Fallthrough

Kris is back from GopherCon, Matt is back from the lawn, and Fallthrough is back with news: a brand new website and a whole new show, Continue: Go Proposals Edition, a weekly look at Go proposals. The topic for this week's Fallthrough? It's a listener-requested deep dive into what the two of them have actually been building with AI agents.

In the regular edition, Kris runs a frontier-model pricing bake-off and comes away fascinated by how dirt cheap Luna is, Matt hands eight well-scoped Linear issues to overnight orbs and wakes up to three merged PRs, and the two land on a shared principle: even when the inference happens in a data center, the harness should run on hardware you own. It all wraps with Matt prototyping an integration by voice on a walk in the park.

Expanded edition? We've got one of those! This week it includes Matt's deep dive on AMP betting everything on orbs, a breakdown of the proposal to change Go's proposal process, the one line that gives the whole document away, Kris's redesign built on gates, shepherds, and commitments, a hard conversation about civility and power in Go discourse, and the case for a decentralized Go. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today!

If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U4ztdSztCy0

No episode of the aftershow this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show.

Thanks for tuning in and happy listening!

Table of Contents:
  • Prologue (00:00:00)
  • Chapter 1: New Website, New Show: Continue (00:02:28)
  • Chapter 2: What Kris Built: PHP, Rhetoric Analysis, and Dirt Cheap Luna (00:12:55)
  • Chapter 3: Matt's Agent Assembly Line: Linear Issues to Merged PRs (00:24:20)
  • Chapter 4: Harness Hopping: Codex, Claude Code, and Agent Teams (00:33:35)
  • Chapter 6: The Economics Flipped: Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter (00:36:39)
  • Chapter 7: Keeping the Harness on Your Own Hardware: A Dollar of Orbs (00:43:35)
  • Chapter 8: Vibe Coding, Skill Atrophy, and Prototyping on a Walk (00:52:42)
  • Chapter 9: The Proposal Proposal [Extended] (01:02:14)
  • Epilogue (01:03:16)

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  • (00:00) - Prologue
  • (02:28) - Chapter 1: New Website, New Show: Continue
  • (12:55) - Chapter 2: What Kris Built: PHP, Rhetoric Analysis, and Dirt Cheap Luna
  • (24:20) - Chapter 3: Matt's Agent Assembly Line: Linear Issues to Merged PRs
  • (33:35) - Chapter 4: Harness Hopping: Codex, Claude Code, and Agent Teams
  • (36:39) - Chapter 6: The Economics Flipped: Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter
  • (43:35) - Chapter 7: Keeping the Harness on Your Own Hardware: A Dollar of Orbs
  • (52:42) - Chapter 8: Vibe Coding, Skill Atrophy, and Prototyping on a Walk
  • (01:02:14) - Chapter 9: The Proposal Proposal [Extended]
  • (01:03:16) - Epilogue

Creators and Guests

Host
Kris Brandow
Host
Matthew Sanabria
Matthew is an engineering leader focused on building reliable, scalable, and observable systems. Matthew is known for using his breadth and depth of experience to add value in minimal context situations and help great people become great engineers through mentoring. Matthew serves the Go community as a member of GoBridge. In his spare time, Matthew spends time with his family, helps grow his wife's chocolate business, works on home improvement projects, and reads technical resources to learn and tinker.

What is Fallthrough?

A deep and nuanced conversational podcast focused on technology, software, and computing.