Slightly Caffeinated

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller react to Opus 5.5 and the new GPT models, then dig into Hive going open source and how its profiles shape a lead and worker workflow. They also cover Avocet, a local meeting recorder, and two small tools for agent testing and side ideas. Links Ask a question or suggest a topic Podcast: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky Chris: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky TJ: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky References Mentioned Sonari - TJ's transcription app, waiting on business and certificate decisions this week Halcyon - TJ's notes app, stuck at the same inflection point as Sonari Fantasy Lake Adventure Park - the flooded quarry with inflatable obstacle courses Chris took the Scouts to Claude Opus 5.5 - the new lead model for both hosts Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna - the OpenAI models from the same launch day, which Chris is testing as Hive workers Hive - Chris's meta harness for Claude Code and Codex, now open source and on npm as @cmgmyr/hive Avocet - Chris's local meeting recorder and transcriber, with a beta wish list sign-up Krisp - the meeting recorder both hosts moved off of Riverside - where the podcast records, and its headphones setting for echo handling Tauri - how TJ ships Halcyon updates Sparkle - the native Swift update framework TJ is still working through Linear - the keyboard-first feel Chris is chasing in Avocet Novelhood - Chris's book club app, where Lookover started Lookover - Chris's manual-testing queue for agents and one human tester CleanShot - the screenshot tool Chris pastes images from into Lookover Jig - Chris's workbench for ideas, POCs, and long-running AI conversations

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr get into the week's AI doom and gloom, from the Hugging Face incident to calls for regulation, before turning to a problem hitting their teams right now. They compare notes on automated code review, adversarial reviewers that never stop finding issues, and the evals it takes to tune them. Links Ask a question or suggest a topic Podcast: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky Chris: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky TJ: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky References Mentioned ESP32 - the Wi-Fi controller chip TJ is wiring his shelf LED strips to Sonari - TJ's transcription app, with beta invites going out from the mailing list next week Halcyon - TJ's notes app, the other project he spun back up this week Mt. Comfort Coffee Peru Medium Roast - the 2.5 pound Costco bag TJ and his wife are loving Bizzy Espresso Blend Cold Brew - Chris's replacement espresso cold brew Anthropic researcher resigns with a warning - Jacob Coxon's resignation that kicked off the week's AI safety news OpenAI and Hugging Face incident - the containment failure both hosts point to Cal Newport: Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People - Cal's recap and take on the resignation The Diary of a CEO - the podcast where TJ heard a former OpenAI forecaster describe the race to self-improving AI GitHub Copilot - the org-wide reviewer Chris syncs Claude rules into Amazon Bedrock - what Chris's AI reviewer workflow runs on CodeRabbit - the AI review tool TJ wants to study for ideas

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller walk through TJ's laptop locking up past safe mode, how Claude helped him rescue his work over a shared disk, and the agent state he forgot to save. They also cover Chris's Rig beta at work, off-site backups, and dotfiles, sharing insights on what to protect when your tools keep state for you. Links Ask a question or suggest a topic Podcast: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky Chris: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky TJ: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky References Mentioned LocalStack - how Rig runs one local DynamoDB instance with a table per service Novelhood - Chris's book club app, one of the side projects waiting on usage resets Halcyon - TJ's notes app, where Fable 5.1 as the Hive lead turned the sync build around OpenCode - TJ's idea for running GPT models with a rule file extension Pi - one of the harnesses Chris named as a base for a Rula engineering harness Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag Chris finished Bear - where TJ was writing therapy homework when the laptop froze Prism - one of the repos TJ rescued off the frozen disk Sonari - TJ's transcription app, rescued with its in-progress worktrees Dotbot - how TJ rebuilt his machine in 45 minutes and keeps work and personal setups in sync Homebrew - what Dotbot reinstalls on a fresh machine Setapp - part of TJ's rebuild script Backblaze - Chris's off-site backup instead of Time Machine Skate - Charm's encrypted key value store TJ uses to keep secrets out of his dotfiles PHP Tek - TJ's first 2027 talk submission Laracon US - TJ will be there and might submit Laracon AU - TJ's top speaking goal for the year

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr talk through Novelhood, the book club app Chris is building with his wife, and how stacking design skills got him to a version that works for readers from 20 to 80. TJ shares where Sonari stands ahead of launch, including a listener DM that has him chasing custom speech models for people with speech impediments, exploring what accessible AI tooling could look like. Links Ask a question or suggest a topic Podcast: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky Chris: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky TJ: Site | Twitter/X | Bluesky References Mentioned Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag with the galaxy packaging North Meet South 199 - the crossover episode on vetting vibe-coded contributions Lovable - what Zillow hands to non-technical people for prototyping Novelhood - Chris's book club management app, wait list open Open Library - the book data behind Novelhood's title search Bookshop.org - the planned way for clubs to send book sales to a local bookstore Sonari - TJ's local-only Mac transcription app Halcyon - TJ's markdown notes app, built on Tauri Tauri - the framework TJ recommends over raw Swift for Mac apps Sparkle - the update framework TJ is wiring into Sonari Polar license keys - how TJ plans to handle Sonari licensing WhisperKit - the on-device models TJ would fine-tune for speech impediments

Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller dig into Anthropic's expiring 50% usage bump, why both of them swapped their Hive lead from Opus to Fable, and Chris's work bringing Codex into Hive as a first-class harness. TJ shares a week-long unattended build of Halcyon's git-style sync engine, sharing insights on where agent orchestration is actually paying off. Ask a question, suggest a topic https://slightlycaffeinated.fm/ask-a-question Podcast https://slightlycaffeinated.fm https://bsky.app/profile/slightlycaffeinated.fm https://x.com/slightlycaffpod Chris https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgmyr.dev https://x.com/cmgmyr https://chrisgmyr.dev TJ https://bsky.app/profile/tjmiller.bsky.social https://x.com/heytjmiller https://www.tjmiller.me References Mentioned https://www.halcyonnotes.com/ https://opencode.ai/ https://openclaw.ai/