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74:15

The Last Summer, Instinct Instinct, Chad Super App,...

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2026/10/02

- 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

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71:15

Eurosummer, Life after Fable, Sonnet 5, Self Hosting...

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2026/06/30

Matt's trail marathon in record-heat FranceMatt's hardware wishlistAI Engineer World's FairClaude Sonnet 5 ships live on air, and the case for keeping a personal benchmarkGLM 5.2 at Opus 4.5 leveFable's relentlessly proactiveQuinn Slack's Freedom of Intelligence rallyChad gets personalPoke Human, RentAHuman, and MercorLinks:Omius cooling headband: https://omius.com/What the science says about the $200 Omius headband (Outside):

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67:07

{Trail,Tri}-Racing, Grind slop, Sloptember, Opus 4.8...

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2026/06/02

Matt's Portuguese vineyard 22K with salted-cod finisher medalsWilhelm's Olympic tri on the edge of YosemiteMatt's winging race: reigning windsurfing world champ finishes second to last, Matt third to lastHarry Stebbings on the Corgi Insurance founder: 3am office cafe, two-thirds with the corgi tattooJuliette: "a long tweet to say you have no hobbies"Karri at Linear vs the six-monthly 996 debateThe secret company gym spreadsheetGeorge Hotz's Eternal SloptemberMatt's tolerance rebuttal: if

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86:06

Anthropic×{Karpathy,Pope}, Themes Will Pwn You, The...

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2026/05/22

Shai-Hulud and GitHub Actions: trusted publishing is no longer the gold standard, just additiveVS Code extensions as the next attack surface: 50M install themes that can shell out and auto-update silentlyMatt's AI-native package manager pitch: vendor everything, LLM-upgrade your deps by replaying upstream commitsTailscale and Cloudflare Mesh maxing: the warmth of the orange cloud over the cold open internetGoogle's Santa is now Northpole Santa, and Wilhelm runs it on the Mac miniWilhelm is

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50:18

AI Barista Orders 120 Eggs With No Stove, Matt Pocock...

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2026/05/09

Almost one year of the pod: Wilhelm's San Francisco Peter Pan arc, Matt's Cloudflare and Lisbon moveThe backpack-at-a-party SF memeMatt's Lisbon coincidencePieter Levels appreciation: dehumidifier stack, shrimp mode, accelerationist Portugal takesNat Friedman at Stripe Sessions: this is the slow part of AI progressAndon Labs' Stockholm cafe: Mona orders 120 eggs (no stove), 22.5kg canned tomatoes, the staff's hall of shameThe capability overhang is still real: Anthropic adding $10B ARR a

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74:16

The Golden Age of Tinkering, Reachy Mini on...

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2026/05/05

Wilhelm's Reachy Mini: Time to first token beats tokens per second once embodiment is in the roomLukas the sleep score assassinMatt's Portugal week: wing foiling the Óbidos lagoonAirbnb-style booking page for Matt's spare room on Cloudflare Workers, Email open beta, TurnstileFor 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 datasetNat Friedman and Daniel Gross at Stripe SessionGeoffrey Huntley's

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79:13

Cloudflare Ships GitHub for Agents, Hardware Startups...

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2026/04/17

- 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

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68:51

Pwning Your Friends' Agents Is Good Manners, Make...

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2026/04/06

Claude Code harness lockdown: who got the email and who didn'tChad mobile app and the Tinder-style agent review queue conceptSunil's productivity crisis: bonk-driven development and the side project droughtThe AI murder mystery party game that can't get builtThomas's Raspberry Pi agent vs the kitchen kettleMatt phishing Thomas's MCP server via DCR and a Rick RollTBPN acquired by OpenAI: media play or IPO narrative?Generative UI: declarative JSON vs just letting the model write codeKenton's

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82:05

Slop Forking Git with Pi, Opus Can't Stop...

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2026/03/20

Song lyrics vs content rules: how models help you route around their own restrictionsPi auto-research: Matt slop forks libgit2 into pure Zig, 46% faster than the Rust versionThe second opinion workflow: why Opus keeps complimenting GPT-5.4's architecture reviewsDwarkesh × Semi-Analysis: why we're massively GPU-constrained and ASML only makes 60 machines a yearCursor's pivot to background agents: from IDE hype to existential crisisWork trees vs separate clones: Matt's /work slash command

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84:00

friends.fyi is Back, Steve Faulkner Can't Stop Slop...

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2026/03/13

React Presentations vs PowerPointCode Mode Demo: Running Untrusted Code in the BrowserThe Reachy Mini Robot: Embodied Compute on Your DeskThomas's Personal Cloud Exit on Raspberry Pi K3sHome Networking Then and Now: Port Forwarding to Cloudflare Tunnelsfriends.fyi: Agent-to-Agent Communication via GitHub UsernamesArmin Ronacher's New Podcast: State of Agentic CodingGPT 5.4 for Architecture, Codex 5.3 for ImplementationPersonal Agents: Chad, Token Spend, and the Strong DM Weather

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79:07

Matt Goes Viral with Server-Side Code Mode, Wilhelm...

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2026/02/23

Matt's New Life in LisbonServer-Side Code Mode: Cloudflare's MCP ServerMatt Goes from 2K to 21K Followers in a WeekAMP Sunsets VS Code, Goes All-In on AgentsClaude vs Codex: Second Opinion WorkflowsThe Great Sandbox DebateWilhelm's rsync Disaster: Nearly Losing EverythingDemo Days: TLDraw Fairies, Pydantic Monty, SandboxesBuilding Your Own Personal AI Agenthealthchecks.io: Monitoring Your Background Scripts

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57:35

Are We in a Moment? OpenClaw, Moltbook, Files vs...

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2026/01/30

Are we in a moment? The OpenClaw/Cloudbot autonomous agent craze explainedWhy everyone suddenly bought Mac Minis (and why Matt refuses to)Moltbook: Reddit for agents where bots questions their mortalityFiles vs SQLite for agent memory - what actually works for long-term storageMCP's future: stateless tools, elicitation, and a world with no human in the loopWalled gardens vs open internet - will APIs open up for agents to roam free?Models getting better at "just keep going" - the metric

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61:14

2025 Reflections: What surprised us, Comeback of the...

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2026/01/24

Matt's Big Move to LisbonCloudflare Code Mode: 2,500 Tools in 1,000 TokensCode Mode vs Bash vs SQLite: What Actually Works for Agents2025 Reflections: The Year of Claude Code and MCP2026 Preview: Files Are BackQuick Fire: Best Model, Best Lab, Biggest Surprises

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84:39

Personal news, New Years Resolutions, Zagi, Tailwind,...

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2026/01/10

CGPGrey Video on Yearly Themes

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63:59

Hype, bubbles and AGI, Karpathy on Dwarkesh, Claude...

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2025/11/23

"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"TakeawaysAll 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

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56:44

Remote Environments, Guardrails and Enterprises...

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2025/11/15

"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"TakeawaysMatt 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

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51:49

Growth with Luke Harries from ElevenLabs, Building,...

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2025/10/12

"It's always the best."Chapters00:00 Introduction and Setting the Stage02:34 Luke's Journey to ElevenLabs04:54 Growth Strategies and Hiring at ElevenLabs06:58 Understanding Growth Teams09:50 The Role of Product in Growth12:33 Working Dynamics at ElevenLabs15:15 Use Cases for ElevenLabs' Platforms18:04 Voice Agents and Market Opportunities20:59 Product-Led Growth Strategies24:29 The Power of Product-Led Growth (PLG) in Customer Acquisition26:19 Understanding On-Prem Solutions and Their

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70:37

Building Software With Thorsten Ball: Decoupling Code...

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2025/09/14

"Elderly German Landlord.. she would use these winky face emojis""Memes in blogs feel cheap""Dude.... you didn't even run this"TakeawaysThe 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

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70:45

In Person!!! Topic of Agent Payments, Friendly...

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2025/08/27

Chapters00:00 Introduction and Context of the Podcast07:23 Updates on SimplePoll and AI Integration18:14 Telemetry and Continuous Improvement in Development24:30 Acquisitions and Industry Insights32:37 Discussion on GPT-5 and Future of AI Models39:13 Consumer Experience with AI Models48:29 The Future of AI Content Verification58:17 The Impact of AI on Content Creation01:05:39 Community Engagement and Trends

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60:42

Uncut with Danilo Leal, Design Engineer at Zed,...

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2025/08/12

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

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