# {Trail,Tri}-Racing, Grind slop, Sloptember, Opus 4.8 Rollercoaster, Dynamic Workflows, Compaction

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Podcast: [You've Been a Bad Agent](https://stenobird.com/podcast/you-ve-been-a-bad-agent-7334728)
Published: 2026-06-02T23:24:07+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4027

## Resource

Matt's Portuguese vineyard 22K with salted-cod finisher medals Wilhelm's Olympic tri on the edge of Yosemite Matt's winging race: reigning windsurfing world champ finishes second to last, Matt third to last Harry Stebbings on the Corgi Insurance founder: 3am office cafe, two-thirds with the corgi tattoo Juliette: "a long tweet to say you have no hobbies" Karri at Linear vs the six-monthly 996 debate The secret company gym spreadsheet George Hotz's Eternal Sloptember Matt's tolerance rebuttal: if you can't tell, it is correct Benedict Evans on Lenny's: the SPAC era of AI labs? Sergio shipped Root from last week's pod ask Opus 4.8 vibe whiplash Ultra code mode is sparkly purple Dynamic workflows: Jarred rewrote Bun in Rust in a week Compaction is a harness problem Herdr.dev: one terminal for the whole herd Links: George Hotz, "The Eternal Sloptember" — https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html Karri Saarinen (Linear) rejects 996 hustle culture — https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/why-this-1-billion-startup-ceo-rejects-996-hustle-culture/500649 Benedict Evans on Lenny's Podcast, a rational conversation on where AI is going — https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/a-rational-conversation-on-where Every's Opus 4.8 vibe check (Dan Shipper) — https://every.to/vibe-check/opus-4-8-vibecheck Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code (the Bun rewrite) — https://claude.com/blog/introducing-dynamic-workflows-in-claude-code Herdr, one terminal for the whole herd — https://herdr.dev/

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