Episode Details

It's Fallthrough time! In this episode, Kris, Matthew, and Steve get into the time Steve pointed Anthropic's Fable at a side project he hadn't touched since January and watched it shepherd 95 pull requests in three days, the US government export banning Fable and its sibling Mythos, the insanity of Mythos popping a national security agency's boxes in a matter of hours, and why a software engineer that runs 24/7 for anyone with an account is exactly the kind of thing governments get nervous about.

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Table of Contents:

• Prologue (00:00:00)
• Chapter 1: Burning the Whole Allotment, 95 PRs in Three Days (00:01:56)
• Chapter 2: Beads vs Linear, Where Agents Keep Their Bugs [Extended] (00:07:24)
• Chapter 3: Is Fable Coming Back? Export Controls and the NSA Hack (00:07:24)
• Chapter 5: A Software Engineer in Every Pocket, Running 24/7 (00:12:57)
• Chapter 6: Anthropic Can't Explain Itself, Dario and the Death of Media Training (00:15:20)
• Chapter 13: People Are People, Contradictions and Closing the Loop (00:19:16)
• Epilogue (00:23:33)

Hosts

• Matthew Sanabria - Host
• Kris Brandow - Host
• Steve Klabnik - Host

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• (00:00) - Prologue
• (01:56) - Chapter 1: Burning the Whole Allotment, 95 PRs in Three Days
• (07:24) - Chapter 3: Is Fable Coming Back? Export Controls and the NSA Hack
• (12:57) - Chapter 5: A Software Engineer in Every Pocket, Running 24/7
• (15:20) - Chapter 6: Anthropic Can't Explain Itself, Dario and the Death of Media Training
• (19:16) - Chapter 13: People Are People, Contradictions and Closing the Loop
• (23:33) - Epilogue