Fallthrough

·E81

I, Builder

July 25
52 mins

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Episode Description

Kris and Matt have a pretty big question they're trying to answer this week: in the age of AI, what does it actually mean to build something?

We start (for real this time!) with the "SDKs are dead" discourse, and whether you still need one when you can just wrap the HTTP calls yourself. Kris then jumps the conversation to Beej's article on what it means to "make" or "build" a thing, he argues that we already lived through this during the analog-to-digital shift in music, photography, and video. Matt adds his own perspective from when he remodeled his kitchen.

The duo doesn't stop with just that. In this week's Expanded edition they discuss the "well, actually" brigade and when technical precision helps versus hurts, the "I versus we" of blame, the identities we get sold and comfort chambers we live in, how character limits and engagement incentives turned social media into rage bait, and Matt's take on why "a persistent machine I can run agents on" is just a computer. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today!

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Thanks for tuning in and happy listening!

Notes:

Table of Contents:

  • Prologue (00:00:00)
  • Chapter 1: SDKs in the Age of AI, Do We Still Need Them? (00:01:43)
  • Chapter 3: What Does It Mean to Build Something? (00:22:12)
  • Chapter 4: From Analog to Digital, AI as Just Another Tool (00:28:37)
  • Chapter 5: Who Actually Built It? Ownership and Attribution (00:36:06)
  • Epilogue (00:51:14)


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  • (00:00) - Prologue
  • (01:43) - Chapter 1: SDKs in the Age of AI, Do We Still Need Them?
  • (22:12) - Chapter 3: What Does It Mean to Build Something?
  • (28:37) - Chapter 4: From Analog to Digital, AI as Just Another Tool
  • (36:06) - Chapter 5: Who Actually Built It? Ownership and Attribution
  • (51:14) - Epilogue
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