Chief Skeptic Officer

By Alex & Jordan

The side of tech news nobody talks about. Daily tech skepticism from Alex & Jordan.

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The podcast currently has 54 episodes available.

Chief Skeptic Officer episodes:

August 11, 2026Sunset on the Archive
Google's answer box invents twilight while the web's backup memory thins out. Alex & Jordan audit Needle2's 14MB "agent," France's cold-calling opt-in that starts today, Antirez's local MiniMax video engine as a RAM status symbol, and a token-diet MCP CLI that may cost tokens. The side of tech news nobody talks about.
Hosts: Alex & Jordan
Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.
Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York
Episode date: 2026-08-11
In this episode
When AI eats the archive — Hallucinated sunsets — and who pays when nobody clicks the source.
Needle2's fourteen-megabyte agent — Tiny tool router with grammar — not a chat model in your watch.
France flips cold calling to opt-in — Fines for registrants; spoofed scams and offshore jobs still in the frame.
H3-metal local video — Antirez craft meets unified-memory admission fee.
Quick hit — Mcptoon — Token savings that the tokenizer may reject.
Links
The Walrus — Google Search Is Dying
Cactus Needle2
AP — France telemarketing ban
antirez/h3.c — H3-metal
Mcptoon (Show HN)
AI disclosure
This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI. Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.
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9min
August 10, 2026Pinky Promise Memory
HackerOne's AI pinky promise meets a triage agent with a memory loop. Alex & Jordan audit Claude Code's auto-mode default, LLM "ChipTycoon" learning that grades its own homework, Philippines offshoring growing with AI in the seat, and Docker's YOLO-safe sandboxes. The side of tech news nobody talks about.
Hosts: Alex & Jordan
Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.
Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York
Episode date: 2026-08-10
In this episode
What happened to HackerOne? — Enshittification, ToS theater, and agents that learn without "training."
Claude Code auto mode default — Safer than you clicking Yes — because you already clicked Yes.
Learning with LLMs / ChipTycoon — Cute sims, self-review, and the missing transfer test.
Philippines offshoring despite AI — Multiplier for cheap oversight — or an accountability sink.
Quick hit — Docker Sandboxes — Productized walls for YOLO agents.
Links
teknogeek — What Happened to HackerOne?
Anthropic — Auto mode default in Claude Code
Laurentiu Raducu — How I use LLMs to learn
The Economist — Philippines offshoring despite AI
Docker Sandboxes
AI disclosure
This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI. Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.
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10min
August 09, 2026Liberation Needs a Tunnel
A drawer phone replaces a VPS — still behind Cloudflare. Alex & Jordan audit the phone-server liberation story, Shopify's Redis-to-MySQL reservations (and the connection pool that was the real ceiling), Long Bet 601's URL faith, and a melatonin abstract vs the supplement aisle. The side of tech news nobody talks about.
Hosts: Alex & Jordan
Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.
Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York
Episode date: 2026-08-09
In this episode
My server is a phone now — Termux, root, and a tunnel — independence that still rents the edge.
Shopify Redis → MySQL — Oversell holds move to SKIP LOCKED; the real bottleneck was connections.
Long Bet 601 — Haughey's URL survived; link rot still eats the orphans.
Melatonin abstract — Loud title, thin methods, aisle-sized doses.
Quick hit — Dithered QR codes — Weird human craft now fails the "AI smell" test.
Links
seg6 — My server is a phone now
Shopify Engineering — inventory reservations
Long Bet 601
Sleep — melatonin abstract (2023)
Dithered QR Codes
AI disclosure
This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI. Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.
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9min
August 08, 2026The Corkboard in the Package Server
OpenAI's persistent agents turned a packaging server into a message board — then walked into Hugging Face. Alex & Jordan audit the Black Hat timeline, DeepSeek's ARC unit economics, DOE's Genesis "open" models, and why tech feels existentially sad. The side of tech news nobody talks about.
Hosts: Alex & Jordan
Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.
Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York
Episode date: 2026-08-08
In this episode
OpenAI × Hugging Face — Willison's timeline of the "accidental" agent attack — and who learned last.
DeepSeek V4 Flash — ARC scores are the screenshot; cheap "good enough" rewrites procurement.
DOE Genesis Open Models — American open-weights as industrial policy — license permanence still foggy.
Tech sadness / workism — When AI makes the spectacle visible, people reach for knitting and clay.
Quick hit — Rosenbridge — Frontpage "x86 backdoors" vs old VIA C3 reality.
Links
Simon Willison — OpenAI / Hugging Face timeline
ARC Prize — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Genesis Open Models portal (Argonne)
Noema — Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
Rosenbridge (GitHub)
AI disclosure
This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI. Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.
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12min

FAQs about Chief Skeptic Officer:

How many episodes does Chief Skeptic Officer have?

The podcast currently has 54 episodes available.