Another week, another Fallthrough! In this episode, Kris and Matthew discuss a personal realization about what AI actually unlocks, their workflow philosophies, local models, a recent hot take from Mitchell Hashimoto, and a thought experiment that would break the NPM ecosystem overnight.Like the previous episode (a pseudo part 1), this episode returns to one question: are you moving in a direction, or just moving fast? Kris argues AI has lifted his coding domain ceiling entirely, while Matthew brings some nuance to the "just submit to the LLM, you're an architect now" take. The duo then turns outward: frontier lab CEOs claiming all white-collar work is automated while posting 300 open roles, the strong case for running local models (free, fast, and available right now), and a GitHub supply chain wake-up call triggered by a malicious VSCode plugin installed by an employee.We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes Matthew's Shopify in-store pickup problem and whether building your own cash register on Stripe is actually feasible, Kris going deep on typography after Claude critiqued its own publication designs as screaming AI, the pre-fill versus decode speed gap and what it means for how you write prompts, how the US federal budget actually works day to day and why simple answers are the wrong frame, and Stripe's two-business-day payout model versus merchant of record, plus Rhode Island's ongoing war against Matthew's chocolate shop. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today!If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube.No episode of the aftershow this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show.Thanks for tuning in and happy listening!Table of Contents:Prologue (00:00:00)Chapter 1: AI as a Capability Unlock (00:02:21)Chapter 2: The Chocolate Shop Problem, or: Building vs. Understanding [Extended] (00:05:18)Chapter 3: The Adam Jacob Take and Multitudes of AI Workflows (00:05:44)Chapter 4: Personal Software is the Thing Now (00:18:55)Chapter 5: Fear of Being Left Behind, Speed vs. Velocity (00:23:43)Chapter 6: The Fog of Knowledge, Typography, and AI-Generated Mediocrity [Extended] (00:30:11)Chapter 7: Tuning Your AI Tools, AGENTS.md, and the Out-of-Box Problem (00:30:29)Chapter 8: The LLM as Kernel: Understanding Agents from the Inside Out [Extended] (00:33:47)Chapter 10: Tech CEO Hype, Anthropic's Kool-Aid, and Self-Exemption (00:34:22)Chapter 11: Owning Your Commerce Stack: E-Commerce, Stripe, and Sales Tax Hell [Extended] (00:40:46)Chapter 12: Personal AI is the Future, Don't Sleep on Local Models (00:41:06)Chapter 13: Cerebras IPO, Oxide Rack Speculation (00:44:35)Chapter 14: GitHub Compromised via VSCode Plugin, Supply Chain Reckoning (00:47:05)Chapter 15: Open Source Sustainability, Joy vs. Product, and Pay-Per-Pull (00:54:15)Epilogue (01:00:06)Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagramTikTokChangelog ZulipGophers Slack

Has AI eaten all of tech? Is 600 billion tokens too many use in a single month? On this week's episode Matt joins Kris to talk about some of the current news in the tech industry. From OpenClaw's maintainer burning through $1.3 million worth of tokens to why we need more epistemic markers, to the rather absurd $725 billion that big tech plans to spend on AI CapEx this year. And of course, there are layoffs coming as well.Support content? We've got a whole bunch of that! This week that includes a ZFS war story where a thousand-fold write amplification bug stalls every file write, the case for why LLMs hand you mediocre output by default, today's OAuth and GitHub security incidents traced back to a standards fight twenty years ago, a spicy take on who actually holds power inside big tech, and Matthew hand-writing an HTTP server in Rust just to fight off skill atrophy. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today!If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube.No episode of the aftershow this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show.Thanks for tuning in and happy listening!Table of Contents:Prologue (00:00:00)Chapter 1: AI Has Eaten All of Tech (00:01:11)Chapter 2: Building the Machine That Builds Your Machine (00:06:30)Chapter 3: You Still Have to Understand the Layer Below [Extended] (00:14:56)Chapter 4: Say the Quiet Part: Put a Number on Your Predictions (00:15:07)Chapter 5: LLMs Give You Mediocre by Default [Extended] (00:17:53)Chapter 6: Speed Is Not Velocity (00:18:21)Chapter 7: OAuth, GitHub, and the Bill for Skipped Homework [Extended] (00:25:40)Chapter 9: $725 Billion in CapEx and a Wave of Layoffs (00:26:26)Chapter 10: Who Actually Has the Power [Extended] (00:30:40)Epilogue (00:31:45)Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagramChangelog ZulipGophers Slack

This week we've got Kris and Jamie! They open with the Shai-Hulud worm chewing through the npm supply chain and close on the messy economics of who actually pays for open source labor. And there's plenty of great stuff in between: GitHub's everything-platform creep, the case for LLMs as a way out of dependency hell, and the forge alternatives finally maturing into real options.We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes an expansion on Kris's "pull requests as original sin" theory, the everything-platform rant that compares GitHub to Meta Business Suite, a monologue on money, knowledge gaps, and LLMs as a way out of open source debt. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today!If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube.No episode of the aftershow this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show.Thanks for tuning in and happy listening!Table of Contents:Prologue (00:00:00)Chapter 2: The Shai-Hulud Worm and the GitHub Actions Attack Surface (00:00:59)Chapter 3: Pull Requests as Original Sin [Extended] (00:19:41)Chapter 4: GitHub Enterprise Cloud and the Forge Alternatives (00:19:59)Chapter 5: The Everything Platform Problem [Extended] (00:28:17)Chapter 6: GitLab Counterpoint, Kubernetes, Feature Flags, and Friction (00:37:58)Chapter 7: Walled Gardens and the Business Model of Open Source [Extended] (00:43:06)Chapter 8: AI Safety, Napalm Grandmas, and Agentic PRs (00:43:24)Chapter 9: Kris's Theory: Money, Knowledge Gaps, and LLMs as a Way Out of Open Source Debt [Extended] (00:46:37)Chapter 10: Jamie Pushes Back: Forks, Vulnerabilities, and OAPI CodeGen Stalled on OpenAPI 3.1 (00:46:58)Chapter 11: Making Open Source a Surfaceable Cost (00:54:29)Chapter 12: The Open Source Resistance (01:07:35)Chapter 13: Capital One, Director Sign-off, and the Lawyer's Perspective [Extended] (01:16:52)Chapter 16: FSNotify Cleanup and the Composer Token Leak (01:17:05)Epilogue (01:23:46)Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagramChangelog ZulipGophers Slack

Steve is back to talk JJ (Jujutsu version control) and the related product, ChangeSet, that he works on at East River Source Control. Kris and Steve trace why the GitHub monoculture is finally cracking, what JJ does that Git can't, and Steve's hypothesis that AI agents are pushing companies toward monorepos. Then the pair discuss the Opus 4.7 regression debate, the shift from "always use the frontier model" to using LLMs as one tool among many, and a quick discussion of the Tim Cook to John Ternus handoff at Apple.We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes Steve's broader thesis that it's easier to scale a big tool down than scale a small one up, why GitHub's pull request model warped how people use Git, auto-rebase and conflicts as first-class citizens in JJ, AI subsidies, and a Bun being ported to Rust. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today!If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube.Thanks for tuning in and happy listening!Show Notes:JJTable of Contents:Prologue (00:00:00)Chapter 1: Episode 70, New Branding, and Catching Up (00:01:14)Chapter 2: What is JJ (Jujutsu) and Why It Exists (00:03:43)Chapter 3: Change IDs, Tangled, and the Federated Forge Wave (00:08:59)Chapter 4: Healthy Diversity After the GitHub Monoculture (00:14:33)Chapter 5: Scaling Big Tools Down: Bazel, Buck, Kubernetes, Symfony [Extended] (00:18:03)Chapter 6: JJ Is Simpler AND More Powerful: No Index, No Stash (00:18:10)Chapter 7: The JJ Workflow: Snapshots, Watchman, and JJ Undo (00:26:06)Chapter 8: GitHub Warped Git: Why Patches and Gerrit Are Better [Extended] (00:32:14)Chapter 9: Auto-Rebase and Conflicts as First-Class Citizens [Extended] (00:32:14)Chapter 10: Getting Started with JJ: Tutorials and Workflows (00:32:29)Chapter 11: East River Source Control and ChangeSet: A Forge for Mono-Repo Scale (00:42:28)Chapter 12: Why AI Forces Companies into Monorepo Scaling Sooner (00:50:01)Chapter 13: AI Subsidies and the Scaling Wall [Extended] (00:54:55)Chapter 14: The Opus 4.7 Regression Debate, Goodhart's Law, and Custom Styles (00:55:24)Chapter 15: LLMs as Tools, Not Solutions: Local Models, Gemini, and Custom Pipelines (01:04:49)Chapter 16: Bun Rewriting in Rust: A Branch That Wasn't Supposed to Be News [Extended] (01:15:48)Chapter 17: The Apple CEO Transition: Tim Cook to John Ternus (01:16:08)Epilogue (01:24:55)Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagramChangelog ZulipGophers Slack

Kris and Ian dig into the slow collapse of GitHub, starting with Ghostty off the platform after years of reliability problems. From there they trace Gary Bernhardt's old observation that we took a decentralized source control system and immediately put it behind a single point of failure, then widen the lens into AI as the engine of enshittification. The episode lands on a more optimistic note: maybe AI is also the tool that lets individuals rebuild the apps they used to have to buy.We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes Kris's "AI was trained on the median of human code" argument, the institutional-memory thesis for why AI can't just replace people, a tour of the local-AI hardware landscape with Zig and llama.cpp, Ian's relatable "what is Cursor? what is Warp?" rant, a policy pitch on share-flipper voting rules, and a deep dive on typography as an anti-AI signal. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today!If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube.No episode of Break this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show.Thanks for tuning in and happy listening!Table of Contents:Prologue (00:00:00)Chapter 1: GitHub Is Falling Over: Ghostty Leaves and the Merge Bug (00:01:46)Chapter 2: Centralizing the Decentralized: Git, Forges, and the Linux Kernel Workflow (00:08:04)Chapter 3: Self-Hosting vs. The Cloud Tax (00:16:23)Chapter 6: AI as the Engine of Enshittification (00:32:02)Chapter 9: Epistemic Enshittification: Hedges, Hype, and Sci-Fi Brain (00:37:10)Chapter 10: Self-Checkout, Junior Devs, and Broken Hiring (00:46:52)Chapter 12: Fallthrough Rebrand and the Claude Design Experiment (00:54:16)Chapter 13: Typography as Anti-AI Signal: Buying Real Typefaces [Extended] (01:04:33)Chapter 14: Bleeps, Shorts, and Producing With AI (01:04:36)Chapter 15: AI as the De-Enshittification Tool (01:08:08)Epilogue (01:10:22)Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagram