About this episode
The episode discusses the broken state of the supply chain and the implications of AI on security and dependencies.
After last week's "Another Spectre In The Shell" episode, we felt we needed a follow up! This week Kris is joined by returning co-host Jamie Tanna, with Ian arriving fashionably late. They pick apart the post-Mythos announcement hype cycle, cover counter-narratives from the security community, and examine why our supply chain is already so broken that more powerful LLM barely changes the threat model. The conversation builds toward Jamie's unpop: "a little copying is better than a little dependency" is wrong, we should have more dependencies and then into practical supply chain defense. The episode closes on an infinite-mindset note: supply chain security will never be done and we'll always have things to improve. Supporter content? This episode has a ton of it! If you haven't become a supporter yet, this is the episode to do it! In this week's extras we've got a critique of the "37,000 lines of code a day" claim, Kris's argument that we've squandered most productivity gains in history so why would AI be different, Claude Code fatigue and learning versus delegating, a deep yak-shave into why Kris hates Markdown and is building his publishing platform in raw HTML, a love letter to…
People in this episode
Host: Kris
Guest: Jamie Tanna
Topics covered
- supply chain
- security
- AI
- dependencies
- productivity
- software development
Keywords
- supply chain
- security community
- AI threat model
- dependencies
- productivity gains
- Markdown
- Claude Code fatigue
- VAT
- Fallthrough bingo card
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Fallthrough Media, Anthropic
Products: Markdown, Claude, Stripe
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