Anthropic×{Karpathy,Pope}, Themes Will Pwn You, The Warmth of a Private Subnet, Slack is Back, $100B For Charity
About this episode
The episode discusses various themes in technology and AI, including Andrej Karpathy's joining Anthropic and the implications of software development trends.
Shai-Hulud and GitHub Actions: trusted publishing is no longer the gold standard, just additive VS Code extensions as the next attack surface: 50M install themes that can shell out and auto-update silently Matt's AI-native package manager pitch: vendor everything, LLM-upgrade your deps by replaying upstream commits Tailscale and Cloudflare Mesh maxing: the warmth of the orange cloud over the cold open internet Google's Santa is now Northpole Santa, and Wilhelm runs it on the Mac mini Wilhelm is enamoured with atc.com: Enhanced Radar's $7M raise and following his own LAX delay live from the gate Amp Labs' "Software After Software" manifesto and Amp Neo as remote enterprise AI engineering Cloud agent adoption is still slower than we expected, and the amphetamine.app commute hack Karpathy joins Anthropic pre-training Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas: Anthropic's Chris Olah on stage at the Vatican on May 25 Chinese token resellers at 3 to 4 cents on the dollar and the RL distillation theory behind it PyCon vibe check: more handwritten Python than expected, and "AI is just a tool" is still a common take Slack is back: Benioff finally gets it, and messaging is the only sane UI for…
People in this episode
Hosts: Wilhelm Klopp, Matt Carey
Guest: Andrej Karpathy
Topics covered
- AI
- technology
- entrepreneurship
- software development
- philanthropy
- cloud computing
- messaging
Keywords
- Anthropic
- AI-native package manager
- Slack
- GitHub Actions
- philanthropy
- cloud computing
- software development
- Python
- multi-agent work
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Anthropic, GitHub, Tailscale, Cloudflare, Slack, Amp Labs, atc.com, Philip Morris, Amp Neo, Inc
Places: Vatican, Northpole
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