New Banana Ice Cream, Coffee Partners, Google IO and OpenAI, and Opportunity Costs for Engineers

Can you tell that Adam's moved his desk? We talk about how Adam's making banana ice cream, time travel possibilities, the opportunities afforded us as software engineers, being optimistic or a downer on Twitter, the Google IO event compared with the OpenAI event, and reasons to build identical houses.

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• wip: terminal (initial commit)
• Ninja™ CREAMi™
• The Order of Time
• Carlo Rovelli’s Time Order
• Google I/O 2024
• Introducing GPT-4o
• Her
• Dune: Part Two

Topics:

• (00:00) - This is the beauty of editing
• (00:47) - Adam's moved (his desk)
• (02:47) - Our partner for coffee
• (10:52) - Adam makes banana ice cream but with a new device
• (15:03) - Is time travel possible?
• (18:43) - Opportunity cost as a software engineer
• (36:47) - Gamestop stock is surging again
• (40:19) - Debbie Downer vs Optimistic Adam
• (56:04) - Learning from Crypto to inform AI
• (01:02:13) - The Google IO event
• (01:07:22) - The OpenAI event
• (01:11:17) - Her, Dune 2, and good audio
• (01:15:13) - Why would you build an identical house?
• (01:22:17) - Listening at 2x speed