Worrying about AI is the easy part. Everyone already has a list. The interesting part is what lands on it, what doesn't, and why. From military use, to an AI slop takeover, to the possibility that the tools are making us stupider.

This week, the hosts respond to a question from the State of Devs survey: “Which of these general AI risks and issues are you most concerned about?”

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Mentioned in this episode:

• State of Devs 2025 survey — the questions that set off the discussion; the survey itself is now closed
• OpenAI's Hugging Face security incident — what happened when agents escaped a constrained cyber evaluation
• LinkedIn's campaign against AI slop — the official explanation of its new reporting control
• Cloudflare Pay Per Crawl — tools for publishers to allow, block, or charge AI crawlers

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

Full show notes and transcript here.

Nobody went to conferences for the talks. You went for the hallway, and for a roomful of people who'd made the same odd career bet you had. We didn't know how good we had it. COVID hit, AI is now everyone's best buddy, and now all these meetups and spaces are slowly disappearing. This week the hosts go looking for what's left of the developer hang.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Anthropic's Project Vend — the AI-run shop behind the tungsten cube story

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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Tim is trying to hire remote developers, but the interviews have started to feel like one long CAPTCHA. Before he can decide who's right for the job, he has to figure out whether he's interviewing the candidate or ChatGPT. This week the hosts discuss the state of remote developer interviews in the AI era.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Mostly Technical #29: “Super Epic Crazy” — the source of the cover-letter story about most applicants missing simple instructions
• Roberto Serrano on AI fraud at Brown University — the course whose take-home exams triggered the in-class-final story

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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