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Sep 2026

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David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

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September 15, 202635 min

Episode 288: What a Great Time to Be Alive!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about swimming with large cockroaches, breaking security by breaking AI, driving with tiny fake heads, and communicating with our thoughts! Gunnar finds a male painted bunting ! Dave, Claude Code , Slackbot , unlearning old habits, and learning new habits Scientists have created a 3D-printed remote-controlled cyborg cockroach equipped with IR cameras — living insects fitted with flexible 'diving suit' can survive and move underwater for three hours Fable-5 guardrail’s enable blindspot for attackers Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards Check out this AlterEgo Cutting Room Floor Phrases you can use instead of “not my circus, not my monkeys” English to LinkedIn Speak Translator Spend Five Minutes With This Hellish Operating System Simulator and You’ll Never Swear at Your Computer Again CrankGPT is a fully offline, off-the-grid AI box

September 8, 202633 min

Episode 287: The Guild of Dave and Gunnar Impersonators

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about modern-day robot uprisings and modern-day Butlerian Jihads! Hermes > 🦞 Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Meanwhile: Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes Meanwhile: Halupedia The 1788 Dave and Gunnar Accord Gunnar Sigh O Meter The Guild of Dave and Gunnar Impersonators Cutting Room Floor KitKat’s newest product is . . . a Faraday cage? Homer’s Radio: D’oh FM PI HARD | Official Trailer 2026 | AI OR DIE Productions VibeOS - Fully Hallucinated Operating System

August 12, 202655 min

Episode 286: Work, Gyms, and Toxic Relationships

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Camille Tuutti about Swedish AI coffee shops and reanimating woolly mammoths! Meet Mona, the AI Who Runs a Stockholm Coffee Shop by Camille Tuutti By Andon Labs (see D&G #278 !) Meanwhile: Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine Lemonade Stand Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide Camille asks Vivienne Ming about brain atrophy I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall. College instructor goes viral for catching students' AI use on midterm To Ben Lamm, extinction is just an engineering problem We Give Thanks Camille Tuutti for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Camille Tuutti.

June 4, 202636 min

Episode 285: Location, Location, Threat Model

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about markdown, caveman, and dark software factories! Warhammer 40,000 : “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” Birds Aren’t Real Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students Introducing Markdown for Agents Counterpoint: Why the heck are we still using Markdown?? caveman : why use many token when few do trick See also: Classical Chinese Dark Software Factories The 5 Levels of AI Coding (Why Most of You Won't Make It Past Level 2) by Nate B. Jones StrongDM Software Factory: Software Factories And The Agentic Moment The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory by Dan Shapiro Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall. by Nate B. Jones Cutting Room Floor Interactive XKCD Dependency comic A Unique Property For Sale In Pennsylvania Luxurious Home in a Decommissioned Grain Elevator

March 9, 202650 min

Episode 284: Home Row Guy

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mike McGrath about agentic AI open source development and engineering leadership! Gunnar on abundance in D&G 273 Welcome Mike ! Gemini Gems The Day Open Source Realized Code Doesn’t Matter Anymore Fedora Fedora Infrastructure Project tmux screen We Give Thanks Mike McGrath for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

February 28, 202630 min

Episode 283: We Could’ve Been Standing Outside an Olive Garden

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI judging photos, AI judging meeting transcripts, and hacking AI with poetry! Stranger Things ! It’s good, actually! rentahuman.ai They See Your Photos Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon D&G This Week in Controlling the Past to Control the Future: Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization Cutting Room Floor DOOMBuds

February 17, 202631 min

Episode 282: He Sent Me Chicken Ramen

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about agents battling agents, electric shocks battling coffee, and Amazon Prime battling First Class mail! Gunnar is now fully agentic. Skills and the inner loop. Capital vs Labor. Capital wins again. La-Z-Boy repair tip + free parts ($16 S&H) Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw Moltbook Moltbook leaked Andrej Karpathy’s API keys MOLTBOOK EXPOSED: The New AI Scam That Fooled Everyone D&G Mailbag via Erich Morisse : The Clanker Games Fun fact: Clanker A Viral Chinese Wristband Claims to Zap You Awake. The Public Says 'No Thanks’ WAT Medical product page Postal Arbitrage We Give Thanks Erich Morisse for the Clanker Games tip!

February 13, 202630 min

Episode 281: Four Out of Five Developers Enjoy Code Reviews

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for prison inmates, AI for senior citizens, and low-cost haptic exosuits! Ebird and Listers Moen update Death by Lightning An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit Almost related: Four out of five developers enjoy code reviews Cutting Room Floor Anycrap : Bring Impossible Products to Life Thought-Cancelling Headphones Dave and Gunnar Show Podcast Bobble Heads Donut Hole Repair I’m Not a Robot Claude Biodome

January 12, 202633 min

Episode 280: We See You

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds! Trinity and Low-background Steel Hardcore History Slate Political Gabfest Google Vids ! Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative D&G This Week in Bad Ideas Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? Rawlsian Theory of Justice Rawlsian Theory of Justice: The Musical Cutting Room Floor Salami Advent Calendar Nap Anywhere Pillow Linux Ported to WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)

December 1, 20259 min

Episode 279: Live from Room 101

This week Dave and Gunnar go on a re-education off-site, and O’Brien and Winston Smith debate whether we’re in an AI bubble! Key Takeaways (The Correct Perspective): The concept of an 'AI bubble' is a persistent, troubling rumor. It is heresy. Nvidia's valuation is not speculation; it is the correct price for the tools that build order . The true return on investment for General AI is not measured in commerce or email-writing, but in compliance . The massive power consumption and centralization of the technology are not a bug, but a feature —it ensures only the Party can wield true AI. The true 'killer app' of AI is the ability to rewrite the past perfectly and instantly, changing not just the record, but the memory . A bubble is fragile. This new architecture of control is not a bubble, but the AI reality . The numbers are meaningless. The only thing that matters is the fullness and the order . Further Re-education: All corrected notes and the transcript that has now always been true can be found at dgshow.org . We Give Thanks Big Brother O’Brien and Winston Smith for filling in for us!