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A deep and nuanced conversational podcast focused on technology, software, and computing.

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Another week, another deep episode! Kris and Matthew are back and this one goes right off the rails in the best way. What was supposed to be a rundown of the new model landscape turns into a wide-ranging conversation about what AI coding agents actua... more

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Kris and Matthew are back for a duo episode, and Kris has a hot take: ownership is terrible. What starts as a conversation about AI subscriptions versus API pricing turns into a wide-ranging discussion about what we actually gain by owning things, fr... more

On this week's episode, Kris and Matthew have a topic: tension. Not the bad kind you learn to avoid, but the productive kind that, like a code smell, is worth stopping to examine. They discuss the challenges of APIs and stability, whether SDKs are ac... more

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It's Fallthrough time! In this episode, Kris, Matthew, and Steve get into the time Steve pointed Anthropic's Fable at a side project he hadn't touched since January and watched it shepherd 95 pull requests in three days, the US government export bann... more

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Recent Guests

Fernando Duran
Creator of SAD Servers, talks about SAD Servers platform and architecture
SAD Servers Project
Episode: Shall We Play A Game?
Ian Lopshire
Industry guest joining mid-episode
Episode: Supply Chain Reaction
Annie Hedgpeth
Co-founder of People Work and former member of Terraform Enterprise team.
People Work
Episode: Systems Thinking for Humans
Michael Hedgpeth
Co-founder of People Work with extensive experience in tech.
People Work
Episode: Systems Thinking for Humans
Nick Gerace
Engineering Manager at System Initiative
System Initiative
Episode: When Reality Drifts
Cory O'Daniel
CEO and co-founder of MassDriver, co-founder of Open Tofu
MassDriver
Episode: DevOps: The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything
Mitchell Hashimoto
Co-creator of Ghosty and LibXEV, experienced in infrastructure and open source.
Ghosty
Episode: Ghostty & The Shell
Ron Evans
Technologist for hire and founder of The Hybrid Group
The Hybrid Group
Episode: Defer Life Considered Harmful
Jon Sabados
Staff Software Engineer at the New York Times with over two decades of experience in software development
New York Times
Episode: Building For The Future

Hosts

Kris Brandow
Host introducing guests and guiding the conversation; central figure in the show's format.
Matthew Sanabria
Co-host, producer, and facilitator of the discussion.

Reviews

4.2 out of 5 stars from 54 ratings
  • Too much interlude but good content

    Been listening for a long time and love the show. They’ve recently started giving a teaser for their paid episode and it’s gotten wayyyyy too long. It was nice at first where someone would start talking and they would fade out and then fade back in to pick up after the segment but now they do this multi-minute long, monotonous tune loop with blips and pieces of conversation and it’s absolutely obnoxious. Idk if y’all read these but please, please go back to shorter interludes. I can’t stand thes... more

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Tedwarddd
    United Statesa year ago
  • Too long

    I liked go time but fallout is too long in my opinion.

    You bring the things to a Point and then still talk the next 10 mins about the already said things.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    idefixcert
    Austriaa year ago
  • Not an official Go programming language podcast

    If you want to hear people’s opinions and not bad takes about Go and hear overly critical bad takes along with Monday morning quarterbacking then this is the pod for you. Please do not listen to this and get the impression that the opinions are common in the community.

    Maybe a better title for the podcast is alt-Go: we wish Go was something else

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    Jrwren
    United Statesa year ago
  • Good luck !

    Nice show ! Give it a chance. If you are new - start from technical episodes, not philosophical.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    ivan.kuchin
    United Statesa year ago

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Feedback highlights the show's thoughtful takes on OSS and AI governance, balanced with entertaining banter.
Some episodes feel long, with critiques of interludes or extended discussions.
Listeners appreciate the deep technical dives and practical tooling insights.

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Shall We Play A Game?
Q: How is the architecture designed for cost efficiency?
The platform uses mostly spot instances for VMs, with on-demand instances only for live interview candidates. Web and proxy components are lightweight, and the ephemeral VMs live only 15-30 minutes, winding down after use to save costs.
Shall We Play A Game?
Q: What is the hardest part of the system to implement?
The checker logic is the hardest part because it must reliably distinguish correct solutions from false positives and negatives, and ensure a fair outcome even when users explore different approaches or cheat somewhat. It requires careful design of victory conditions.
Shall We Play A Game?
Q: How are scenarios created and deployed?
Scenarios are built from AWS-based images. The process uses Ansible, Packer, and templates to create reproducible images, which are then run in a private subnet or a public one for paying users. A proxy handles dynamic mappings to expose the correct VM to the user.
Shall We Play A Game?
Q: What exactly is SAD Servers and how does it work?
SAD Servers is a server-as-a-service platform that presents users with a broken server, a prompt, and a task to fix it. The system checks the solution via a built-in checker and provides a learning path where users can retry with different scenarios, while companies can use it for live or take-home assessments.
The Vibes-Based Legal System
Q: What is your defense of why AI output is not copyrightable?
Steve discusses the complexities surrounding the copyright issues of LLMs and highlights how much human input is needed for something to be considered a creative work.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Fallthrough

What is Fallthrough about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A tech-forward conversation show exploring software, infrastructure, and computing through in-depth discussions, practical tooling insights, and candid industry observations. Episodes frequently center on programming languages, open-source governance, AI-assisted development, security, and the evolving tooling landscape, often balancing hands-on engineering detail with broader industry context. Across conversations, the hosts spotlight production-readiness, tooling trade-offs, and real-world challenges, from local AI deployment and dependency management to OSS security and governance—making it a go-to for engineers, developers, and tech leaders seeking pragmatic, opinionated takes on modern software.

Noteworthy is a willingness to tackle c... more

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1. Fernando Duran
2. Ian Lopshire
3. Annie Hedgpeth
4. Michael Hedgpeth
5. Nick Gerace
6. Cory O'Daniel
7. Mitchell Hashimoto
8. Ron Evans

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