Episode Details

“The age of the idea guys has begun.”

Justin & Gigi vibe about Zig.

Articles mentioned:

• LLMs as a tool for thought by Amelia Wattenberger
• Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs by Nick Szabo
• How our interfaces have lost their senses by Amelia Wattenberger

Talks mentioned:

• The Art of Bitcoin Rhetoric by Bitstein

Books mentioned:

• Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
• Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal

In this dialogue:

• nak 
• Files
• SyncThing (and how it BitTorrent Sync became Resilio Sync) 
• Convention over configuration 
• Changes & speciation 
• File systems as sources of truth 
• Vibe-coding shower thoughts 
• Inspiration and The Muse 
• Justin's LLM setup 
• Tony's setup (o1-pro as the architect) 
• Being okay with paying for LLMs 
• Anthropomorphising LLMs
• Dialog, rubber-duck debugging, and the process of thinking 
• Being nice and mean to LLMs
• Battlebots & Gladiators
• Hedging your bets by being nice to Skynet
• Pascal's Wager for AI
• Thinking models vs non-thinking faster models
• Sandwich-style LLM prompting, again (w