{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"180: rightFolds in an AI world?","description":"Episode 180: rightFolds in an AI world?  rightFolds as a pun on Mark\u2019s recent right vocal fold surgery, healing means we\u2019re good to record again, plus IA celebrates 17 years of existence, even if episodes have seriously lacked of late. Last episode Aug 27, 2025 - it\u2019s been a while. Does language theory and evolution have a place\/need in an AI world? New JVM language features vs Syntactic sugar ala Clojure\/Scala features Bun\u2019s recent zig-&amp;gt;rust total AI rewrite  Vercel engineer built Zero, a programming Language for AI Agents | Yeamt  Why Did They Build This?   jank now has its own custom IR  Do any of these funky languages matter in an AI world?  Is \u2018Good Enough\u2019 Good Enough: Mindsets and Behaviors for Sales Excellence  Is \u201cgood enough\u201d good enough?!. A common misunderstanding of the\u2026 | by Ted Rau  Is Good Enough, Good Enough? (Part 1)   AI and the increased threat of Supply Chain attacks  How We Got a CISA GitHub Leak Taken Down in Under a Day NPM and its recent attacks  Package Managers are Evil - gingerBill   The Aesthetic Problem of Namespacing - gingerBill    Tooling  Highlights from Git 2.54 \u201cGit history\u201d FTW, unless you\u2019re using Jujitsu \ud83d\ude42  AI and Development   The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI Why Your Engineering Team Is Slow (It\u2019s the Codebase, Not the People) The Reviewer Isn\u2019t the Bottleneck Now more than ever: building reliable software in the age of agents | Ron Minsky | Bug Bash 2026  I am not a Software Engineer \u2014 huronbikes  \u201cEveryone\u201d leaving Github  A usability study of radicle Git is distributed, GitHub is not - Radicle brings a distributed forge for software development, including distributed issues, patches, code review, and CI solutions for a resilient forge.  HardenedBSD Officially on Radicle Ghosty leaving Github Zig: Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg This, plus Zig\u2019s recent firm anti-AI stance led to the Bun port. Thoughts on Leaving GitHub  GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension  ","author_name":"Illegal Argument","author_url":"http:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/21670","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/41423795\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/202304340"}