Yelling at Robots

Yelling at Robots

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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.

Jul 1

Polly Want a Market? Meta Sez Yaaaas!

More Zucked up motherzucking at Meta (whew!) and the lads wax poetic on hiring in an AI age.
Jun 28

The Zucking Sound of Failure

The Metastrophe continues as Supreme Commander Zuck his loyal lieutenants of fail-flail continue speed running with buckets of money turning their workforce into Reverse Centaurs. Would be great to watch if it didn't crush so many spirits along the way. On the plus side, the pay is still great! Also we talk about the loopy loop craze and why if you're not using them you are piece of human garbage. 00:00 - Intro 03:17 - On today's show 03:30 - Catching up on the week 06:36 - What's Reverse Centaur? 08:25 - Meta dumpster fire continues 16:01 - Who will loop the loops? 19:31 - Closing thoughts Galaxy Brain Episode: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/06/how-to-think-about-ai-before-its-too-late/687644/ Meta death spiral Pragmatic Engineer article: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering(One of) Gergly's tweets: https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2066922314197852376
Jun 21

Riding Shai Hulud

Ride the worm ripping through the internet's guts along with the lads as they do a debrief on their recent website coding episode, wax nostalgic about times when they could install a software package with only a 10% chance of acquiring an internet infection AND some melancholic musings on the future of humanity. Also, worms! 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - On today's episode 01:50 - Website retro & announcement 11:45 - Ian cleans his camera 12:21 - You've got worms! 20:59 - Anxiety in the age of AI 40:31 - Closing thoughts 40:50 - Outro Yelling at robots site! https://yellingatrobots.com/ Tan Stack Attack Overview: https://www.wiz.io/blog/mini-shai-hulud-strikes-again-tanstack-more-npm-packages-compromisedPostmortem: https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortemSad wives of AI: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/
Jun 14

CODING EPISODE: A Boring Fable, Poorly Told

CODING EPISODE Join JR & the Foz as they use their one shot at using Mythos (Fable) to vibe code their way to mediocrity. You'll never believe what happens next!
Jun 7

Bots Dumping Sand in the Internet's Lube

This week, the lads slop on Cloudflare and Stripe's agent baby, Github's continual f**kery, and Vercel's speed run towards the security cliff. 00:00 Cold open 00:47 Intro 02:23 What's on the show today 03:35 Cloudflare & Stripe give keys to the kids 09:56 Vercel gets bit in the ass 16:51 Github is still f***ed 30:45 Outro Cloudflare & Stripe: https://www.infoworld.com/article/4165857/are-we-ready-to-give-ai-agents-the-keys-to-the-cloud-cloudflare-thinks-so.html The Vercel Incident Overview: https://pushsecurity.com/blog/unpacking-the-vercel-breachVercel post-mortem: https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incidentGithub & Claude Github merge queue issue: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zsg1lk7w13cfClaude status page: https://status.claude.com/
May 10 · Bonus

CODING EPISODE: Big Pickling a Homepage

JR and the Foz vibe up a homepage using nothing but their wits and a massively subsidized earth shattering infrastructure to inference ideas into magic. Big Pickle and Nematron collide to make Haskell magic on today's episode.
May 3

Off the Rails on a Crazy Train

JR and The Foz wax analytic about the gap in the tracks as the industry races towards a funky future. Let the Chaos Magick Continue! 00:00 - Intro 01:04 - On today's episode 01:51 - Zuck's Clone Wars 05:17 - Bakery update! 07:46 - Lovable's SecOps Sucks 12:32 - Cursor + Railway DB Delete! 21:45 - That's a wrap! Zuckerberg Clone Wars: One for the staff: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/mark-zuckerberg-building-ai-clone-093500829.htmlOne for Mark: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerberg-is-building-an-ai-agent-to-help-him-be-ceo-eddab2d5Also, Zuck's tracking every click: https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2046705305778618613?s=20 Original Lovable data access post: https://x.com/weezerOSINT/status/2046170666131669027 Business insider article on Lovable incident: https://www.businessinsider.com/lovable-security-access-vibe-coding-projects-risk-2026-4Actual lovable docs: https://docs.lovable.dev/features/project-visibilityOriginal PocketOS founder Jer Crane's post: https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248 Also, I guess he found a reporter: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue
Apr 24

The Great Claude Shakedown

Episode 8 - JR and Foz talk about bakeries, Trendslop, and The Great Claude Shakedown™ of 2026! 00:00 - Intro 02:00 - On today's episode 04:34 - Bakery update! 11:32 - Trendslop 12:22 - JR and Foz plan the final episode 13:03 - Moar Trendslop 17:18 - The Great Claude Shakedown™ 23:52 - Outro Trendslop Article: https://hbr.org/2026/03/researchers-asked-llms-for-strategic-advice-they-got-trendslop-in-return

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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.

Creator

Yelling at Robots
Years Active

2026
Episodes

15
Rating

Explicit
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