sam Lambert
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1:19:18Sam Lambert stops by to talk Unifi networking, cooking meat, microplastics, disease research, the history of the world, scaling at PlanetScale, and why people love PostGres. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. The ultimate MySQL database platform — PlanetScale UniFi - Introduction - Ubiquiti Nest Wifi Pro Coverage Aztec Empire Bu…
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BS Jobs, Redundancy in Software, Self Driving Cars, and Dax's List
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1:12:16The eternal debate of freelance life vs being employed at a larger company, small teams vs big teams, bullshit jobs, self driving cars are finally discussed, Twitter VC fights, politics and tech, and Dax's list of next things to do. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Bullshit Jobs The Rational Optimist Here’s why David Sacks, Pa…
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Being Weird About 100 Eps, Crowdstrike Bugs, and Chris Joins Us with Clips
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54:03It's episode 100 time but don't worry, Adam's not being weird about it at all. We're thinking about how normies understand things like the Crowdstrike bug, Adam thinks the economy is fake, and Chris joins us with clips from past episodes like Adam's thirst traps, Dax watching tv all the time, are they playing characters or real on the podcast, and …
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Scrolling Bugs, Pursuing Optimization, and Number Go Up is Good
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1:01:52Dax went to hell and back for a scrolling bug, what do we lose in the pursuit of optimization at all costs, what kind of business do we want to build, Adam is definitely AI, Twitter drama over commit hooks, Adam hates pyramids and thinks they're stupid, and Adam tries meditation but as a result his brain doesn't work for podcasting. Want to carry o…
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Terminal Coffee Updates, and Dax Analyzes Adam (again)
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50:20Adam is tired, Dax tries to help analyze Adam in a surprisingly kind way, struggling to fend off grifters, Terminal Coffee updates, and Rspack news. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Mark Sisson (@marksissonprimal) • Instagram photos and videos Breathing Exercises | Wim Hof Method wip: terminal (initial commit) Rspack Index - O…
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Open Source Drama, Streaming Productivity, and the State of JavaScript
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58:34Adam and Dax both got hairdids, Adam learns how a tattoo is installed, why can't we be more productive while live streaming, bringing out our different personalities in different groups, open source drama, issues with TC39 and bureaucracy on the web, Dax's stamp of package approval, and discussing the State of JavaScript. Want to carry on the conve…
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Matt Pocock on Voice Coaching, Communication, Gaming, and Teaching How to Code
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1:07:38Matt chats with Adam and Dax about becoming a voice coach and how that's translated to creating courses and writing books for people wanting to learn TypeScript and coding, the differences between America and European living, Formula 1 racing, juggling, video games, board games, and what Matt's working on next. Want to carry on the conversation? Jo…
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Dan Abramov on Working at Bluesky, React, and the Social Internet
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1:06:16Dan Abramov chats with us about getting hired at Meta, making the move to Bluesky, centralized vs decentralized, product work vs framework work, Bluesky's development and future, and how mean Dax is on the internet. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. dan abramov dan (@danabra.mov) — Bluesky dan 2 (@dan_abramov2) / X overreacted …
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Adam and Dax were guests on the Mostly Technical podcast and so we're rebroadcasting that conversation on our feed for your listening pleasure. We take on the Laravel vs. JavaScript discourse, selling coffee over the command line, and a lot more. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Mostly Technical with Adam and Dax Watch it on Y…
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What Does “Full Stack” Mean? w/ Taylor Otwell and Ryan Florence
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1:10:59Taylor Otwell and Ryan Florence join us to talk about whether "full stack" is a term worth using in 2024, how Laravel differs from Rails, why there isn't a real JavaScript community, what Taylor would like to see from the Remix community, and whether Laravel is like Canada. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. wip: terminal Butche…
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New Banana Ice Cream, Coffee Partners, Google IO and OpenAI, and Opportunity Costs for Engineers
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1:25:40Can you tell that Adam's moved his desk? We talk about how Adam's making banana ice cream, time travel possibilities, the opportunities afforded us as software engineers, being optimistic or a downer on Twitter, the Google IO event compared with the OpenAI event, and reasons to build identical houses. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in D…
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[Crosspost] Adam Gleave on Vulnerabilities in GPT-4 APIs (+ extra Nathan Labenz interview)
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2:16:08This is a special crosspost episode where Adam Gleave is interviewed by Nathan Labenz from the Cognitive Revolution. At the end I also have a discussion with Nathan Labenz about his takes on AI. Adam Gleave is the founder of Far AI, and with Nathan they discuss finding vulnerabilities in GPT-4's fine-tuning and Assistant PIs, Far AI's work exposing…
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Parenting is Exactly Like Owning a Dog—And What's the Point of Being Alive?
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59:01Dax has parenting advice for everyone, Adam worries about the point of even living, college as a scam, and theories on the anxious generation. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Dax's picture of Adam Apple apologizes for iPad Pro ‘Crush’ ad: it ‘missed the mark’ | Ad Age iPad Pro Criticized Ryan Florence’s iPad Anger Dax Intervi…
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Are Dax and Adam (and the rest of the Terminal.shop crew) drug dealers? We're talking about the coffee industry, what Terminal.shop is built on, the origin story of Terminal.shop, and how cool it feels to ship physical goods in the real world that real humans will hold in their real human hands. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord…
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Reacting to Miami + Launching a Company in the Terminal
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37:08Everyone's recovering from React Miami and the party at Dax's - oh and we launched a company for buying products like coffee in the terminal! Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. terminal.shop TwitchCon Topics: (00:31) - This episode brought to you by our sponsor (01:53) - Catching everyone up on the last few weeks (06:48) - How w…
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Adam's flying as you read this, and he's definitively not still sick. We're talking about Adam's internet being hacked, updates on our secret project, Cloudflare news, NextJS and Vercel benchmarking drama, and very important planning for React Miami and what to feed Adam. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Cloudflare acquires Pa…
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