Dependencies All The Way Down

About this episode

Kris and Matthew discuss AI's impact on coding, workflow philosophies, and recent industry developments.

Another week, another Fallthrough! In this episode, Kris and Matthew discuss a personal realization about what AI actually unlocks, their workflow philosophies, local models, a recent hot take from Mitchell Hashimoto, and a thought experiment that would break the NPM ecosystem overnight. Like the previous episode (a pseudo part 1), this episode returns to one question: are you moving in a direction, or just moving fast? Kris argues AI has lifted his coding domain ceiling entirely, while Matthew brings some nuance to the "just submit to the LLM, you're an architect now" take. The duo then turns outward: frontier lab CEOs claiming all white-collar work is automated while posting 300 open roles, the strong case for running local models (free, fast, and available right now), and a GitHub supply chain wake-up call triggered by a malicious VSCode plugin installed by an employee. We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes Matthew's Shopify in-store pickup problem and whether building your own cash register on Stripe is actually feasible, Kris going deep on typography after Claude critiqued its own publication designs as screaming AI, the pre-fill versus decode speed…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kris, Matthew

Topics covered

• AI
• workflow philosophies
• local models
• NPM ecosystem
• coding
• GitHub supply chain
• typography

Keywords

• AI
• local models
• NPM ecosystem
• GitHub
• Stripe
• typography
• workflow

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub, Stripe, Claude

Places: Rhode Island

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