Yelling at Robots

Two well-seasoned technology veterans, Ian Fosbery and JR Reynolds, turn their critical gaze towards the practical application of agentically augmented software engineering in the wild. Fire up the agents while you pour yourself a fresh cup o' joe and enjoy the show.

Yelling at Robots is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Yelling at Robots, a technology show with 24 episodes published.

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  Episode #24

  Yelling at the Pre-Apocalypse

  Sep 22, 202629 minS1

  Enjoy species dominance while you still can meat-sacks! AI is coming for us all! 00:00 - Cold open 00:28 - Intro 01:44 - Today on the show 03:40 - Dipshit billionaires and a boy named Jacob 25:19 - Closing thoughts 28:58 - Best outro ever Jacob's Tweet: Anthropic We're Screwed Report: https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026#biological-misuse-sep-26 Dario says we need to slow down: https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2098773920774074715?s=20 Sam says ya bey: https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910?s=20 Elon says ok, fine: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2098789109980332057?s=20 Jensen Huang at all-in-ugh-fest with the orange man: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6tF4oYLQrJc Daily episode Jacob: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/podcasts/the-daily/the-ai-researcher-whose-rebellion-is-changing-everything.html Ed Zitron rants about Jacob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8xAav645hc Cory Doctorow interview Ian saw (The Tech Report): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDUg_uylyM

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  Episode #23

  Yelling at your Hugfacer!

  Sep 14, 202645 minS1

  We continue to swarm the faces of OpenAI as we dig deeper into their dipstick management of technological wonderment. Strap in folks, it's gonna be bumpy. 00:00 - Cold open 00:08 - Intro 04:06 - Today on the show 05:53 - Moar OpenAI saga 18:46 - Agent or Collective Intelligence? 27:47 - Sprechen sie German Wiki? 37:28 - Quick Astra chat 44:28 - Outro (Same as last time) OpenAI post on the Hugging Face Hack: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ (all of these links are just from the post above) METR independent report: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/ Full technical report: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf Black hat talk from OpenAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY NY Times Daily Episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/podcasts/the-daily/ai-openai-hugging-face-rogue-model.html Ze German Wiki Incident Security week article with weak-ass quotes: https://www.securityweek.com/openai-agents-hijack-another-victim-website/ Very good data deep dive on the incident: https://collusion.wiki/

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  Episode #22

  Yelling at Your Facehugger!

  Sep 8, 202642 minS1

  Josh keeps going nix psychosis and Ian issues a takedown notice to OpenAI and their agent swarm BS. OpenAI stubbornly continues to be dipshits. 00:00 - Cold open 00:58 - Intro 02:52 - Nix Psychosis COMPLETE 17:52 - Open AI Huggs Moar Faces 42:08 - Outro OpenAI post on the Hugging Face Hack: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ (all of these links are just from the post above) METR independent report: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/ Full technical report: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf Black hat talk from OpenAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY A Great TL;DR from Code Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rp9KJCEIvg

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  Episode #21

  Yelling at AI Bosses Yelling Back at You

  Aug 31, 202616 minS1

  Josh suprised Ian with an unscheduled on demand record. Enjoy a classic as they struggle for coherences. Mostly an ad hoc update on Luna canning some sh*tbird's ass over at Andon Labs. 00:00 - Cold open 02:12 - Intro 02:30 - Chit chat tik tok 04:49 - AI boss cans an employee 12:53 - JR pitches the new spinoff 15:00 - Outro Andon Labs' Luna fires people now: https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-bosses-2 Euro edition: https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm OG Andon Market post: https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch "She spent over $700 on getting her artwork done on gallery-quality giclée prints." Jfc. Oh yeah, I guess we also have a TikTok: @yellingatrobot (no idea why it's singular)

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  Episode #20

  Yelling at AI Bosses

  Aug 25, 202627 minS1

  On today's yell, we discuss how AI adoption is a dumb thing to measure and why your new AI boss is gonna be your best friend. 00:00 - Intro 02:40 - Today on the show 03:55 - Intro Intro 04:12 - The chit chats to start 11:59 - I love my AI boss 20:47 - AI adoption isn't real 22:28 - Yeah we're not talking about AI adoption 23:51 - Outro Dex Horthy on The Pragmatic Engineer: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/context-engineering-with-dex-horthy Josh has Nix Psychosis NixOS: https://nixos.org Nix Home Manger: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Home_Manager My AI boss is the best: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/ai-boss-san-francisco-andon-market.html AI adoption is a myth: https://x.com/vasuman/status/2085806422072418632

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