148: The Bots Have Officially Taken Over

148: The Bots Have Officially Taken Over

June 8, 2026 · 59 min · Episode 148

About this episode

The episode discusses the rise of bot traffic, new programming languages, and recent tech news.

In this episode: people are still writing new programming language, Microsoft is going all "developers, developers, developers" again, and bots are apparently outnumbering humans on the web now. Timestamps: 1:55 - Bot traffic has passed human traffic5:28 - The Jam programming language12:04 - Jack at Microsoft Build29:26 - Cloudflare bought VoidZero34:46 - Red Hat is the latest victim of Shai Hulud38:39 - Anthropic wants AI dev to slow down41:35 - Someone used a Waymo in a robbery46:47 - What’...

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Hosts: TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

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Organizations: Microsoft, Cloudflare, VoidZero, Red Hat, Anthropic, Waymo

Books & works: The Jam programming language

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