I've Never Seen a Model Say "This File Is Getting Too Big" - Ep 02

Recorded July 17, 2026. We settle the model-access bet. We talk about how the labs talk to us, plus extend an open invite for OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and Thinking Machines to come on the show and be specific about their best-case scenarios about how AI makes the world better. Thinking Machines ships an American open-weight model. And then Dillon fires the slop cannon, walking us through his agentic workflow, while a package he technically did not order shows up.

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER

NEWS & DISCUSSION

Rhys on his first weeks with the model (X) https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2076353287507562728?s=20

OpenAI comms example (Thomas Sottiaux) https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2075641131002700120?s=20

Anthropic / Claude Developers post https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2077603834453770467?s=20

Anthropic's July 15 "reset" note https://x.com/claudeai/status/2075271759289303522?s=20

Introducing Inkling (Thinking Machines) https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/

Xiaoyin Qu's Thinking Machines thesis (X) https://x.com/quxiaoyin/status/2077799672886792578?s=46

Cloudflare's Workers AI https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-ai/

"The Future Worth Building Is Human" (Thinking Machines manifesto) https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/

"The Use of Knowledge in Society," Friedrich Hayek https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html

"The Bitter Lesson," Rich Sutton http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Ramp's PorTAL fine-tuning https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2072383318516187380

The A-Team (not five Mr. T's) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A-Team

Hawaii Five-O (maybe what Sunil was thinking of when he said Miami Five-O, but really meant The A-Team…it happens) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O_(1968_TV_series)

John's of Bleecker Street pizza https://johnsofbleecker.com/

Local First Conf 2026 https://www.localfirstconf.com/

Dan Ingalls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ingalls

DILLON'S WORKFLOW

tmux https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

VS Code https://code.visualstudio.com/

Neovim https://neovim.io/

Claude Code https://claude.com/product/claude-code

OpenCode https://opencode.ai/

Ghostty https://ghostty.org/

Pi (Dillon's harness) https://pi.dev/

Mario Zechner, Pi's creator https://x.com/badlogicgames

Pi's system prompt (docs) https://pi.dev/docs/latest/usage#system-prompt-files

Pi's system prompt (source) https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/src/core/system-prompt.ts

oxlint https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter.html

ast-grep https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep

Herdr https://herdr.dev/

ghostty https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty

libghostty https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming

Plannotator https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator

Matt Pocock's skills https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

Wayfinder (Matt Pocock) https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/wayfinder

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