Acceptance Criteria

Kevin gets a little spicy in this bleep-filled episode discussing the latest changes to Meta's policies around fact-checking and hate speech. Trans rights are human rights, and bowing to pressure from Trump and Republicans on letting people use slurs and lie to each other poisons the well for the rest of us.

Content warning for difficult discussions of trans rights, vaccines and autism, and a variety of things Meta has now decided ...

Chinese LLM company Deep Seek upended the AI market this week with a new AI model that is comparable to ChatGPT and other AIs but appears to have cost barely $5 million to create.

At one-twentieth the cost of Open AI, Meta, and others' models, it begs the question: what the hell is the US market for AI doing asking for $500 BILLION right now??

Also, we look at Google's quantum computing breakthroughs and debate whether physicists a...

We tackle some more Reddit questions, including someone who's looking for ways to track their teams' mood, how to find a mentor, how often to constructively criticize your agile process, and whether fixing every bug is bad, actually.

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We dig into some recent news, looking at an AI firm that is trying to use machine learning to predict effective crop breeds, whether AI companies have run into scaling roadblocks, and how Uber and Lyft are trying to screw drivers in NYC.

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The chances for TikTok seem to be getting slimmer by the day as a US Appeals Court upheld the ban signed by Joe Biden in April 2024. We discuss the impacts of social media and the Australian ban on under-age consumption of social media, and the concerns over trying to put age verification systems on all of the internet.

Plus, we start with a quick look at the Hawk Tuah bitcoin scam. Morons are all around us.

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We dive in to some more Reddit questions and help a few folks out. From figuring out why it seems like executives can't remember past decisions you asked them to make, to understanding what a typical day should look like for an Enterprise Architect, we have no shortage of opinions to share.

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Have you checked out Bluesky, the latest Twitter alternative that seems to be finding traction? Have you heard about "ghost jobs" that clog job listing sites with opportunities that aren't real?

This week we look at some recent news stories, including Snowflake's entry into the data orchestration market, and Amazon's struggles to get Alexa up to par with ChatGPT.

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When the UnitedHealthcare CEO was killed last week, the social media outpouring was less sympathetic than some people might have hoped. We talk about why that might be and how we're on the precipice of something that may only get worse.

Also, Google f*cked around and found out, and the DOJ is recommending they be forced to deal with the consequences of their monopolistic abuses of the online search market. Which naturally led us to...

We answer some more Reddit questions this week, from helping a junior Product Manager find ways of telling people “no” without making them feel like they were told “no” to suggesting ways to help a startup PM get past the Shiny Object Syndrome of their CEO and making sure clients will actually pay for the […]

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We dive back into Reddit this week to answer some questions and hopefully help some folks out.

From a team where product managers are rewarded for sneaking features into releases, to a VP who is obsessed with RACI charts, a theme emerged this week of "everything in moderation" as our overarching recommendation.

There's also a question of what to say when your boss asks you "to be more strategic" and look at a Zendesk email spoofing...

This week we take a look at some recent news stories, from Meta's new Orion AR glasses to a Noble-prize-winning machine learning model and Google's disastrous attempt to replace perfectly good tech with an LLM chat bot in its Android phones.

To read about John Mulaney's roast at the Salesforce conference, check out the article from Tech Crunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/john-mulaney-skewers-san-francisco-at-dreamforce/

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Continuing on from our last episode digging in to how self-driving cars work, this week we're taking a look at the state of the industry with some news stories about Tesla, Apple, GM, and Google's Waymo. From poor safety records to massive companies pulling out of the market, the current state of the industry doesn't look great for consumers.

It also gives Kevin a chance to return to his favorite topic: bashing Elon Musk and dissec...

This week we look at the tech behind self-driving cars and debate whether today's GPUs are able to make decisions faster than the human brain and the ethics of whether your self-driving car should kill you to save the lives of the drivers around you.

Good luck to the software engineers who need to sleep at night after trying to solve the trolley problem.

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It's another news round-up as we look at the legal consequences facing Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, for enabling some pretty dark stuff on his end-to-end encryption chat app. Meanwhile, Boeing's woes continue as the Starliner has completely failed and stranded two astronauts on the ISS until February.

We also dig into the latest in the epidemic of security breaches that have almost certainly put your personal information a...

Unsurprisingly, we get a little heated this week as we return to everyone's favorite Kevin-vs-Andrew debate: AI

We look at a few recent news stories where AI is the focus, including Microsoft's CEO for AI claiming that all content on the internet is free for them to steal to train the LLM models, a new app called Showrunner that wants to replace writers, directors, actors, and everyone involved in creating TV and movies with AI, wh...

This week we dig into some recent news about Elon Musk's companies, from Twitter's terrible idea to roll out a Dislike button to its inability to comply with Brazilian law, as well as troubles with Tesla quarterly performance and the EU seeking to punish Twitter for ruining the Verified badge.

It's not a good time to be Elon Musk, and while Andrew does his best to find the silver lining, Kevin's just happy to watch Elon fail.

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It’s another episode of our segment User Stories, where we (hopefully) help some folks on Reddit.

This week we’re looking at how to do customer interviews in a way that doesn't bias the interviewee but still provides helpful feedback, how to deal with a VP of Sales who goes running to the CEO to disagree with you about your roadmap, how transparent your start-up leadership should be on key business stats, and how to cope with the m...

It’s another episode of our segment User Stories, where we (hopefully) help some folks on Reddit.

This week we're looking at whether Product folks should care how Engineering breaks out the items on their backlogs, how panicking in an emergency can lead to worse outcomes, whether anyone ever gets "good" at making roadmaps, and the struggles of an IT director with overbearing colleagues.

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