David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.
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This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Camille Tuutti about Swedish AI coffee shops and reanimating woolly mammoths! Meet Mona, the AI Who Runs a Stockholm Coffee Shop by Camille Tuutti By Andon Labs (see D&G #278 !) Meanwhile: Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine Lemonade Stand Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide Camille asks…
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about markdown, caveman, and dark software factories! Warhammer 40,000 : “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” Birds Aren’t Real Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students Introducing Markdown for Agents Counterpoint: Why the heck are we still using Markdown?? caveman : why use many token when few do…
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mike McGrath about agentic AI open source development and engineering leadership! Gunnar on abundance in D&G 273 Welcome Mike ! Gemini Gems The Day Open Source Realized Code Doesn’t Matter Anymore Fedora Fedora Infrastructure Project tmux screen We Give Thanks Mike McGrath for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Mike McGrath.
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI judging photos, AI judging meeting transcripts, and hacking AI with poetry! Stranger Things ! It’s good, actually! rentahuman.ai They See Your Photos Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon D&G This Week in Controlling the Past to Control the Future: Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization Cutting Room…
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about agents battling agents, electric shocks battling coffee, and Amazon Prime battling First Class mail! Gunnar is now fully agentic. Skills and the inner loop. Capital vs Labor. Capital wins again. La-Z-Boy repair tip + free parts ($16 S&H) Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw Moltbook Moltbook leaked Andrej Karpathy’s API keys MOLTBOOK EXPOSED: The New AI Scam That…
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for prison inmates, AI for senior citizens, and low-cost haptic exosuits! Ebird and Listers Moen update Death by Lightning An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit Almost related: Four out of five developers enjoy code…
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds! Trinity and Low-background Steel Hardcore History Slate Political Gabfest Google Vids ! Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative D&G This Week in Bad Ideas Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B Should an AI copy of you help…
This week Dave and Gunnar go on a re-education off-site, and O’Brien and Winston Smith debate whether we’re in an AI bubble! Key Takeaways (The Correct Perspective): The concept of an 'AI bubble' is a persistent, troubling rumor. It is heresy. Nvidia's valuation is not speculation; it is the correct price for the tools that build order . The true return on investment for General AI is not measured…
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about weaponized AI and seemingly conscious AI! Virtual Customer Panels with Gemini Gems Dave vs. Ticketmaster Totally unrelated: Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems Anthropic's Claude stocked a fridge with metal cubes when it was put in charge of a…
This week Dave and Gunnar are joined by Dan Walsh on the eve of his retirement! What is new in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 : “The most significant security update is the transition from AppArmor to SELinux as the default Mandatory Access Control (MAC) framework.” Bootc Dan Walsh Red Hat Obituary SELinux Dan’s Russian Blog Cursor Podman In Action RamaLama vLLM Llama.cpp Red Hat Lightspeed…
