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The hosts discuss health, AI trends, and conference themes while sharing personal experiences and technical insights.

Chris, Andrew, and David catch up on health, sleep deprivation, and the new Invincible season and Fallout. David shares some RubyConf CFP submissions news and this year’s broad conference themes. They discuss Andrew finishing difficult authentication work, touching on OAuth/SSO complexity and pricing, the idea of products built more for bots than humans, and where AI is proving useful, especially for debugging and research. The conversation eventually widens into a more skeptical look at the ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill

Topics covered

• health
• AI trends
• authentication
• conferences
• debugging
• research

Keywords

• health
• sleep deprivation
• AI
• authentication
• RubyConf
• OAuth
• SSO
• debugging

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RubyConf, OAuth, SSO

Books & works: Invincible, Fallout

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