Discovering AI on your career break, with Mitan Patel

We're back for episode two!
We've got an old friend, Mitan Patel as our guest this week.

• Mitan tells us about his career break.
• We chat about AI tools.
• Mark reviews the last recommendations, badly.
• Michael has put some effort into the news.
• Mitan was gonna write his recommendations down but his ADHD got the better of him this time.

Big topics

• The Career Break. Why? Why now? What are you doing?
• Journalling and AI tooling
• Bolt.new and Cursor.com

Have I got tech news for you?

1. O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time
2. Cheating the GitHub activity graph
3. Musk $1M giveaway wasn’t random
4. "We're basically building Webkinz + Sims + Tamagotchi."
5. Robotic dog runs marathon (faster than I ever have)
6. Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework
7. Russia be cutting undersea cables
8. Northern Ireland cancels IT contract with Fujitsu for Schools worth £485M
9. Microsoft PC that is just a wrapper for Windows 365
10. Github giving away $1.25m, $10k at a time for open source peeps to stay secure
11. Christmas Scams cost over £11m

Recommendations:

Tools

• Bolt.new
• Cursor.com
• Obsidian
• Notion

Music

• Michael:
  • Father John Misty's album Pure Comedy
  • Worriedaboutsatan, tasty electro working music
• Mark:
  • Girlie and Frankie by Alexandra Saviour
  • The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
  • Cinema 3000
• Mitan
  • The Low End Theory by a Tribe Called Quest

Podcasts

• Jim Browning hates scammers, who contributed to O2's Daisy AI, is a guest on Darknet Diaries, fasinating listen on a really good podcast
• Apple Music 100 Best Albums radio

TV

• Monk
• Brian Cox' Wonders of the Solar System

Books

• Cujo by Stephen King

Beer

• Hepcat IPA
• Tippy Yoghurt's Fruity Sour
• Jubel peach beer
• Roadie IPA