About this episode
The episode discusses Kronk, an AI tooling in Go, and its implications for the future of coding and engineering.
Matt and Kris welcome back Bill Kennedy who's been working on Kronk, AI tooling in Go. They go through what Kronk (and it's dependent library Yzma) is, the power of running models locally, and how they see coding agents and LLMs shaping the future of the industry. We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes the message-caching trick that turns seconds into thirty milliseconds, why hybrid models quietly wreck the KV cache, Bill's "thirty billion knobs" explainer for dense versus mixture-of-experts models, why demo day is destroying engineering teams, and the stealth-startup math nobody says out loud. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube. No episode of the aftershow this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Why Go for AI, and the Origin of Kronk (00:02:14) Chapter 2: What Kronk Is, an SDK to Kill…
People in this episode
Hosts: Matt, Kris
Guest: Bill Kennedy
Topics covered
- AI tooling
- Kronk
- coding agents
- LLMs
- engineering challenges
- model performance
Keywords
- AI
- Kronk
- Yzma
- coding agents
- LLMs
- model performance
- engineering teams
- message-caching
- hybrid models
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Kronk, Yzma, Hugging Face, GGUF, Claude 4.8, Fallthrough Media
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