678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

• Pre-show: Marco HVAC update

Daikin Trane YoLink temperature sensors • (or this one with a wider temp. range • )

YoLink leak sensors LoRa

• 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special • : ATP Insider: After Apple • Follow-up:

• Units corner

Robert Tait’s video

WarGames display reincarnated • (via everyone)

ATP Movie Club: WarGames WarGames

• AI

• Whoops, we whiffed on disclosing past/future sponsors 🤦🏻‍♂️

Steve Troughton-Smith’s experimentations •

Three apps in one day On usage limits

• Dread & fatalism

We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricouard • (Medium link 🤢)

• Productivity promise vs. reality

Anthropic study Experienced developers are slower? Microsoft study Atlassian study Berkeley: AI adoption ≠ productivity gains Harvard: Slop hinders productivity MIT: 95% of businesses see zero returns • (PDF)

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Rachel Thomas AI-Generated Code Quality by Mark Levison Comprehension Debt by Aman Shekhar Your Brain on ChatGPT by Nataliya Kosmyna et al

• Some related links from our AI conversation:

n8n Stratechery interview with Benedict Evans Computer (occupation) Memento mori

Steam Machine & Steam Frame delayed due to component shortages/price increases

Ferrari Luce •

Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge Walkthrough video with Jordan Golon at PRNDL •

Associated post

Dieter Rams Patek Philippe Nautilus Braun Gordon Murray Automotive Type 50 •

Shift knob & switchgear • (timestamp link to 18:04)

Other videos

Leica

• Post-show: Casey is car shopping

Porsche Taycan Audi e-tron GT BMW i4 Rivian R3 How the second-gen Porsche Taycan is better than the first-gen

Members-only • ATP Overtime: China’s ban on electric door handles •

Tesla hit with another wrongful death suit by Andrew J. Hawkins Flush door handles & efficiency by Jonathan M. Gitlin

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