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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia’s recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo’s latest infinite loop, what’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup, and whether or not AI has gone mainstream… warts & all!

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• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Min | A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
• Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits - The Verge
• We talked to the guy who was stuck in a Waymo robotaxi on a dizzying loop
• What’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup?
• Warp docs - Terminal features
• Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect : James Burke and Connections on Wikipedia
• chriskempson/base16: Not a theme, but a framework

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• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch

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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:00:38)

https://www.augmentcode.com

3. AI & Friends (00:04:08)

4. Adam's AI fun times (00:05:57)

5. Jerod's AI boring times (00:08:05)

6. Arc is not a dead dog (00:10:47)

7. The Min Browser (00:12:45)

https://minbrowser.org/

8. AI really is mainstream? (00:15:14)

9. ChatGPT helps with tires (00:17:39)

10. Nvidia's personal AI supercomputer (00:20:44)

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337530/nvidia-ces-digits-super-computer-ai

11. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:31:01)

https://fly.io/

12. Local network LLMs (00:33:30)

13. Alexa relations (00:36:00)

14. Apple Intelligence kinda sucks (00:40:03)

15. Meme reference fail (00:41:00)

16. Perplexity miss (00:41:59)

17. Adam is a Luddite? (00:42:58)

18. Car Play Maps woes (00:45:24)

19. AI warts & all (00:47:44)

20. Car Play tricks (00:49:24)

21. Sponsor: DeleteMe (00:52:19)

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22. Waymo infinite loop guy (00:54:15)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/we-talked-to-the-guy-who-was-stuck-in-a-waymo-robotaxi-on-an-dizzying-loop/

23. Waymo locations (00:58:34)

24. The Trigger Effect (01:00:40)

25. Adam's biggest fear (01:02:16)

26. Modern terminal setups (01:04:01)

https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/01/11/getting-a-modern-terminal-setup/

27. Join our Zulip! (01:15:52)

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28. We are on YouTube (01:18:13)

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29. Upcoming interviews (01:19:09)

30. Bye, friends (01:20:49)

31. Coming up next (01:21:01)