Episode Details

Table of Contents

• Stock Options and AI Models
  • Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
  • Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
  • Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
• Innovative Tech Developments
  • Ember-1
  • Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
  • Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)
• Software Pitfalls and Insights
  • Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"
  • Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]
  • Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account
• Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
  • Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS?”
  • Lunar Terminator Paradox
  • Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?
• Programming and Community Concerns
  • The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
  • Don't couple your Go code to GitHub