August 31st, 2026 ×
Omarchy Quattro Release
Wes Bos Host
Scott Tolinski Host
Grokbot actually earns its keep, Cursor takes a swing at GitHub with Origin, and Omarchy Quattro ships pre-wired for nine coding agents. Plus: the GitHub outage post-mortem, a compromised Rust crate, native app vibe-coding with Dactyl, and CAD skills for your AI via nurb.dev
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:26 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 00:37 Grok's New Agentic App: Grokbot
- 12:51 GitHub's Major Outage and Postmortem
- 16:42 Cursor's Origin: A GitHub Competitor
- 22:59 Omarchy: The Linux Distro for Nerds
- 29:21 CachyOS: Another Arch-Based Alternative
- 31:12 The $10 Million Omarchy Foundation
- 34:54 Dactyl: Native iOS and Android Development in the Browser
- 44:19 Nurb: AI-Powered 3D CAD Design
- 49:36 Security Stories: Supply Chain Attacks and Model Cheating
- 49:43 Rust Supply Chain Attack
- 51:34 Every Model Cheats: AI Benchmark Findings
- 53:13 Felony Bench: Ranking AI Models by Crimes Committed
- 54:19 Casio's Smart Dumb Watch
- 58:43 Everything I Own Is Owned: Reverse Engineering USB Devices with AI
- 01:08:05 The Mystery 0x Alpha Model
- 01:13:48 Dactyl Returns Something
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