{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Insanely Great Podcast","title":"Episode 7: California's Oil Cliff, the Pentagon vs. Anthropic, and the End of Junior Devs","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3476,"description":"Episode 7: Who Won in 2020?DJ and Christopher are back for May 5th, 2026 with a packed episode covering everything from California's oil crisis to the death of junior developer jobs.The show kicks off with California facing a serious gas price shock as the last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in the state, with prices potentially climbing to $7-$8 a gallon. The guys debate why the Trump administration isn't tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, then take a deep dive into hybrid car ownership, solar panel economics, and home battery systems.Politics enters the chat with a discussion of California's governor race, where leading Republican candidate Steve Hilton was asked four separate times on MSNBC who won the 2020 election and refused to answer. Christopher shares his Bluesky takedown post and they reminisce about the Schwarzenegger years before tackling California's $40-50 billion bullet train to nowhere.On the AI front, the duo covers the wave of recent model drops including Kimi 2.6, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and the surprising news that Grok 4.20 has the lowest hallucination rate of any major model. They dig into Anthropic's controversial detection of the Hermes agent harness, discuss Mac Studio RAM shortages caused by the local AI boom, and debate whether iOS 27 will be Apple's \"Snow Leopard\" moment.Other highlights include the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial drama, the Department of Defense cutting Anthropic from its AI vendor list, AI data centers now drawing as much power as the entire country of Switzerland, junior developer employment dropping 20%, Bezos's long-running war on libraries, and how Nintendo refused to play ball with Amazon back in the day.The episode wraps with gaming talk on Crimson Desert's masterful Unreal Engine 5 optimization and the addictive joy of Vampire Survivors clones.\nChapter Markers","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2bd-B6IhLKQpZJme_YE2tCybjjoR2sTeTMQ8o-Ye9uE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MDhl/MzQ1MTg1NzA0MDk5/M2E0YmRiODc2MmJi/OGNhZS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}