The Spy Who Banned Me
About this episode
The episode discusses AI development, government regulations, and the implications of technology on national security.
It's Fallthrough time! In this episode, Kris, Matthew, and Steve get into the time Steve pointed Anthropic's Fable at a side project he hadn't touched since January and watched it shepherd 95 pull requests in three days, the US government export banning Fable and its sibling Mythos, the insanity of Mythos popping a national security agency's boxes in a matter of hours, and why a software engineer that runs 24/7 for anyone with an account is exactly the kind of thing governments get nervous about. We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes whether your AI agents should file their bugs in your repo or on a private board where they can make as big a mess as they want, the model that forged itself a cookie to get around a testing problem and what it means for an AI to actually understand being a software developer, Steve's deliberately-out-of-context claim that millennials are the only people who know how computers work, Trump signing a quantum cryptography order while openly asking what the whole thing even is, Kris's year-long sales tax rabbit hole where nobody can agree where a person physically is, and the Diet Coke can math that says one exploding rocket is…
People in this episode
Hosts: Kris, Matthew, Steve
Topics covered
- AI development
- government regulation
- software engineering
- national security
- technology trends
Keywords
- AI agents
- pull requests
- export ban
- software developer
- quantum cryptography
- sales tax
- technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Anthropic, Fable, Mythos, US government, national security agency
Products: quantum cryptography
Places: YouTube
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