The Standup with ThePrimeagen

ThePrimeagen
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Jan 22, 2026 • 1h 17min

Scam Altman's Crypto Currency

Sam Altman’s “Worldcoin” is real… and somehow it’s even weirder than it sounds.TJ walks the crew through the orb, iris scans, “proof of human,” and the pitch for AI-funded UBI.We break down the funding, the rollout, the controversies, and why this all feels insanely ominous.Plus: classic Standup chaos, conspiracy energy, and too many jokes about where the orb shouldn’t go.
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Jan 13, 2026 • 1h 2min

Casey breaksdown AWS outage (Whiteboard Edition)

SQUASH THOSE BUGS with Sentry - the best way to monitor your bugs in production (we know you have a lot of them) and fix them with ease. Check out https://sentry.io and get started today!Casey breaks down the AWS outage in great detail with literally the coolest whiteboard demonstration you have ever seen.
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Jan 3, 2026 • 1h 5min

Legendary Game Dev Jonathan Blow

Jon Blow shows up to the podcast and tells us all about the journey from Braid to his newest game, Order of the Sinking Star. We talk Jai, Braid and so much more. Hope you enjoy the episode!
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Jan 1, 2026 • 1h 8min

Our Spiciest 2026 Predictions

We each give our best and spiciest predictions for 2026 - Amazon, AI, Tech, Hacks, and so much more are in this episode.Hope you enjoy it, and enjoy the ad from our sponsor Code Rabbit! https://trm.sh/coderabbit
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Dec 31, 2025 • 1h 16min

We gave $50,000 to Open Source!

Thanks to Planetscale for Open Source Santa this year! They gave us $30k to give away to open source projects we love, and so each of us picked a project we liked. We also gave some money from twitch chat, youtube chat and some final surprises! We hope you like the episode! Merry Christmas!!
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Dec 30, 2025 • 41min

The Secret of the AWS Outage

We finally figured out WHY AWS had their outage… Casey reveals the absolutely unhinged and crazy story.00:00:00 - Intro00:00:54 - Caseys Intro00:01:15 - The Setup00:02:55 - The Story00:08:44 - The Post Mortem00:12:11 - The Informants00:14:10 - The Suspect00:15:34 - The Code00:20:33 - The Deal00:23:05 - The Conclusion00:24:37 - The Debrief00:26:40 - Google Testing Utility Failure00:28:43 - Production Code is Forever00:40:10 - Outro
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Dec 19, 2025 • 1h 5min

Worst Onboarding Experience Ever

The gang talks about the craziest onboarding ever… and why Tom is a Genius!If you're on Mac or Windows, check out tuple today! And if you're on Linux, let's just say come back and check soon 🙂 Say thanks to our sponsor by checking out https://tuple.app/prime CODE: PRIME
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Nov 27, 2025 • 52min

Thanksgiving Special - TheStandup

https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis
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Nov 17, 2025 • 52min

Memory Safe C

Thanks to this week's sponsor: Code Rabbit If you're tired of developers just replying with LGTM, then you NEED Code Rabbit. An actually useful application of AI where it can use your own rules, lints and more to provide instant feedback in your editor OR a review on Github. https://coderabbit.link/primeagen-vscode Fil-C creators: https://x.com/filpizlo https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:29 - Fil-C Demo 00:07:56 - Security 00:11:52 - Game Engine Use Case 00:14:20 - What cant it do 00:18:02 - Different to ASan 00:23:57 - How Fil-C works 00:36:38 - Choosing Fil-C over Rust 00:51:31 - Outro
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Nov 9, 2025 • 28min

FFMPEG takes a Big Sleep

https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:23 - the issue 00:04:01 - the takes 00:09:16 - the bug 00:10:22 - AI Disclosure 00:11:42 - Prime weighs in 00:13:28 - Disclosure credit 00:14:40 - Big Sleep 00:15:24 - AI Bugs Finders vs Static Analysis 00:17:40 - Do they owe them anything at all 00:19:40 - Is this optional or worthwhile 00:23:33 - Bugs in general 00:26:08 - Triage timespend 00:27:01 - Outro

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