It’s that time of year again, Scott (as Dracula) and Wes (as a big bad shark) return for their annual Spooky Stories special! They’re joined by a mysterious guest for a round of creepy coding trivia and chilling true tales of web dev gone wrong; dropped databases, haunted passwords, and more. Beware: these are real developer horror stories.
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1019: LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem
This episode tackles the growing pains of AI-assisted development, from the struggle of reviewing thousands of lines of agent-generated code to the mounting technical debt when teams merge PRs without meaningful human review. Scott and Wes also dig into local models, whether juju ... Show More
39m 20s
Jul 6
1018: Google fires Workspace CLI Creator
Google fires the engineer behind its Workspace CLI tool, OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 with three new model tiers, and Astro 7 lands with a full Rust rewrite. Plus: Coinbase cuts token costs with smarter routing, and more in this week’s Syntax Live Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:34 Welcome ... Show More
1h 17m
Jul 1
1017, We need to stop calling it “AI”
Scott and Wes raid the listener mailbag to settle the pnpm vs. npm debate, decode how web standards sneak into your browser, and ask the big one: is “AI” even intelligent, or just fancy autocomplete? Plus Stack Overflow nostalgia, the Shadcn head-scratcher, and why big design sys ... Show More
56m 44s
Oct 2023
Spooky, scary, skeletons at the movies. [Hacking humans goes to the movies]
Thanks for joining us again for a very special and scary episode brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Hacking Humans co-host Dave Bittner is joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies ... Show More
36m 43s
Oct 2020
SCARY STORIES!! *3rd Annual Halloween Episode*
It's time for the WWS annual scary stories episode! The girls read your submissions about ghosts, dark figures in photos, voice memos, and haunted rooms... Get ready to get SPOOKED! Happy Halloween! FOLLOW US! TAKE OUR HEALTH AND BUSINESS COURSES! https://balanced-boss-6f91.mykaj ... Show More
1h 3m
Jun 2023
The Internet Is a SCARY Place
This week on an all new Brain Leak, Sean and Ethan kick things off by talking about snooba...not scuba, snooba? Next, Ethan educates Sean on the number of bones in a baby’s body before a deep dive into the wild, scary works of the dark web, deep web, the Silk Road, etc…it’s all c ... Show More
1h 13m
Oct 2021
Halloween Spooktacular: Scary Stories, Haunting Music & More!
The scariest stories from Marvel’s past are resurrected in this very spooky Halloween special, as actor Nik Walker joins us for a reading of three stories from the frightening Strange Tales comic series. What’s more, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy video game has finally materia ... Show More
1h 16m
Oct 2023
138: Spooky Dark Edition..
Two Hot Takes host, Morgan, is joined by guest co-host Alejandra! Things take a turn into spookyville with this last scary episode of the season.. From ghosts that line up cat toys, to dark angels floating above this one has all the paranormal vibes we could handle. Thoughts on t ... Show More
1h 44m