About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of AI on the tech industry, including token usage, big tech spending, and recent security incidents.
Has AI eaten all of tech? Is 600 billion tokens too many use in a single month? On this week's episode Matt joins Kris to talk about some of the current news in the tech industry. From OpenClaw's maintainer burning through $1.3 million worth of tokens to why we need more epistemic markers, to the rather absurd $725 billion that big tech plans to spend on AI CapEx this year. And of course, there are layoffs coming as well. Support content? We've got a whole bunch of that! This week that includes a ZFS war story where a thousand-fold write amplification bug stalls every file write, the case for why LLMs hand you mediocre output by default, today's OAuth and GitHub security incidents traced back to a standards fight twenty years ago, a spicy take on who actually holds power inside big tech, and Matthew hand-writing an HTTP server in Rust just to fight off skill atrophy. 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…
People in this episode
Host: Kris
Guest: Matt
Topics covered
- AI in technology
- token usage
- big tech spending
- layoffs in tech
- security incidents
- LLMs output quality
- ZFS war stories
Keywords
- AI
- tokens
- big tech
- layoffs
- ZFS
- GitHub
- LLMs
- security incidents
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OpenClaw, GitHub, ZFS, AI, Fallthrough Media
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