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In episode 50, Justin Moon discusses AI psychosis and the evolving role of code production in activism.

The big episode 50! Justin Moon from HRF joins Pete and Andy to talk about "AI psychosis". The crew dig into HRF's work equipping activists with encrypted tools, why code production isn't the bottleneck anymore, how civil society becomes the crucial third pillar and whether we're returning to a frontier society where willpower beats credentials. **Key Moments:** - [02:07] "I've had AI psychosis going on for nine months now" - [03:14] "I got really good at managing people and now I don't have to do that" - [04:01] "I do projects and they fail. And then six months later, they start to work." - [05:01] Agent searched his GitHub, found 8 related prototypes, built Pica (encrypted Nostr messaging) in a day - [06:20] Android OS replacement: "I could disable parts of Android and paint the screen a color using non-Google code" - [09:15] "I used to write 100 lines of code a day. Now I can write 10,000. But I don't have the same confidence." - [10:18] "The bottleneck isn't code production anymore. It's review. And in many cases, testing." - [11:14] Tutorial steps on PRs: "Spoon feed me one idea at a time&quot…

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