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  • The Tortoise and the Agent

    October 24, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    On this week's episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Fred Hebert and Reid Savage from Honeycomb to talk discuss building products with tiny teams, why code reviews are a useful bottleneck that we should keep around, and how AI mandates make…

  • Git Out

    October 17, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

    Change is challenging but quite often the tools that we used to solve yesterday's problems are unfit for tomorrow's problems. In this episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Rain Paharia, one of Matt's colleagues at Oxide who is also the…

  • Close Encounters of the Human Kind

    October 10, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    How should we spend our time now that writing code is cheap? In this episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Doug Soo, a staff engineer working on the storage systems at Honeycomb. They discuss his blog post Spend More Time Talking to Humans…

  • Keep Your Enemies Closer

    October 3, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

    Steve is back! He joins Kris and Matt to discuss the drama around DHH's latest keynote at Rails World and Steve's latest views on AI. Interestingly, Steve believes that he'll sit in opposition to how Kris and Matt see the current…

  • Thinking, Fast and Cheap

    September 26, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    Another week, another duo episode, but this time around it's Dylan who's joining Kris! He brings a fresh perspective to the AI conversation  that Kris and Matt have been engaging in. The big question: is AI going to kill us all? Dylan…

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  • Apocalypse Not Now

    September 19, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Kris and Matthew have some more spicy and it's about the latest AI news cycle: a greater than ten percent chance that AI wipes out humanity inside a decade. Neither of them are worried about it, what does is why everyone else is so worried…

  • The Elements of Slop

    September 12, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Kris and Matthew have some feelings about AI they want to discuss. No, not about benchmarks or agents, but about the people using it to write things they should be plenty capable of writing themselves: the five paragraph LinkedIn post, the…

  • A Record of One's Own

    September 5, 2026 · 49 min

    Matthew hosts this week, joined by Kris and by Bailey Townsend, an AT Protocol community ambassador who builds tools for the atmosphere. AT Proto is the protocol underneath Bluesky, and this is a conversation about what it actually is…

  • Be Kind, Rewind

    August 29, 2026 · 58 min

    Matthew takes the host chair this week with Kris as an unusually quiet producer. They're joined by Ron Efroni and James Bayer from Flox for a long conversation about Nix. Ron co-founded Flox and is also the president of the NixOS…

  • A Modest Proposal Proposal

    August 22, 2026 · 1 hr 59 min

    The proposal proposal gets the full Fallthrough treatment. Kris, Matthew, and Jamie dig into Austin's plan for taming the Go project's ever-growing proposal backlog. What starts as a recap becomes a referendum on how Go is governed, who…

  • Backlog to the Future

    August 15, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    Kris is back from GopherCon, Matt is back from the lawn, and Fallthrough is back with news: a brand new website and a whole new show, Continue: Go Proposals Edition, a weekly look at Go proposals. The topic for this week's Fallthrough?…

  • Vibe and Prejudice

    August 8, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    We've got the classic trio of Kris, Matt, and Steve back to discuss Steve's impending cancellation for putting himself in the middle of some drama! Steve gives us a recount of the current saga between Zig, Rust, Bun, Fil-C, and his own…

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A deep and nuanced conversational podcast focused on technology, software, and computing.