About this episode

The episode features a mix of personal anecdotes and discussions on technology, including a live demonstration of a Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Friday night rolls around and The Gay Mix is back, but not before a near-death experience at Adam's house. Crisis averted — the brown recluse spider has been killed and flushed, though Daniel helpfully reminds us it was dangling "like the sword of Damocles" above Adam's head. Daniel, meanwhile, is still not running, blaming a back injury for skipping the annual Pulse 4.9K Pride Run in Orlando. It has nothing to do with the 120-degree Florida heat. Nothing at all. It's medical reasons, Adam. Medical reasons alone. The show kicks off with Adam promoting Auntie Scott's YouTube channel (Auntie Vera Charles 50, go subscribe), before Daniel goes full AI evangelist, pushing back on an article claiming software engineers are drowning in depression over AI-generated code. The software craftsmen are the insufferable pedantic types who care whether your variable is camel-cased, and Daniel has news for them: the code is irrelevant. He's doing an entire dev team's work in an hour with Codex and hasn't looked at actual code in months. Somewhere, a software craftsman is weeping into his well-commented function.Then things take a turn for the nerdy. Daniel drags Adam into a live…

People in this episode

Hosts: Adam Burns, Daniel Brewer

Topics covered

• technology
• LGBTQ culture
• software development
• personal stories
• math
• AI

Keywords

• LGBTQ
• software engineering
• AI
• Diffie-Hellman
• Pride Run
• YouTube
• math

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Codex

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