Episode Summary:

Will and Brandt try to get through a whole episode without saying the two letters. What's your over-under on how far they got? Along the way: Will's new NDI camera rig, Apple's ten-thousand-dollar Mac Minis and a rumored rack-mount server, why local hosting keeps swinging back to the cloud, and Brandt's morning brief that grew from a chat message into a checkbox web page.

Discussions Include:

• Will's NDI camera overhaul, from a $200 encoder box to auto-tracking PTZ gimbals that occasionally zoom out on their own
• Apple's $10K Mac Mini configurations, the rumored rack-mount Mac server, and model companies ordering them by the thousand
• The expansion-and-contraction cycle of local versus cloud, from self-hosted email servers to running your own models
• Buzz, Block's "Slack for agents," and why one master agent isn't enough once you're running several at once
• Brandt's daily brief evolving from a chat message into a full HTML page with checkboxes

Quotable Quotes (Should you choose to share):

"It's refreshing to talk about something that's technology based that doesn't have two letters in it." - Brandt Krueger

"Whenever I get frustrated with something in software, I now ask myself: can I just build it?" - Will Curran

"It would back up, go full speed to the point where it would pop a wheelie, and then ram itself into your furniture at full speed." - Brandt Krueger

"AI has definitely made us more organized and more productive. But then why do people feel as burnt out as they did when we didn't have this technology?" - Will Curran

Thing of the Episode (TOTE):

Brandt: Roborock QV 35A - https://us.roborock.com/products/roborock-qv-35a
Will: Cronometer - https://cronometer.com