Episode 180: rightFolds in an AI world?

1. rightFolds as a pun on Mark's recent right vocal fold surgery, healing means we're good to record again, plus IA celebrates 17 years of existence, even if episodes have seriously lacked of late. Last episode Aug 27, 2025 - it's been a while.
2. Does language theory and evolution have a place/need in an AI world?
3. New JVM language features vs Syntactic sugar ala Clojure/Scala features
4. Bun's recent zig->rust total AI rewrite
5. Vercel engineer built Zero, a programming Language for AI Agents | Yeamt
   1. Why Did They Build This?
6. jank now has its own custom IR
   1. Do any of these funky languages matter in an AI world?
   2. Is 'Good Enough' Good Enough: Mindsets and Behaviors for Sales Excellence
   3. Is "good enough" good enough?!. A common misunderstanding of the… | by Ted Rau
   4. Is Good Enough, Good Enough? (Part 1)
7. AI and the increased threat of Supply Chain attacks
8. How We Got a CISA GitHub Leak Taken Down in Under a Day
9. NPM and its recent attacks
10. Package Managers are Evil - gingerBill
    1. The Aesthetic Problem of Namespacing - gingerBill

Tooling

• Highlights from Git 2.54
• "Git history" FTW, unless you're using Jujitsu 🙂

AI and Development

• The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers
• OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI
• Why Your Engineering Team Is Slow (It's the Codebase, Not the People)
• The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck
• Now more than ever: building reliable software in the age of agents | Ron Minsky | Bug Bash 2026
• I am not a Software Engineer — huronbikes

"Everyone" leaving Github

• A usability study of radicle
• Git is distributed, GitHub is not - Radicle brings a distributed forge for software development, including distributed issues, patches, code review, and CI solutions for a resilient forge.
• HardenedBSD Officially on Radicle
• Ghosty leaving Github
• Zig: Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
• This, plus Zig's recent firm anti-AI stance led to the Bun port.
• Thoughts on Leaving GitHub
• GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension