It's Kris and Matt this week, and the conversation goes places. It starts with Matt going all-in on Apple and a leaked Claude Code source dump, then pivots into AI companies repeating social media's diversity-of-thought mistakes and why LLMs still can't beat "better than the average human" as a goalpost. The episode closes with a surprise detour into accounting, finance, and why double-entry bookkeeping is one of the original distributed systems.

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Table of Contents:

Prologue (00:00:00)
Chapter 1: Matthew Goes All In on Apple (00:01:10)
Chapter 3: The Claude Code Source Leak (00:08:24)
Chapter 4: AI Companies and the Diversity of Thought Problem (00:14:13)
Chapter 6: LLMs Are Not Better Than Humans (00:17:16)
Chapter 7: AI Hype, Big Data Deja Vu, and Snake Oil (00:21:17)
Chapter 8: Serial Founders Are Deadbeat Fathers (00:23:33)
Chapter 9: The Hidden Heroes Who Run Companies (00:33:01)
Chapter 11: Engineers Need to Respect (and Learn) Finance (00:35:03)
Chapter 13: Double-Entry Accounting Is an OG Distributed System (00:50:41)

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Kris Brandow - Host
Matthew Sanabria - Host

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(00:00) - Prologue
(01:10) - Chapter 1: Matthew Goes All In on Apple
(08:24) - Chapter 3: The Claude Code Source Leak
(14:13) - Chapter 4: AI Companies and the Diversity of Thought Problem
(17:16) - Chapter 6: LLMs Are Not Better Than Humans
(21:17) - Chapter 7: AI Hype, Big Data Deja Vu, and Snake Oil
(23:33) - Chapter 8: Serial Founders Are Deadbeat Fathers
(33:01) - Chapter 9: The Hidden Heroes Who Run Companies
(35:03) - Chapter 11: Engineers Need to Respect (and Learn) Finance
(50:41) - Chapter 13: Double-Entry Accounting Is an OG Distributed System

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