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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 288: What a Great Time to Be Alive!

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about swimming with large cockroaches, breaking security by breaking AI, driving with tiny fake heads, and communicating with our thoughts!

    • Gunnar finds a male painted bunting!
    • Dave, Claude Code, Slackbot, unlearning old habits, and learning new habits
    • Scientists have created a 3D-printed remote-controlled cyborg cockroach equipped with IR cameras — living insects fitted with flexible 'diving suit' can survive and move underwater for three hours
    • Fable-5 guardrail’s enable blindspot for attackers
    • Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards
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      • AlterEgo

        • Cutting Room Floor

        • Phrases you can use instead of “not my circus, not my monkeys”
        • English to LinkedIn Speak Translator
        • Spend Five Minutes With This Hellish Operating System Simulator and You’ll Never Swear at Your Computer Again
        • CrankGPT is a fully offline, off-the-grid AI box
          • 36 min
        • Episode 287: The Guild of Dave and Gunnar Impersonators

          This week Dave and Gunnar talk about modern-day robot uprisings and modern-day Butlerian Jihads!

          • Hermes > 🦞
          • Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
            • Meanwhile: Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test
            • I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes
              • Meanwhile: Halupedia
                • The 1788 Dave and Gunnar Accord
                • Gunnar Sigh O Meter
                • The Guild of Dave and Gunnar Impersonators

                  • Cutting Room Floor

                  • KitKat’s newest product is . . . a Faraday cage?
                  • Homer’s Radio: D’oh FM
                  • PI HARD | Official Trailer 2026 | AI OR DIE Productions
                  • VibeOS - Fully Hallucinated Operating System
                    • 34 min
                  • Episode 286: Work, Gyms, and Toxic Relationships

                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Camille Tuutti about Swedish AI coffee shops and reanimating woolly mammoths!

                    • Meet Mona, the AI Who Runs a Stockholm Coffee Shop by Camille Tuutti
                      • By Andon Labs (see D&G #278!)
                      • Meanwhile: Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
                        • Lemonade Stand
                        • Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide
                        • Camille asks Vivienne Ming about brain atrophy
                        • I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall.
                        • College instructor goes viral for catching students' AI use on midterm
                        • To Ben Lamm, extinction is just an engineering problem

                          • We Give Thanks

                          • Camille Tuutti for being our special guest star!

                            • Special Guest: Camille Tuutti.

                            56 min
                          • Episode 285: Location, Location, Threat Model

                            This week Dave and Gunnar talk about markdown, caveman, and dark software factories!

                            • Warhammer 40,000: “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”
                            • Birds Aren’t Real
                            • Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students
                            • Introducing Markdown for Agents
                              • Counterpoint: Why the heck are we still using Markdown??
                              • caveman: why use many token when few do trick
                              • See also: Classical Chinese
                              • Dark Software Factories
                                • The 5 Levels of AI Coding (Why Most of You Won't Make It Past Level 2) by Nate B. Jones
                                • StrongDM Software Factory: Software Factories And The Agentic Moment
                                • The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory by Dan Shapiro
                                • Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman
                                • I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall. by Nate B. Jones

                                  • Cutting Room Floor

                                  • Interactive XKCD Dependency comic
                                  • A Unique Property For Sale In Pennsylvania
                                  • Luxurious Home in a Decommissioned Grain Elevator
                                    • 37 min
                                  • Episode 284: Home Row Guy

                                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mike McGrath about agentic AI open source development and engineering leadership!

                                    • Gunnar on abundance in D&G 273
                                    • Welcome Mike!
                                    • Gemini Gems
                                    • The Day Open Source Realized Code Doesn’t Matter Anymore
                                    • Fedora
                                    • Fedora Infrastructure Project
                                    • tmux
                                    • screen

                                      • We Give Thanks

                                      • Mike McGrath for being our special guest star!

                                        • Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

                                        51 min
                                      • Episode 283: We Could’ve Been Standing Outside an Olive Garden

                                        This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI judging photos, AI judging meeting transcripts, and hacking AI with poetry!

                                        • Stranger Things! It’s good, actually!
                                        • rentahuman.ai
                                        • They See Your Photos
                                        • Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
                                        • D&G This Week in Controlling the Past to Control the Future: Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization

                                          • Cutting Room Floor

                                          • DOOMBuds
                                            • 31 min
                                          • Episode 282: He Sent Me Chicken Ramen

                                            This week Dave and Gunnar talk about agents battling agents, electric shocks battling coffee, and Amazon Prime battling First Class mail!

                                            • Gunnar is now fully agentic. Skills and the inner loop. Capital vs Labor. Capital wins again.
                                            • La-Z-Boy repair tip + free parts ($16 S&H)
                                            • Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw
                                              • Moltbook
                                              • Moltbook leaked Andrej Karpathy’s API keys
                                              • MOLTBOOK EXPOSED: The New AI Scam That Fooled Everyone
                                              • D&G Mailbag via Erich Morisse: The Clanker Games
                                                • Fun fact: Clanker
                                                • A Viral Chinese Wristband Claims to Zap You Awake. The Public Says 'No Thanks’
                                                  • WAT Medical product page
                                                  • Postal Arbitrage

                                                    • We Give Thanks

                                                    • Erich Morisse for the Clanker Games tip!
                                                      • 32 min
                                                    • Episode 281: Four Out of Five Developers Enjoy Code Reviews

                                                      This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for prison inmates, AI for senior citizens, and low-cost haptic exosuits!

                                                      • Ebird and Listers
                                                      • Moen update
                                                      • Death by Lightning
                                                      • An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
                                                      • Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship
                                                      • Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit
                                                        • Almost related: Four out of five developers enjoy code reviews

                                                          • Cutting Room Floor

                                                          • Anycrap: Bring Impossible Products to Life
                                                            • Thought-Cancelling Headphones
                                                            • Dave and Gunnar Show Podcast Bobble Heads
                                                            • Donut Hole Repair
                                                            • I’m Not a Robot
                                                            • Claude Biodome
                                                              • 31 min
                                                            • Episode 280: We See You

                                                              This week Dave and Gunnar talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds!

                                                              • Trinity and Low-background Steel
                                                                • Hardcore History
                                                                • Slate Political Gabfest
                                                                • Google Vids!
                                                                • Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative
                                                                • D&G This Week in Bad Ideas
                                                                  • Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B
                                                                  • Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?
                                                                  • Rawlsian Theory of Justice
                                                                  • Rawlsian Theory of Justice: The Musical

                                                                    • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                    • Salami Advent Calendar
                                                                    • Nap Anywhere Pillow
                                                                    • Linux Ported to WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab
                                                                    • How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next
                                                                    • I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
                                                                      • 34 min
                                                                    • Episode 279: Live from Room 101

                                                                      This week Dave and Gunnar go on a re-education off-site, and O’Brien and Winston Smith debate whether we’re in an AI bubble!

                                                                      Key Takeaways (The Correct Perspective):

                                                                      • The concept of an 'AI bubble' is a persistent, troubling rumor. It is heresy.
                                                                      • Nvidia's valuation is not speculation; it is the correct price for the tools that build order.
                                                                      • The true return on investment for General AI is not measured in commerce or email-writing, but in compliance.
                                                                      • The massive power consumption and centralization of the technology are not a bug, but a feature—it ensures only the Party can wield true AI.
                                                                      • The true 'killer app' of AI is the ability to rewrite the past perfectly and instantly, changing not just the record, but the memory.
                                                                      • A bubble is fragile. This new architecture of control is not a bubble, but the AI reality.
                                                                      • The numbers are meaningless. The only thing that matters is the fullness and the order.

                                                                        • Further Re-education:

                                                                        • All corrected notes and the transcript that has now always been true can be found at dgshow.org.

                                                                          • We Give Thanks

                                                                          • Big Brother
                                                                          • O’Brien and Winston Smith for filling in for us!
                                                                            • 10 min

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                                                                          David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.