1014: Anthropic doesn’t use AI

Scott, Wes, and CJ reunite fresh off a trip to Amsterdam to chat conferences, burnout, and whether Anthropic actually uses AI. They also dig into a packed bag of sick picks and tech news, including HTML streaming in Chrome, an image-to-ASCII generator, and a wild Arch Linux supply chain attack.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

02:15 Anthropic Doesn’t Use AI

Thariq’s Tweet

Tweet Response

06:15 Taste and Vision in Prompting Output

10:50 Wes and Scott’s Slide Decks

18:05 Amsterdam Trip Recap

26:09 Are Conferences worth it?

27:21 Amsterdam Trip Recap

31:17 Fable 5 First Impressions

33:45 Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Banned

41:45 IRL Events Are Great For Burnout

45:12 Brought to you by Sentry.io

45:52 HTML Streaming now in Chrome

55:47 Image to ASCII Generator

The Mitos Repo

01:01:31 Find Modern Module Replacements

01:05:55 Scott is Using MacOS / iOS Betas

01:09:25 Xiaomi OpenCode Fork and Mimo 2.5 Pro

01:14:06 Agent Dashboards

01:21:39 Arch Linux Supply Chain Attack

01:23:47 Should we train coding only models?

01:31:37 Thanks!

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