HeyJaredRubber Duck Radio
A podcast about the craft of software development focusing on AI and the future of software development.
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Better Tools, Same Old Mind (opens the original)
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Tim opens with a brutal lesson from California’s Delete Act: when he let flagship AI models plan a multi-system compliance rollout, they were brilliant at reading docs and terrible at holding a plan, all vocabulary, no scar tissue. Then he and Paul unpack the strange moment Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk all called for slowing the AI frontier, question whether Apple’s new $1,999 folding iPhone is real innovation or just another screen, and explore Google’s Web MCP as the harness upgrade
The Timeline Is Vibes: AI Doom, SQLite, and Real Work (opens the original)
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Tim and Paul unpack Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's dramatic resignation and the AI doom debate, landing on why 'the timeline is vibes' but the boring risks—concentrated power and economic disruption—deserve real attention. They then give SQLite its overdue flowers as the unsung engine behind offline-first apps, local vector search, and the coming bespoke software boom, before comparing GPT-6 Astra's token-hungry launch with the cheap, fast, and surprisingly capable Qwen 3.8 Flash Next. Paul
The Agents Bring Volume, You Bring Taste (opens the original)
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Tim Williams and Paul Mason unpack why trading the keyboard for voice makes agent workflows faster, even if you type well, and what that shift reveals about where AI agents are headed. From DHH's Omarchy OS built for agents, to Taylor Otwell killing GitHub issues in favor of AI-assisted PRs, to the flood of AI slop and license laundering, they trace a single throughline: the human in the loop is no longer the bottleneck, but the point. Plus a hands-on look at Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next, the local model
Nvidia's $13B Grab, Fake Models & a Half-Terabyte Mac (opens the original)
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Nvidia reportedly buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, an 80x revenue multiple that has the AI world arguing about who controls the open-source town square. Tim and Paul break down the three camps reacting to the deal, why the real risk lives in defaults and CUDA neutrality, and how anonymous Chinese model drops were unmasked by tokenizer forensics. Then they dig into Apple's new Mac Studio with up to 512GB of unified memory, what it means for local AI sovereignty, and whether an $18,299 desktop
A Local 27B Model Just Built a Tamper-Proof Vet Audit Tool (opens the original)
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Tim walks through the weekend project that surprised him: running Qwen 3.8 27B locally to build a cross-platform emergency vet audit tool with a tamper-evident hash-chained journal and an AI co-auditor that returns severity-tagged findings instead of verdicts. He and Paul dig into where the new open model really sits against Claude Opus, why the RTX 6000 Pro's doubling price changes the local-vs-cloud math, and what this build says about the future—developers own the stable safety-critical core
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