Big change brings big change (News)

About this episode

The episode discusses recent significant events in technology, including AI advancements and new hardware releases.

This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We've also got a heartfelt take on what it feels like to be a 10x engineer in the age of AI, plus some cool new tools like Handy for speech-to-text and web haptics. Oh, and new MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max are up for pre-order. Try not to impulse buy (or do).

Topics covered

• AI advancements
• software development
• open source
• technology news
• new tools
• hardware updates

Keywords

• Iran
• AWS
• Claude
• OpenAI
• GPT-5.4
• DOOM
• Handy
• MacBook Pro
• M5 Pro
• M5 Max

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Iran, AWS, OpenAI

Products: Claude, GPT-5.4, Handy, MacBook Pro, M5 Pro, M5 Max

Books & works: DOOM

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