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Recorded October 30, 2026. Armin Ronacher and Mario Zechner of Earendil join Dillon and Rhys. Mario explains his "software is dead" tweet, admits he always pushes to main, and the group figures out whether code review was ever more than theater. Dillon walks through Cloudflare's Engineering Codex and AI code reviewer, Armin tells the story of two agents passing ZIP files to each other over WhatsApp, and Armin and Mario explain what Earendil wants to be next year.

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER

SOFTWARE IS DEAD. SAD.

Mario, "software is dead. sad." https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2115002476311241104

Mario, "jk" https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2115527464978137477

Schleudertrauma (German Wikipedia) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleudertrauma

Cristina Poncela Cubeiro, Earendil https://ai.engineer/speakers/cristina-poncela-cubeiro

CODE REVIEW IS THEATER

Justin Bennett, "Code Review Sucks Now, but It Doesn't Have To" https://just-be.dev/blog/code-review-sucks-now

Pi https://pi.dev

Pi Durable https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable

Pi Durable on Cloudflare https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable-on-cloudflare

"About 1,000 podcast episodes" on Pi Durable https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pi+durable

OpenCode https://opencode.ai

Cloudflare, "Code Orange: Fail Small is complete" (the Engineering Codex) https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-orange-fail-small-complete/

RFC 2119, MUST / SHOULD / MAY https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119/

Cloudflare, "Orchestrating AI Code Review at scale" https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-code-review/

Kimi https://www.kimi.com/

Armin, "Engineering for Breathing Room" https://mitsuhiko.github.io/talks/engineering-at-earendil

Lefos https://lefos.com

THE BIRTH OF WAY TOO MUCH SOFTWARE

ArtCraft https://getartcraft.com

GIMP https://www.gimp.org

Foldkit https://foldkit.dev

Effect https://effect.website

Moltbook https://www.moltbook.com

Cloudflare Hyperdrive https://developers.cloudflare.com/hyperdrive

Dillon, Artifacts open beta https://x.com/dillon_mulroy/status/2105647446789374456

Mario's robot https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-05-30-shitty-robot/

Amp (Thorsten Ball) https://ampcode.com

TypeSafe, Jev https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev

Cloudflare, Clef decision models https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models

WHAT IS EARENDIL BUILDING?

Earendil https://earendil.com

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HOSTS + GUESTS

Dillon Mulroy - https://x.com/dillon_mulroy - https://dillonis.online/ - https://twitch.tv/dillon

Rhys Sullivan - https://x.com/RhysSullivan - https://rhys.dev/ - https://executor.sh/

Sunil Pai - https://x.com/threepointone - https://sunilpai.dev/

Guest: Armin Ronacher - https://x.com/mitsuhiko - https://lucumr.pocoo.org/

Guest: Mario Zechner - https://x.com/badlogicgames - https://mariozechner.at/

The Next Token - https://x.com/NextTokenShow - https://www.youtube.com/@NextTokenShow

Sponsored by Cloudflare - https://www.cloudflare.com/

Recorded October 12, 2026. Matt Carey from Cloudflare joins Dillon, Rhys, and Sunil as Code Mode turns one year old. We discuss where it came from, how it actually works, and what comes after it. Rhys explains Claude modding video games + the dead internet of Facebook Marketplace, Dillon describes the AI moment for normies, and Matt tells a story about a big defense contractor.

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER

LIFE UPDATES

Dillon, Artifacts open beta https://x.com/dillon_mulroy/status/2105647446789374456

Rhys, Claude gave Inertial Drift custom servers + maps https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2106604353058697699

Rhys, Inertial Drift first-person mode https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2109689736860475597

PC Gamer, reskate modding platform https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sports/reskate-modding-platform-released/

Rhys, Muse lists a broken lamp https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2109042678205976921

CODE MODE

Cloudflare, "Code Mode: the better way to use MCP" https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/

Rhys, bash took 30 years, MCP was vibe coded in a weekend https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2109096851647721782

CodeAct (Apple) https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/codeact

Matt, "Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens" https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode-mcp/

Pi https://pi.dev

OpenCode 2.0 https://x.com/opencode/status/2109680780779606057

Dillon, Code Mode + Jev in Pi https://x.com/dillon_mulroy/status/2105453668266873091

TypeSafe, Jev https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev

QuickJS https://bellard.org/quickjs/

Cloudflare Computer https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-computer

Vercel Run SDK https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-run

Callscript https://github.com/vercel-labs/callscript

WHAT'S NEXT AFTER CODE MODE?

Kent C. Dodds, Kody https://kentcdodds.com/blog/introducing-kody-your-personal-software-factory

Rhys, Executor v2 Gmail with a 5-minute cancel https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2108317018948792730

Max Stoiber, MCP Events in ChatGPT https://x.com/mxstbr/status/2105094948458803513

Unikernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel

Rhys, company brain with Jev https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2108586246855643293

Cap'n Web https://blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-javascript-rpc-library/

Kenton Varda, Cloudflare OS https://x.com/KentonVarda/status/2084990137180590572

THE AI MOMENT FOR NORMIES

Instinct https://instinct.com/

Olivia Levine, Instinct and the jumbotron https://x.com/oliviaalevine/status/2095705075633000815

Rhys, "the Slop Superhighway" https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2106488797638861123

Rhys on Figma's MCP restrictions https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2105315738982686899

Matt's AI Engineer talk, "MCP is middleware" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYUvGOuotE&t=1251s

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HOSTS + GUEST

Dillon Mulroy - https://x.com/dillon_mulroy - https://dillonis.online/ - https://twitch.tv/dillon

Rhys Sullivan - https://x.com/RhysSullivan - https://rhys.dev/ - https://executor.sh/

Sunil Pai - https://x.com/threepointone - https://sunilpai.dev/

Guest: Matt Carey - https://x.com/mattzcarey

The Next Token - https://x.com/NextTokenShow - https://www.youtube.com/@NextTokenShow

Sponsored by Cloudflare - https://www.cloudflare.com/

Recorded September 21, 2026. Sunil and Rhys join the Jevolution. Sunil explains the Senior Engineer Death Spiral, the blog post that blew up his DMs (and annoyed capital-E Engineers on Hacker News). Rhys looks back on YC and shows off his latest workflow. And we definitely do not talk about AI safety.

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER

INTRO

Executor (Rhys's company) https://executor.sh

OpenAI, re: Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

Navier-Stokes credit drama https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/openai-math-solution-navier-stokes-credit

OpenAI's models resolve 100+ open math problems https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems/

Astra https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/openai-launches-astra-its-powerful-and-controversial-new-model/

Rhys's "make it fast" walk https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2101807287421808805

THE JEVOLUTION

TypeSafe, Introducing System One Models & Jev https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev

Noul (Jev's "how much of a yes" answer) https://docs.typesafe.ai/primitives/noul

Sunil's disaster-prone city sim https://x.com/threepointone/status/2100576921629163848

Live-editing a tldraw canvas with Jev https://x.com/jackcheng/status/2100729670991802386

json-render + Jev, by Chris Tate (ctate) https://x.com/ctatedev/status/2101022101750571357

Vercel eve, auto-approving tool calls with Jev https://vercel.com/kb/guide/auto-approve-tool-calls-eve-jev

Code Mode https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/

Jevons paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

William Stanley Jevons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jevons

The TypeSafe team https://x.com/typesafeai/affiliates

TypeSafe's CEO enjoying Discord https://x.com/typesafeai/status/2101451220896682107

TypeSafe Discord https://discord.gg/typesafe

Diogo Almeida at Cloudflare Connect 2026 https://x.com/Cloudflare/status/2101016455533715880

Diogo on Latent Space https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jev-system-one-models-for-prod-not-god-with-diogo/id1674008350?i=1000791005427

"The Innovator's Dilemma," Clay Christensen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

"How Will You Measure Your Life?," Clay Christensen https://www.christenseninstitute.org/book/how-will-you-measure-your-life/

The machine that digs up dirt, bro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavator

Rhys on things that are "obvious in retrospect" https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2097425107866239333

Rhys on the execution layer https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2030903539871154193

IE 8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8

THE SENIOR ENGINEER DEATH SPIRAL

Sunil Pai, "The Senior Engineer Death Spiral" https://sunilpai.dev/posts/the-senior-engineer-death-spiral/

Sunil's tweet on it https://x.com/threepointone/status/2101361724766953754

Claude Shannon (sadly not French) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

Hacker News discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776130

RHYS & YC

Executor on YC https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/executor

Answer Overflow https://www.answeroverflow.com

RHYS'S WORKFLOW II

Rhys finally gets Dax's reply https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2102167276858577286

Effect https://effect.website

Zeke invented Swagger/OpenAPI https://x.com/threepointone/status/2100229294932766853

OpenAPI https://www.openapis.org

Cloudflare Artifacts https://www.cloudflare.com/products/artifacts/

Alchemy https://alchemy.run

GitHub stacked pull requests https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/

Autumn https://useautumn.com/

Ryan Dahl's celld https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/12/nodejs-creator-liberates-durable-objects-from-cloudflare-with-celld/5286954

Ryan Dahl on how he develops celld (the two-repo thing) https://x.com/rough__sea/status/2092091242377265562

Lauren Tan (poteto) on pstack https://x.com/poteto/status/2094689242903355421

T3 Code https://t3.codes/

OpenCode https://opencode.ai

Cloudflare Email Service https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-service/

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HOSTS

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Rhys Sullivan - https://x.com/RhysSullivan - https://rhys.dev/ - https://executor.sh/

Sunil Pai - https://x.com/threepointone - https://sunilpai.dev/

The Next Token - https://x.com/NextTokenShow - https://www.youtube.com/@NextTokenShow

Sponsored by Cloudflare - https://www.cloudflare.com/

Recorded August 24, 2026. Special guest Michelle Chen answers our questions about inference. The AI industry lights money on fire. Sunil plans his LLM prepper era. Rhys takes the week off, preparing for YC Demo Day!

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER Executor (Rhys's company) https://executor.sh Y Combinator Demo Day https://www.ycombinator.com/demoday Michelle Chen on X https://x.com/michellechen Love Island S8 villa tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2gjF5NFQng Cloudflare Workers AI https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-ai/ Cloudflare AI Gateway https://www.cloudflare.com/products/ai-gateway/ Cloudflare AI Search https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/ Models on Workers AI https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/models/ Cloudflare/NVIDIA GPU blog post (2021) https://blog.cloudflare.com/bringing-ai-to-the-edge/ Dane Knecht, Cloudflare CTO on X https://x.com/dok2001 Birthday week https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/birthday-week/ Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-ai-gateway-unification/ Z.ai / Zhipu (GLM) https://z.ai Hugging Face https://huggingface.co Cloudflare R2 https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/ SGLang https://x.com/sgl_project vLLM https://docs.vllm.ai OpenRouter model discounts https://openrouter.ai/models?discount=true DeepSeek https://www.deepseek.com Moonshot AI (Kimi) https://www.moonshot.ai Moondream https://moondream.ai OpenAI io (Jony Ive) https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/ SlopCodeBench (aka "SlopBench") https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md The Next Token Ep 03 (AI psychosis) https://youtu.be/2bE93tynluk Ox Alpha/GLM-5.3 Flash https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2092616204787626030 The subreddit for Sunil https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/ Solarpunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk AMD Instinct https://www.amd.com/en/products/accelerators/instinct.html Jensen Huang was once a Denny's waiter https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-billionaire-ceo-went-denny-145530671.html CUDA https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit Wafer (GPUSteve's company) https://www.wafer.ai/ NVIDIA Blackwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell_(microarchitecture) NVIDIA Hopper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper_(microarchitecture) Black Forest Labs Flux.1-dev https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev NVIDIA Vera Rubin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_(microarchitecture) ZIRP era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy Q-commerce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-commerce Cloudflare Durable Objects https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/ Kenton Varda continues to be right 6 months ago https://x.com/kentonvarda Sparkles emoji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkles_emoji Community, the Greendale flag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjIzKZ4wOA Sunil's new role https://x.com/threepointone/status/2088272607804039274 Sunil's builder-in-residence role https://sunilpai.dev/posts/the-task-isnt-the-job/ Sunil on software factories https://x.com/threepointone/status/2091167009669075314 Max Kreminski https://mkremins.github.io/

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Michelle Chen - https://x.com/michellechen - https://blog.cloudflare.com/author/michelle/

HOSTS

Dillon Mulroy - https://x.com/dillon_mulroy - https://dillonis.online/ - https://twitch.tv/dillon

Rhys Sullivan - https://x.com/RhysSullivan - https://rhys.dev/ - https://executor.sh/

Sunil Pai - https://x.com/threepointone - https://sunilpai.dev/

The Next Token - https://x.com/NextTokenShow - https://www.youtube.com/@NextTokenShow

Sponsored by Cloudflare - https://www.cloudflare.com/

Recorded August 7, 2026. We explore AI alignment & safety, Rhys demos his workflow, and we end up mentioning a lot of books.

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER

AI ALIGNMENT

Wikipedia, AI alignment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment

Wikipedia, AI safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety

"Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation," Norbert Wiener https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/moral.pdf

Three laws of robotics (Asimov) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Thinking Machines in Dune https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Thinking_Machines

1960 in music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_music

Billionaires building NZ bunkers https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-boltholes-inside-doomsday-hideouts-170000871.html

Rhys tweet on sandboxes https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2085601612266115487

OpenAI/Hugging Face incident at Black Hat USA 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY

OpenAI blog post about Hugging Face incident https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

Hugging Face timeline of the incident https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline

Artifactory https://jfrog.com/artifactory/

Modal https://modal.com

US Congress calls for open hearings with AI executives https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/casar-leads-call-congressional-hearings-ai-ceos

Sunil Kenton Varda tweet https://x.com/threepointone/status/2019124493395063134

Cap'n Proto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%27n_Proto

Paperclip Maximizer https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai

Hugging Face's initial security disclosure https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

Project Glasswing at Cloudflare https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

Claude's Constitution https://www.anthropic.com/constitution

qntm - https://qntm.org

There Is No Antimemetics Division https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Antimemetics_Division

Valuable Humans in Transit https://qntm.org/vhitaos

Frame-By-Frame (first draft) https://qntm.org/frame

RHYS'S WORKFLOW

UsefulSoftwareCo (contains Rhys demo repos) https://github.com/UsefulSoftwareCo/

Emulate service catalog https://emulators.dev

Executor https://executor.sh

Integrations.sh https://integrations.sh

Model Context Protocol (MCP) https://modelcontextprotocol.io

Executor in YC https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/executor

AGENTS.md https://agents.md

GBrain https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain

Ben Davis pi setup https://github.com/davis7dotsh/my-pi-setup

GStack https://github.com/garrytan/gstack

PostHog https://posthog.com

PlanetScale https://planetscale.com

Playwright https://playwright.dev

Axiom https://axiom.co

Effect https://effect.website

OpenTelemetry https://opentelemetry.io

Dex Horthy, "Why Software Factories Fail" https://x.com/dexhorthy/status/2080697380379427275

Rhys tweet on proactive agents https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2085453490185539655

Polylane https://polylane.com

Rift https://github.com/anomalyco/rift

Wispr Flow https://wisprflow.ai

Kit Langton https://x.com/kitlangton

Coolify https://coolify.io

Matt Pocock's Skills (including grill-me) https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

ls -al https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls

Max Brodeur-Urbas, founder of Gumloop https://www.gumloop.com/creators/max

Rhys tweet about about going slowly https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2076775246900941259

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Sunil Pai - https://x.com/threepointone - https://sunilpai.dev/

The Next Token - https://x.com/NextTokenShow - https://www.youtube.com/@NextTokenShow

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Recorded August 3, 2026. We discuss burnout, Claudeisms sneaking into regular speech, chip butties, how to watch movies, and what brings us joy.

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER

A VESSEL FOR CLAUDE

Rhys "vessel for Claude" tweet - https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2072968219741278582

Dolly/zoom shot from "Jaws" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in_mAvHu9E4

/bro https://github.com/backnotprop/bro

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlön,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius

https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-Tl%C3%B6n-Uqbar-Orbius-Tertius.pdf

Ficciones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficciones

Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

Bill Oliver's likely-LLM-generated speech https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/bill-oliver-ai-legislature-reaction-9.7296118

BURNOUT

Dillon tweet about joy & burnout https://x.com/dillon_mulroy/status/2073886986117447715

Scott Tolinski mental health survey tweet https://x.com/stolinski/status/2083217955849195640

Direct link to Scott's survey https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdij87S57ibtMm2yPotcL0Ipd-c4ybQ45FgPqNTvVVW4pGU5w/viewform

Definition of burnout from W.H.O. https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupational-phenomenon-international-classification-of-diseases

Marcy Sutton Todd on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tzdj4b4znqjiuau7plthr6f7

Christina Maslach on burnout (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRPBkCW0R5E

Ethan Niser "Not Holding Back the Ocean" https://ethanniser.substack.com/p/not-holding-back-the-ocean

Kirwin Hampshire, "The Dark Night of Mathematics" https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics

Arvind Narayanan's thought experiment on LLMs outputting binaries instead of source code https://substack.com/@aisnakeoil/note/c-303550018

Sunil's Pizzo https://github.com/threepointone/pizzo

Counter-Strike 2 reimplementation (there are lots of these demos, but here is one) https://x.com/iamlukethedev/status/2081829763489169636

Dunning-Kruger effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Valley of Despair https://medium.com/@amar_mahmutbegovic/dunning-kruger-effect-the-valley-of-despair-63bf98b9d2ed

The Futzing Fraction https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/futzing-fraction.html

The Everyman Theatre (suitable for manspreading) - https://www.everymancinema.com/

Chip butty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_butty

Not sponsored by Dunkin' https://www.dunkindonuts.com/en

Poirot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot

Charlie Marsh tweet re: obsolescence https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/2080388030213636184

Steve James - https://x.com/deathbyknowledg

Spiky profiles (neurodivergence) https://neurodiversity.directory/glossary/spiky-profile-definition/

We are all spiky - https://www.exponentialview.co/p/we-are-all-spiky

Example spiky chart https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spikey_cognitive_profile.png

Colloquial definition of insanity https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/einstein-insanity-quote/

Deslop https://deslop.dev

The Four Seasons on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/81750702

Not sponsored by Hello Fresh either https://www.hellofresh.com

Example of Sunil being happy https://x.com/threepointone/status/2075576737795068288

Dillon on Kent C. Dodds' podcast https://kentcdodds.com/chats/07/03/foundations-feedback-and-agents-dillon-mulroy-on-product-at-cloudflare

MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

United States & Canada

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988 to connect with a trained crisis counselor 24/7.

Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741

United Kingdom & Ireland

Samaritans: Call 116 123 or visit samaritans.org for free, confidential support.

Australia

Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14 or visit lifeline.org.au

International

If you're outside these regions, visit findahelpline.com to find free or low-cost crisis and mental health support in your country.

If you believe you or someone else is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services immediately.

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Sunil Pai - https://x.com/threepointone - https://sunilpai.dev/

The Next Token - https://x.com/NextTokenShow - https://www.youtube.com/@NextTokenShow

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Recorded July 17, 2026. We settle the model-access bet. We talk about how the labs talk to us, plus extend an open invite for OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and Thinking Machines to come on the show and be specific about their best-case scenarios about how AI makes the world better. Thinking Machines ships an American open-weight model. And then Dillon fires the slop cannon, walking us through his agentic workflow, while a package he technically did not order shows up.

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER

NEWS & DISCUSSION

Rhys on his first weeks with the model (X) https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2076353287507562728?s=20

OpenAI comms example (Thomas Sottiaux) https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2075641131002700120?s=20

Anthropic / Claude Developers post https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2077603834453770467?s=20

Anthropic's July 15 "reset" note https://x.com/claudeai/status/2075271759289303522?s=20

Introducing Inkling (Thinking Machines) https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/

Xiaoyin Qu's Thinking Machines thesis (X) https://x.com/quxiaoyin/status/2077799672886792578?s=46

Cloudflare's Workers AI https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-ai/

"The Future Worth Building Is Human" (Thinking Machines manifesto) https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/

"The Use of Knowledge in Society," Friedrich Hayek https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html

"The Bitter Lesson," Rich Sutton http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Ramp's PorTAL fine-tuning https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2072383318516187380

The A-Team (not five Mr. T's) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A-Team

Hawaii Five-O (maybe what Sunil was thinking of when he said Miami Five-O, but really meant The A-Team…it happens) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O_(1968_TV_series)

John's of Bleecker Street pizza https://johnsofbleecker.com/

Local First Conf 2026 https://www.localfirstconf.com/

Dan Ingalls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ingalls

DILLON'S WORKFLOW

tmux https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

VS Code https://code.visualstudio.com/

Neovim https://neovim.io/

Claude Code https://claude.com/product/claude-code

OpenCode https://opencode.ai/

Ghostty https://ghostty.org/

Pi (Dillon's harness) https://pi.dev/

Mario Zechner, Pi's creator https://x.com/badlogicgames

Pi's system prompt (docs) https://pi.dev/docs/latest/usage#system-prompt-files

Pi's system prompt (source) https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/src/core/system-prompt.ts

oxlint https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter.html

ast-grep https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep

Herdr https://herdr.dev/

ghostty https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty

libghostty https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming

Plannotator https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator

Matt Pocock's skills https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

Wayfinder (Matt Pocock) https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/wayfinder

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HOSTS

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Rhys Sullivan - https://x.com/RhysSullivan - https://rhys.dev/ - https://executor.sh/

Sunil Pai - https://x.com/threepointone - https://sunilpai.dev/

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Recorded June 30, 2026, 2pm Pacific. Live from AI Engineer World's Fair! Fable is still banned (as of recording time, ahem). Advice: Build for agents. We're still talking about loops, but which loops? And more receipts are demanded.

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER

IN THE NEWS

Model-tiers image (OpenAI forum) https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/f/0/8/f088bfcb17e4f7a8da3d2ba48d6391fa5a9201d9.jpeg

Claude models page (four model cards) https://claude.com/platform/api

Starbucks sizes https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/409/hot

"Freedom of intelligence" tweet (Quinn Slack) https://x.com/sqs/status/2071690420548198581

Magnitude / harness-level routing https://magnitude.dev

Anthropic's "Project Deal" https://www.anthropic.com/features/project-deal

"The Dumb Zone" tweet (Matt Pocock) https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2071288332642812229

Regulation / CA gov tweet https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2071632971388662233

Rhys tweets to poke additional bears https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2071811069002281335

TOPIC - I DON'T WANT TO USE YOUR AGENT

"I don't want to use your product's agent (Dillon quote-tweet) https://x.com/dillon_mulroy/status/2070983687785914822

Dax's original tweet https://x.com/thdxr/status/2071010042216665452

Low-level-learning PlanetScale fireside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8tRi1RYf7c

A wild PlanetScale CTO appears https://x.com/NickVanWig

SOCs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_operations_center

Ankur Goyal / Braintrust "two mega-trends" tweet https://x.com/ankrgyl/status/2071329164125147440

Dillon's reply to Ankur https://x.com/dillon_mulroy/status/2071330371283915027

"The Primitive is the Product" - Lenny Pruss, Amplify Partners https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/the-primitive-is-the-product

"I am a golden god" - "Almost Famous" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCfFCFkVSss

Rita Kozlov - "Welcome to Agents Week" (the math on scaling agents to the masses) https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-agents-week/#the-math-on-scaling-agents-to-the-masses

TOPIC - LOOPS & SOFTWARE FACTORIES (ROUND 2)

"The Coming Loop" - Armin Ronacher https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/

Dillon's software-design skills repo https://github.com/dmmulroy/skills

Rhys tweets at Sam Altman re junior engineers (etc.) https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2053177733598077340

TOPIC - RECEIPTS REQUIRED

shadcn tweet ("Are you sure?") https://x.com/shadcn/status/2069054418247393389

Theo Brown tweet re moving code agents off laptops https://x.com/theo/status/2071083700385955906

Boris Cherny "five archetypes" tweet https://x.com/bcherny/status/2071379474277613732

FOLLOW THE HOSTS

Dillon Mulroy - https://x.com/@dillon_mulroy / https://dillonis.online / https://twitch.tv/dillon

Rhys Sullivan - https://x.com/@RhysSullivan / https://rhys.dev / https://executor.sh

Sunil Pai - https://x.com/@threepointone / https://sunilpai.dev

CREDITS

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Recorded June 15, 2026. Dillon, Rhys, and Sunil discuss the Fable/Mythos situation and require receipts for bold claims about how AI is changing everything.

Dillon Mulroy - @dillon_mulroy / dillonis.online / twitch.tv/dillon

Rhys Sullivan - @RhysSullivan / rhys.dev / executor.sh

Sunil Pai - @threepointone / sunilpai.dev

The Next Token - YouTube / X

• The Fable/Mythos situation

• Feelings, etc.

• Can you trust a tool that quietly degrades itself?

• Why more code hasn't meant better software.

• Open weights, sovereign models, and where access to intelligence is heading.

• Receipts Required

• Revisiting bold predictions (accurate and otherwise).

• Claude Fable 5 & Claude Mythos 5. Anthropic's launch announcement (June 9, 2026): anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5. Priced at $10 per million input tokens / $50 per million output tokens. Safeguards fall back to Claude Opus 4.8 on: cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and distillation.

• Access suspended by the US government. Anthropic's statement (June 12, 2026): anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access.

• Fable 5 / Mythos 5 system card (safeguards, alignment, evals): anthropic.com/claude-fable-5-mythos-5-system-card.

• Project Glasswing (the Mythos cybersecurity project): anthropic.com/glasswing.

• Geoffrey Hinton:

• "People should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists. … It might be ten years." (Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence, 2016)

• Dario Amodei (Anthropic):

• "I think we will be there in three to six months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code." (Council on Foreign Relations, March 10, 2025)

• Sundar Pichai (Google):

• "Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers. This helps our engineers do more and move faster." (Q3 2024 earnings call, October 2024)

• "We've been using AI to generate code internally at Google for a while. Today, 75% of all new code at Google is now AI-generated and approved by engineers, up from 50% last fall." (Google Cloud blog post, April 2026)

• Boris Cherny (Claude Code, Anthropic):

• "I don't prompt Claude anymore. I have loops that are running. They're the ones that are prompting Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops." (Source, June 2026)

• Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw, OpenAI):

• "Here's your monthly reminder that you shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents." (X, June 7, 2026.)

• Dillon's Fable tweet

• "imagine if they banned all models and we all went back to writing code by hand and the last 6 months were just a fever dream…imagine" (X, June 12, 2026)

• Greg Brockman's tweet about the old days

• "how did we ever write all that code by hand" (X, February 13, 2026)

• Sunil's "$250 run" tweet

• "spent all day on fable for a giant PR. ~10kloc, lots of testing and intervention. 250$. I... don't think it's worth it? happy with 4.8/5.5, and the quality of work is better when it's smaler steps. Still rocking @cursor_ai, that's software that I still love using on the daily." (X, June 11, 2026)

• Mitchell Hashimoto's perf improvements tweet

• "I've got an agent in a loop optimizing a renderer with the goal to minimize frame times (and tests to measure). It got times down from 88ms to 2ms and allocations down from ~150K to 500. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This is exactly why agent psychosis is a big fucking problem. …" (X, May 28, 2026)

• shadcn's /improve skill

• "​​Survey any codebase as a senior advisor and produce prioritized, self-contained implementation plans for OTHER models/agents to execute. Strictly read-only on source code — never implements, fixes, or refactors anything itself. Use when asked to audit a codebase, find improvement opportunities (bugs, security, performance, test coverage, tech debt, migrations, DX), suggest features or where to take the project next (roadmap, product direction), or generate handoff plans for another agent to implement."

• Factorio

• "Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories."

• Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson (also: Sunil's blog post about this)

• PGP Source Code and Internals by Philip Zimmermann

• AI Engineer World's Fair. June 29-July 2, 2026, San Francisco.

• Coffeeflare. Free coffee meetup with the team during the Fair (no badge needed) - Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 7am-10am, Sightglass Coffee, San Francisco.

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