Bryce

He's looking at the uh the microphone with awe. Just like his father, a natural-born podcaster. He's just drawn to the microphone.

Conor

You drop down into Codex, boom. Codex sells F. In fact, when I installed the Machi for the first time on my workstation, I've got like two different GPUs, one on the motherboard, which is like a really old Pascal P620 GPU, and then I've got a Quadro RTX, which is still pretty old. It's like a Turing GPU. It got confused somehow, tried to hook up to the Quadro RTX 8000, and then like ended up just like the GUI wouldn't open. So you're you're in TTT TTY land, which is like honestly, when you're dealing with NVIDIA drivers, if you if you've been doing this for the last decade, it's a normal thing, but guess what? Omachi has codex built in from scratch. You drop down into codex, it took me like a couple minutes to realize I could do that. And then it's got three different sign-in methods. Even though I'm in like TTY land, I don't need a browser. You can sign in from another device. I sign in from the other device, and then boom, I got codex. I say codex. I've got some driver issues. I was thinking about Welcome to ADSP the podcast, episode 306, recorded on September 30th, 2026. My name is Connor, and today with my co-host Bryce, we chat about Omachi Linux versus Windows, Codex, and more.

Bryce

So you're on uh you're on childcare today.

Conor

No, no. Because of the recording. I guess I I should talk into this if we're gonna release this part of it. Seeing as we're doing this recording, I told Shima I could take the baby for 10 minutes because he was being pretty fussy downstairs. He's uh would you like to say anything to all the podcast people?

Bryce

He's looking at the uh the microphone with awe. Just like his father, a natural-born podcaster. He's just drawn to the microphone.

Conor

I think he's he's probably actually memorized, mesmerized by the four monitors and AI is running in a couple of them. We got Audacity running in one.

Bryce

You know, I've always been a one monitor, I gotta tell you. And and the reason is sometimes I've been like a one big monitor, but it's just like focused me. Like I'm an easily distracted person. I can't have like four monitors with all this stuff on it. Now, sometimes I am like, okay, like it I am switching between windows a lot, but it's just it's just too too much too much for me.

Conor

So but like right now, you just have the teams running and audacity in the background, though? That is correct. Yes. Yeah, see, like that's a good thing.

Bryce

Because I'm not a second monitor. You know the thing where I'm gonna do it.

Conor

I know, I know, but if if you had a second monitor, like you could make sure that the the waves, like the audio waves, if something happens to your mic, you're not gonna know.

Bryce

So I do have the the one monitor that I have, like, for my desk, is a really big monitor, but I I never work from the desk anymore. I only work from the laptop. I did finally, I did finally get a new laptop. You know, I my this last laptop that I got, I got in 2017, right around when I joined NVIDIA, and I've been waiting three years for NVIDIA to launch the RTX Spark Spark laptops.

Conor

And I was gonna say, weren't you waiting for a special letter?

Bryce

Well I kept saying, I kept saying, you know, I'll just wait, like, oh, it's maybe delayed, it'll come out soon, you know, I'll get an early access one. But then it became clear, so they're coming out this fall, but the thing is that I have to have a laptop that has a 5G YWAN chip in it. Because if I'm at a conference or an event or something, I like other people will be like, oh, like I'm having trouble getting on the Wi-Fi or whatnot. I never have that problem. I have an internal broadband card, like wireless broadband card in my laptop, and I just have international data everywhere. So I just open up the laptop and it connects and it works. And that's the most important thing for me. So it became clear to me that probably the first generation of the RTX Spark laptops, it's unlikely that to have one that will have the 5G card because it's pretty rare for laptops to have 5G cards. So I broke down and I bought an HPZ book which has wait for it, an AMD CPU and an AMD GPU. Whoa. This is a work laptop? No, no, no, this is a personal laptop. I've always done bring my.

Conor

Oh, I was gonna say, you can't even buy a work laptop with AMD hardware in it. Isn't that right? Also, by the way, you can't tell you can't tell from the video, but the way my camera's oriented and he's looking at the rightmost monitor, he was like staring at you the entire time you're I'm not sure if it's the head of hair. Oh, he's about to cry. Do you want to cry into the mic? Alright, thanks for being on the podcast, buddy. We'll go give you to mom. How's that sound? Alright. He says that sounds good. I'm done with this thing. Alright, I'll be back in a second, then you can continue your uh HP. One moment. Alright, buddy. Alright, we're we're back, babyless. Well, the baby's still in the background, but we were talking about this laptop.

Bryce

I I had, we've talked before about the start of my career, it's kind of an interesting start of my career because I did this drop-out of college thing. But there's another aspect in the beginning of my career which has colored my perspective on programming, which is I started programming and almost immediately was thrown into an HPC environment. So sort of from the start, I was working on concurrent and distributed systems and specifically in high performance computing. And you know, in high performance computing, you don't do that on your laptop. You connect to somebody else's computer somewhere. And uh this has colored so much of my experience as a developer. I've largely never used IDEs. Not necessarily because I think that IDEs are bad, but when if I'm connecting to insert some supercomputer here, you know, that IDE doesn't run on the supercomputer. Maybe there's some way that I can connect it to the supercomputer today, but let me tell you, in 2011, when I started programming, there were not really IDEs that had great support for working remotely on some other machine. And the the supercomputers back then and also today, you know, they have a pretty bare set of hardware and a pretty bare set of software installed. And you know, it can be a pain, you don't have root access on these machines. It's not your machine, it's somebody else's machine that you're running on. So there's certain stuff that you can't install, et cetera. So I, you know, did almost all my development in Vim, and the reason was just Vim is very easy to go and build and install and run yourself. And the build part is actually important too, because sometimes I would work on some supercomputer that was some funky architecture where there wouldn't be a pre-built binary that I could go and pull. Or if there was a pre-built binary package, it wasn't necessarily a package that I could install because back in the day, maybe there'd be a Debian package for something. But again, I wasn't a root user. This was in the age before containers. You know, I had to use these weird HPC package management systems, which would have a very select set of packages. But anyways, I got used to sort of working in this environment, in particular where I had very few developer tools available to me reliably, because on any given day I might be working on some new or different cluster than I was a month ago. And where I'm not working on my laptop. And so, like, you know, earlier on in my career, yeah, I did have some like beefy laptops, and sometimes I would do work developed like locally, but over time it just increasingly became like my laptop was simply a thin client to some supercomputer somewhere. And there were a lot of benefits to this. One, like if I started doing something, like a compilation or some task, like, and I needed to go somewhere, I could just close my laptop and like you know, the thing would still be happening somewhere on somebody's supercomputer. And I feel like when the the agentic era started, this gave me like a very different perspective than everyone else. I think like a lot of people at the start of the agentic era were running agents like l locally on their laptops because that's where a lot of developers do their builds. I never did that because like that is like a very foreign idea to me. Why would I ever want to run something in my laptop? And also my laptop's like this weak, pathetic computer. And uh and so I just from the start always ran my my agents fully in you know some cloud environment in VMs or sandboxes, which is now just a fancy word for VMs. My apologies to the sandbox community. But I mean, you you know it's true. Anyways, so I I it was never a priority for me how good my laptop was. And I have this like this ThinkPad, it's the Lenovo Anniversary Edition 25, and it has the like classic ThinkPad keyboard, trackpad, and little uh the little nub mouse in the center. And that's like the keyboard that I love that I I you know use from my like early days, and so I was like, I'm just gonna stick with this thing. Even when I bought it, it was not the world's most powerful like laptop, but I didn't care because it had the the human interface, the like physical interface that I liked. I already, this Z book, the trackpad, I'm already like, oh my god, I can't stand this thing. Like there's no button to right-click. I have to just click on the bottom right of the thing. Like, I want a physical button. But anyway. So um, so the thing that ultimately like killed it for me. Well, this this laptop's been on its last. Like, one, the microphone's kind of been dying. And then two, I use Whisperflow to do text-to-speech, but Whisperflow seems to be having some issue with the microphone. So if I have Whisperflow running, sometimes like the microphone driver just completely crashes, or like some something happens where like I'll be in the middle of a of a of a uh a call, like this call, and then suddenly my microphone will just completely go out. And then I did start running some agent tasks locally, like in particular, like things like computer use where I wanted it to have access to my browser, or something where like I needed it to like set up something or debug a problem on my laptop, I would run it, I would run an agent for that. And uh what I what I quickly ran into was like this thing just is not powerful enough to even run the codex desktop app. Because it's like this is like a two-core laptop. I did upgrade it some number of years ago to 64 gigs of memory, which is a thing you used to be able to do on laptops. You used to be able to buy new memory and put it into the laptops because everything was modular, but now they're not. Now it's all I mean, the ZBook actually that I got actually did have configurable memory, but uh not all of them do. Anyways, that's my old man tirade about my old laptop. The old laptop also, like, in addition to like the microphone dying, and now like Windows is like not really stable on it anymore, and it's a Windows 10 laptop because it does not meet the hardware requirements to upgrade to Windows 11 as an issue, and like Windows Explorer crashes a lot and other apps crash a lot and Chrome freezes up a lot, and it is now like more recently, it has started to develop a physical ailment. Like there are parts of it that are like literally falling off, like there's a corner that's chipped now. There's parts where like the plastic is wearing through. This thing has seen a lot, and it is time for it to be retired. So soon the new laptop will be fully onboarded. Ugh, and I shall start over.

Conor

A fantastic opportunity to get rid of Windows and start fresh, not just from any Linux distribution. Which oh boy, oh boy, are we gonna lose some listeners here, folks? You know, we uh because I messaged you about this uh leading up to setting up this recording. And I took a break last week because I was in the second week of my pat leave, and I could have set up a recording, but honestly, I was pretty tired, and I was like, you know what? I deserve a break. We're just gonna take a week off. I'm gonna record one of my seven to ten minute podcasts and just refer people to other podcasts. And I went ahead and referred people to a bunch of podcasts. One of them, did you did you listen to the Jensen interview with Ezra Klein or did that cross your uh radar?

Bryce

I've seen that. I've seen people complaining about that on Twitter.

Conor

Yeah, he upset a lot of people. A lot of people are upset that he said long division is no longer required. And uh maybe we should do a whole episode dedicated to reviewing our thoughts. The point that I'm trying to get to here has nothing to do with Jensen. It was that I mentioned DHH, who is uh I don't even know his full name, David 2Hs. And uh he's a Ruby guy. And he was on Lex Friedman and he had a five-hour podcast, and then more recently, I didn't mention this last week, he gave a keynote at Railsworld, which apparently there's a whole controversy behind that as well, because he was not invited one year to speak at RailsConf, and then that, and then he like boycotted that, set up Rails World as like a competing conference, and then RailsConf ended up like folding because it couldn't financially survive. Anyways, apparently there's a whole lot of drama behind this guy. You know what? We need to put that to the side, and I know we've lost listeners before because we we mentioned Elon and then people get upset because Elon listen, folks, I don't endorse any of his political beliefs. We accept all people here, we are equal opportunity, equal everything. We love, we love everybody, you know, let's all just get along. That being said, let's set aside this guy's political things. What he's doing right now, it's fantastic. Apparently, there's this stop omachi.com site, and you shouldn't do it. But listen, folks, it's like when I used to eat at Chick-fil-A. You know? Chick-fil-A had some views I didn't agree with, but they also had the best fried chicken sandwich out there, and it wasn't.

Bryce

It's gonna be canceled, Connor. You're gonna be canceled. You're gonna end up end up in in like tomorrow, you're gonna be going through this content and you're gonna be like, oh, I can't. None of this is usable.

Conor

It is usable. It is usable. Is it? I mean, I'm not I'm okay. Here's my point. I'm happy to switch to another chick fried chicken sandwich, which I did. If in Toronto, there's a boutique institution called Tokyo Fried Chicken. I always get my well, uh I live in a different place now, so I'm not close to that. But when I was downtown, I would always order there. I never went to Chick-fil-A. But at the time there was a time when I lived in the States, it was the best fried chicken sandwich I knew about, and I would go there knowing that I didn't like agree with the beliefs of the management, but it was still the best fried chicken sandwich. I'm not gonna not eat the best fried chicken sandwich, you know, if the next step down is so much worse. And that's what Omachi is, folks. It's an agentic AI first operating system. I'm running it right now. It's this it's technically Arch. Who cares though? And it has like codecs and quad code, everything built into it. You can change anything about the computer. You don't like something? You just ask, just ask it to be changed. I have a completely configured, custom configured computer now.

Bryce

How is that different from what I have, which is I just install Windows 11 and then the Codex uh desktop app and then just set up anything in the computer, I just whisper flow into codex and tell it to do the thing that I want.

Conor

Does that work as seamlessly and as integrated when it's like built from scratch? Can you go and like completely destroy like the file explorer and replace it with like some other thing?

Bryce

Probably not, but I don't feel like I need to. Listen, I'll tell you the.

Conor

I mean, I'm not saying you want to expl replace the file explorer, but I'm just saying like everything is possible now.

Bryce

One of my primary functions, like the thing the things that I use most, one is like a terminal to some other computer. I can do that anywhere. Then like PowerPoint and Excel and Google Chrome. You can do Google Chrome anywhere, but but PowerPoint and Excel, you're gonna have the best experience on Windows. And one of the things with PowerPoint is I often need to plug my laptop into some some somebody's projector somewhere to project something. And I've never seen people struggle as much to do that with Windows as they have with things that are not Windows. And I've got to you got a problem in the future?

Conor

You you drop down to Codex and say, fix my connection issue. That's exactly what I did with my media laptop, except I wasn't on Omachi at that point. I'm still on Ubuntu downstairs. But like for whatever reason, because I'm running Ubuntu on like a MacBook Pro from 2012, so it's got a bunch of like kernel issues and whatnot. And connecting to the PC from like the sources on the TV was always so finicky. And then I was like, wait a second, I have codecs here. And so I said, Codex, like figure out what's wrong. I just want when I when I click PC, I always want it. And it found a bunch of issues. And so now whenever I restart the computer, my bash RC file runs like a little script that does some like HDME, HDMI audio, like codec resetting, and it works perfectly now. So like if you if you ever add a here's a challenge to folks, if you're ever on Linux in the future trying to connect to some projector, you drop down into codex, boom. Codex stalls that in fact when I installed the Machi for the first time on my workstation, I've got like two different GPUs, one on the motherboard, which is like a really old Pascal P620 GPU, and then I've got a Quadro RTX, which is still pretty old. It's like a Turing GPU. It got confused somehow, tried to hook up to the Quadro RTX 8000, and then like ended up just like the GUI wouldn't open. So you're you're in TTT TTY land, which is like honestly, when you're dealing with NVIDIA drivers, if you if you've been doing this for the last decade, it's a normal thing, but guess what? Omachi has codex built in from scratch. You drop down into codex, it took me like a couple minutes to realize I could do that, and then it's got three different sign in methods. Even though I'm in like TTY land, I don't need a browser. You can sign in from another device. I sign in from the other device, and then boom, I got codex. I say codex. I've got some driver issues.

Bryce

I was thinking about trying, you know, I used to run only Linux. I mean, I I famously, you know, back in the day was running Linux on my Mac.

Conor

But not that famous.

Bryce

Well, I was the first person to compile the Linux kernel with LLVM. Just saying. My my first claim to frame. At some point it just got to be like, you know, too much work. And I just sort of I did dual boots for a while, and then I just found myself spending all my time in the Windows machine. I have thought, I did think recently about whether I can go to Linux, and one of my questions there was like, what's the experience of running PowerPoint in Wine? And it's apparently not great.

Conor

Bro, and also too, PowerPoint's dead. PowerPoint's dead, what are you doing? You get codex to write all your slide decks. My my first presentation that I gave post the big jump, which was like tail end of November in 2025, happened to be in December. I was speaking at a conference down in Australia, and I didn't even realize, like, like nobody was talking about how good the jump was. And I was just like, I started off with the title slide with the matrix rain, and then I and then I was like, oh, I'll add an about me. And then I was like, wait a sec, this is so good. Like, can't I keep going? You don't need PowerPoint.

Bryce

I will give you a piece of career advice that your bot manager gave me, which is, you know, I was back in the day, I used to use my own like templates that was not the NVIDIA PowerPoint template. I still kind of do, but back in the day, he he asked me, hey, can you use the NVIDIA PowerPoint template? Because that makes it easier for other people to incorporate your stuff into their slides. And the sort of broader lesson there is that sometimes you shouldn't necessarily use the best tool for yourself personally. Sometimes you have to think about what is the ecosystem around you, the ecosystem of the organization that you are in. And like at NVIDIA, the one, the majority of our existing like content is PowerPoint documents, Google documents, you know, Microsoft Word, etc. That's the majority of existing content. And so if I need to like a lot of times when I'm making a slide deck or a presentation or something, 80% of it is stuff that I've already have from other decks that I'm just piecing together. And if I had to go and move to a completely new framework, that would be harder to do. But then also, I have to collaborate with other people and I gotta share things with other people. And those other people need to be able to use them, and we all have to agree upon a you know a common a common format, a common, like, you know, unit of exchange. And at NVIDIA, that is PowerPoint. I mean s some people use like Google Slides. But that's actually fairly rare, and there's all sorts of issues when people use Google Slides.

Conor

So Yeah, actually, when you when you mentioned this, I was thinking at one point I did do something in Google Slides, and my manager was like, Well, uh, can you turn this into PowerPoint? Like, I need to copy it into my slide deck. And I was like, Oh yeah, fair point. So you are not without a solid point. I still don't think PowerPoints. And also, too, you give more, you do more presentations and like training and stuff, like probably by a fact at this point, like ever since I switched to research, factor of five, maybe an order of magnitude, factor of ten. So it's that's probably more like honestly, I've spoken at one conference this year, and then the one before that was the one back in December. So I my my conferencing has taken a precipitous decline, as opposed to you. You've been traveling the world all year. But, anyways, to give it a thought. Give it a give it a shot, buddy. Watch the DHH Rails World.

Bryce

I was thinking about it with the new laptop. I was thinking about trying Linux, going back to Linux.

Conor

The And if it's a new laptop, apparently, like for me, installing it on my workstation took, I think, two minutes, and for my uh work laptop it took three and a half. But they're they're claiming that like for speedy machines, it's less than a minute to install. Like you flash the USB and it installs in less than a minute. So you mean it's not even gonna cost you that much time, you know? And it's beautiful. It's beautiful. I'm not sure if you've ever used a tiling window system.

Bryce

It is that a good chunk of what I do on Windows is Windows would be a lot less usable for me if not for WSL, especially these days. So it's sort of like it's a question of whether I run Windows where I'm doing a lot of stuff in WSL, or whether I run Linux where I'm doing a lot of stuff in a Windows VM.

Conor

And then that's the thing, is if you're in WSL or WSL2, you know, I sent I sent my brother-in-law. He had Super Grok and he saw some of the stuff I was doing, and I was like, let me just because I yeah, I was uh it would have been easier for me to just like teach a man to fish. So I basically took his laptop, set up WSL2, set up Super Grok, and like I ran into some issues because you do have access to the whole file system from there, but you kind of have to like, it's like a what do you call it? Like a crab trap. You gotta go like outside and then around to get to the rest of the ocean. The point being that it it is possible, but a couple times when I was asking it to like make changes to its kind of environment, it would reset every single time he like went in and out of Grok. And I was like, Yeah, this is just an issue you're gonna have to live with with WSL2. Whereas if you're on native Linux, right? Regardless of your distro, you're not you're never gonna have to have that issue, right? Yeah. Maybe the title of this episode will be Will Bryce switch to Linux?

Bryce

The biggest problem is what do I do about all my existing PowerPoint decks that I don't really have a realistic way to like interact with from Linux, other than maybe a VM, but then that's a pain if I have to like you know screen share.

Conor

Yeah, that's a huge problem because the PowerPoint web powerpoint doesn't work very well.

Bryce

People in the comments, yeah, I know about Microsoft 365. The web app is not the same experience as the desktop.

Conor

It's not as good.

Bryce

And things and it's not the same rendering engines, and things do not render the same.

Conor

One of the beautiful things, though, it does seem that for whatever reason on Omachi, it it works slightly better. There was one issue that I always had with the online Microsoft PowerPoint color picker. It like couldn't get the color picker of the screen correct. It was always off. And so if anyone pays attention, real close attention to the array cast thumbnails, pre-episode 130 on YouTube, you'll see that there's like two slightly different shades of blue because the color picker doesn't work. But on Omachi, it works seamlessly perfectly. I don't know why Arch is better than Ubuntu, I think it was on 2404, whatever the code is. That's the other thing.

Bryce

I'm a Debian person. It would be very it's yeah, I'm a Debian person. I don't know that I want to go learn Arch.

Conor

Well, that's the thing, you don't even need to learn Arch, you just ask Codex everything, you know? I'm an old man, kind of an old man. Alright, we should we bundle, because I had a couple topics I wanted to talk about. Should we bundle those into this episode? Because we're at the 27-minute mark. We could rapid fire them and then alright, we're keeping well, people don't know what we cut, but we cut that part. Yeah. Or we 10x and made me sound like a chipmunk. Anyways. So I mentioned the DHH stuff. I mentioned the agentic OS, and oh, we'll leave my AI apps for later. I'll just show I'll just show you, Bryce, that thanks to being inspired by DHH, you can now see basically the bottom row of my phone. They're all the same icon. We've got Pod God, Stock God, uh, Fam God, Baby God, Home God, and Khili Khub. We are replacing all of these irritating ad-ridden apps with, and and let's go look at this boot. Look at this, buddy. This is my my stock app. Which is it's fine. You know, why do you think that's it?

Bryce

I remember pre-dad Connor where he's like, it's all just funny money, it's all just gonna be NVIDIA. I'm just gonna get rid of it.

Conor

It is all still NVIDIA. I don't have investments. I just I just like looking at the prices of other companies. I still only own one stock, folks. Diversification, as was it Mark Twain or some famous person said, maybe Warren Buffett. It's for people that don't know what they're doing. And let me tell you, folks, I know what I'm doing. But you can see on this on the second page, it's a sexy version of the top market cap companies. It's got little red letters as the prices change. It's just absolutely beautiful, folks. Anyways, we're slowly, you can do everything now. You got some irritating app, done. It's gone. And and let me tell you, I'll tell you about HomeGod. It's my my smart home app. It's it's amazing. Anyways, we're taking over new operations.

Bryce

One thing that's very interesting is you are like me on the consumer and like personal side, I am much more conservative with what I will use AI to do. Whereas on the work side, I am like very like over-leveraged. Maybe I mean we're probably at a similar scale there, but like on the home side, I'm a lot more conservative. Like, I'm not, I don't feel the need. There's not that many things where I have the need to use at home. I I do use it now for some of my travel planning and like tracking things like that, but I feel like you are far more on that side of it, on like build, like, build like I wouldn't I can't think of like a thing where I'd be like, oh, I want like my own version of this app. Like this, you know, this this existing app like isn't good enough for me. I can't I don't have a version of that.

Conor

You think of that, but that's what I'm saying.

Bryce

I'm sure that there are things, but I just haven't it's just that like I don't feel like I don't feel like I have time. You know, it's like actually an interesting like aspect of my work-life balance where I I've never understood people who have time for like side coding projects.

Conor

You're not coding anymore. You're just directing.

Bryce

No, no, I know, I know, I get that, but like like even in the era before, I never like you did more like, you know, fun projects on the side. You've always done more like stuff on the side that's like fun or exciting. But me, almost all of my coding has almost all of my like software engineering work has been like exclusively on like my primary work mission or like slightly adjacent like work missions. And it that it I always feel like I have no time for anything other than like the three or four major work things that are on my plate. And like I guess can't imagine how people would have the time. Like I can't I can't envision how you have the time, even with AI, to build something like Podcot.

Conor

Well, I've been working, admittedly, I I mentioned in last week's episode, I've started the release process, but like you have to get a certain kind of number, and then Google's gotta review it. I thought it was like you could just throw an app. Like I thought Flappy Bird, I just assume it went on the Play Store like a day after it was finished. It takes weeks. And so I don't think it's gonna be out until October. But I've been working on Pod God since February, or like since late January, and I think I've really let perfection be the enemy of good or like even great, because like my podcast player is better than every other podcast player out there, but it still has bugs here and there. And I feel like because it's completely like developed agentically, like I'm gonna get so much criticism for like, oh, you see, it doesn't work. And it's like, well, no, all the other ones don't freaking work too, or like don't have the features that I want. Anyway, so it has taken months, but like now putting up a simple stock god, you know, track a few things and and like you know, that takes like 20 minutes, you know. It it doesn't take that much time. And also it takes 20 minutes for the AI. It takes um like 30 seconds for me to draft the prompt and then another four minutes of like, no, no, no, I want square logos, I want centered, I want spacing.

Bryce

Anyway, so I No, no, I know it's it's it's not about time. It's that if if I I would if I had that time, I would have spent that time on a new work project, not on something for me.

Conor

Oh yeah, maybe fair enough. But that's like that comes into like a intrinsic, extrinsic, like where do you get your purpose in life?

Bryce

That's what I'm getting at. It's like for me, like, I never used to think of myself as a workaholic, but I think that is one of the signs that uh that I am a workaholic.

Conor

Yeah, I'm like a workslash side project a holic.

Bryce

Yeah. I'm not sure. Like I I I have never like maybe early on in my career, I had a few hobby projects, like the Linux kernel thing, but very quickly it became like like I've never really had like hobbyist programming projects since then. It's all just been whatever my main focus is. And that if I had spare cycles, maybe I would take on a new like work project.

Conor

Yeah.

Bryce

I don't know what this is about to do.

Conor

Yeah, that's that's just like what what whatever charges your wheel or whatever. Anyways, the last the last two things I was gonna mention, one of them is on our updated ADSP thepodcast.com website. We've got new stats that you can go and check out. But one of the things I sent you the important takeaway was by year, percentage of episodes that have guests. And since 20, we peaked at 2023 with 62%, 2024 was 42%, 2025 was 37%, and in 2026, folks, we're down to 23%. Really? And so this episode, and probably the next episode that we're gonna release a little bit later, will be hopefully for Bryce and I, the last two, just us, well, maybe do one other, but I want to get that, I want to see if we can get above 37% because admittedly, we've gotten feedback at our annual reviews where people like the interviews. And I don't know why I guess we've just been having too much fun chatting about AI, and uh, we know that we're both excited about AI, and so it's always a risk.

Bryce

To be fair, we've all also both had a lot going on, and it like requires more more thinking ahead of time and scheduling and planning to instead of us just being like, oh, we gotta record. Let's hop on at 4 p.m. on a Friday, on a Thursday. But I totally I am all for more guests. Yes. And uh yeah, I mean I love doing guest episodes. I think the the audience loves doing guest episodes. I always learn something in guest episodes, I feel like. I guess I always have no, I always learn something when talking to Connor, anyways. But like I learned I both learned something and like become closer with some new friend. So I love it.

Conor

So yeah, we were even gonna have a guest today, but they have not replied. Admittedly, we sent them an email two days ago, so not a huge surprise. And then um the last thing I'll mention to round out this episode is that a couple times over the last little bit, I've mentioned books. We were when we were talking to Mark Seraphim back in July, which only released like a couple weeks ago because of the backlog that we were building up due to the kid being on the way, he recommended a bunch of books. And I since then have created an I uh an AI fi ranking for myself personally. I'm working through a ton of stuff. Right now, I just finished Neuromancer and I'm like through five of the eight or nine MurderBot books, which are okay. The first one was pretty good. Neuromance Neuromancer Hot Take was terrible. But uh, anyways, if people are interested and they have recommendations outside of the books that I've already read, I already got a couple via Twitter DMs and the GitHub discussions, go check out that link and feel free to recommend shows or books. That concludes, I think this is going to be episode 306. Be sure to check these show notes either in your podcast app or at adsphepodcast.com for links to anything we mentioned in today's episode, as well as a link to a GitHub discussion where you can leave thoughts, comments, and questions. Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoyed and have a great day.

Bryce

Low quality, high quality, that is the tagline of our podcast.

Conor

It's not the tagline. Our tagline is chaos with sprinkles of information.