{Trail,Tri}-Racing, Grind slop, Sloptember, Opus 4.8 Rollercoaster, Dynamic Workflows, Compaction

About this episode

The episode discusses various topics including triathlons, work culture, and dynamic workflows in technology.

Matt's Portuguese vineyard 22K with salted-cod finisher medals Wilhelm's Olympic tri on the edge of Yosemite Matt's winging race: reigning windsurfing world champ finishes second to last, Matt third to last Harry Stebbings on the Corgi Insurance founder: 3am office cafe, two-thirds with the corgi tattoo Juliette: "a long tweet to say you have no hobbies" Karri at Linear vs the six-monthly 996 debate The secret company gym spreadsheet George Hotz's Eternal Sloptember Matt's tolerance rebuttal: if you can't tell, it is correct Benedict Evans on Lenny's: the SPAC era of AI labs? Sergio shipped Root from last week's pod ask Opus 4.8 vibe whiplash Ultra code mode is sparkly purple Dynamic workflows: Jarred rewrote Bun in Rust in a week Compaction is a harness problem Herdr.dev: one terminal for the whole herd Links: George Hotz, "The Eternal Sloptember" — https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html Karri Saarinen (Linear) rejects 996 hustle culture — https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/why-this-1-billion-startup-ceo-rejects-996-hustle-culture/500649 Benedict Evans on Lenny's Podcast, a rational conversation on where AI is going —…

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt Carey, Wilhelm Klopp

Topics covered

• triathlon
• entrepreneurship
• technology
• AI
• work culture
• dynamic workflows

Keywords

• triathlon
• Sloptember
• dynamic workflows
• AI
• work culture
• Corgi Insurance
• Herdr.dev

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Corgi Insurance, Linear, Claude, Herdr.dev

Products: Opus 4.8

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