TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr get into the week's AI doom and gloom, from the Hugging Face incident to calls for regulation, before turning to a problem hitting their teams right now. They compare notes on automated code review, adversarial reviewers that never stop finding issues, and the evals it takes to tune them.

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• ESP32 - the Wi-Fi controller chip TJ is wiring his shelf LED strips to
• Sonari - TJ's transcription app, with beta invites going out from the mailing list next week
• Halcyon - TJ's notes app, the other project he spun back up this week
• Mt. Comfort Coffee Peru Medium Roast - the 2.5 pound Costco bag TJ and his wife are loving
• Bizzy Espresso Blend Cold Brew - Chris's replacement espresso cold brew
• Anthropic researcher resigns with a warning - Jacob Coxon's resignation that kicked off the week's AI safety news
• OpenAI and Hugging Face incident - the containment failure both hosts point to
• Cal Newport: Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People - Cal's recap and take on the resignation
• The Diary of a CEO - the podcast where TJ heard a former OpenAI forecaster describe the race to self-improving AI
• GitHub Copilot - the org-wide reviewer Chris syncs Claude rules into
• Amazon Bedrock - what Chris's AI reviewer workflow runs on
• CodeRabbit - the AI review tool TJ wants to study for ideas

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller walk through TJ's laptop locking up past safe mode, how Claude helped him rescue his work over a shared disk, and the agent state he forgot to save. They also cover Chris's Rig beta at work, off-site backups, and dotfiles, sharing insights on what to protect when your tools keep state for you.

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• LocalStack - how Rig runs one local DynamoDB instance with a table per service
• Novelhood - Chris's book club app, one of the side projects waiting on usage resets
• Halcyon - TJ's notes app, where Fable 5.1 as the Hive lead turned the sync build around
• OpenCode - TJ's idea for running GPT models with a rule file extension
• Pi - one of the harnesses Chris named as a base for a Rula engineering harness
• Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag Chris finished
• Bear - where TJ was writing therapy homework when the laptop froze
• Prism - one of the repos TJ rescued off the frozen disk
• Sonari - TJ's transcription app, rescued with its in-progress worktrees
• Dotbot - how TJ rebuilt his machine in 45 minutes and keeps work and personal setups in sync
• Homebrew - what Dotbot reinstalls on a fresh machine
• Setapp - part of TJ's rebuild script
• Backblaze - Chris's off-site backup instead of Time Machine
• Skate - Charm's encrypted key value store TJ uses to keep secrets out of his dotfiles
• PHP Tek - TJ's first 2027 talk submission
• Laracon US - TJ will be there and might submit
• Laracon AU - TJ's top speaking goal for the year

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr talk through Novelhood, the book club app Chris is building with his wife, and how stacking design skills got him to a version that works for readers from 20 to 80. TJ shares where Sonari stands ahead of launch, including a listener DM that has him chasing custom speech models for people with speech impediments, exploring what accessible AI tooling could look like.

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• Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag with the galaxy packaging
• North Meet South 199 - the crossover episode on vetting vibe-coded contributions
• Lovable - what Zillow hands to non-technical people for prototyping
• Novelhood - Chris's book club management app, wait list open
• Open Library - the book data behind Novelhood's title search
• Bookshop.org - the planned way for clubs to send book sales to a local bookstore
• Sonari - TJ's local-only Mac transcription app
• Halcyon - TJ's markdown notes app, built on Tauri
• Tauri - the framework TJ recommends over raw Swift for Mac apps
• Sparkle - the update framework TJ is wiring into Sonari
• Polar license keys - how TJ plans to handle Sonari licensing
• WhisperKit - the on-device models TJ would fine-tune for speech impediments

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller dig into Anthropic's expiring 50% usage bump, why both of them swapped their Hive lead from Opus to Fable, and Chris's work bringing Codex into Hive as a first-class harness. TJ shares a week-long unattended build of Halcyon's git-style sync engine, sharing insights on where agent orchestration is actually paying off.

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• https://www.halcyonnotes.com/
• https://opencode.ai/
• https://openclaw.ai/

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr dig into Hive, the tmux-based agent orchestration tool Chris built to replace Solo, from profiles and runbooks to the optional dashboard. They also cover TJ's Halcyon notes app, his new local dictation app Sonari, and the app store compliance maze, sharing insights on turning side projects into real products.

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• https://x.com/abbygilson28/status/2089384180597817553
• https://soloterm.com/
• https://www.halcyonnotes.com/
• https://www.sonari.audio/

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller recap Laracon Boston, from the talks and the community response to TJ's post about stepping away, to Laravel Cloud expanding beyond PHP. They also get into the native markdown note-taking app TJ started building with Tauri and React, sharing insights on picking a stack, pricing a first product, and working at the edge of your experience.

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• https://www.enderlycoffee.com/product/brazil
• https://mostlytechnical.com/
• https://www.tjmiller.me/posts/where-ive-been/
• https://laracon.us/
• https://www.halcyonnotes.com

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr catch up after a summer break on family trips, caffeine cutbacks, and getting back into side projects. They compare notes on using Fable for PRDs and code review, cross-provider tooling like Codex and OpenCode, and TJ's new AI content-creation project at Luma.

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• https://laracon.us/
• https://pureintentionscoffee.com/products/porchlight-medium-roast?variant=39919760277570
• https://tokentown.com/
• https://mostlytechnical.com/
• https://soloterm.com/
• https://www.anthropic.com/claude/fable
• https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller catch up on dead coffee grinders and summer plans, then dig into Chris's experience with Aaron Francis's Solo and its orchestrator-agent workflow. They close with an honest talk about AI burnout, brain fatigue, and stepping outside to touch grass.

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• https://www.amazon.com/Aromaster-Settings-Stainless-Adjustable-Anti-static/dp/B0G6D2G1RX
• Baratza Encore https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007F183LK
• Baratza Virtuoso+ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QMY8GLX
• https://soloterm.com/
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TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr talk through recovering from a back injury, coffee and caffeine finds, and a deep run on AI tooling: voice analysis skills, Assembly AI transcription, marketplace plugins, skill context budgets, and the agents-versus-rules question.

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• https://krisp.ai
• AssemblyAI

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller talk about the long-awaited Turkish coffee finally landing, Unitree versus PiDog robot dogs, and a tour of TJ's forum comment analysis system at Luma. They also compare notes on AI as enhancement rather than replacement, multi-level synthesis patterns for both work reviews and product features, and the role of LLM-as-judge evals in shipping production AI.

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• https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitree-go2
• https://www.sunfounder.com/products/sunfounder-pidog-robot-dog-kit-for-raspberry-pi