Has AI eaten all of tech? Is 600 billion tokens too many use in a single month? On this week's episode Matt joins Kris to talk about some of the current news in the tech industry. From OpenClaw's maintainer burning through $1.3 million worth of tokens to why we need more epistemic markers, to the rather absurd $725 billion that big tech plans to spend on AI CapEx this year. And of course, there are layoffs coming as well.

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Table of Contents:

• Prologue (00:00:00)
• Chapter 1: AI Has Eaten All of Tech (00:01:11)
• Chapter 2: Building the Machine That Builds Your Machine (00:06:30)
• Chapter 3: You Still Have to Understand the Layer Below [Extended] (00:14:56)
• Chapter 4: Say the Quiet Part: Put a Number on Your Predictions (00:15:07)
• Chapter 5: LLMs Give You Mediocre by Default [Extended] (00:17:53)
• Chapter 6: Speed Is Not Velocity (00:18:21)
• Chapter 7: OAuth, GitHub, and the Bill for Skipped Homework [Extended] (00:25:40)
• Chapter 9: $725 Billion in CapEx and a Wave of Layoffs (00:26:26)
• Chapter 10: Who Actually Has the Power [Extended] (00:30:40)
• Epilogue (00:31:45)

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• LinkedIn
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• Changelog Zulip
• Gophers Slack

• (00:00) - Prologue