The Standup with ThePrimeagen

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[Description]
Everything is getting hacked. ThePrimeagen, Teej, Trash, and guest Low Level break down the recent explosion of security vulnerabilities, how AI is changing offensive and defensive cybersecurity, and what happens when finding exploits becomes easier than fixing them.

[Hosts/Guests]
Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen
Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv
Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash
LowLevel: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/low-level

LowLevels Podcast: https://www.lowdownpod.com/

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Good morning! And in case we don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good coffee! → ssh terminal.shop

[Description]
The number 4 is holding up the internet, HTTPS might be bad design, PHP is cooked, and Casey is addicted to Pokémon. The crew also ranks programming's most famous laws, from Conway and Brooks to Goodhart and Hofstadter, before inventing a few laws of their own.

[Hosts/Guests]
Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen
Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv
Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash
Casey: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/cmuratori

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[Description]
Casey gets a lightning-fast flu shot at the supermarket pharmacy, only to spot the Pokémon card vending machine on his way out. With almost everything sold out, he grabs the last remaining pack so Trash can teach him the sacred art of opening Pokémon cards.

[Chapters]
00:00 - The Flu Shot Speedrun
01:03 - Finding the Pokémon Vending Machine
02:23 - The 4:30 PM Machine Reset Theory
03:15 - Casey Buys the Last Pack
04:48 - Trash Explains Pack Opening Technique
06:06 - Card Reveal & Pack Comparison
07:48 - Pokémon Vending Machine Etiquette
08:34 - Grocery Store Vending Machine Regrets

[Hosts/Guests]
Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen
Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv
Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash
Casey: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/cmuratori

[Partners]
Linear: https://trm.sh/linear
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Linear helps teams track issues, manage projects, collaborate on docs, and ship products - and the crazy thing is their software is actually fast and a joy to use. Learn more: https://trm.sh/linear

[Description]
The Standup crew puts their detective skills to the test with a quiz about Dream's supposedly "uncut" Minecraft Manhunts. Can programmers spot the suspicious edits, hidden clues, and inconsistencies?

[Sources]
http://www.youtube.com/⁨@rubyswolf9767⁩

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsWNWzSwVUA
https://dartjs.com/joltcracker
https://mcsrc.dev/
http://github.com/misode/mcmeta

[Hosts/Guests]
Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen
Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv
Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash
Casey: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/cmuratori

[Partners]
Linear: https://trm.sh/linear
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Casey Muratori attempts to experience life as Trash by ordering his favorite Taco Bell meal. Unfortunately, everything goes wrong. From a canceled podcast to a suspiciously unfried Chalupa, the crew investigates what happened and debates the proper way to experience Taco Bell.

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[Description]

What happens when AI can decompile entire games and mash them together? Prime, Teej, Casey Muratori, and Trash discuss the decompilation revolution, game preservation, AI-generated code, copyright concerns, and whether game studios can protect their work. Plus, everyone pitches their dream video game mashups, from Pokémon to StarCraft.

[Sources]
Casey on Peterman Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHLbL1Eg4gM
Mashups: https://x.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2105707774646562818
COD in Skate: https://x.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2104349115521888748

[Hosts/Guests]
Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen
Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv
Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash
Casey: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/cmuratori

[Partners]
Linear: https://trm.sh/linear
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[Sponsor]
Sentry: Catch, trace, and fix bugs across your entire stack. Use code: prime for $100 in free sentry credits → https://trm.sh/sentry

[Description]
Ever wonder why even the biggest apps and systems seem to break out of nowhere? In this lost episode of The Standup Pod, we dive into the hidden chaos of modern software development, technical debt, and why keeping complex codebases alive is harder than ever.

[Hosts/Guests]
Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen
Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv
Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash
Casey: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/cmuratori

[Partners]
Linear: https://trm.sh/linear
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Linear helps teams track issues, manage projects, collaborate on docs, and ship products - and the crazy thing is their software is actually fast and a joy to use. Learn more: https://trm.sh/linear

[Description]
Legendary programmer and game developer Casey Muratori ruthlessly judges the digging games we made!

[Hosts/Guests]
Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen
Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv
Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash
Casey: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/cmuratori

[Sources]
Trash Games
https://qwerop.com

Teej Games
https://dig-deep.trm.sh/
https://gravel-empire.trm.sh/

Prime Games
https://beatdig.trm.sh/

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Linear: https://trm.sh/linear
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[Description]
The Standup dives into the future of developer tools, from GitHub’s move deeper into Microsoft’s AI organization and the fight over LLM training on open-source code to TJ’s attempt to turn Neovim into a full GUI. Plus: vibe-coded games, Pokémon vending machine PvP, and Prime turns 40.

AI is changing how we write software, but what does that mean for programming languages and computer science education? The crew debates Python vs. C, whether language aesthetics still matter, what CS degrees should actually teach, and whether low-level knowledge will become even more valuable in the age of AI.

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Linear helps teams track issues, manage projects, collaborate on docs, and ship products - and the crazy thing is their software is actually fast and a joy to use. Learn more: https://trm.sh/linear

[Description]
In this episode of The Standup, Casey Muratori joins us to look at the fascinating parallels between 1968 tech and today. We examine the original context of "premature optimization is the root of all evil" and flip through the pages of Datamation from over 50 years ago. It’s a wild trip through early ray tracing, the birth of firmware, and the first mentions of virtual machines.

[Sources]

Dax Fraud Tweet: https://x.com/thdxr/status/2092238606987370884

Stripes Fraud Pricing Update: https://support.stripe.com/questions/updates-to-radar-pricing-(january-2027)

Caseys BSC 2025 Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI

Caseys BSC 2026 Talk: http://computerenhance.com/theroot (lots more sources here too)

Programmer of the Month (Edsger Dijkstra) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnMnXsmxoHc

DHH joins The Standup to talk about Omarchy Quattro, the new $8M Omarchy Foundation, and why he thinks 2026 is finally the year of the Linux desktop. Plus, AI agents, Linux security, developer burnout, Mac vs. Linux, and what building software looks like in the age of AI.

Trash gives a highly anticipated update on his journey with Linux.

We dive deep into the controversial idea that "gaming is dead" because everyone will soon just build their own games using AI. Joining as always is legendary game developer Casey Muratori to help break down the history of gaming tools, the rise of "Friendship Slop," and whether "vibe coding" can ever truly replace traditional game design.

Something different this week, we actually learn something!
Dillon joins us to explain why he switched to Pi for his AI coding workflow. We dive into the importance of context management, building custom UI extensions for your AI agent, and why minimalism often beats "token-maxing" with bloated system prompts. From automating household budgets to intercepting bad git commits, discover how to mold an AI harness around your specific developer taste.

We dive deep into the controversy surrounding Codeberg's decision to ban generative AI projects. They analyze the platform's reasoning, from hardware strain and infrastructure costs to the potential breakdown of community trust and the "slop" of low-effort pull requests. The discussion expands into the philosophy of coding, the "Amish chair" analogy for handmade software, and whether platforms like Codeberg are protecting the future of human craftsmanship or being "left behind" by the AI revolution. Along the way, they touch on everything from Boston accents and steak-cooking debates to the hidden patterns in LLM-generated humor and the "Interstellar" corn crisis.

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Casey Muratori and ThePrimeagen return from two very different conferences: Better Software Conference in Sweden and Open Sauce in California. They discuss why modern software feels broken, the developers trying to fix it, and the chaotic world of Open Sauce packed with science YouTubers, homemade machines, dangerous experiments, rockets, robots, and wildly ambitious projects built in garages and backyards.

Linear helps teams track issues, manage projects, collaborate on docs, and ship products - and the crazy thing is their software is actually fast and a joy to use. Learn more: https://trm.sh/linear

In this episode of The Standup, we dig into the Microsoft and Xbox layoffs, what they could mean for id Software, and whether id Tech can survive after major cuts to its engine team.

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[Description]
Should you own your hardware, or is renting compute the future?

This week on The Standup, we dig into cloud gaming, GeForce Now, latency, GPUs, data centers, and whether “cost per effective flop hour” actually matters

[Sources]
https://x.com/romero/status/2071594758548426923
https://x.com/lauriewired/status/2070898032762323262
https://www.youtube.com/⁨@lauriewired⁩ (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCJXa3_WNNmIpewOtCHf3B0g)
https://futo.org/
https://x.com/GamersNexus/status/2071324899939848360
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/27ILu_7plKM

[Hosts/Guests]
Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen
Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv
Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash
Casey: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/cmuratori

[Partners]
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[Sponsor]
Linear helps teams track issues, manage projects, collaborate on docs, and ship products - and the crazy thing is their software is actually fast and a joy to use. Learn more: https://trm.sh/linear

[Description]
A family trusted a massive Star Wars LEGO collection to a local Bricks & Minifigs store. Then the collection vanished.

What started as a dispute over missing LEGOs turned into one of the strangest internet investigations in recent memory—featuring corporate drama, police involvement, lawsuits, undercover stunts, and a YouTuber determined to uncover the truth.

In this episode, we break down the wild story behind the missing LEGO collection and how it spiraled far beyond anyone expected.

[Hosts/Guests]
Prime: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/theprimeagen
Teej: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/teej-dv
Trash: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/trash
Casey: https://thestanduppod.com/contributor/cmuratori

[Partners]
Linear: https://trm.sh/linear
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