In this episode: people are still writing new programming language, Microsoft is going all "developers, developers, developers" again, and bots are apparently outnumbering humans on the web now.

Timestamps:

1:55 - Bot traffic has passed human traffic
5:28 - The Jam programming language
12:04 - Jack at Microsoft Build
29:26 - Cloudflare bought VoidZero
34:46 - Red Hat is the latest victim of Shai Hulud
38:39 - Anthropic wants AI dev to slow down
41:35 - Someone used a Waymo in a robbery
46:47 - What’s making us happy

News:

Paige - There’s a new programming language called Jam
Jack - Microsoft Build coverage
TJ - Bot web traffic has passed human web traffic

Lightning News:

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

Paige - For All Mankind TV series
Jack - Custom Microsoft swag
TJ - Claude Desktop Buddy

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148: The Bots Have Officially Taken Over

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148: The Bots Have Officially Taken Over