Are conferences worth it?

Scott, Wes, and CJ reunite fresh off a trip to Amsterdam to chat conferences, burnout, and whether Anthropic actually uses AI. They also dig into a packed bag of sick picks and tech news, including HTML streaming in Chrome, an image-to-ASCII generator, and a wild Arch Linux supply chain attack.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 02:15 Anthropic Doesn’t Use AI
  • Thariq’s Tweet
  • Tweet Response
• 06:15 Taste and Vision in Prompting Output
• 10:50 Wes and Scott’s Slide Decks
• 18:05 Amsterdam Trip Recap
• 26:09 Are Conferences worth it?
• 27:21 Amsterdam Trip Recap
• 31:17 Fable 5 First Impressions
• 33:45 Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Banned
• 41:45 IRL Events Are Great For Burnout
• 45:12 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 45:52 HTML Streaming now in Chrome
• 55:47 Image to ASCII Generator
  • The Mitos Repo
• 01:01:31 Find Modern Module Replacements
• 01:05:55 Scott is Using MacOS / iOS Betas
• 01:09:25 Xiaomi OpenCode Fork and Mimo 2.5 Pro
• 01:14:06 Agent Dashboards
• 01:21:39 Arch Linux Supply Chain Attack
• 01:23:47 Should we train coding only models?
• 01:31:37 Thanks!

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