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• "The Senior Engineer Death Spiral" - Ep 06

  September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

  Recorded September 21, 2026. Sunil and Rhys join the Jevolution. Sunil explains the Senior Engineer Death Spiral, the blog post that blew up his DMs (and annoyed capital-E Engineers on Hacker News). Rhys looks back on YC and shows off his…

• "I'm the Arbiter of Tokens and GPUs" - Ep 05

  August 31, 2026 · 57 min

  Recorded August 24, 2026. Special guest Michelle Chen answers our questions about inference. The AI industry lights money on fire. Sunil plans his LLM prepper era. Rhys takes the week off, preparing for YC Demo Day! LINKS / ON-SCREEN…

• "We've Never Been Wrong on the Internet Before" - Ep 04

  August 17, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

  Recorded August 7, 2026. We explore AI alignment & safety, Rhys demos his workflow, and we end up mentioning a lot of books.   LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER AI ALIGNMENT Wikipedia, AI alignment https://en.wi…

• "I'm Tired of the Uncertainty of Where This Is Going" - Ep 03

  August 10, 2026 · 56 min

  Recorded August 3, 2026. We discuss burnout, Claudeisms sneaking into regular speech, chip butties, how to watch movies, and what brings us joy. LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER A VESSEL FOR CLAUDE Rhys "vessel for Claude" tweet…

• "I've Never Seen a Model Say 'This File Is Getting Too Big'" - Ep 02

  July 23, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

  Recorded July 17, 2026. We settle the model-access bet. We talk about how the labs talk to us, plus extend an open invite for OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and Thinking Machines to come on the show and be specific about their best-case…

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