Scott, Wes, and CJ reunite fresh off a trip to Amsterdam to chat conferences, burnout, and whether Anthropic actually uses AI. They also dig into a packed bag of sick picks and tech news, including HTML streaming in Chrome, an image-to-ASCII generator, and a wild Arch Linux supply chain attack. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:15 Anthropic Doesn’t Use AI Thariq’s Tweet Tweet Response 06:15 Taste and Vision in Prompting Output 10:50 Wes and Scott’s Slide Decks 18:05 Amsterdam Trip Recap 26:09 Are Conferences worth it? 27:21 Amsterdam Trip Recap 31:17 Fable 5 First Impressions 33:45 Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Banned 41:45 IRL Events Are Great For Burnout 45:12 Brought to you by Sentry.io 45:52 HTML Streaming now in Chrome 55:47 Image to ASCII Generator The Mitos Repo 01:01:31 Find Modern Module Replacements 01:05:55 Scott is Using MacOS / iOS Betas 01:09:25 Xiaomi OpenCode Fork and Mimo 2.5 Pro 01:14:06 Agent Dashboards 01:21:39 Arch Linux Supply Chain Attack 01:23:47 Should we train coding only models? 01:31:37 Thanks! Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads