Reflections on AI Discourse and Personal Anecdotes

Last week, our colleague (and frequent Oxide and Friends guest) Steve Klabnik made some new friends on the Internet with a blog entry on AI discourse. Bryan and Adam were joined by Steve to try to de-polarize the discussion a little.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Steve Klabnik, and valued listener, Julian Giamblanco (aka "Oatmealdealer").

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Steve's blog post: I am disappointed in the AI discourse
• OxF: A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel (The Ballers)
• OxF: Adversarial Machine Learning with Nicholas Carlini
• OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz ("the RFD 3 podcast episode")
• OxF: AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
• OxF: Reflecting on Founder Mode ("ego con")

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