Matthew Sanabria
An engineering leader at Oxide Computer who focuses on building reliable, observable systems, and a member of the Go community group GoBridge.
“…I'm not wasting my time reading things that you didn't waste your time writing.”
Fallthrough · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · September 2026
Context
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.
Transcript
…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,
God, this is a load. Or this, oh, this is a seam. This is a scene. This is a seam.
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.
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…
face. Yeah. I just want to know why. Like, what do you, what, it,
yeah, I'm going to know.
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