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Fallthrough

A deep and nuanced conversational podcast focused on technology, software, and computing.

Website ↗ Last published 31 October 2026 99 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Fallthrough

“I like to have humans review things mostly for context sharing. … If I ask you to review some code, sure, you might find some stuff, but now we're sharing context about what we're even working on. … With LLMs, they're just going to be like, you told me to write feature XYZ exactly like this. You told me to review it. Looks good. Goodbye. And I think we're going to miss some of that context sharing if we just let LLMs write the code and review it and merge it quickly.” — Matthew Sanabria, Fallthrough
Matthew Sanabria · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I was just texting someone about this yesterday. They were like, I can't believe no one's replaced GitHub yet. I'm like, you mean nobody's wanted to add free CI, free private repos, free project management, free discussions in a world where agents are spamming things 10 times more than this time six months ago? Yeah, no, nobody wants to play that ballgame right now unless you're doing it in a very specific niche.” — Nick Gerace, Fallthrough
Nick Gerace · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I haven't seen a lot of discourse in the industry about what's the most amount of change a user can take before they just don't try your features anymore. Because if you're shipping features faster than your users can try them, you're not doing important work. They're not going to use them.” — Fred Hebert, Fallthrough
Fred Hebert · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I want to be in a position to not be the human in the loop where the role of the human in the loop is to say yes, no, and then get blamed when something goes wrong.” — Fred Hebert, Fallthrough
Fred Hebert · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think personally that agents actually like JJ more than they like Git. Not to anthropomorphize it too much, but what I mean specifically is that I have seen agents screw up and then use undo.” — Rain Paharia, Fallthrough
Rain Paharia · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I actually think of Git and especially GitHub as a little bit outsider art, where it doesn't quite engage with the theory or the history or anything. It just kind of did its own thing. And of course, it became wildly successful… All this branch stuff is just ceremony that Git enforces.” — Rain Paharia, Fallthrough
Rain Paharia · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's like explaining our motivations to a rabbit, like explain to a rabbit why we built a skyscraper. It doesn't make any sense, right? Because it's just not the universe they're in. And so what I worry is that AI is going to become to us what we are to animals.” — Steve Klabnik, Fallthrough
Steve Klabnik · 3 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Anybody that investigates airline crashes for a living is going to have a distorted view of reality, where they think airplane crashes are much more frequent than they actually are… I think this is also what's happening to people working at these frontier labs.” — Kris Brandow, Fallthrough
Kris Brandow · 26 Sep 2026 Listen →
“…I think ironically, we're at the point where the thing that was built to generate text, the thing we needed to do the least is generate text.” — Kris Brandow, Fallthrough
Kris Brandow · 12 Sep 2026 Listen →
“…I'm not wasting my time reading things that you didn't waste your time writing.” — Matthew Sanabria, Fallthrough
Matthew Sanabria · 12 Sep 2026 Listen →
“It's like when people say, oh, we have a dictionary that defines words, thinking that the word, the definition in the dictionary is the correct one. It's like, no, the definition in the dictionary is the emergent one. We all define words simply by using them. That's how language works.” — Kris Brandow, Fallthrough
Kris Brandow · 22 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Fallthrough is hosted by Kris Brandow , Matthew Sanabria , Ian Wester-Lopshire , Dylan Bourque , Angelica Hill , Steve Klabnik and Jamie Tanna .

Recent Episodes

  1. 31 Oct 2026

    A Change Is Gonna Come

    With Nick Gerace

  2. 24 Oct 2026

    The Tortoise and the Agent

    With Fred Hebert and Reid Savage

  3. 17 Oct 2026

    Git Out

    With Rain Paharia

  4. 10 Oct 2026

    Close Encounters of the Human Kind

    With Doug Soo

  5. 3 Oct 2026

    Keep Your Enemies Closer

  6. 26 Sep 2026

    Thinking, Fast and Cheap

  7. 19 Sep 2026

    Apocalypse Not Now

  8. 12 Sep 2026

    The Elements of Slop

  9. 5 Sep 2026

    A Record of One's Own

    With Bailey Townsend

  10. 29 Aug 2026

    Be Kind, Rewind

    With Ron Efroni and James Bayer

  11. 22 Aug 2026

    A Modest Proposal Proposal

  12. 15 Aug 2026

    Backlog to the Future

Guests

Mitchell Hashimoto (2 episodes), Nick Gerace (2 episodes), Bill Kennedy (2 episodes), Sophie Haines-Nichols , Filippo Valsorda , Johnny Boursiquot , Ignacio Castillejos , Patricio Whittingslow , Annie Hedgpeth , Jon Sabados , Rain Paharia , Indu Alagarsamy , and 24 more.