Fallthrough

Another week, another Fallthrough! In this episode, Kris and Matthew get into the US government slapping export controls on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models, the marketing machine that made them sound world-ending, and how much of the AI hype actually holds up.

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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue (00:00:00)
  • Chapter 1: Mythos and Fable, the Export Control, and Anthropic's Marketing Machine (00:02:18)
  • Chapter 2: Freedom of Thought, Safety Gating, and Books in the Library (00:06:40)
  • Chapter 6: Why You Can't Believe the AI Labs: Dogfooding, Lines of Code, and No Profit (00:11:11)
  • Chapter 7: Nobody Knows Where the Ceiling Is, and the Coming Commodity Market (00:20:22)
  • Chapter 8: Local Models, the Chocolate Shop AI Node, and Harness Over Model (00:22:27)
  • Chapter 9: So Why Is Fable Actually Banned? Brain Drain, DOGE, and Jailbreaks (00:29:46)
  • Chapter 10: It's Still All Hype, and the Government Did Anthropic's Marketing (00:37:37)
  • Chapter 12: The Sentiment Shift: From Anthropic Darling to Team OpenAI (00:44:43)
  • Chapter 13: The Future Is Harnesses, Not Models, and OpenAI's Better Bet (00:50:35)
  • Chapter 14: Is Software Dead? Jobs, the Coming Shortage, and Don't Let Your Brain Atrophy (00:54:48)
  • Chapter 15: AI in Creative Fields, Photoshop, and Why There's No Shortcut to Good Work [Extended] (01:05:39)
  • Epilogue (01:05:39)

Socials:
  • (00:00) - Prologue
  • (02:18) - Chapter 1: Mythos and Fable, the Export Control, and Anthropic's Marketing Machine
  • (06:40) - Chapter 2: Freedom of Thought, Safety Gating, and Books in the Library
  • (11:11) - Chapter 6: Why You Can't Believe the AI Labs: Dogfooding, Lines of Code, and No Profit
  • (20:22) - Chapter 7: Nobody Knows Where the Ceiling Is, and the Coming Commodity Market
  • (22:27) - Chapter 8: Local Models, the Chocolate Shop AI Node, and Harness Over Model
  • (29:46) - Chapter 9: So Why Is Fable Actually Banned? Brain Drain, DOGE, and Jailbreaks
  • (37:37) - Chapter 10: It's Still All Hype, and the Government Did Anthropic's Marketing
  • (44:43) - Chapter 12: The Sentiment Shift: From Anthropic Darling to Team OpenAI
  • (50:35) - Chapter 13: The Future Is Harnesses, Not Models, and OpenAI's Better Bet
  • (54:48) - Chapter 14: Is Software Dead? Jobs, the Coming Shortage, and Don't Let Your Brain Atrophy
  • (01:05:39) - 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.