Backlog to the Future

Kris is back from GopherCon, Matt is back from the lawn, and Fallthrough is back with news: a brand new website and a whole new show, Continue: Go Proposals Edition, a weekly look at Go proposals. The topic for this week's Fallthrough? It's a listener-requested deep dive into what the two of them have actually been building with AI agents.In the regular edition, Kris runs a frontier-model pricing bake-off and comes away fascinated by how dirt cheap Luna is, Matt hands eight well-scoped Linear issues to overnight orbs and wakes up to three merged PRs, and the two land on a shared principle: even when the inference happens in a data center, the harness should run on hardware you own. It all wraps with Matt prototyping an integration by voice on a walk in the park.Expanded edition? We've got one of those! This week it includes Matt's deep dive on AMP betting everything on orbs, a breakdown of the proposal to change Go's proposal process, the one line that gives the whole document away, Kris's redesign built on gates, shepherds, and commitments, a hard conversation about civility and power in Go discourse, and the case for a decentralized Go. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today!If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U4ztdSztCy0No episode of the aftershow this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show.Thanks for tuning in and happy listening!Table of Contents:Prologue (00:00:00)Chapter 1: New Website, New Show: Continue (00:02:28)Chapter 2: What Kris Built: PHP, Rhetoric Analysis, and Dirt Cheap Luna (00:12:55)Chapter 3: Matt's Agent Assembly Line: Linear Issues to Merged PRs (00:24:20)Chapter 4: Harness Hopping: Codex, Claude Code, and Agent Teams (00:33:35)Chapter 6: The Economics Flipped: Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter (00:36:39)Chapter 7: Keeping the Harness on Your Own Hardware: A Dollar of Orbs (00:43:35)Chapter 8: Vibe Coding, Skill Atrophy, and Prototyping on a Walk (00:52:42)Chapter 9: The Proposal Proposal [Extended] (01:02:14)Epilogue (01:03:16)Hosts Matthew Sanabria - Host Kris Brandow - Host Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagramTikTokChangelog ZulipGophers Slack (00:00) - Prologue (02:28) - Chapter 1: New Website, New Show: Continue (12:55) - Chapter 2: What Kris Built: PHP, Rhetoric Analysis, and Dirt Cheap Luna (24:20) - Chapter 3: Matt's Agent Assembly Line: Linear Issues to Merged PRs (33:35) - Chapter 4: Harness Hopping: Codex, Claude Code, and Agent Teams (36:39) - Chapter 6: The Economics Flipped: Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter (43:35) - Chapter 7: Keeping the Harness on Your Own Hardware: A Dollar of Orbs (52:42) - Chapter 8: Vibe Coding, Skill Atrophy, and Prototyping on a Walk (01:02:14) - Chapter 9: The Proposal Proposal [Extended] (01:03:16) - Epilogue