No Country for Old Maintainers

About this episode

Jamie and Kris discuss recent tech breaches, the AI hype cycle, and the challenges faced by software maintainers.

Jamie returns, co-hosting with Kris for quite an eventful episode. They start with the Vercel breach, the Axios attack, nvim-treesitter, and Gorilla Mux. Kris draws parallels between the current AI hype cycle to everything that came before: Photoshop was going to destroy photographers, DAWs were going to destroy musicians, and now Claude Code is going to destroy software engineers. Just like the last episode, this one is filled with supporter only content. It's actually an extra episode and a half! This includes a deep dive on OAuth scope design and why consent screens need the Let's Encrypt treatment, Anthropic locking out third-party harnesses, sandboxing LLMs with sandbox-exec and agent-safehouse, Jamie on "no is a complete sentence" and Renovate's unusually pro-maintainer code of conduct, Kris's pitch for $100M of LLM spend going to help maintainers triage backlogs instead of Mythos-style vulnerability hunting, the real complexity behind finance departments and why $250M wire transfers need entire treasury teams, the math on a $800 used 3090 running Qwen 3.5 at Sonnet-level capability, and Anthropic's pivot toward non-engineers with Claude Design and Claude Cowork. Not a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jamie, Kris

Topics covered

• AI hype cycle
• software engineering
• OAuth scope design
• maintainers
• finance departments
• vulnerability hunting

Keywords

• Vercel breach
• Axios attack
• AI
• OAuth
• maintainers
• finance
• vulnerability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vercel, Axios, Anthropic

Products: nvim-treesitter, Gorilla Mux, Claude Code, Let's Encrypt, Renovate, Qwen 3.5, Claude Design, Claude Cowork

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