1014: Anthropic doesn’t use AI

Scott, Wes, and CJ reunite fresh off a trip to Amsterdam to chat conferences, burnout, and whether Anthropic actually uses AI. They also dig into a packed bag of sick picks and tech news, including HTML streaming in Chrome, an image-to-ASCII generator, and a wild Arch Linux supply chain attack.

Show Notes

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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

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02:15 Anthropic Doesn’t Use AI

• Thariq’s Tweet (x.com/trq212/status/2064826394589442448)

• Tweet Response (x.com/sammcallister/status/2064692964559835489)

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06:15 Taste and Vision in Prompting Output

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10:50 Wes and Scott’s Slide Decks

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18:05 Amsterdam Trip Recap

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26:09 Are Conferences worth it?

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27:21 Amsterdam Trip Recap

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31:17 Fable 5 First Impressions

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33:45 Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Banned

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41:45 IRL Events Are Great For Burnout

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45:12 Brought to you by Sentry.io (sentry.io/syntax)

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45:52 HTML Streaming now in Chrome (developer.chrome.com/blog/declarative-partial-…)

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55:47 Image to ASCII Generator (mitos-pied.vercel.app)

• The Mitos Repo (github.com/oxidecomputer/mitos)

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01:01:31 Find Modern Module Replacements (replacements.fyi)

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01:05:55 Scott is Using MacOS / iOS Betas

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01:09:25 Xiaomi OpenCode Fork (mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-5-pro) and Mimo 2.5 Pro

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01:14:06 Agent Dashboards

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01:21:39 Arch Linux Supply Chain Attack (discuss.cachyos.org/t/aur-compromised-almost-2…)

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01:23:47 Should we train coding only models?

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01:31:37 Thanks!

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