Quest 372 - Is vibe coding part of your professional work?

In this podcast we gain insight into the real sentiments behind the surge in AI popularity. Is it making a real impact in the way developers work or is it all hype? Also, why does Bernadette speech French now? Give me back my old AI girlfriend, Altman!

Artificial Intelligence

  • How much do you trust the accuracy of the output from AI tools as part of your development workflow?

  • How well do the AI tools you use in your development workflow handle complex tasks?

  • In the future, if AI can do most coding tasks, in which situations would you still want to ask another person for help?

News

  • Palworld Slop Arrives On Switch

  • AOL Dial-Up Ending

  • Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek Was 'Bats*** Crazy'

Trailers

  • Wednesday: Season 2

  • Bambi: The Reckoning

Quest 371 - How do you start programming in 2025?

Things get nerdy when the cast geeks out about programming languages, video games for the kids, and programming languages in video games for the kids. If you stick around long enough, they'll even talk about IDEs! Wait, where are you going?

Programming

  • Kotlin vs Rust

  • Minecraft vs Roblox

  • Stack Overflow vs ChatGPT

News

  • Resident Alien Canceled After 4 Seasons

  • Itch.io Is Returning Free NSFW Games To Its Store

Trailers

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 3 Trailer

  • Zootopia 2 | Trailer

Quest 369 - What do programmers think about AI?

A panel of professional software engineers discuss their thoughts on the current state of AI; its emergence into the workforce, and the potential effects it may have on humanity going forward.

Discussions

  • What is AI remarkably good at, and unintuitively bad at?

  • Will AI augment engineering jobs, or replace them?

  • Can AI be used to stop spread of propaganda and misinformation?

  • How will the perception of AI will shift in the coming years?

Quest 366 - Have you found your ikigai purpose?

Raul takes Tom on a full frontal adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder trip of a podcast! Terrible dream jobs, high fidelity video games, artificial intelligence, and existential dooooom!!!

Ramblings

  • Is ChatGPT is more broken than usual?

  • Have you watched Soul?

  • Do we still need teachers?

News

  • Amazon cancels Wheel of Time

  • Ryan Reynolds narrates Underdogs

AI Videos

  • No, I’m not linking that garbage…

  • …But the kangaroo was cute.

Quest 362 - How deeply do you dread AI deep research?

After failing to record the first half of the podcast where they talked about software Easter eggs, Tom and Raul pivot to talking about chat GPT’s new deep research feature. Is it terrifying? Yes. Will Bernadette schooled us for deleting the first half of the podcast? Yes. Will Tom recap the whole damn thing after the podcast? Yes. Spoilers? Sure, why not!

Deep Research

  • Have you used it?

  • How did it do?

  • What job will try to get when the robots replace us?

News

  • The Oscars Are Adding A Stunt Category

  • Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-Orders Go Live

Trailers

  • Predator: Badlands

Software Easter Eggs

  • Hall of Tortured Souls

  • The Book of Mozilla

  • apt-get moo