Ep. 272 – Paranoid Hippie Passwords

The hosts discuss why Erik and Dennis missed three weeks of recording, blaming a calendar/email mix-up, then pivot to Trump’s State of the Union as a spectacle, including Congressman Green being removed, Republicans chanting “USA,” low Supreme Court attendance, and mention of Epstein survivors as guests. Dennis recounts a morning of dizziness and monocular double vision that resolved, an ophthalmologist visit with no clear cause, and updates on rehabbing a house, band rehearsals and upcoming four-hour shows using the Band Helper app, and seeing guitarist Ellis Tinsley. Erik describes recent rapid progress in AI agents that can self-configure, browse issues, and fix bugs in his open-source projects, and they speculate about AI’s impact on software and society. Erik shares a Canary Islands trip for his wife’s rhinoplasty and local “guachinche” meals, while Dennis tells a hardware-store return story, and they close with singing “Lovely Day.”