Episodes
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580: Error Lake
July 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
ai safety, amd, bsod, chip manufacturing, coder radio, cpu crashes, crowdstrike, developers, development podcast, driver error, employee agreements, european commission, government regulation, instability, intel, kernel panic, llama, meta, microcode error, microsoft, nondisclosure agreements, open-source ai, openai, security software, water scarcity, whistleblowers
Our thoughts on the CrowdStrike outage and why Intel is in the hot seat with developers.
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579: The Insufferable Small Business
July 17th, 2024 | 52 mins 35 secs
adobe photoshop performance, ai bubble, ai carbon emissions, battery life, benchmarks, bigtech, blender performance, capex, climate change, coder radio, compute infrastructure, copilot plus pcs, data centers, developer support, developers, development podcast, enterprise adoption, gpu performance, investment risks, llms, macbook air comparison, native arm64 support, nuclear power, overvaluation, power grid, product integration, snapdragon x cpus, stock market, water consumption, windows on arm, x86 emulation
Are small business owners just the worst? The rant that hits close to home. And how AI is looking more like a unicorn, not a horse, but big tech keeps trying to put a saddle on it.
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578: Cancel the 100X
July 10th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
apple apps, apple intelligence, bloomberg, chatgpt integration, coder radio, context-aware assistance, developer beta, developers, development podcast, display interaction, generative ai, ios 18.4, mark gurman, photo editing, public launch, release timeline, siri, wwdc announcement delay
Apple finally stands down in its battle with Epic, and Google gets caught with its hand in the full access to everything jar.
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577: Holy Order of the Admins
July 2nd, 2024 | 47 mins 50 secs
advanced features, ai, alice ai, apple intelligence, aspen institute, bugs, character.ai, chatgpt, coder radio, computing resources, developer, developers, development podcast, docker, eq, events, fountain, github issue, google, indeed, iq, jar-jar desktop, lary summers, macos, meta, migration, mitigations, monthly fees, no-li brewhouse, obj-c, oneapi, open-source, oses, perforce, piper, regression testing, repository operations, research partnerships, retail demos, rosetta, rust, smtp, software development job postings, source control, spokane meetup, st. louis fed, sycl, system76, tdd, terminal, testgen-llm, testing, unit test improvement, user stories, vision pro, xai
Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests, and the crazy deals new AI companies are getting themselves into to access hardware.
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576: The New 800-pound Gorilla
June 26th, 2024 | 59 mins 15 secs
ai-generated, anti-steering, antitrust, app store, apple, bots, bundling, coder radio, developers, development podcast, dma, eu, fake images, microsoft, mof, open source ai, osi, social media, teams
Big Tech vs. Big Brother, how Ashley Madison predicted the rise of AI bots and the messy world of "open source" AI.
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575: The Omakub Directive
June 19th, 2024 | 51 mins 36 secs
ai features, anthropic, apple silicon, arm notebook, bad performance, bamboohr survey, benefit corporation, blame employees, coder radio, desktop linux, developers, development podcast, easy bluetooth, ecosystem, embedded open source summit, employee job satisfaction, firm performance, firm values, for-profit corporation, green status effect, hyper-available, ipados, linux, managers, microsoft, nonprofit board, notes, office culture, openai, operating system, phone syncing, privacy, qualcomm, reassert control, recall, return to office, rto mandates, s&p 500, scapegoat, security safeguards, snapdragon, soc, spyware, stock market index, usb-c, wwdc, xai
A couple of our long-standing forecasts are coming true. We unpack the recent developments. Plus, our thoughts on OpenAI going commercial and more.
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574: Craig Stans Unite
June 12th, 2024 | 40 mins 25 secs
ai, apple, apple intelligence, chatgpt, coder radio, developers, development podcast, generative ai, ios 18, ipados 18, macos sequoia, privacy, siri, wwdc 2024, xcode 16
Our thoughts and reactions to Apple's WWDC '24, and more importantly what was missed.
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573: The Ultimate Computer
June 5th, 2024 | 54 mins 2 secs
ai, ai safety, arm holdings, azure, ceo, chatgpt outage, chip designer, coder radio, developers, development podcast, google privacy breach, hololens, microsoft, microsoft layoffs, openai, openai whistleblowers, reckless culture, right to warn, tech layoffs, windows developers, windows pc market
The story of how Mike got in a fight with a supercomputer and, like Captain Kirk, came out on top.
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572: Foxes In The Henhouse
May 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
.net, ai, ai hysterics, ai monitoring, ai safety, ai safety and security, ai safety panel, ai supercomputer, arm64 packages, artificial intelligence safety and security board, biden, c#, chatgpt, coder radio, developers, development podcast, dhs, elon musk, escaping conveniences, google, google ai, hallucinations, lock object, meetings, microsoft teams, ml models, ml.net, non-copilot pc, npu, openai, params modifier, reddit, safety team, sam altman, scarlett johansson, scheduled meetings, search experience, seo, side meetings, threading issues, us office workers, wfh, windows recall, xai
OpenAI has a new security team led by Sam Altman, and the Biden Administration has a new AI security board led by Sam Altman. We also discuss C# 13 and .Net 9, popping bubbles, and more.
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571: Old Wine New Bottle
May 22nd, 2024 | 45 mins 23 secs
acer, ai in android, ai investments, ai market, ai models, ai revenue, alibaba, amd, asus, coder radio, copilot+ pcs, dell, developer story, developers, development podcast, gemini, generative ai, google ai answers, google i/o, hp, intel, kernel, lenovo, m3 macbook air, macbook air, microsoft branded quest kit, microsoft news, microsoft quest api, npu performance, openai upgrades, qualcomm, race to the bottom, scheduler, snapdragon x elite, surface laptop 7, surface pro, volumetric api, windows compiler, windows copilot runtime, windows on arm, windows recall, x86 translation layer
Big Tech's latest AI flex? More like a desperate grab for attention. Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft are hyping up underwhelming updates while Sam Altman spills the tea on their shady motives.
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570: 4o
May 15th, 2024 | 28 mins 46 secs
ai overviews, axion processor, bizdev, chatgpt-4o, coder radio, darth jarjar, developers, development podcast, disney plus, framework 16, gemini, generative ai, google i/o 2024, google search, gpt-5, hp dev one, invitation homes, jetbrains, lego, liquid cooled data centers, mandatory isp, multi-step reasoning, nvidia blackwell gpus, openai, pop_os!, privacy implications, pycharm, rubymine, service quality, stack overflow, star wars, text evaluation, tpus, trillium, value
OpenAI has pulled a fast one, and everyone is eating it up.
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569: Whatever It Takes
May 8th, 2024 | 39 mins 44 secs
ad-pocalypse, agi, ai advancements, ai impact on labor market, apple ai strategy, apple vision pro, big tech spending, blackrock ceo larry fink, chatgpt in peripherals, coder radio, developers, development podcast, foss, job changes, junior developer careers, linux interest, meta vr, mike in nyc, morality in the workplace, nix, perl, ruby, sam altman
Altman's on a spending spree for AGI – why the huge price tag? Mike's back from NYC with juicy API gossip, and we break down the incentives pumping up a giant AI bubble.
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568: The Junior Jump
May 1st, 2024 | 35 mins 15 secs
coder radio, delta emulator, developers, development podcast, ftc, logitech ai, noncompete ban, small business
How one clever developer has launched his own Appstore on iOS, our thoughts on how this was pulled off, and making a transition into development work late in life.
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567: The year of Small Models
April 24th, 2024 | 42 mins 53 secs
ai model, apple vision pro, ar, business, chatbots, coder radio, developers, development podcast, google, llama 3, meta, meta horizon os, microsoft, open platform, phi-3, protest, small ai model, vr, workplace
Llama 3 and Phi-3-mini are up and running on phones, Raspberry Pis, and we give them a go. Plus Google kills the vibe, and Meta opens up Horizon OS.
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566: FOSS Feed & Care
April 17th, 2024 | 29 mins 51 secs
1998, andres freund, backdoor, catastrophic failure, coder radio, core infrastructure initiative, corporate it budget, data degradation, debian, developers, development podcast, dominickm.com, eight-inch floppies, floppy disks, funding fiasco, google, heartbleed, liblzma, linux foundation, microsoft, open source, openssl, performance regression testing, postgresql, rail system, san francisco, state grants, supply chain, train control system, xz utils
We delve into the top 3 open-source revenue streams, expose the pitfalls, and discuss what could be done quickly to improve the situation.
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565: The Great Llama
April 10th, 2024 | 50 mins 11 secs
coder radio, developers, development podcast, gen z, google axion, google cloud next 2024, google vids, google workspace, llma3, meta, mike rowe, online jobs for teens, open-source, trade jobs, work-from-home stem jobs, workforce challenges
Why does Meta give away Llma for free? What's in it for them?
Plus, our thoughts on the data showing the trades are starting to see a boom, and new coding jobs are declining.