This week is the quiet worry underneath all the productivity gains: that every time you hand the boring work to a machine, you're handing over a little of the curiosity that made you good at the work you care about, until one day the well of ideas just runs dry.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Taffy — the REST framework for ColdFusion and Lucee
• Rest Assured by Adam Tuttle
• Postman
• Engineering Explained

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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Adam trained an AI on twenty years of Ben's blog, then asked Ben to pick his own words out of a lineup of forgeries. This week the hosts play a game of Ben or Bot, and you can play along too!

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Play "Ben's Blog or AI?" yourself
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans
• MassTransit

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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What's the point of a personal wiki when AI agents have already read the entire internet? This week is about patterns for co-maintaining a personal wiki with an AI agent, and where its job ends and yours begins.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Karpathy's LLM Wiki gist

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