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Episode 4: Technical Diagrams, and Breaking Prod Leaderboard

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We're still here for number 4.

  • We add some jingles and an intro.
  • Michael gets third party confirmation that he's old
  • All the guests have mugged us off, so it's just Michael and I
  • Mark predicts the rise of AI Santa
  • Mark publishes the show too early and forgets about the shownotes and jingles first time round
  • Michael scours the news with a "2 years or older" filter on.
  • Social Media sites
    • Big Topics

    Technical diagrams

    • What makes a good diagram?
    • What are we doing diagrams of?
    • Do people use 'em?

      • Incidents

      • MIchael and I recap our biggest hiccups at work
      • what happened
      • what impact?

        • All our subscriptions

        • everything we've subscribed to currently, is it any good?
        • one thing we should ditch?
        • Domain Hoarding
          • In the news

          A.K.A. Not news.

          • Medium once upon a time said they don't like AI
          • We get a comment on the LinkedIn which is AI generated
          • X loses momentum to reddit in the UK
          • Journalists from europe are off X too
          • Thoughtworks tech radar is published
          • Platform Engineering Report is published. Michael promises to give some highlights next week
          • Some lucky gambling prompter wins $50,000 from Freysa AI, a blockchain connected LLM who shouldn't give out the money
          • A 14-year-old kid makes a digital braille reader under $20
          • David Mayer gets the Barbra Streisand effect, as ChatGPT has a few crashes

            • Stuff we didn't mention:

            Half a cup of water for every chatGPT interaction? Is this real?

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              ctrl-alt-expletiveBy Mark McCracken & Michael McCarthy