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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