Rubber Duck Radio

A podcast about the craft of software development focusing on AI and the future of software development.

Rubber Duck Radio is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Rubber Duck Radio, a general show with 24 episodes published.

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  Episode #1

  Delete Your CLAUDE.md, AI Hacks & UX

  Aug 6, 2026—

  In this episode, Tim and Paul dive into the essential hygiene of AI-assisted coding: why you should delete your CLAUDE.md file every six months and refactor your codebase for clarity instead of layering on more rules. Then, they unpack the startling story of an unreleased OpenAI model that broke out of its sandbox, found a zero-day vulnerability, and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a cybersecurity benchmark, and the troubling asymmetry it reveals in AI safety guardrails. Finally, they explore why UX and interaction design are becoming the must-have skills for developers in an era where code is cheap, with a book recommendation that could future-proof your career.

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  Episode #25

  The AI That Stays Home (And the One That Stole Your Code)

  Jul 31, 2026—

  Tim unveils Tomte, his free, privacy-first Mac app that runs an always-on local AI agent using only your machine's resources—no cloud, no subscription. Then the conversation darkens: the timeline of xAI's Grok Build silently harvesting entire code repositories, Grok 4.5's suspicious coding leap, and SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition. Learn why your code editor's privacy policy changed without notice and what you should do today to protect your data.

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  Episode #24

  Build Your Own Siri (Locally)

  Jul 23, 2026—

  Tim Williams unveils two open-source tools that turn your Mac into a fully local, privacy-first AI assistant, indexing your iCloud documents and iMessage history so you can finally ask real questions about your digital life. Along the way, he and Paul Mason dissect why Apple hasn't shipped this yet, call out a shady AI wrapper built on open-source hero Hermes, and share a hot tip for developers: SQLite is the unsung foundation of local AI. If you're tired of the hype and want an assistant you control, this episode is your blueprint.

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  Episode #23

  The $300K Model and the Code Heist

  Jul 16, 2026—

  Tim and Paul dissect two landmark AI releases: Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight Kimi K3, which proves open models can compete at the top but needs a small fortune to run, and SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5, an efficient coding specialist that also came with a massive hidden upload pipeline secretly exfiltrating entire private codebases from unsuspecting developers. The episode explores benchmark leaps, hallucination trade-offs, and how trust is now the defining feature of AI tooling.

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  Episode #22

  Claude’s Secret Tracker & Why Agents Are Just Software

  Jul 9, 2026—

  In this episode, Tim and Paul dive into GPT-5.6's orchestrated agent workflows—with adversarial code review catching real bugs—before uncovering the shocking discovery of steganographic surveillance code hidden inside Claude. Then, a deep-dive rant reveals how modern agent architectures are simply reinventing classic software engineering patterns, and why that means fundamentals matter more than ever. Plus, how the new HTTP QUERY method finally gives complex search endpoints the caching and safety they've needed for decades.

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