Coder Radio

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

564: Re-Re-Rewrite it in Rust

April 3rd, 2024  |  46 mins 36 secs

amazon, apple vision pro, ar, c++, coder radio, collaboration, dash carts, developers, development podcast, ffmpeg, florida, google, house, iss trash, just walk out, microsoft teams, productivity, rails update, rust, spatial personas, xz

Microsoft wins the foot-in-mouth award this week, and Google gets the Rust religion - but Mike is skeptical.

563: Mike’s No Good Very Bad Rails Update

March 27th, 2024  |  57 mins 16 secs

3 body problem, ai, apple, apple developer, apple vision pro, asset pipeline, barbara fried, c++ interop, c++ successor, coder radio, developers, development podcast, esm, expensive elephant, feedback, github, google carbon, helix, huggingface, importmap-rails, iphon, lm studio, local llms, netflix, nostr, nvidia, rails, rcs support, sbf, sentencing submission, text editor, vanilla js, wwdc 2024, xr, youtube

Mike makes the case for just going vanilla, a look at Google Carbon, and then we address the expensive elephant in the room.

562: Apple Loses It's Shine

March 22nd, 2024  |  1 hr 8 mins

antitrust, app store, apple, carplay, cloud gaming, coder radio, competition, developer restrictions, developers, development podcast, digital wallets, doj, green bubbles, innovation, iphone, lawsuit, monopoly, payments, pricing, smartwatches, stock buybacks, streaming apps, super apps, user lock-in

The antitrust gloves are off as Apple’s legal brawl with Uncle Sam kicks into high gear. We dig through the documents and are surprised by a few things that seem off.

561: No CUDA for You!

March 13th, 2024  |  23 mins 50 secs

algebraic data types, brad neuberg, chinese gpu makers, coder radio, cuda, developers, development podcast, eula, immutable data, java, jeff bezos, linux, market share, meta, monopoly, nvidia, pengwin, record classes, rust, sealed interfaces, translation layers, zluda, zuck

NVIDIA locks CUDA down further, and we ponder what it might take to break their stranglehold on the market, Zuck's brilliant move that put an egg on his face, and we take a minute to appreciate new developments with Java.