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)

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

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

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

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

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/

More Zucked up motherzucking at Meta (whew!) and the lads wax poetic on hiring in an AI age.

00:00 - Intro

01:21 - On today's show

02:38 - Meta implosion and coining the phrase...

05:28 - First ever YAR merch contest!

07:00 - Back to meta

11:40 - Interviewing after the before times

19:51 - Wrap up

21:13 - Outro

• Meta Prediction Markets: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/technology/meta-prediction-markets-app.html
• Zuck doing the opposite of this: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/255127.The_Fifth_Discipline

The Metastrophe continues as Supreme Commander Zuck his loyal lieutenants of fail-flail continue speed running with buckets of money turning their workforce into Reverse Centaurs. Would be great to watch if it didn't crush so many spirits along the way. On the plus side, the pay is still great! Also we talk about the loopy loop craze and why if you're not using them you are piece of human garbage.

00:00 - Intro

03:17 - On today's show

03:30 - Catching up on the week

06:36 - What's Reverse Centaur?

08:25 - Meta dumpster fire continues

16:01 - Who will loop the loops?

19:31 - Closing thoughts

Galaxy Brain Episode: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/06/how-to-think-about-ai-before-its-too-late/687644/

Meta death spiral

• Pragmatic Engineer article: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering
• (One of) Gergly's tweets: https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2066922314197852376

Going deep on the dystopian vision for Metatrons, the best paid piece rate workers in the history of labor and the new reality of looping yourself to success.

Ride the worm ripping through the internet's guts along with the lads as they do a debrief on their recent website coding episode, wax nostalgic about times when they could install a software package with only a 10% chance of acquiring an internet infection AND some melancholic musings on the future of humanity. Also, worms!

00:00 - Intro

00:49 - On today's episode

01:50 - Website retro & announcement

11:45 - Ian cleans his camera

12:21 - You've got worms!

20:59 - Anxiety in the age of AI

40:31 - Closing thoughts

40:50 - Outro

Yelling at robots site! https://yellingatrobots.com/

Tan Stack Attack

• Overview: https://www.wiz.io/blog/mini-shai-hulud-strikes-again-tanstack-more-npm-packages-compromised
• Postmortem: https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem

Sad wives of AI: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/