Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller dig into Prism v0.101, built on a community fork, and why Prism still has a place next to the Laravel AI SDK. Chris shares Avocet's launch pricing and an AI system that turns his link backlog into a nightly briefing, comparing notes on keeping up with fast-moving AI tools.

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References Mentioned

• Avocet - Chris's meeting recorder, now fully launched at $59 a year with a 10 meeting trial
• Hive - one of Chris's side projects moving forward, and the home for the AI meta project
• Jig - Chris's idea workbench, where the AI meta project idea came from
• 7 Brew - the drive-through chain with lines down the road near TJ's house
• Chemex - what Chris broke out for a quiet Sunday cup
• Purity Coffee Aponte Inga Dark Roast - the darker roast back in Chris's subscription box
• Prism v0.101.0 - TJ's catch-up release that closed 35 PRs
• wishborn - maintained the community fork of Prism that the release is built on
• Prism community fork PR - the fork TJ merged and cherry picked from
• Laravel AI SDK - Laravel's first-party AI package, and where Prism fits next to it
• Polar - the checkout and licensing service behind Avocet's launch
• Krisp - the meeting recorder Avocet replaced for both hosts
• Sonari - TJ's local transcription app, and his therapist's interest in a HIPAA-friendly notes tool
• AI meta project post - Chris's post about the AI inbox and nightly briefing
• Todoist - where Chris dumps links for the AI meta project to pick up every hour
• Claude Code releases - one of the release feeds the meta project checks daily
• Codex releases - the other release feed it checks
• Claude Haiku 5.5 - on a two-week trial for read-only sub-agent tasks to cut costs

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr compare the AI code review bots they are each building at work, from fixture repos of real PRs to requiring a line of code behind every finding. TJ also shares the eval-driven wizard he built to turn source material into learning content, sharing insights on building AI systems you can test and trust.

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References Mentioned

• Hive - Chris's orchestration framework
• Gorillaz - the show TJ saw in Detroit
• Deltron 3030 - the opener and TJ's all-time favorite hip hop artist
• Luma Brighter Learning - where TJ is building the learning content wizard and the PR review bot
• Claude Opus 5.5 - the model TJ wants to move the content wizard to, then rerun the evals
• Prism - TJ's Laravel AI package, which needs updates before the model upgrade
• GitHub Copilot - the reviewer that caught real issues TJ's bot missed, and the inline comment style Chris wants to copy
• CodeRabbit - one of the review services both teams passed on in favor of building their own
• Amazon Bedrock - where Chris's reviewer runs to keep code inside their own infrastructure

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller react to Opus 5.5 and the new GPT models, then dig into Hive going open source and how its profiles shape a lead and worker workflow. They also cover Avocet, a local meeting recorder, and two small tools for agent testing and side ideas.

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References Mentioned

• Sonari - TJ's transcription app, waiting on business and certificate decisions this week
• Halcyon - TJ's notes app, stuck at the same inflection point as Sonari
• Fantasy Lake Adventure Park - the flooded quarry with inflatable obstacle courses Chris took the Scouts to
• Claude Opus 5.5 - the new lead model for both hosts
• Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna - the OpenAI models from the same launch day, which Chris is testing as Hive workers
• Hive - Chris's meta harness for Claude Code and Codex, now open source and on npm as @cmgmyr/hive
• Avocet - Chris's local meeting recorder and transcriber, with a beta wish list sign-up
• Krisp - the meeting recorder both hosts moved off of
• Riverside - where the podcast records, and its headphones setting for echo handling
• Tauri - how TJ ships Halcyon updates
• Sparkle - the native Swift update framework TJ is still working through
• Linear - the keyboard-first feel Chris is chasing in Avocet
• Novelhood - Chris's book club app, where Lookover started
• Lookover - Chris's manual-testing queue for agents and one human tester
• CleanShot - the screenshot tool Chris pastes images from into Lookover
• Jig - Chris's workbench for ideas, POCs, and long-running AI conversations

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr get into the week's AI doom and gloom, from the Hugging Face incident to calls for regulation, before turning to a problem hitting their teams right now. They compare notes on automated code review, adversarial reviewers that never stop finding issues, and the evals it takes to tune them.

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References Mentioned

• ESP32 - the Wi-Fi controller chip TJ is wiring his shelf LED strips to
• Sonari - TJ's transcription app, with beta invites going out from the mailing list next week
• Halcyon - TJ's notes app, the other project he spun back up this week
• Mt. Comfort Coffee Peru Medium Roast - the 2.5 pound Costco bag TJ and his wife are loving
• Bizzy Espresso Blend Cold Brew - Chris's replacement espresso cold brew
• Anthropic researcher resigns with a warning - Jacob Coxon's resignation that kicked off the week's AI safety news
• OpenAI and Hugging Face incident - the containment failure both hosts point to
• Cal Newport: Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People - Cal's recap and take on the resignation
• The Diary of a CEO - the podcast where TJ heard a former OpenAI forecaster describe the race to self-improving AI
• GitHub Copilot - the org-wide reviewer Chris syncs Claude rules into
• Amazon Bedrock - what Chris's AI reviewer workflow runs on
• CodeRabbit - the AI review tool TJ wants to study for ideas

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller walk through TJ's laptop locking up past safe mode, how Claude helped him rescue his work over a shared disk, and the agent state he forgot to save. They also cover Chris's Rig beta at work, off-site backups, and dotfiles, sharing insights on what to protect when your tools keep state for you.

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References Mentioned

• LocalStack - how Rig runs one local DynamoDB instance with a table per service
• Novelhood - Chris's book club app, one of the side projects waiting on usage resets
• Halcyon - TJ's notes app, where Fable 5.1 as the Hive lead turned the sync build around
• OpenCode - TJ's idea for running GPT models with a rule file extension
• Pi - one of the harnesses Chris named as a base for a Rula engineering harness
• Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag Chris finished
• Bear - where TJ was writing therapy homework when the laptop froze
• Prism - one of the repos TJ rescued off the frozen disk
• Sonari - TJ's transcription app, rescued with its in-progress worktrees
• Dotbot - how TJ rebuilt his machine in 45 minutes and keeps work and personal setups in sync
• Homebrew - what Dotbot reinstalls on a fresh machine
• Setapp - part of TJ's rebuild script
• Backblaze - Chris's off-site backup instead of Time Machine
• Skate - Charm's encrypted key value store TJ uses to keep secrets out of his dotfiles
• PHP Tek - TJ's first 2027 talk submission
• Laracon US - TJ will be there and might submit
• Laracon AU - TJ's top speaking goal for the year

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr talk through Novelhood, the book club app Chris is building with his wife, and how stacking design skills got him to a version that works for readers from 20 to 80. TJ shares where Sonari stands ahead of launch, including a listener DM that has him chasing custom speech models for people with speech impediments, exploring what accessible AI tooling could look like.

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References Mentioned

• Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag with the galaxy packaging
• North Meet South 199 - the crossover episode on vetting vibe-coded contributions
• Lovable - what Zillow hands to non-technical people for prototyping
• Novelhood - Chris's book club management app, wait list open
• Open Library - the book data behind Novelhood's title search
• Bookshop.org - the planned way for clubs to send book sales to a local bookstore
• Sonari - TJ's local-only Mac transcription app
• Halcyon - TJ's markdown notes app, built on Tauri
• Tauri - the framework TJ recommends over raw Swift for Mac apps
• Sparkle - the update framework TJ is wiring into Sonari
• Polar license keys - how TJ plans to handle Sonari licensing
• WhisperKit - the on-device models TJ would fine-tune for speech impediments

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller dig into Anthropic's expiring 50% usage bump, why both of them swapped their Hive lead from Opus to Fable, and Chris's work bringing Codex into Hive as a first-class harness. TJ shares a week-long unattended build of Halcyon's git-style sync engine, sharing insights on where agent orchestration is actually paying off.

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References Mentioned

• https://www.halcyonnotes.com/
• https://opencode.ai/
• https://openclaw.ai/

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr dig into Hive, the tmux-based agent orchestration tool Chris built to replace Solo, from profiles and runbooks to the optional dashboard. They also cover TJ's Halcyon notes app, his new local dictation app Sonari, and the app store compliance maze, sharing insights on turning side projects into real products.

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References Mentioned

• https://x.com/samsappenfield1
• https://x.com/abbygilson28/status/2089384180597817553
• https://soloterm.com/
• https://www.halcyonnotes.com/
• https://www.sonari.audio/