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148: The Bots Have Officially Taken Over
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TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington
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Episode 148
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In this episode: people are still writing new programming language, Microsoft is going all "developers, developers, developers" again, and bots are apparently outnumbering humans on the web now.
Timestamps:
- 1:55 - Bot traffic has passed human traffic
- 5:28 - The Jam programming language
- 12:04 - Jack at Microsoft Build
- 29:26 - Cloudflare bought VoidZero
- 34:46 - Red Hat is the latest victim of Shai Hulud
- 38:39 - Anthropic wants AI dev to slow down
- 41:35 - Someone used a Waymo in a robbery
- 46:47 - What’s making us happy
News:
- Paige - There’s a new programming language called Jam
- Jack - Microsoft Build coverage
- TJ - Bot web traffic has passed human web traffic
Lightning News:
- Red Hat is the latest victim of Shai Hulud on npm
- Anthropic wants AI development to slow down for the public good
- Police have yet to catch a thief who used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes
- Cloudflare bought VoidZero
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
- Paige - For All Mankind TV series
- Jack - Custom Microsoft swag
- TJ - Claude Desktop Buddy
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