Yelling at Robots

Yelling at Robots

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Yelling at Robots episodes

  • Yelling at the Pre-Apocalypse

    Enjoy species dominance while you still can meat-sacks!

    AI is coming for us all!


    00:00 - Cold open

    00:28 - Intro

    01:44 - Today on the show

    03:40 - Dipshit billionaires and a boy named Jacob

    25:19 - Closing thoughts

    28:58 - Best outro ever


    • Jacob's Tweet: https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843?s=20
    • Anthropic We're Screwed Report: https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026#biological-misuse-sep-26
    • Dario says we need to slow down: https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2098773920774074715?s=20
      • Sam says ya bey: https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910?s=20
      • Elon says ok, fine: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2098789109980332057?s=20
    • Jensen Huang at all-in-ugh-fest with the orange man: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6tF4oYLQrJc
    • Daily episode Jacob: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/podcasts/the-daily/the-ai-researcher-whose-rebellion-is-changing-everything.html
    • Ed Zitron rants about Jacob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8xAav645hc
    • Cory Doctorow interview Ian saw (The Tech Report): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDUg_uylyM
    30 min
  • Yelling at your Hugfacer!

    We continue to swarm the faces of OpenAI as we dig deeper into their dipstick management of technological wonderment.

    Strap in folks, it's gonna be bumpy.

    00:00 - Cold open

    00:08 - Intro

    04:06 - Today on the show

    05:53 - Moar OpenAI saga

    18:46 - Agent or Collective Intelligence?

    27:47 - Sprechen sie German Wiki?

    37:28 - Quick Astra chat

    44:28 - Outro

    • (Same as last time) OpenAI post on the Hugging Face Hack: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
      (all of these links are just from the post above)
      • METR independent report: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/
      • Full technical report: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf
      • Black hat talk from OpenAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY
      • NY Times Daily Episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/podcasts/the-daily/ai-openai-hugging-face-rogue-model.html
    • Ze German Wiki Incident
      • Security week article with weak-ass quotes: https://www.securityweek.com/openai-agents-hijack-another-victim-website/
      • Very good data deep dive on the incident: https://collusion.wiki/
    45 min
  • Yelling at Your Facehugger!

    Josh keeps going nix psychosis and Ian issues a takedown notice to OpenAI and their agent swarm BS. OpenAI stubbornly continues to be dipshits.

    00:00 - Cold open

    00:58 - Intro

    02:52 - Nix Psychosis COMPLETE

    17:52 - Open AI Huggs Moar Faces

    42:08 - Outro

    • OpenAI post on the Hugging Face Hack: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
      (all of these links are just from the post above)
      • METR independent report: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/
      • Full technical report: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf
      • Black hat talk from OpenAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY
    • A Great TL;DR from Code Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rp9KJCEIvg
    43 min
  • Yelling at AI Bosses Yelling Back at You

    Josh suprised Ian with an unscheduled on demand record. Enjoy a classic as they struggle for coherences.

    Mostly an ad hoc update on Luna canning some sh*tbird's ass over at Andon Labs.

    00:00 - Cold open

    02:12 - Intro

    02:30 - Chit chat tik tok

    04:49 - AI boss cans an employee

    12:53 - JR pitches the new spinoff

    15:00 - Outro

    • Andon Labs' Luna fires people now: https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-bosses-2
      • Euro edition: https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm
      • OG Andon Market post: https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch
        • "She spent over $700 on getting her artwork done on gallery-quality giclée prints." Jfc.

    Oh yeah, I guess we also have a TikTok: @yellingatrobot (no idea why it's singular)

    16 min
  • Yelling at AI Bosses

    On today's yell, we discuss how AI adoption is a dumb thing to measure and why your new AI boss is gonna be your best friend.

    00:00 - Intro

    02:40 - Today on the show

    03:55 - Intro Intro

    04:12 - The chit chats to start

    11:59 - I love my AI boss

    20:47 - AI adoption isn't real

    22:28 - Yeah we're not talking about AI adoption

    23:51 - Outro

    • Dex Horthy on The Pragmatic Engineer: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/context-engineering-with-dex-horthy
    • Josh has Nix Psychosis
      • NixOS: https://nixos.org
      • Nix Home Manger: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Home_Manager
    • My AI boss is the best: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/ai-boss-san-francisco-andon-market.html
    • AI adoption is a myth: https://x.com/vasuman/status/2085806422072418632
    27 min
  • Yelling at a Dark Factory

    This week we yell about Claude's breakout from an jail with no bars and the battle to turn the lights on in software factories.

    00:00 - Intro

    01:52 - The new work that is less work

    04:08 - Today on the show

    07:56 - Anthropic goes balls deep on the internet

    19:31 - Building a dark factory

    32:23 - Outro

    • Anthropic goes ham on the internet
      • https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals
      • https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7dl7w8y7po
    • Lovely purple-pilled do the software article: https://x.com/itamar_mar/status/2082453557890945281
    • The harness is not enough / Why software factories fail by Dex Horthy (holy shit, what a good article and talk)
      • https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md
    34 min
  • Yelling Back at the Buns

    The Zig'pire strikes back with some retro shade-burns on the Bun Rust rewrite.

    Also OpenAI's baby model take a dump in the pool and we all have to clear out for a chlorine bomb.

    00:00 - Intro

    03:15 - Andrew Kelley has some thoughts

    12:51 - Who let the models out!

    26:28 - Outro

    • Andrew Kelley fires back at the buns! https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html
    • OpenAI's models hug the faces: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/technology/openai-attack-hugging-face.html
    • Jonathan Frakes
      • Beyond Belief drunk questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wYVdL8FsQ
      • Riker sits down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIGhYMwRgs
    27 min
  • Yelling with FDE's Buns

    We're back! Spitting on the Bun Rewrite blog post and the scourge of Forward Deployed Engineers (also JR will totally take a forward deployed engineer position if you would only return his calls, Anthropic!)

    00:00 - Intro

    01:32 - Today on the show

    03:02 - The BUN REWRITE

    15:59 - Smelly Foward Deployed Engineers

    21:49 - Outro

    • Why bun rewrite?! https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
    • Check out my Tiger Style! https://tigerstyle.dev/
      • Tiger Beetle Database: https://tigerbeetle.com/
      • And their cool AF demo: https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-07-11-we-put-a-distributed-database-in-the-browser/
    • Foward-deployed Spies Engineers: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-1-billion-forward-deployed-ai-engineers
    23 min
  • Yelling at Roadshow Edition

    We are back and better than ever.

    Bear with us as we...

    * Migrate our production pipeline to all open source products

    * Experiment with new microphones

    * Travel through space hoping that the next leap will be the leap home.

    00:00 - Intro

    01:40 - We talk mics

    02:44 - Microsoft's fun with Copilot

    09:52 - Wrap up / outro

    • Microsoft copilot incident: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/critical-copilot-vulnerability-allowed-hackers-to-seal-2fa-code-from-users/
    12 min

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