Will AI Kill Us All? Jev Says: 87%

This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Courage & Conviction American Single Malt and dive into the AI arms race, deterministic models versus word vomit machines, and whether Jev is the future of intelligent software or just another hype cycle waiting to crash. They dig into the developer grind, stealing time from sleep, the AI slow down debate, Jev as the deterministic probability only AI, real time Jev in Doom and Smash Bros, intelligent gates that bypass LLM slop, Jev's three core ideas, trading bots running 100 times faster, smoking whiskey with pear wood, the paperclip problem and how AI might kill us, why Adam's all in on Astra, model degradation and thinking levels, context windows as seasoned pans, Delta and Herder as multiplayer agent tools, corporate AI tooling and the native harness advantage, Ocarina of Time remake versus digital ownership nightmares, and an arrow through the living room window because Adam sat down to play banjo instead of teaching the eighth kid how to use a compound bow.

In this episode:

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:00:43 Welcome Back & The Developer Grind
• 00:03:13 Tasting: Courage & Conviction American Single Malt
• 00:07:46 The AI "Slow Down" Debate
• 00:09:10 Meet Jev: Deterministic, Probability-Only AI
• 00:14:50 Jev in Real Time: Doom, Smash Bros & Intelligent Gates
• 00:20:57 Jev's Three Core Ideas
• 00:23:27 Stealing Time From Sleep & Jev Trading Bots
• 00:27:06 Smoking the Whiskey With Pear Wood
• 00:31:37 How Will AI Kill Us? The Paperclip Problem
• 00:42:36 Why Adam's All-In on Astra
• 00:46:37 Model Degradation, Thinking Levels & Context Windows
• 00:50:59 Delta, Herder & Multiplayer Agent Tools
• 00:58:03 Corporate AI Tooling & The Native-Harness Advantage
• 01:02:45 Whatnot: Ocarina of Time Remake & Digital Ownership
• 01:07:11 An Arrow Through the Living Room Window & nerdy.dev's Like Button

Links

• Courage & Conviction American Single Malt: https://courageandconviction.com/
• Jev: https://jev.ai/
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• Astra: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
• Delta: https://zed.dev/delta
• Herder: https://herdr.dev
• Warp: https://warp.dev
• SubQ: https://subq.ai/
• Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
• Super Smash Bros: https://www.smashbros.com/
• Paperclip Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
• IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/
• GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
• Zed: https://zed.dev/
• Slack: https://slack.com
• Discord: https://discord.com/
• Ocarina of Time Remake: https://www.nintendo.com/
• Nerdy.dev: https://nerdy.dev/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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