Dax and Adam talk about melted protein bars and the weather in Missouri, to deeper reflections on living conditions, food choices, aging, and the impact of technology on their lives. City versus suburban living, the complexities of homelessness, the current AI hype cycle, programming practices, and the evolution of technology trends, highlighting the challenges and excitement that come with adapting to new tools and workflows.
Links:
Gartner hype cycle - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle)
v0 by Vercel (https://v0.app/)
ThePrimeagen - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/theprimeagen)
Arch Linux (https://archlinux.org/)
Buy Mac Studio - Apple (CA) (https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio)
i3 – i3: improved tiling X11 window manager (https://i3wm.org/)
Raycast - Your shortcut to everything (https://www.raycast.com/)
AeroSpace Guide (https://nikitabobko.github.io/AeroSpace/guide)
WezTerm - Wez’s Terminal Emulator (https://wezterm.org/index.html)
Ghostty (https://ghostty.org/)
GitHub - sst/opentui: OpenTUI is a TypeScript library for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs) (https://github.com/sst/opentui)
Bun – A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime (https://bun.sh/)
Home ⚡ Zig Programming Language (https://ziglang.org/)
GitHub - BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)
The Go Programming Language (https://go.dev/)
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Topics:
(00:00) - Adam's going cordless
(00:34) - Protein bars melt in the Florida heat
(03:28) - Is there anything good about living in Missouri?
(07:23) - Cursed with the knowledge of better things
(11:38) - Living in the city vs rural country life
(13:48) - Explaining homelessness to your kids
(22:01) - Every city needs two mayors
(23:31) - Eras of tech Twitter
(26:25) - Where is AI coding in the hype cycle?
(35:08) - Knowing when to reach for AI
(42:52) - Dax's window management hack
(46:17) - Local LLMs on macOS
(49:00) - Wezterm vs Ghostty
(53:28) - We need to talk about OpenTUI
(01:06:37) - Being born sucks
(01:11:30) - How did we survive castles and dragons and war?
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19 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT
Why Does Everyone Hate Software Developers?
Candy and fake sugar, Adam has so many vacuums, weird AI startup vibes and optimization brags, working with different AI models, how we decide what our default prompt is, the normie view of GPT5, and why do you hate software engineers?
Links:
JOYRIDE (https://www.joyridesweets.com/)
GATSBY Chocolate 🍫 (@gatsbychocolate) (https://www.instagram.com/gatsbychocolate/)
Vacuum Cleaning | Miele (https://www.mieleusa.com/c/vacuum-cleaning-54.htm)
Amp (https://ampcode.com/)
A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home. (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/)
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Topics:
(00:00) - Stop talking
(00:27) - Using the retail box of stuff
(01:05) - Candy and fake sugar (brought to you by Element drinks)
(07:31) - Adam has a vacuum in every room of his house
(12:01) - AI startup vibes
(28:38) - Weird optimization brags
(30:25) - Adam's not checking his email anymore
(31:35) - Working with Chinese AI models
(32:23) - What is our default prompt?
(44:53) - The normie view of GPT5
(51:53) - Focusing on smaller and faster
(54:37) - Why do people hate software engineers?
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5 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT
Dax Is Ready to Be So Right About Parenting
What it's like working on software that has a lot of competition, how opencode might handle permissions and ditching features, living like a dog in the moment, and Dax is ready to be right about everything—including parenting.
Links:
Fireship - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/Fireship)
Gemini AI video generator powered by Veo 3 (https://gemini.google/overview/video-generation/?utm_medium=paid-media&utm_source=sem&utm_campaign=veo&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=2024enCA_gemfeb&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22427824740&gbraid=0AAAAApk5BhlvCNGzcyrZekLdQ1zGF2T4_&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIya_r7rHqjgMVtczCBB3UsTtKEAAYASAAEgIZbvD_BwE)
opencode | AI coding agent built for the terminal (https://opencode.ai/)
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Topics:
(00:00) - Dax Jr will be the perfect sleeper
(00:37) - Adam is all about the content creation
(02:27) - Streamlining Dax's video published workflow
(07:53) - How do movies even get made?
(14:43) - Working on something with lots of competition
(21:26) - Features that are stupid
(26:28) - How a user is using permissions
(34:14) - Figuring out how many people are using Opencode
(36:45) - Livining in the moment like a dog
(46:45) - How does the world even work?
(53:28) - Dax's zen mode vs Adam's blowtorch
(55:58) - Dax is ready to be right about everything about parenting
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Why Does Everyone Hate Software Developers?
Published 19 Aug 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So someone's measuring this. So I think they'll be able to see, okay, are there like within the same provider, are there like dips and and increases and stuff? They should just do the one test that every developer wants to know, which is like when the US developers wake up and start working, does it really get worse? Because everybody seems to think so. It's really interesting. Oh, interesting. You think the people that have, oh yeah, I guess the people that have like overlapping time zones, they like feel it get worse. Well, yeah, this is the anthropic thing that people can play. And that Sonnet gets way dumber during US working hours. […]
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