Description

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: 

• Red Hat is the latest victim of Shai Hulud on npm
• Anthropic wants AI development to slow down for the public good
• Police have yet to catch a thief who used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes
• Cloudflare bought VoidZero

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

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

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