Episodes 78
Avg. Duration 1h 15m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.1 (14)
Since Dec 2024
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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A deep and nuanced conversational podcast focused on technology, software, and computing.

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Pull the (AI) Lever, Kronk!

Jun 06, 2026 1h 28m

Matt and Kris welcome back Bill Kennedy who's been working on Kronk, AI tooling in Go. They go through what Kronk (and it's dependent library Yzma) is, the power of running models locally, and how…

Dependencies All The Way Down

May 30, 2026 1h 1m

Another week, another Fallthrough! In this episode, Kris and Matthew discuss a personal realization about what AI actually unlocks, their workflow philosophies, local models, a recent hot take from…

Terminal Velocity

May 23, 2026 32m

Has AI eaten all of tech? Is 600 billion tokens too many use in a single month? On this week's episode Matt joins Kris to talk about some of the current news in the tech industry. From OpenClaw's…

He Who Controls the Source

May 16, 2026 1h 25m

This week we've got Kris and Jamie! They open with the Shai-Hulud worm chewing through the npm supply chain and close on the messy economics of who actually pays for open source labor. And there's…

Forging Ahead

May 09, 2026 1h 26m

Steve is back to talk JJ (Jujutsu version control) and the related product, ChangeSet, that he works on at East River Source Control. Kris and Steve trace why the GitHub monoculture is finally…

Regression to the Mean

May 02, 2026 1h 11m

Kris and Ian dig into the slow collapse of GitHub, starting with Ghostty off the platform after years of reliability problems. From there they trace Gary Bernhardt's old observation that we took a…

No Country for Old Maintainers

Apr 25, 2026 49m

Jamie returns, co-hosting with Kris for quite an eventful episode. They start with the Vercel breach, the Axios attack, nvim-treesitter, and Gorilla Mux. Kris draws parallels between the current AI…

Supply Chain Reaction

Apr 18, 2026 1h 9m

After last week's "Another Spectre In The Shell" episode, we felt we needed a follow up! This week Kris is joined by returning co-host Jamie Tanna, with Ian arriving fashionably late. They pick apart…

Another Spectre In The Shell

Apr 11, 2026 50m

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…

Snake Oil Has an Expiration Date

Apr 04, 2026 57m

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…

Who's Afraid of Superintelligence?

Mar 29, 2026 1h 35m

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…

The Joy of Building

Mar 21, 2026 1h 38m

This week Kris and Matt go full homelab. The conversation starts with Kris refreshing his dev setup: migrating NeoVim to 100% Lua, switching from ZSH to NuShell, and rethinking Tmux, all with the…

The Least Contentious Proposal in the History of Go

Mar 14, 2026 1h 6m

Dylan's back this week joining Kris and Matt to tackle Go's UUID proposal (#62026). What Dylan thinksshould have been the least contentious proposal in the history of Go. The panel digs into the…

Deprecate the Error Interface

Mar 07, 2026 57m

Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, they're picking up where Bryan Cantrill's "Complexity of Simplicity" framework left off and asking what it means for Go's future. Kris…

Package Hell

Feb 28, 2026 1h

Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, we're digging into Go codebase structure, package design, and why the community keeps struggling with the same problems. The conversation…

Is Go Simple Anymore?

Feb 21, 2026 1h 9m

Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, they're talking about Go. They cover the recent generic methods proposal by Robert Griesemer, results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey,…

Lava Layers

Feb 14, 2026 56m

This week it's Kris and Matt diving into the state of hardware, security, and what local AI actually needs to work. The conversation starts with AI agent social networks and why prompt injection is…

The Vibes-Based Legal System

Feb 07, 2026 49m

This week Steve's back to tackle the big question: is AI-generated output copyrightable? The conversation includes discussions of the Copyright Act of 1976, the philosophy of why copyright exists at…

The AI Factory Floor

Jan 31, 2026 1h 2m

This week we're talking about Gastown! Dylan and Steve join Kris to break down the viral project that spins up hundreds of Claude Code instances to build a software factory. Steve makes the case for…

Systems Thinking for Humans

Jan 24, 2026 53m

Annie and Michael Hedgpeth, founders of People Work, join Kris and Matt to unpack the junior hiring crisis and what's really broken about how we grow engineers. Annie's viral blog post sparked debate…

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