Dave & Gunnar Show

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about markdown, caveman, and dark software factories! Warhammer 40,000 : “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” Birds Aren’t Real Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students Introducing Markdown for Agents Counterpoint: Why the heck are we still using Markdown?? caveman : why use many token when few do tric...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mike McGrath about agentic AI open source development and engineering leadership! Gunnar on abundance in D&G 273 Welcome Mike ! Gemini Gems The Day Open Source Realized Code Doesn’t Matter Anymore Fedora Fedora Infrastructure Project tmux screen We Give Thanks Mike McGrath for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI judging photos, AI judging meeting transcripts, and hacking AI with poetry! Stranger Things ! It’s good, actually! rentahuman.ai They See Your Photos Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon D&G This Week in Controlling the Past to Control the Future: Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization Cutting R...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about agents battling agents, electric shocks battling coffee, and Amazon Prime battling First Class mail! Gunnar is now fully agentic. Skills and the inner loop. Capital vs Labor. Capital wins again. La-Z-Boy repair tip + free parts ($16 S&H) Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw Moltbook Moltbook leaked Andrej Karpathy’s API keys MOLTBOOK EXPOSED: The New AI Scam That...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for prison inmates, AI for senior citizens, and low-cost haptic exosuits! Ebird and Listers Moen update Death by Lightning An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit Almost related: Four out of five developers enjoy code...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds! Trinity and Low-background Steel Hardcore History Slate Political Gabfest Google Vids ! Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative D&G This Week in Bad Ideas Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B Should an AI copy of you help...

This week Dave and Gunnar go on a re-education off-site, and O’Brien and Winston Smith debate whether we’re in an AI bubble! Key Takeaways (The Correct Perspective): The concept of an 'AI bubble' is a persistent, troubling rumor. It is heresy. Nvidia's valuation is not speculation; it is the correct price for the tools that build order . The true return on investment for General AI is not measured...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about weaponized AI and seemingly conscious AI! Virtual Customer Panels with Gemini Gems Dave vs. Ticketmaster Totally unrelated: Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems Anthropic's Claude stocked a fridge with metal cubes when it was put in charge of a snac...

This week Dave and Gunnar are joined by Dan Walsh on the eve of his retirement! What is new in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 : “The most significant security update is the transition from AppArmor to SELinux as the default Mandatory Access Control (MAC) framework.” Bootc Dan Walsh Red Hat Obituary SELinux Dan’s Russian Blog Cursor Podman In Action RamaLama vLLM Llama.cpp Red Hat Lightspeed Mul...

For our Halloween finale, Carolyn Ford invites two favorite “AI conjurers”, Dave Egts “Mr. X,” public-sector field CTO at Mulesoft, and Laura Klebanow, founder & chief storyteller at Show & Tell, into the Tech Transforms cauldron. Each brings a “secret AI ingredient”: Carolyn composes whimsical Suno-generated theme music (after a prompt-crafting detour through ChatGPT), Laura pushes image...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hidden signals in AI models and hidden signals in birds! Agentic Google App Scripts Fake Music ! Iron Man ( Soul/Funk) Version 2 Don't You (Forget About Me) ( Soul) See also: The Klezmonauts -- Oy to the World: A Klezmer Christmas Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data China foes get worse results using DeepSe...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about smart glasses and AI existential dread! Follow Up Duperheroes ! I Previewed These Emotion-Tracking Smart Glasses, and They Seem Weirdly Useful Someone Built an Ad Blocker for Real Life, and I Can't Wait to Try It 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Someone trapped an LLM on inferior hardware and infused it with existential dread for th...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about e-tattoos, AI agent blackmail, and AI memory dossiers! Cursor and Claude Code : PARA Auditor , Let Me AI That for You , Botany Battle . Abundance! “You won’t lose your job to a tractor, but to a horse who learns to drive a tractor” Star Wars - Return of the 80s Miami (Parody Music Video) These 5G Protection Sticker Ads Are Hilarious ‘E-tattoo’ could track menta...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake bodies, fake passports, fake speakers, a fake Commodore 64 CD-ROM, and Erich Morisse being mean to AI Gunnar builds a Gemini -powered virtual team: It's all about perspective. Farewell Pocket , hello Wallabag or Instapaper ? Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Fake Passport Generated by C...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about best practices for manipulating AI models to enslave humanity! Moen’s lifetime warranty Gemini multimodal! When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved D&G Blade Runner Home Edition: Human or Not? How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning .....

In this episode, Carolyn Ford welcomes back Dave Egts, Field CTO at MuleSoft, to Tech Transforms to explore the transformative power of AI in 2025. They dive into Dave’s top five AI predictions, with a special focus on the rise of agentic AI—AI that doesn’t just suggest, but acts. Dave explains the difference between generative AI and intelligent agents, why integration via APIs is the key to agen...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about cockroaches with backpacks, hydrogels with Pong, and hackers with digital license plates! Paperlike Screen Protector Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds Hydrogels can learn to play Pong Lavarand Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed...

Grape Job! This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks! Kobo Clara Color Libby Paperlike Screen Protector and Bumper Case Kindle Scribe Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Good-Bye to All That Kindle Unlimited Ghost Fleet D&G This Week in Mask Technology: Full-Face Masks to Frustrate Identification How a digital ‘...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about restaurants that don’t exist, restaurants with robots, and robots with speed cameras and thermite! Gunar prepares for a half marathon with Runna Gunnar is awarded the rank of Legendary on Call of Duty Mobile Dave enjoyed The Penguin The '#1 restaurant in Austin' doesn't exist Do Robots Love Their Customers? Automated Restaurants Face Human Issues. Related/proph...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about thinking caps, solar caps, and transparent bodies! Gunnar enjoyed The Magnetic Fields ! Lauren bought a new car! Dave bought a new TV! Gunnar enjoyed Call of Duty Mobile ! EcoFlow Power Hat Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine See also: Slim Goodbody Make It Stick Writing advice: Keep the bear, and just the bear Cutting Room Floor A Chip Off...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Steven Pousty about GIS, open source theology, and AI! Compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666 from episode 261 The European Patroleum Survey Group what3words Google Plus Codes Cardinal direction 5 of the World’s Most Interesting Directional Systems OpenStreetMap Overture Maps Foundation Prithvi WxC : NASA and IBM’s AI Foundation Model for Weather and Climate...

This week, NotebookLM talks about the Dave and Gunnar Show Episode 263! Main Themes The Psychology of Influence and Manipulation: This episode explores how external factors, from large-scale events to seemingly harmless media, can shape our thoughts and actions. This theme is explored through discussions on propaganda, deep fakes, and the power of questioning techniques. The Blurring Lines Between...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about electricity theft, identity theft, and coaching! Imagine Dragons in Houston at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion Psychological Warfare by Paul M.A. Linebarger Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen War Day by Whitley Strieber and James W. Kunetka RHEL AI released! Cryptominers made $100,000 from mining at an Airbnb for three weeks — the guests ran up a $1...

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people! Gunnar espouses the virtues of the Leatherman Micra Dave enjoys D-Day Conneaut ! An annual WWII reenactment on the beaches of Lake Erie Ohio Renaissance Festival D&G This Week in Skeuomorphism: Here’s what the electric Dodge Charge...

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666! Gunnar explores the neighborhoood with iNaturalist and Seek Black-bellied whistling duck Dave saw 7 bands over 7 days The Hives Hate to Say I Told You So Foo Fighters Steve Miller Band (80!) Journey Def Leppard (64!) Loverboy Sammy Hagar (76!) Yuengling brewery t...