Matthew Sanabria

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An engineering leader at Oxide Computer who focuses on building reliable, observable systems, and a member of the Go community group GoBridge. He co-hosts Fallthrough, a weekly software engineering podcast with Kris Brandow, Ian Wester-Lopshire and Dylan Bourque, where the group argues through the week's AI, tooling and open source news with a skeptical, detail-first take rather than hype. He has also guested on The Changelog and Oxide and Friends, talking through the same infrastructure and Go language territory he covers on his own show.

Where to Find Them

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

Recently: “Close Encounters of the Human Kind” on Fallthrough (October 2026); “Keep Your Enemies Closer” on Fallthrough (October 2026); “Apocalypse Not Now” on Fallthrough (September 2026); “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).

What They Said

“…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

…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…

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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