Fernando Bevilacqua on agents and AI energy

Our 8th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 8 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Featuring:

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• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Andrew Patton’s favs:

• It’s a peccadillo circus (Friends #75)
• Hello, Matworld! (Friends #90)
• Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends #105)
• The 1000x faster financial database (Interviews #635)
• Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96)
• Agentic infra changes everything (Interviews #664)
• Changelog Beats by Breakmaster Cylinder
• Vibing into the vibe (Friends #89)
• Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends #102)
• Very important agents (Friends #120)

Brett Cannon’s favs:

• The power of the button (Interviews #623)
• The 1000x faster financial database (Interviews #635)
• Build software that lasts! (Interviews #627)
• wsl.exe – cat hello.cs (Friends #95)

Don MacKinnon’s favs:

• Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust (Interviews #626)

Fernando Bevilacqua’s favs:

• Flowing with agents (Interviews #658)
• Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interviews #632)
• Solving the AI energy crisis (Interviews #652)

Jamie Tanna’s favs:

• npm under siege (what to do about it) (Friends #111)
• There will be bleeps (Friends #113)
• The world of open source metadata (Interviews #665)
• Of agents & agency (Friends #86)
• Over the top auth strategies (Friends #78)
• It’s a peccadillo circus (Friends #75)
• Hello, Matworld! (Friends #90)
• Change my mind (Friends #81)
• DO repeat yourself! (Interviews #666)
• Programming with LLMs (Interviews #629)
• Vibing into the vibe (Friends #89)
• Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends #102)
• Very important agents (Friends #120)
• Agentic infra changes everything (Interviews #664)
• Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96)
• Agent, take the wheel (Interviews #648)

Jarvis Yang’s favs:

• changelog.news
• Minnebar 20

Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:

• Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends #105)

Jerod’s favs:

• From open source to acquired (Interviews #625)
• Discovering discovery coding(Friends #80)
• #define: I’m going pants (Friends #93)
• LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interviews #653)
• Inside Oxide (Friends #110)
• Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip (Interviews #670)

Adam’s favs:

• Turn him into a walrus (Friends #87)
• Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96)
• Chasing that next BIG thing (Interviews #639)
• Inside Oxide (Friends #110)
• Reinventing Python tooling (Interviews #660)
• Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interviews #669)
• LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interviews #653)
• The state of homelab tech (2025) (Friends #79)

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