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  <title>579: The Insufferable Small Business</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <![CDATA[<p>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.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=darthjarjar">Coder QA</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=darthjarjar">Take $1 a month off your membership for a year, and contribute to our show directly!</a> Promo Code: darthjarjar</li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike" rel="nofollow" href="https://strike.me/">💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike</a> &mdash; Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats.</li><li><a title="📻 Boost with Fountain.FM" rel="nofollow" href="https://fountain.fm/show/OWdse4h3MzNbS8Og5RJk">📻 Boost with Fountain.FM</a> &mdash; Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀</li><li><a title="Small business owners are the most insufferable people on the planet" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/1aqpbnr/small_business_owners_are_the_most_insufferable/">Small business owners are the most insufferable people on the planet</a> &mdash; Small businesses are amazing and necessary and I love them, but the people behind them are the absolute worst. </li><li><a title="AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns" rel="nofollow" href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-effectively-useless-created-fake-194008129.html?guccounter=1">AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns</a> &mdash; “So anyone who's sort of a bit long in the tooth and has seen this sort of thing before is tempted to believe it'll end badly.”</li><li><a title="Squawk on the Street on X: &quot;&quot;America loves financial manias,&quot;" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/SquawkStreet/status/1810359584063705144">Squawk on the Street on X: ""America loves financial manias,"</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-generation-nuclear-energy-smr-job-hiring">Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions</a> &mdash; Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors to power its data centers and AI, according to a new job listing for someone to lead the way.</li><li><a title="Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzcJlKg2Rc0">Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC - YouTube</a> &mdash; We talked at length about his work, OpenAI's mission, and some of the criticisms that the young outfit is facing. We had fun, talking with him for this extended sit-down; hope you'll enjoy it, too.
</li><li><a title="The AI summer" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2024/7/9/the-ai-summer">The AI summer</a> &mdash; Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back.</li><li><a title="Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theverge.com/24191671/copilot-plus-pcs-laptops-qualcomm-intel-amd-apple">Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform</a> &mdash; We tested every Snapdragon X chip against the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8000, and Apple M3.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>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.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=darthjarjar">Coder QA</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=darthjarjar">Take $1 a month off your membership for a year, and contribute to our show directly!</a> Promo Code: darthjarjar</li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike" rel="nofollow" href="https://strike.me/">💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike</a> &mdash; Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats.</li><li><a title="📻 Boost with Fountain.FM" rel="nofollow" href="https://fountain.fm/show/OWdse4h3MzNbS8Og5RJk">📻 Boost with Fountain.FM</a> &mdash; Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀</li><li><a title="Small business owners are the most insufferable people on the planet" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/1aqpbnr/small_business_owners_are_the_most_insufferable/">Small business owners are the most insufferable people on the planet</a> &mdash; Small businesses are amazing and necessary and I love them, but the people behind them are the absolute worst. </li><li><a title="AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns" rel="nofollow" href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-effectively-useless-created-fake-194008129.html?guccounter=1">AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns</a> &mdash; “So anyone who's sort of a bit long in the tooth and has seen this sort of thing before is tempted to believe it'll end badly.”</li><li><a title="Squawk on the Street on X: &quot;&quot;America loves financial manias,&quot;" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/SquawkStreet/status/1810359584063705144">Squawk on the Street on X: ""America loves financial manias,"</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-generation-nuclear-energy-smr-job-hiring">Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions</a> &mdash; Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors to power its data centers and AI, according to a new job listing for someone to lead the way.</li><li><a title="Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzcJlKg2Rc0">Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC - YouTube</a> &mdash; We talked at length about his work, OpenAI's mission, and some of the criticisms that the young outfit is facing. We had fun, talking with him for this extended sit-down; hope you'll enjoy it, too.
</li><li><a title="The AI summer" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2024/7/9/the-ai-summer">The AI summer</a> &mdash; Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back.</li><li><a title="Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theverge.com/24191671/copilot-plus-pcs-laptops-qualcomm-intel-amd-apple">Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform</a> &mdash; We tested every Snapdragon X chip against the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8000, and Apple M3.</li></ul>]]>
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  <title>533: Critical Failure in Open Source</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
  <author>The Mad Botter</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>U.S. officials are warning open-source software could be a cyber security threat. Their solution? Money. But do we want them picking the winners and losers of open source?</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>54:42</itunes:duration>
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Plus, Mike's thoughts after using Cursor AI and a Cornell study take generated code to the shed. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>U.S. officials are warning open-source software could be a cyber security threat. Their solution? Money. But do we want them picking the winners and losers of open source?</p>

<p>Plus, Mike&#39;s thoughts after using Cursor AI and a Cornell study take generated code to the shed.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://tailscale.com/coder">Tailscale</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://tailscale.com/coder">Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. </a></li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web" rel="nofollow" href="https://getalby.com/">⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web</a> &mdash;  Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. </li><li><a title="🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org" rel="nofollow" href="https://podcastindex.org/podcast/487548">🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org</a> &mdash; Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.</li><li><a title="Harnessing Generative AI for Application Modernization at Speed and Scale" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/kyle-charlet/2023/08/22/harnessing-generative-ai-for-modernization">Harnessing Generative AI for Application Modernization at Speed and Scale</a> &mdash; hat happens when you have applications that have been curated and maintained by different authors of different elements over decades? </li><li><a title="2023 Speakers - OLF Conference" rel="nofollow" href="https://olfconference.org/speakers/">2023 Speakers - OLF Conference</a> &mdash; We are excited about our lineup of speakers for the 2023 OLF Conference! Read on to learn more about what they have to say.</li><li><a title="U.S. officials warning of potential cyber threat to U.S. infrastructure and power grid - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-h9aR35CQ">U.S. officials warning of potential cyber threat to U.S. infrastructure and power grid - YouTube</a> &mdash; CNBC's Eamon Javers reports on exclusive reporting around a cybersecurity threat. </li><li><a title="Cursor - The AI-first Code Editor" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cursor.so/">Cursor - The AI-first Code Editor</a> &mdash; Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI</li><li><a title="A Study on Robustness and Reliability of Large Language Model Code Generation" rel="nofollow" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10335">A Study on Robustness and Reliability of Large Language Model Code Generation</a> &mdash;     The evaluation results show that evenfor GPT-4, 62% of the generated code contains API misuses,which would cause unexpected consequences if the code isintroduced into real-world software. 

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    <![CDATA[<p>U.S. officials are warning open-source software could be a cyber security threat. Their solution? Money. But do we want them picking the winners and losers of open source?</p>

<p>Plus, Mike&#39;s thoughts after using Cursor AI and a Cornell study take generated code to the shed.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://tailscale.com/coder">Tailscale</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://tailscale.com/coder">Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. </a></li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web" rel="nofollow" href="https://getalby.com/">⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web</a> &mdash;  Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. </li><li><a title="🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org" rel="nofollow" href="https://podcastindex.org/podcast/487548">🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org</a> &mdash; Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.</li><li><a title="Harnessing Generative AI for Application Modernization at Speed and Scale" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/kyle-charlet/2023/08/22/harnessing-generative-ai-for-modernization">Harnessing Generative AI for Application Modernization at Speed and Scale</a> &mdash; hat happens when you have applications that have been curated and maintained by different authors of different elements over decades? </li><li><a title="2023 Speakers - OLF Conference" rel="nofollow" href="https://olfconference.org/speakers/">2023 Speakers - OLF Conference</a> &mdash; We are excited about our lineup of speakers for the 2023 OLF Conference! Read on to learn more about what they have to say.</li><li><a title="U.S. officials warning of potential cyber threat to U.S. infrastructure and power grid - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-h9aR35CQ">U.S. officials warning of potential cyber threat to U.S. infrastructure and power grid - YouTube</a> &mdash; CNBC's Eamon Javers reports on exclusive reporting around a cybersecurity threat. </li><li><a title="Cursor - The AI-first Code Editor" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cursor.so/">Cursor - The AI-first Code Editor</a> &mdash; Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI</li><li><a title="A Study on Robustness and Reliability of Large Language Model Code Generation" rel="nofollow" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10335">A Study on Robustness and Reliability of Large Language Model Code Generation</a> &mdash;     The evaluation results show that evenfor GPT-4, 62% of the generated code contains API misuses,which would cause unexpected consequences if the code isintroduced into real-world software. 

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