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Matthew Sanabria

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Matthew Sanabria

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Matthew Sanabria hosts Fallthrough . They have also been a guest on The Changelog (3 times) and Oxide and Friends .

Recently: “The Elements of Slop” on Fallthrough (September 2026); “A Record of One's Own” on Fallthrough (September 2026); “Be Kind, Rewind” on Fallthrough (August 2026); “A Modest Proposal Proposal” on Fallthrough (August 2026); “Backlog to the Future” on Fallthrough (August 2026); “Vibe and Prejudice” on Fallthrough (August 2026).

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“…I'm not wasting my time reading things that you didn't waste your time writing.” — Matthew Sanabria, Fallthrough

Sanabria had just described his new habit of running any blog post he is sent through Pangram, an AI-detection tool, and abandoning anything that comes back flagged. His co-host Kris Brandow immediately agreed he was heading for the same paid tier. The line is the rule Sanabria has settled on rather than a complaint about any particular writer.

Fallthrough · 2026-09-12 Permalink → Listen →
Fallthrough Around 14:57 into the episode
Matthew Sanabria

I know. I, I don't, I don't know. It's a, it's a problem, though. I, even when I'm using like LLMs to help generate code or whatever, I'm having it increasingly just not write comments for me at all. Like, just don't even, I don't even want to see your comments anymore because your writing is. I was having it generate a shell script for something today, earlier today. And in two separate places, it like made a systemd unifile and it like, you know, did like exec star, exec stop post, whatever, whatever it was, the little attributes for it. And then on two of them, it was like, this is load bearing. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is load-bearing. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, I, I wanted to like hurt my computer. You know what I mean? I'm so mad, irrationally mad too. Oh,

Kris Brandow

God, this is a load. Or this, oh, this is a seam. This is a scene. This is a seam.

Matthew Sanabria

And I see now I'm at the point now where if you publish a blog post or a post, I'm probably going to run it through Pangram. And if it comes back with a large AI like response, I'm just not reading it. I'm just, that's, I'm done. I can't, I can't do this anymore. I'm not wasting my time reading things that you didn't waste your time writing.

Kris Brandow

Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I feel like I'm going to wind up in that $65 a month Pangaram Planes. I'm going to be like, no, we're going to run everything through it. I'm not going to sit here and read through like AI generated, like completely AI generated stuff. Cause like, why? And I'm also not going to like, I mean, part of me is like, well, maybe I could run it through an AI to like summarize it. But then like, why am I going to use my LLM to summarize what your LLM said? Like, if you can't take the time to figure out how to write it in a coherent way, then why am I going to take the time to read it? There's too much out there to read for me to spend time just reading whatever my algorithm serves up to my

Matthew Sanabria

face. Yeah. I just want to know why. Like, what do you, what, it,

Kris Brandow

yeah, I'm going to know.

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