1014: Anthropic doesn’t use AI

Scott, Wes, and CJ reunite fresh off a trip to Amsterdam to chat conferences, burnout, and whether Anthropic actually uses AI. They also dig into a packed bag of sick picks and tech news, including HTML streaming in Chrome, an image-to-ASCII generator, and a wild Arch Linux supply chain attack.


Show Notes



00:00 Welcome to Syntax!


02:15 Anthropic Doesn’t Use AI

Thariq’s Tweet

Tweet Response





06:15 Taste and Vision in Prompting Output


10:50 Wes and Scott’s Slide Decks


18:05 Amsterdam Trip Recap


26:09 Are Conferences worth it?


27:21 Amsterdam Trip Recap


31:17 Fable 5 First Impressions


33:45 Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Banned


41:45 IRL Events Are Great For Burnout


45:12 Brought to you by Sentry.io



45:52 HTML Streaming now in Chrome



55:47 Image to ASCII Generator

The Mitos Repo





01:01:31 Find Modern Module Replacements



01:05:55 Scott is Using MacOS / iOS Betas


01:09:25 Xiaomi OpenCode Fork and Mimo 2.5 Pro


01:14:06 Agent Dashboards


01:21:39 Arch Linux Supply Chain Attack



01:23:47 Should we train coding only models?


01:31:37 Thanks!



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