Breaking Change

Thanks for writing so many lovely emails to podcast@searls.co. Hell, thanks even for the unlovely ones. Be sure to look out for me showing up on Dead Code at some point after it records next Tuesday. I'm realizing not all podcasts have a 1-hour-or-less turnaround time like this one does. As promised, some URLs follow: Want a Japanese girlfriend? Better be the right Myers-Briggs type Aaron's puns, ranked Men sucking at chores is turning women gay! (News+) Nightmares kill you (Archive) This shiner from /r/overemployed Hour of Code is now Hour of AI Gary Marcus taking a few victory laps around GPT-5 OpenAI caves to 4o-pilled users Meta's AI rules have let bots hold 'sensual' chats with children Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches (sort of) The Trump Trophy My man Steve Wozniak has a 6-digit /. account Enough Andor Alien: Earth Sims 2 Legacy Collection Foundation Season 3 Mariusz schools us on running Claude Code in a Docker container (sources) Marick's ZIRP reply and my follow-up post

I've made it! I'm over the hump! I'm actually writing* my language-learning app in Swift! Send an email expressing how proud you are of me to podcast@searls.co. Or if there's any news worth following that isn't about AI. Too much AI stuff lately. *And by "I'm writing", I admit Claude Code is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. Hyperlinks: Girlfriend Reviews of Mario Kart World Mario Paint 2 for Nintendo Switch 2 Ben publishes NSScreencast, not NSCoder 🤦‍♂️ claude-discord-bridge Speeding up your Xcode tests Upside-down development There is no AI in Team Aaron's puns, ranked 7/24 - WaPo: This app lets women review their dates. Men are worried. (Apple News+) 7/25 - 404 Media: Tea hack exposed. Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan Security Breach at Tea Worsens, Revealing Users' DMs About Abortions and Cheating Tokyo prostitution ring members who targeted foreigners arrested Somebody's remaking Rebel Assault in UE5 Battlestar Galactica writer Ronald D Moore is showrunning God of War AppleCare One is a good deal Apple CEO Tim Cook Tells Staff AI Is 'Ours to Grab' in Pep Talk Thanks for Your $1 Billion Job Offer, Mark Zuckerberg. I'm Gonna Pass (Apple News+) Steve Krouse with a great tech debt analogy Christina Wodtke on what it means that early-days web developers are pumped about AI Orta: Six weeks of claude code System prompt updates to Claude 4 Opus tries to ward off mania Foundation Season 3 Halt and Catch Fire Saw that Family Guy musical, Music Man opencode.ai

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

Welcome to the first episode of 🔥Hotfix🔥! Breaking Change's first show-within-a-show, wherein I let somebody else talk for once. Each episode will show up as a patch release in the Breaking Change feed and feature guests with Hot takes about a relevant issue and a clear fix in mind for what we can do about it. That first guest is a long-time collaborator and top 5 all-time colleague of mine named Dave Mosher, who's here to drop some truth bombs labeled "agentic coding" on the unsuspecting populace. My secret mission on each of these is to lean into the show's E-for-explicit tag and try to get the guest to say something that could get them fired. I failed this time, but in fairness to me, Dave is Canadian. We'd love to get your feedback to podcast@searls.co — I'll read it all and flag relevant questions and comments for the next Breaking Change. You can follow Dave Mosher online at: GitHub Twitter/X Dave's personal blog The Test Double blog A handful of things we mentioned: Full-breadth Developers The "Double Loop" model to agentic coding Simon Willison's blog Claude Code

I have returned to the nation of freedom and tariffs and all my shit has stopped working! Which shit? Why? What did I buy now? Listen and find out. Remember, listeners who write in to podcast@searls.co will be spared on judgment day. Website stuff follows: Hirome Ichiba in Kochi City Japan's ocean whirlpool (渦) boats Indigo La End POSSE Party Tessie Tesla app Aaron's puns, ranked We finally may be able to rid the world of mosquitoes. But should we? (Archive link) Supreme Court allows Texas online porn age verification law Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe As AI Infiltrates Call Centers, Human Workers Are Being Mistaken for Bots AI and the Rise of Judgement Over Technical Skill What Google Translate Can Tell Us About Vibecoding The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System The DMA forced apple to make a B2B price-to-features chart Apple Vision Series and Smart Glasses Roadmap (2025–2028) Sky app RIP Slide Over Street Fighter Movie: Jason Momoa cast as Blanka, 50 Cent as Balrog 30-minute Outer Worlds 2 deep dive Kojima uses Western actors b/c of our craggy, ugly fucking skin Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data Pig movie Moana 2 (but really Lava) Witcher 4 + Unreal Engine 5 demo Death Stranding 2 is better as a video review Andor Season 2 Wrexham S4 Philips EP4444 coffee thing

Spoiler alert: I'm in the same country as I was for v37, but this time from a different nondescript business hotel. Also: I have good personal news! And, as usual, bad news news. I don't get to pick the headlines though, I just read them. This episode comes with a homework assignment. First, watch Apple's keynote at 10 AM pacific on June 9th. Second, e-mail podcast@searls.co with all your takes. I'd love your help by informing me where my head should be at when I show up on the Changelog next week. And now, fewer links than usual: The movie 父と僕の終わらない歌 Fukushima The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum Utsunomiya Fukui I got spicy about LLM neophytes Aaron's puns, ranked Entry-level tech hiring is down 50% AI Role in College Brings Education Closer to a Crisis Point Veo 3 marks the beginning of the end times (watch this supercut) If you're having an affair, don't use Claude Apple's turning it up to 26 My theory on what 2027's "all-glass" iPhone is really all about Nobody uses semicolons; they're pointless

Coming to you LIVE from a third straight week of Japanese business hotels comes me, Justin, in his enduring quest to figure out how to exchange currency for real estate in the land of the rising fun. [Programming note: apologies, as the audio quality at the beginning of the podcast suffered because I fucked up and left the hotel room's air conditioner on (I caught it and fixed it from the pun section onward)] Had a few great e-mails to read through this week, but now I'm fresh out again! Before you listen, why not write in a review of this episode? podcast@searls.co and tell me about how amazing it will be before it lets you down like your best friend and/or workplace mentor and/or parent figure. Href time: Craigmod's Kissa by Kissa book @koic works on RuboCop and inspired this issue of my Searls of Wisdom newsletter In Japan, you're not a BDFL, you're a 優しい終身の独裁者 Speaking of newsletters, this month's took me way too damn long All the prefectures I've been to so far (36 as of v37) The US Embassy in Japan's 10" x 10" bag limit Aaron's puns, ranked CRISPR babies! (Archive) GTA 6's trailer SteamOS is one step closer to being real Fortnite is back on iOS CarPlay Ultra is nice, but will it scale? visionOS 3 will let us scroll with our eyeballs Apple is considering an AI-based search tool for iOS Rumor: iOS 19 will let developers invoke its on-board local models Sam + Jony, sitting in a tree / pile of cash ChatGPT Diminishes Idea Diversity in Brainstorming, Study Finds Microsoft Engineers forced to dig their own AI graves muscle-mem solves a huge issue with "agentic" programs Naturalizing relevance realization: why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational Chicago Sun-Times Prints Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books mid college towns are screwed (News+) The Quiet Collapse of Surveys: Fewer Humans (and More AI Agents) Are Answering Survey Questions The Nomad Universal Cable Junglia Okinawa opens in July and this ad is absolutely bonkers Saw the Yakult Swallows with Tatsuhiko Miyagawa from Rebuild.fm Loved World Order's new single until the guy got milkshake duck'd 5 minutes later This Workforce AI promo video is peak smug AI hustler shit The Bechdel Test (not to be confused with the Becky Test)

I'm going away on a trip for an unexpectedly long time, and you'll never guess why! (You might guess why.) Anyway, here's something to remember me by. If you've ever been worried about whether something you cared about would work out okay, email podcast@searls.co and tell me about it so that I can share your story with a bunch of strangers on the Internet. Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube. References available upon request: Nobody knows how to turn on Vision Pro I released a new gem called searls-auth Aaron's puns, ranked CodeWeavers' founder's gracious post, Whisky's Legacy, and the Spirit it Leaves Behind DeX for iPhones? Finally! A menu bar for iPads? Finally! Backblaze: the only subsidized startup pricing schemes left are the fraudulent ones! Russia moves to seize World of Tanks developer over Ukraine support Amazon To Display Tariff Costs For Consumers, Report Says (Update: They Won't) Meta's Digital Companions want to have sex with you (News+) OpenAI's chat bot will tell you that you're really good at sex But they're fixing it But Reddit fixed it better Someone made an AI better by having it argue with itself, just like humans do Coding competitions are dead and gone forever The Coravin Pivot wine preservation system is great So is this pool skimmer robot that I talked about last week but forgot about and am talking about again A book! Landed: Japan. Everything you may not need to know about buying real estate

Your favorite podcast about nothing continues to find things to talk about. Whatever you do, DO NOT e-mail me at podcast@searls.co or else I will read it on air and tell everyone how smart you sound and how good you look. Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube. Links to follow: Loving my Tariffmas gifts: external SSD array and pool skimmer, especially My first taste of GitHub Copilot's Agent mode Me putting Agent mode to the test in a fun little screencast Aaron's puns, ranked Videogame consoles like the Switch 2 are NOT exempt from tariffs Digital Foundry's technical analysis of Mario Kart World The stunning Marathon cinematic trailer Star Wars Zero Company is the X-Com game I want Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals A bunch of Vision hardware leaks and rumors: 1, 2, 3, 4 People at Apple were calling the AI/ML group AIMLess, lol React Native might not be as popular as you think Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up Incredible plot to print every single possible ticket to win the Texas lotto A Lack of Intelligence, Not Training, May Be Why People Struggle With Computers AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows LLM bots + Next.js bankrupting people who design their sites badly Apps are being paid to install frameworks that sell users' bandwidth to proxy providers for AI scrapers OpenAI o3 and o4-mini announced (they also hallucinate more) GPT 4.1 is better at coding Codex CLI is OpenAI's answer to Claude Code Extremely long read: OpenAI is a Systemic Risk to the Tech Industry GPS magnetic quantum is 50x more accurate and unjammable The Gorge is good but takes a sharp left turn into horror town I went to Epic Universe and have opinions

Nothing like a peaceful Sunday morning at the end of an exhausting, historically-volatile week to pour a hot cup of coffee and spew absolutely scalding takes in all directions. If you get burned, don't say I didn't warn you. Read the message on the lid. We've done 34 of these now and my mailbag is getting full of old e-mails that don't make sense anymore. Please email new stuff to me at podcast@searls.co and we, like civilization, will start fresh next time! Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube. You can read more about things on other websites below: My "new" podcast, Merge Commits Announcing TLDR 1.0 Late to the party on this: it's good that Siri is bubbling up to Craig, finally Aaron's puns, ranked Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine OpenAI releases 4o Image Generation ChatGPT Users Are Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images How OpenAI's Ghibli Frenzy Took a Dark Turn Real Fast (Archive) An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip Go to Truant Studio for all your branding and advertising needs Anthropic released their research into how LLMs "think" The 500 million worker problem India's domestic stock bubble Remember 15 years ago when we cared who would buy TikTok? Amazon might, still Eddie Burback's "No Phone" video College students are worse now, says professor, as always Ubisoft reportedly has lawyers ready to fight Assassin's Creed Shadows harassment Nintendo just carried out a major test of its reach in a post-Twitter world The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Virtual Game Cards By "anti-scalping", they meant "for Japan" Third-party developers say Switch 2's horsepower makes them 'extremely happy' Switch backwards compatibility is emulation Nintendo delays US preorders because tariffs Saturday Night film Titanic Still playing Avowed Not playing Inzoi How to change the oil on a Tesla Roguelike/Starfoxlike, Whisker Squadron: Survivor How SNL manages cue cards