Dave & Gunnar Show

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about swimming with large cockroaches, breaking security by breaking AI, driving with tiny fake heads, and communicating with our thoughts! Gunnar finds a male painted bunting! Dave, Claude Code, Slackbot, unlearning old habits, and learning new habits Scientists have created a 3D-printed remote-controlled cyborg cockroach equipped with IR cameras — living insects fitted with flexible 'diving suit' can survive and move underwater for three hours Fable-5 guardrail’s enable blindspot for attackers Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards Check out this AlterEgo Cutting Room Floor Phrases you can use instead of “not my circus, not my monkeys” English to LinkedIn Speak Translator Spend Five Minutes With This Hellish Operating System Simulator and You’ll Never Swear at Your Computer Again CrankGPT is a fully offline, off-the-grid AI box

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about modern-day robot uprisings and modern-day Butlerian Jihads! Hermes >

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Camille Tuutti about Swedish AI coffee shops and reanimating woolly mammoths! Meet Mona, the AI Who Runs a Stockholm Coffee Shop by Camille Tuutti By Andon Labs (see D&G #278!) Meanwhile: Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine Lemonade Stand Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide Camille asks Vivienne Ming about brain atrophy I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall. College instructor goes viral for catching students' AI use on midterm To Ben Lamm, extinction is just an engineering problem We Give Thanks Camille Tuutti for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Camille Tuutti.

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about markdown, caveman, and dark software factories! Warhammer 40,000: “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” Birds Aren’t Real Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students Introducing Markdown for Agents Counterpoint: Why the heck are we still using Markdown?? caveman: why use many token when few do trick See also: Classical Chinese Dark Software Factories The 5 Levels of AI Coding (Why Most of You Won't Make It Past Level 2) by Nate B. Jones StrongDM Software Factory: Software Factories And The Agentic Moment The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory by Dan Shapiro Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall. by Nate B. Jones Cutting Room Floor Interactive XKCD Dependency comic A Unique Property For Sale In Pennsylvania Luxurious Home in a Decommissioned Grain Elevator

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mike McGrath about agentic AI open source development and engineering leadership! Gunnar on abundance in D&G 273 Welcome Mike! Gemini Gems The Day Open Source Realized Code Doesn’t Matter Anymore Fedora Fedora Infrastructure Project tmux screen We Give Thanks Mike McGrath for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI judging photos, AI judging meeting transcripts, and hacking AI with poetry! Stranger Things! It’s good, actually! rentahuman.ai They See Your Photos Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon D&G This Week in Controlling the Past to Control the Future: Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization Cutting Room Floor DOOMBuds

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about agents battling agents, electric shocks battling coffee, and Amazon Prime battling First Class mail! Gunnar is now fully agentic. Skills and the inner loop. Capital vs Labor. Capital wins again. La-Z-Boy repair tip + free parts ($16 S&H) Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw Moltbook Moltbook leaked Andrej Karpathy’s API keys MOLTBOOK EXPOSED: The New AI Scam That Fooled Everyone D&G Mailbag via Erich Morisse: The Clanker Games Fun fact: Clanker A Viral Chinese Wristband Claims to Zap You Awake. The Public Says 'No Thanks’ WAT Medical product page Postal Arbitrage We Give Thanks Erich Morisse for the Clanker Games tip!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for prison inmates, AI for senior citizens, and low-cost haptic exosuits! Ebird and Listers Moen update Death by Lightning An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit Almost related: Four out of five developers enjoy code reviews Cutting Room Floor Anycrap: Bring Impossible Products to Life Thought-Cancelling Headphones Dave and Gunnar Show Podcast Bobble Heads Donut Hole Repair I’m Not a Robot Claude Biodome

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds! Trinity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)) and Low-background Steel (https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/) Hardcore History (https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/) Slate Political Gabfest (https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest) Google Vids (https://workspace.google.com/products/vids/)! Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative (https://venturebeat.com/ai/researchers-find-adding-this-one-simple-sentence-to-prompts-makes-ai-models) D&G This Week in Bad Ideas Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kalshi-becomes-cnn-official-prediction-073203095.html) Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? (https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/10/should-an-ai-copy-of-you-help-decide-if-you-live-or-di

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) go on a re-education off-site, and O’Brien and Winston Smith debate whether we’re in an AI bubble! Key Takeaways (The Correct Perspective): * The concept of an 'AI bubble' is a persistent, troubling rumor. It is heresy. * Nvidia's valuation is not speculation; it is the correct price for the tools that build order. * The true return on investment for General AI is not measured in commerce or email-writing, but in compliance. * The massive power consumption and centralization of the technology are not a bug, but a feature—it ensures only the Party can wield true AI. * The true 'killer app' of AI is the ability to rewrite the past perfectly and instantly, changing not just the record, but the memory. * A bubble is fragile. This new architecture of control is not a bubble, but the AI reality. * The numbers are meaningless. The only thing that matters is the fullness and the order. Further Re-education: * All c

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about weaponized AI and seemingly conscious AI! Virtual Customer Panels with Gemini Gems (https://gemini.google/overview/gems/) Dave vs. Ticketmaster (https://www.ticketmaster.com/) Totally unrelated: Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation (https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/) Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems (https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/) Anthropic's Claude stocked a fridge with metal cubes when it was put in charge of a snacks business (https://www.engadget.com/ai/anthropics-claude-stocked-a-fridge-with-metal-cubes-when-it-was-put-in-charge-of-a-snacks-business-162750304.html) Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI) We must build AI for people, not to be a person (https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) are joined by Dan Walsh (https://dgshow.org/guests/dan) on the eve of his retirement! What is new in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (https://www.suse.com/c/what-is-new-in-suse-linux-enterprise-server-16-0/): “The most significant security update is the transition from AppArmor to SELinux as the default Mandatory Access Control (MAC) framework.” Bootc (https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/09/24/bootc-getting-started-bootable-containers) Dan Walsh Red Hat Obituary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8AATlOq3SU) SELinux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux) Dan’s Russian Blog (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com) Cursor (https://cursor.com/) Podman In Action (https://www.amazon.com/Podman-Action-generation-container-engines/dp/1633439682) RamaLama (https://ramalama.ai/) vLLM (https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) Llama.cpp (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp) Red Hat Lightspeed

For our Halloween finale, Carolyn Ford (https://dgshow.org/guests/cford) invites two favorite “AI conjurers”, Dave Egts (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) “Mr. X,” public-sector field CTO at Mulesoft, and Laura Klebanow, founder & chief storyteller at Show & Tell, into the Tech Transforms cauldron. Each brings a “secret AI ingredient”: Carolyn composes whimsical Suno-generated theme music (after a prompt-crafting detour through ChatGPT), Laura pushes image creation and Gemini’s career-planner for playful, practical use, and Dave reimagines Gemini’s children’s-storybook gem to craft customer-hero narratives, plus a Scooby-Doo-style Tech Transforms tale. Then we stir in the shadows: misinformation at scale, AI “rights,” bioethics (organoids/bodyoids), job disruption vs. reskilling, and how creativity can demystify AI without sugarcoating risks. The trio closes with rapid-fire “treats & tricks,” classroom-to-boardroom starter tips (talk with AI, don’t just query it; red-team your ideas), and a reminder to “find you

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about hidden signals in AI models and hidden signals in birds! Agentic Google App Scripts (https://github.com/ghelleks/email-labeler-agent) Fake Music (https://www.youtube.com/@FakemusicBr)! Iron Man ( Soul/Funk) Version 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPocWcaCMA4) Don't You (Forget About Me) ( Soul) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-5xm2VsB8) See also: The Klezmonauts -- Oy to the World: A Klezmer Christmas (https://www.allmusic.com/album/oy-to-the-world-a-klezmer-christmas-mw0000617319) Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data (https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/) China foes get worse results using DeepSeek, research suggests — CrowdStrike finds nearly twice as many flaws in AI-generated code for IS, Falun Gong, Tibet, and Taiwan (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-foes-get-worse-results-usi

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about smart glasses and AI existential dread! Follow Up Duperheroes (https://github.com/ghelleks/duperheroes)! I Previewed These Emotion-Tracking Smart Glasses, and They Seem Weirdly Useful (https://lifehacker.com/tech/emotion-tracking-smart-glasses) Someone Built an Ad Blocker for Real Life, and I Can't Wait to Try It (https://lifehacker.com/tech/someone-built-an-ad-blocker-for-real-life-and-i-cant-wait-to-try-it) 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers (https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers) Someone trapped an LLM on inferior hardware and infused it with existential dread for the sake of art, and it's terrifying (https://www.xda-developers.com/llm-raspberry-pi-art-piece/) Guggenheim: Can’t Help Myself (https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/34812) Cutting Room Floor Photographs From Amundsen’s Sou

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about e-tattoos, AI agent blackmail, and AI memory dossiers! Cursor (https://www.cursor.com/) and Claude Code (https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code): PARA Auditor (https://github.com/ghelleks/para-auditor), Let Me AI That for You (https://github.com/ghelleks/lmaitfy), Botany Battle (https://github.com/ghelleks/botany-battle). Abundance! “You won’t lose your job to a tractor, but to a horse who learns to drive a tractor” (https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1likzg2/you_wont_lose_your_job_to_ai_but_to/) Star Wars - Return of the 80s Miami (Parody Music Video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86CnDxHjHMs) These 5G Protection Sticker Ads Are Hilarious (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgvdvfOvdJs) ‘E-tattoo’ could track mental workload for people in high-stake jobs, study says (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/29/e-tattoo-could-track-mental-workload-people-high-stake-jobs-study-says) Age

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about fake bodies, fake passports, fake speakers, a fake Commodore 64 CD-ROM, and Erich Morisse (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emorisse/) being mean to AI Gunnar builds a Gemini (https://gemini.google.com/)-powered virtual team: It's all about perspective. (https://www.easygen.io/post/its-all-about-perspective) Farewell Pocket (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket), hello Wallabag (https://wallabag.org/) or Instapaper (https://www.instapaper.com/)? Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine (https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1113611/ethically-sourced-spare-human-bodies-could-revolutionize-medicine/) His Dark Materials (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials) by Philip Pullman Fake Passport Generated by ChatGPT Bypasses Security (http://securityexpress.info/fake-passport-generated-by-chatgpt-bypasses-security) An episode of The Simpsons? Fake spe

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about best practices for manipulating AI models to enslave humanity! Moen’s lifetime warranty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADDiq3RalSQ) Gemini (https://gemini.google.com/) multimodal! When We Cease to Understand the World (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62069739-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world) by Benjamín Labatut Einstein’s Dreams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein's_Dreams) by Alan Lightman Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved (https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-like-the-rest-of-us-just-want-to-be-loved/) D&G Blade Runner Home Edition: Human or Not? (https://www.humanornot.ai/) How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/chain_of_thought_jailbreaking) Emergent Misalignment: Researchers trained AI models to write flawed code—and they began supporting the Nazis and advocating for A

In this episode, Carolyn Ford (https://dgshow.org/guests/cford) welcomes back Dave Egts, Field CTO at MuleSoft, to Tech Transforms (https://techtransforms.fireside.fm/) to explore the transformative power of AI in 2025. They dive into Dave’s top five AI predictions, with a special focus on the rise of agentic AI—AI that doesn’t just suggest, but acts. Dave explains the difference between generative AI and intelligent agents, why integration via APIs is the key to agent success, and how government agencies can prepare now. Listeners will learn: What “large action models” (LAMs) are, and how they differ from large language models How AI agents are already reducing friction in Salesforce and Slack Why AI success depends on access to high-quality, actionable data What’s driving the shift toward small language models and what that means for secure, on-device AI Why “agent-washing” is the new “AI-washing”—and how to spot it What makes a truly impactful agent vs. a glorified chatbot Dave’s favorite sci-fi robot, a m

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about cockroaches with backpacks, hydrogels with Pong, and hackers with digital license plates! Paperlike Screen Protector (https://paperlike.com/products/paperlike-for-ipad?srsltid=AfmBOoooevn7RZDUrPzKuw-ygeeWFUKtaliQwDsODZP8X-v6qPUoPXn9) Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds (https://www.techspot.com/news/105987-cyborg-cockroach-armies-can-now-mass-produced-rate.html) Hydrogels can learn to play Pong (https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/hydrogels-can-learn-to-play-pong/) Lavarand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand) Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets (https://www.wired.com/story/digital-license-plate-jailbreak-hack/) How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell (https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/) XKCD Exploits of a Mom (https://xkcd.com/3