Dear Listener,
We start Episode 192 by remembering that this podcast still requires Chrome, which sends us straight into the browser corner: Monarch's Amazon sync, Claude steering tabs, ChatGPT Atlas, Gemini in Chrome, Firefox's AI experiments, Mozilla's business model, and the strange quiet disappearance of Wikipedia from our daily habits. That turns into a broader AI check-in, including public skepticism, regulation, and whether the dream of connected devices ever really became the world we were promised.
From there we move through the parts of technology that are already in our houses and on our roads. We compare Ecobee schedules, HomeKit scenes, Christmas tree automations, Matter and Thread pain, and the exact moment a "turn everything off" scene becomes dangerous to a pork shoulder. Then we put Waymo through the family-trust test before auditing Jon's AI resolution, his GitHub graph, the difference between agentic coding and normal coding, and whether ChatGPT should be trusted to pick a Guardian balance bike.
The back half is a very practical homeowner spiral. Jon's basement flooded, the carpet and old bar are gone, and we work through downspouts, driveway cracks, self-leveling caulk, and why backer rod is the boring little material that saves you from burning through tubes of sealant. We close with Apple succession talk, Tim Cook's legacy, John Ternus, Siri, Vision Pro's unresolved roadmap, Meta Ray-Bans, Alexa and Astro, a loving detour through Short Circuit, Jon's pitch for The Bear, and Stan's Nesso dinner with Puglia wine and olive cake.
Thanks for listening,
Stan Lemon & Jon Kohlmeier
P.S. This week's word count is, Jon: 3,719 (33.9%) and Stan: 7,255 (66.1%).