v51 - Praise-bomb

v51 - Praise-bomb

From Breaking Change by Justin Searls

February 16, 2026 · 2h 13m · Episode 57

About this episode

Justin Searls discusses various technology topics including gaming, AI, and recent news in the tech industry.

I feel like I'm getting saltier, and it's concerning. If you want me to tone it down and/or up, let me know. It'll go a lot better if you just write to podcast@searls.co instead of yelling at your phone. As usual, I brought the goods. Now here are the receipts: prove_it is doing its job, mostly Aaron's puns, ranked Starsand Island studio confused by alleged 'praise-bombing' attack Sony is considering holding back PlayStation 6 until 2028 or 2029 Southwest changes are infuriating fans ( News+ ) NYT: All the news that's fit to manspread Gurman: Tesla CarPlay Held Back by Need for Wider Adoption of Apple's iOS 26 ( Archive ) YouTube on Vision Pro ( News+ ) Apple Announces Special Event in New York, London, and Shanghai on March 4 Filed my first SwiftUI bug as feedback. It's FB21962656 Thoughtworks concludes TDD is good and billable juniors valuable Ugh, Anthropic CEO was right about the timing of AI writing all the code Peter Steinberger Chose OpenAI. The Code Was Never the Point Eternity Starfleet Academy Your Friends & Neighbors

People in this episode

Host: Justin Searls

Topics covered

  • technology
  • gaming
  • AI
  • software development
  • media
  • automotive

Keywords

  • praise-bomb
  • PlayStation 6
  • SwiftUI
  • AI writing
  • Tesla CarPlay
  • Apple event
  • Thoughtworks
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sony, Southwest, NYT, Apple, Thoughtworks, Anthropic, OpenAI

Products: PlayStation 6, SwiftUI, Vision Pro

Places: Starsand Island, Tesla

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