About this episode
Kris and Ian discuss the decline of GitHub and the implications of AI on software development.
Kris and Ian dig into the slow collapse of GitHub, starting with Ghostty off the platform after years of reliability problems. From there they trace Gary Bernhardt's old observation that we took a decentralized source control system and immediately put it behind a single point of failure, then widen the lens into AI as the engine of enshittification. The episode lands on a more optimistic note: maybe AI is also the tool that lets individuals rebuild the apps they used to have to buy. We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes Kris's "AI was trained on the median of human code" argument, the institutional-memory thesis for why AI can't just replace people, a tour of the local-AI hardware landscape with Zig and llama.cpp, Ian's relatable "what is Cursor? what is Warp?" rant, a policy pitch on share-flipper voting rules, and a deep dive on typography as an anti-AI signal. 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 Break this week. We'll have more aftershow…
People in this episode
Hosts: Kris, Ian
Topics covered
- GitHub issues
- decentralization
- AI impact
- software development
- typography
- institutional memory
Keywords
- GitHub
- Ghostty
- AI
- decentralization
- software development
- typography
- institutional memory
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: GitHub, Ghostty, AI, Zig
Products: llama.cpp, Cursor, Warp
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