In which Jessitron and Avdi admit that nobody — themselves included — is ever fully caught up on the AI news cycle, and dig into why an email can smell like Claude wrote it before you’ve even finished the first line. Also: what aliens would conclude about humans if they only learned our language from LLM transcripts.

Notes

• OpenRouter
• xkcd 1053: “Ten Thousand” — the “today’s lucky 10,000” comic
• Claude Code Agent Teams
• Claude Code’s /init command
• Ironic process theory (“don’t think of a white bear”)
• Tachles — the Hebrew word for blunt, no-nonsense directness
• Honeycomb’s AI Norms

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