Finally, a recommendation-heavy, full-mailbag show. Been a while.

New to the pod are achievements—watch your BreakingScore™ increase each time you write in to podcast@searls.co. The winner will receive nothing, probably.

Lynx:

Coke BlāK
My Full-breadth developers post
When I discovered Claude is working for the weekend
My latest newsletter that admits why I haven't started yet
Aaron's puns, ranked
Note taking AI is outnumbering participants on meetings
Arkane founder slams Xbox Game Pass
An unsubsidized Xbox could just do the special offers like Kindle, IMO
Eyeball Dynamic Range
FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing
xOS 26 betas expected on July 23
'Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco
'Coding is dead': UW computer science program rethinks curriculum for the AI era
OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf's CEO is going to Google
Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code — without telling users
Honey, AI Capex is Eating the Economy
People with higher cognitive ability have weaker moral foundations
The Remarkable life of Ibelin
Halt and catch fire
Doom: The Dark Ages
As Dusk Falls
To The Moon
Superman (2025)
Expedition 33: Clair Obscur
The Yakult Swallow guy died

v40 - Go home Claude, you're drunk