SummaryIt's a hosts-only week. Brittany and Erika catch up on what they're learning (Erika is starting Designing Data-Intensive Applications; Brittany just began Georgia Tech's online CS master's with a computer vision course) and then work through the week's AI news.First up: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, billed as the company's most aligned model. Brittany and Erika question what "aligned" even means when the headline numbers are a 100% on ExploitBench and a 0% honeypot-cheating rate, and whether a model that's harder to monitor and scores perfectly is aligned or just good at taking the test. That leads into how each of them actually evaluates a new model (spoiler: vibes), why Brittany has drifted back toward cheaper models she understands, and whether frontier models are now a research product rather than a consumer one.They also revisit the AI 2027 paper from their episode last year and how many of its predictions have already landed, debate whether GitHub Copilot approving pull requests is a real workflow change or just signaling, and talk about why the arrival of open-weight models with serious exploit capability means now is the time to get serious about security basics.Brittany closes with ATProto Spaces, the new alpha that brings non-public data to atproto, what it enables for groups and communities, and how her work at Bluesky connects to it.Links

• OpenAI Release: ⁠https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/⁠
• AI 2027 Episode: https://overcommitted.dev/ep-13-ai-2027-will-ai-take-my-job/⁠
• AI 2027: https://ai-2027.com/⁠
• Copilot Approving PRs: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-01-copilot-code-review-can-now-approve-pull-requests/⁠
• Atproto Spaces Release: ⁠https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha⁠Hosts

• Overcommitted: ⁠⁠⁠https://overcommitted.dev⁠⁠
• Brittany Ellich: ⁠⁠https://brittanyellich.com⁠
• Erika Eggemeyer: ⁠⁠⁠https://github.com/eggyhead⁠
  

Engineers architect systems for work—but what about life? In this episode, Bethany, Brittany, and Erika reveal their personal tech stacks: the tools, habits, and sometimes deliberately low-tech strategies that power their daily routines, family life, and wellness. Discover how software engineer thinking applies to work-life balance, plus practical productivity systems you can steal for your own life.

Links

https://www.trustyduck.dev/posts/tech-stack-2025/

https://johnnydecimal.com/

https://github.com/ngerakines/jd

https://wisprflow.ai/

https://obsidian.md/

https://www.chezmoi.io/

https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-Cancelling-Headphones-Bluetooth

https://www.goodinside.com

https://www.readtangle.com/

https://www.sportsgossipshow.com/

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/classical-music-happy-hour

https://slate.com/podcasts/icymi

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pragmatic-engineer/id1769051199

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home/id1355212895

Hosts

Overcommitted: ⁠⁠https://overcommitted.dev⁠

⁠Bethany Janos: ⁠⁠https://www.trustyduck.dev

Brittany Ellich: ⁠https://brittanyellich.com

Erika Eggemeyer: ⁠⁠https://github.com/eggyhead

Elliott Minns takes us inside Dreams of Code and his path from software engineer and manager to full-time content creator. He shares how he turns complex technical work into clear stories, balances depth with accessibility for a developer audience, and keeps craft at the center of the creative process. His latest project, a next-gen video editor built in Rust, brings those worlds together through technically ambitious work involving hardware, media encoding, and zero-copy performance.

The conversation also explores how ADHD shaped Elliott's career and creative process, what he learned from Dan Martell's "Buy Back Your Time," and why delegating to skilled humans still beats delegating to AI for some creative tasks. We dig into the economics and limitations of LLM-powered product features, how Elliott handles feedback from a technical audience, and why the ability to build software by hand still matters even as AI changes day-to-day development.


https://www.youtube.com/@dreamsofcode

https://x.com/dreamsofcode_io

https://www.buybackyourtime.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhjEL817Onw

https://www.youtube.com/@dreamsofautonomy

Hosts

Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.dev

Erika Eggemeyer: https://github.com/eggyhead

Bethany Janos: https://www.trustyduck.dev