The Standup with ThePrimeagen

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They roast Apple’s weird sling accessory and wonder who would actually wear it. They tear into performative LinkedIn posts and parody corporate announcement language. A heated takedown of a misleading complexity visualizer sparks a wider chat about algorithms, big-O tradeoffs, and practical performance. The conversation also skews into AI PR, tech celebrity hires, and lost CPU industry opportunities.

Adam C. Younis, indie game developer and pixel artist behind Insignia, and Nolan (E-I), maker of experimental browser and terminal games, join to talk indie dev life. They discuss making many tiny projects, game jams, weird technical experiments like terminal games and scaling viral projects, and how streams, tooling, and AI shape creative workflows.

Casey Muratori, veteran game developer and podcaster known for technical depth. Dimitri Spanos, AI researcher with 20+ years building production systems. They debate token costs and hardware limits. They question whether engineers will shift to reviewing AI-generated code. They unpack risks like cognitive debt, tooling vs model gains, and who benefits or loses from AI.

The crew talks about one of the biggest debates in programming right now: do lines of code actually matter? They dive into AI coding tools, developer productivity, and why measuring engineers by code output might be completely broken. Along the way they roast the viral “burned out my USB-C ports using Claude Code” tweet, share stories about gamifying developer metrics, and break down some surprisingly wild security vulnerabilities in both Windows Notepad and Notepad++. A mix of tech insight, developer culture, and plenty of chaos.

Bash, a tooling-minded contributor who riffs on small projects, and Trash, an iOS vibe-coder who experiments with AI helpers, trade rapid-fire takes. They riff on OpenClaw admin chaos, AI assistants wired into personal accounts, voicemail and spam-call use cases, vibe-coding secret apps, and the hazards of giving agents deep permissions. Conversation mixes tech horror stories, awkward summit theater, and playful banter.

Ben and Alexis join the show to talk about their new sketch comedy series, the creative chaos behind it, and what it actually takes to ship something big online. From quitting tech jobs to filming 12-hour shoot days, unreleased music videos, and creative mental breakdowns, this episode is a behind-the-scenes look at building something ambitious with friends.It’s comedy, tech, risk, and a whole lot of “just make the thing.”

We used to be gamers… and honestly, we still kind of are.In this special Standup episode, the crew skips the usual news cycle and just talks games: Terraria obsession, Slay the Spire addiction, Starcraft war stories, Pokémon Go team challenges, and the dangerous temptation of getting “back into it.” Expect chaos, nostalgia, and way too many side quests.

ssh terminal.shop This week on The Standup, the crew digs into the chaos of AI “skills,” agent tooling, and the growing security risks nobody seems to be paying attention to. From hallucinated commands spreading across GitHub to supply-chain nightmares and wild real-world examples, it’s a funny, slightly terrifying look at where AI tooling is headed. Laughs, hot takes, and a reality check for anyone letting agents run loose on their machine.

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