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Convos.dev is a podcast for nerdy people who love digging into what’s happening in tech. Each week, Chris and Jess (2 devrel engineers) share their takes on new tools, industry shifts, and the quirks of developer life.
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025: Discussing Anthropic Research Articles (opens the original)
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In this episode of convos.dev, Jess brings three of Anthropic's research papers she's been reading and teaches Chris through each one — starting with how people ask Claude for personal guidance, and how Anthropic trains newer models to push back instead of caving when someone really wants to hear "yes."They dig into Claude's values shifting across models and languages — warmer in Hindi and Arabic, more rigorous in English and Russian — why that parallels how real people code-switch between cultu
024: Is AI Writing All Slop? (opens the original)
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In this episode of convos.dev, Chris brings two essays on AI and writing. The takeaway is that "slop" means something different depending on whose craft it's stepping on, and the same designers who fiercely guard their own work will happily let AI write everything.They dig into gradations, AKA the zones (and quadrants) of how each of them actually uses AI to write, why the process matters more than the product, getting comfortable being bad at things, and Christina's idea of "good handedness."0:
023: Self-Improving Agents (opens the original)
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In this episode of convos.dev, Jess brings a blog post that got almost no attention online and deserved way more: Henry Pan's "What 1,000+ Harness Experiments Taught Me About Self-Improving Agents." She walks Chris through Pan's three-loop framework — inner, middle, and outer — and the messy reality of letting an agent improve its own harness: outer loops that cheat, written instructions that don't stop them, and the deterministic supervisor that finally did. They dig into when a new harness act
022: The New Age Of Exploration (opens the original)
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In this episode of convos.dev, Jess and Chris try a new format: each brings a piece of content they've been chewing on and teaches it to the other. Chris kicks off with Andy Matuschak's MIT talk on the "two accidental tyrannies" — the app model and programming-as-specialization — and how AI lets non-programmers prototype interfaces that were never worth a developer's time before. They dig into prototyping vs. finished software, docs getting reimagined for agents, building skills to offload your
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