Episode 285

Location, Location, Threat Model

June 4th, 2026

36 mins 33 secs

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About this Episode

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about markdown, caveman, and dark software factories!

Warhammer 40,000: “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”
Birds Aren’t Real
Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students
Introducing Markdown for Agents
- Counterpoint: Why the heck are we still using Markdown??
- caveman: why use many token when few do trick
- See also: Classical Chinese
Dark Software Factories
- The 5 Levels of AI Coding (Why Most of You Won't Make It Past Level 2) by Nate B. Jones
- StrongDM Software Factory: Software Factories And The Agentic Moment
- The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory by Dan Shapiro
- Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman
- I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall. by Nate B. Jones

Cutting Room Floor