Erik Anderson

Build or Be Replaced

AI news, agentic workflows, and real automation stories for engineers and builders who ship. 5x/week, 12-15 minutes. Powered by ScanBrief — 54 tech sources scored daily. Hosted by Erik Anderson, a network automation engineer running 119 projects with a fleet of 12 AI agents. Not theory. Systems running in production.

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Erik Anderson

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Technology

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Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Build or Be Replaced — Friday, June 05 05.06.2026

Today: Changing How We Develop Ladybird | Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video] | Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery

Build or Be Replaced — Thursday, June 04 04.06.2026

Today: They’re made out of weights | Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes | Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language

Build or Be Replaced — Wednesday, June 03 03.06.2026

Today: 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug | Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux | AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study

Build or Be Replaced — Tuesday, June 02 02.06.2026

Today: The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen | Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? | macOS needs its grid back

Build or Be Replaced — Monday, June 01 01.06.2026

Today: Chuwi Minibook X | Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL | ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks

Build or Be Replaced — Friday, May 29 29.05.2026

Today: Claude Opus 4.8 | Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection | I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)

Build or Be Replaced — Thursday, May 28 28.05.2026

Today: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos | I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit | Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

Build or Be Replaced — Wednesday, May 27 27.05.2026

Today: Cloudflare Flagship | That Methyl Methacrylate Tank | A few interesting modern pixel fonts

Build or Be Replaced — Tuesday, May 26 26.05.2026

Today: Using AI to write better code more slowly | Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) | Ferrari Luce

Build or Be Replaced — Monday, May 25 25.05.2026

Today: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web | DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost | Migrating from Go to Rust

Build or Be Replaced — Friday, May 22 22.05.2026

Today: Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart | The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics | Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

Build or Be Replaced — Thursday, May 21 21.05.2026

Today: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry | GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension | Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

Build or Be Replaced — Wednesday, May 20 20.05.2026

Today: Gemini 3.5 Flash | I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of | Google changes its search box

Build or Be Replaced — Tuesday, May 19 19.05.2026

Today: The last six months in LLMs in five minutes | Click (2016) | Anthropic acquires Stainless

Build or Be Replaced — Thursday, May 14 14.05.2026

Today: Claude for Small Business | Scorched Earth 2000 – Web | Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

Build or Be Replaced — Wednesday, May 13 13.05.2026

Today: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers | Googlebook | Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

Build or Be Replaced — Tuesday, May 12 12.05.2026

Today: Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise | They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker | If AI writes your code, why use Python?

Build or Be Replaced — Monday, May 11 11.05.2026

Today: Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | Local AI needs to be the norm | I'm going back to writing code by hand

Build or Be Replaced — Friday, May 08 08.05.2026

Today: Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data | Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce | Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

Build or Be Replaced — Thursday, May 07 07.05.2026

Today: Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | Appearing productive in the workplace | SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

Build or Be Replaced — Wednesday, May 06 06.05.2026

Today: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | StarFighter 16-Inch | DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved

Build or Be Replaced — Tuesday, May 05 05.05.2026

Today: Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust | Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent | How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

Build or Be Replaced — Monday, May 04 04.05.2026

Today: Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers | BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth | DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

Build or Be Replaced — Friday, May 01 01.05.2026

Today: How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] | For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions | Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

Build or Be Replaced — 2026-04-30 30.04.2026

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