Coder Radio

The fantastic opportunity Google is letting slip through its hands, and why Apple might win the consumer LLM race.

After years of resistance, Mike finally surrenders to Xcode. And the secret Apple envy leaked to the public this week.

The messy details and tidy excuses we noticed in all this OpenAI upset, and some fundamental problems that have been plaguing desktop Linux for years.

OpenAI's weekend coup, plus our thoughts on Microsoft's gambit and their looming risk.

Yet another thing Microsoft was early to, and still somehow missed the boat. Plus, building a PC is rare; it's a solved problem. If AI tools excel as expected, will coding face a similar fate?

New AI "regulation" from on high this week, a few signs you might be pissing in your own pond, and the game dev team that's been together for 40 years.

We've all made mistakes and tried to play dumb, but this week history is being made.

Rumors of internal panic at Apple, and concerns about the future of RISC-V. Plus, the software update of the century.

We're about to see a wave of big tech AI features "inspired" by third-party developers at a scale that makes the Sherlocking on Apple's platform seem like chump change. Plus, how Dropbox turned around their dev retention rates, and more.

Mike checks in from the grind and shares some challenges in recent cross-platform testing; then, we get into the avalanche of negative AI press coverage this week and the one massive story they're not touching.

How does your first major programming language/technology still shape your work and career? Then grab some popcorn and let's watch the next epic tech titan battle unfold.

Our unique take on the Unity outrage, thoughts on RustRover, and Mike shares a very annoying mistake.

The painful side of making video games, Grinder's big problems, and Google's sneakiest trojan horse.

Did Apple's event live up to our expectations? And our thoughts on what new goodies for developers might be in the new hardware and software.

Azure suffers a big outage, and Microsoft blames faulty automation; why we think there might be early signs of weak demand for Apple's Vision Pro and more.

U.S. officials are warning open-source software could be a cyber security threat. Their solution? Money. But do we want them picking the winners and losers of open source? Plus, Mike's thoughts after using Cursor AI and a Cornell study take generated code to the shed.

Mike hits the limits of ChatGPT's knowledge, a chat about editors and what we'd do for a living if it had to be outside of tech.

Java developers are getting the Oracle shakedown, openAI is running out of money, and more.

Did we get this one wrong? It seems consumer AI is eating the lunch of some web's biggest names.

Microsoft's dirty old API games, the new, even more restrictive rules Apple developers will now have to follow, and why Google's "Web Integrity API" seems gross.

Elon Musk trying to build the "everything app" is ridiculous, and the quiet little promise openAI just made with the White House.

Shopify has a mind-blowingly obvious solution to too many meetings, a recent failure Chris is struggling with, and more.

openAI's window to build their moat is closing, but they have a powerful friend stepping up to help seal the deal. Plus, our reaction to Oracle's very spicy response to Red Hat.

Mike updates us on his development adventures in Unreal 5, signs the Vision Pro might be a flop, and answer questions about abandoning Red Hat's platform.

We got our eyes on the Vision Pro SDK and share our new insights. And why the claims of stalled Mastodon adoption might ring a bit true.

We open the robe and spend a little time chatting about the software development business.

We chew on the ridiculous situation Reddit has created for itself and the weak position of app developers.

We argue over what sucked the most at WWDC this year and then surprise each other with two things that thrill us.

We chew on the best bits from this year's Microsoft Build and the bright red flag coming from the Rust community.

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has gone straight for the open-source kill move.

We laugh at Google's scramble, check in on the Twitter collapse, and how one developer's little mistake screwed millions.

A scathing takedown of Serverless... By Amazon? We react to this strange revelation and more.

Why open source might be the real AI winner long-term, and Mike gets the ultimate "I told you so."

We have a laugh at Elon's alt account, why the knives are out for GitHub Co-pilot, and our thoughts on Apple's "major victory" this week.

Elon launches another AI company, leaks suggest Apple might enable sideloading, and why we should let Chaos-GPT run free.

Forces beyond Apple's control just reined in their rise, and we ponder the coming sunset. Plus, the tool we found uses ChatGPT to help you debug errors.

Our thoughts on the recent AI hysteria and why it betrays the massive egos involved, our issues with the RESTRICT Act, and we do some Monday morning code review.

Mike's spent 90+ days with GitHub Co-Pilot, and shares the surprising conclusion.

Microsoft's moonshot is turning into a crapshoot.

We're told companies are abandoning the cloud to save money. But is the trend our friend?

Our spicy take on the Silicon Valley Bank bailout, how it will impact everyday developers, and how badly this screws over small businesses.

Mike's got a new rig, and Ford wants to recall yours automatically! Plus, we get a bit spicy about money.

It's been one week, and Microsoft's new bot's already gone full Tay. Plus one of the worst examples of under-funded open source yet.

The pitchforks are out for Google's CEO, and hoopla is leaking! Plus, our thoughts on baking telemetry into Go, the big Web3 crackdown, and more.

We get spicy about the state of hybrid app development and then dig into the App store gatekeeper busting by the White House.

The shiny userbase flocking to WebAssembly, our thoughts on the "openAI scam", and why they just keep cramming stuff into Docker containers.

How the world without "big tech" might look like, the EU promises to go after Elon and a much-needed head adjustment.

Microsoft gives Google an OpenAI gut punch, why Apple's new hardware fails to impress, and our reaction to the undignified death of Twitter's third-party client API.

After sacrificing our pound of flesh for episode 500, we get into some spicy Big Tech dynamics and the performance mess of WebAssembly runtimes.

We share our spicy C++ take, major Apple frustrations, and 2023 spoilers.