740: To the Moon!
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, where we're starting to notice a patience epidemic! As people get used to barking orders at their AI, they're starting to talk to other humans with the same terse impatience. We discuss the enshittification of social media like Threads, which are now completely overrun with AI-generated slop.
This week, we dive into the corporate shenanigans of the tech world. OpenAI was caught secretly funding an advocacy group to push for age verification laws that just so happen to benefit Sam Altman's other company. We also cover Elon Musk's troubles, including all of xAI's co-founders quitting, a SpaceX satellite exploding, and Tesla's "fully autonomous" robotaxis being revealed to have remote human drivers.
Plus, we celebrate NASA's successful Artemis II launch, review a fantastic Premiere Pro plugin for multicam editing, and give our thoughts on shows like "The Pit" and "Downton Abbey."
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| 0:34.7 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show where we discussed the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Jason DeFillipo. |
| 0:41.2 | And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:42.9 | Brian, I want to talk to you about what I see as an upcoming patience epidemic. |
| 0:49.1 | I've been watching people who deal with AI quite a bit nowadays. |
| 0:53.8 | And a lot of people talk to their devices |
| 0:56.1 | to talk to their LLMs, right? |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, chatbots. |
| 0:59.3 | Yep, yeah. |
| 0:59.9 | And what I'm noticing is people have finally figured out that if you're very terse and verbose |
| 1:06.6 | when you talk to an LLM, you're likely to get better results. |
| 1:10.1 | You tell it exactly what you want, how you want it, your way or the highway, right? |
| 1:14.1 | Sure. |
| 1:15.0 | That's bleeding into everyday conversations with everybody else now. |
| 1:18.9 | And some people are going to get this shit smacked out of them, I think, in the next in the coming weeks. |
| 1:23.7 | Because we're running up against a patience epidemic because people just don't have |
| 1:28.4 | patience to talk to people to get them to do the things that they want them to do anymore. |
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