#Define: Sheer Resistance  ## Metadata - Author: [[Changelog Master Feed]] - Full Title: #Define: Sheer Resistance - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/b0363868-9d2d-4d8a-8229-2bd8d495ff96 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - **Agents Behave Differently Than Humans** - Agents operate by calling, retrieving, and parallelizing rather than clicking and scrolling like humans. - Design your infrastructure and tooling expecting agents to orchestrate workflows and plug into systems. Transcript: Adam Stacoviak Over a year ago, 25% of Google's code was AI generated. It's safe to say that now it's probably close to 100%. Most people I talk to, most developers I talk to right now, almost all their code is being generated. That's a different world. Here's the deal. Agents are the new developers. They don't click. They don't scroll. They call. They retrieve. They parallelize. ([Time 0:00:53](https://share.snipd.com/snip/7ad22b9e-33d1-43e5-8768-869bce30bd61)) - **Use Databases Built For Agents** - Use databases built for agents when your systems need native search, instant zero-copy forks, and vector/text handling. - Try Tiger Data's Agented Postgres to avoid Postgres choking on agent workloads and large-scale retrievals. Transcript: Adam Stacoviak Agents are the new developers. They don't click. They don't scroll. They call. They retrieve. They parallelize. They plug in your infrastructure to places you need it to perform. But your database is probably still thinking about humans only because that's kind of where Postgres is at. Tiger Data's philosophy is that when your agents need to spin up sandboxes, run migrations, query huge volumes of vector and text data, well, normal Postgres, it might choke. And so they fix that. Here's where we're at right now. Agented Postgres delivers these three big leaps, native search and retrieval, instant zero copy forks, and MCP server, plus your CLI, plus a cool free tier. ([Time 0:01:08](https://share.snipd.com/snip/41e07ea4-5c42-46c0-8eda-c2e8f731989f)) - **Limit External Help In Word Games** - Enforce a no-googling policy in word-guess games to preserve game integrity and fun. - If you allow LLM assistance, limit its use (e.g., one hidden mulligan) to balance fairness. Transcript: Jerod Santo Agent policy of course don't look up the definitions because that wouldn't be very fun at all the way this game works is that we have 10 rounds of play we're playing to 12 points, whichever One comes first. And each round presents a word, which is obscure, hopefully. Hopefully nobody knows it. Maybe you know it. That ([Time 0:07:10](https://share.snipd.com/snip/9894ba50-130c-4037-a9c5-5fca0933d822)) - **Taleb-Inspired Vocabulary Win** - Taylor knew 'iatrogenic' from reading Nassim Taleb and correctly identified the medical meaning. - His answer earned three immediate points and set the round's tone. Transcript: Jerod Santo So three points for Taylor. And you can just relax, my friend. Good job. He did know it. He really knew it. So there are one, two, three, four, five possible definitions for iatrogenic. Number one, iatrogenic describes natural springs which produce water with high concentrations of ionic water. Number two, iatrogenic caused inadvertently by medical treatment or diagnosis. Number three, an object solely composed of distinct dissimilar parts. Number four, describing cells in the endocrine system responsible for producing hormones. And number five, the process of swapping out one gene pool for another. There you have it. Five potential definitions for iatrogenic. We start, since Taylor is resting, we start with Thomas.omas yeah ([Time 0:10:31](https://share.snipd.com/snip/5d7d11f4-5c92-4e46-8845-3af7fadf6f10)) - **Spot Unequal Variances In Data** - Heteroscedasticity describes differing variabilities across subpopulations in statistical data. - Recognize heteroscedasticity to avoid incorrect assumptions of uniform variance in analyses. Transcript: Jerod Santo You're getting better at it, though. The practice is paying off. I feel like it. Good. And by five, I mean five, not six, because one of us got it 100% correct, and that person is Mr. David Aja. Three points to David. David Aja I have to try really hard not to help you with the pronunciation. Jerod Santo Oh, and he knows how to pronounce it too. How am I doing? David Aja You got there. Yeah, eventually. Jerod Santo I have this pronunciation guide, and as I try to read the actual syllables, I can't. It's just a lot of syllables. I couldn't quite put them together. When you just look at the words, not so bad. Anyways, neither here nor there. Up first, this round well let me read them gosh you guys just guessed the numbers uh might as well okay five definitions for heteroscedasticity uh shoot i'm back a material that has differing Shear resistance across its various dimensions that's's number one. Number two, when molecules have multiple stable configurations. Number three, the process of fine-tuning multi-dimensional data structures into a single data store. Number four, a collection of disjoint operators which make up the order one manifold. And number five, a statistical property in which some subpopulations in a collection of random variables have different variabilities from others. There you go. Five definitions. Heteroscedasticity. ([Time 0:19:57](https://share.snipd.com/snip/438b68f5-a752-4f8e-803c-c598a81e2d32)) - **Drawing Made Heteroscedasticity Clear** - David sketched homoscedastic and heteroscedastic distributions to explain variance differences visually. - His drawing convinced others and clarified why variance matters across subgroups. Transcript: David Aja And so, David, why don't you tell everybody what the right answer is i drew a little diagram because i used to love trying to draw this when i wanted to be an economics professor this is A this is a homoscedastic distribution right where the normals are basically kind of the same and then this is a heteroscedastic distribution where the variance for one subgroup is Smaller than the other. Thomas Eckert But they're both in danger from that T-Rex. Jerod Santo Yeah, the T-Rex is definitely after both distributions. So either way, you're going down. So you're getting eaten no matter what. David Aja That's right. Taylor Troesh Was that a drawing of a metal pipe? Because it's materials, right? David Aja Was my grandma lying to me is your grandmother i can't see the different shears i can't see ([Time 0:25:35](https://share.snipd.com/snip/7fa70509-f3ac-481a-b99e-0839a835c531)) - **Install AI Dev Tools Into Your CLI** - Install developer AI tools via CLI for fast, contextual assistance inside your editor and terminal. - Use Augment Code (Augie) to get repo-aware completions, sidekicks, and native tools in your workflow. Transcript: Adam Stacoviak I want you to go to augmentcode.com. Right in the center, you'll see install now. And just go right to the command line. There is a terminal CLI icon there. Click that. And it's going to take you to this page that says install via NPM. Copy that. Pop into your terminal. Install augment code. It's called Augie. Instantiate it wherever you want to. Type in A-U and let loose. You now have all the power of Augment in your terminal. ([Time 0:28:31](https://share.snipd.com/snip/b734e9d5-a145-45e5-9dec-e947d668afc3)) - **Obscure Films Make Great Game Traps** - Obscure movie synopses are great fodder for deception and creative guesses in games. - Players who craft plausible, concise plots can reliably fool others and score points. Transcript: Jerod Santo But okay, in this round, I have gone out to the interwebs and I have found an obscure old movie. Oh, yes. In fact, I found a movie from 1928. I then took the synopsis of that movie, you know, like the one-liner description of like what the movie's about. You can read it on IMDb, etc. And I jotted that down. Your job is to write a synopsis given the name and the year that it was made and convince all of us that you actually wrote the real synopsis of the movie. The movie I wrote down is called The Man Who Laughs. The Man Who Laughs. It's from 1928. Please submit to me your synopses for The Man Who Laughs whenever you have them ready. ([Time 0:56:28](https://share.snipd.com/snip/7cc850f9-4449-4101-8e68-3e60be7d47de)) - **Real Film Synopsis Surprised Contestants** - 'The Man Who Laughs' (1928) actually centers on a disfigured nobleman forced into circus life, surprising many players. - Several contestants correctly guessed that synopsis and scored points after debating alternatives. Transcript: Jerod Santo But which one is the actual movie plot? Here we go. Number one, The Man Who Laughs recounts the story of Dr. Dennis Rockwell, who struggles with his grip on reality as he treats his patients at Mount Basker Mental Asylum. Number two, a disgruntled railroad worker catches the next train out of town to find beauty in life. Number three, a veteran of the Great War cheerfully tries to save his farm. Number four, a disfigured nobleman with a permanent grin is forced into circus life and separated from his true identity. Number five, darkly romantic. A comedian is heartbroken when his lover leaves him for a member of his audience, the man who laughs. And number six, thrust into the starlight. Two laugh filled men adventure together to seek the love of the same woman. As stage performers who travel, they find it hard to see her in the crowd. So they developed a laugh from Bellows down below to win her love. To win her love. All right. Six different potential synopses of 1928's The Man Who Laughs. Adam, you can't pile on this round because you are first. Taylor Troesh Gosh. Matthew Sanabria Is there any way to go last is that possible you can't pile on because you're first can i just not do that i do think that would be an interesting mechanic to introduce in a future version David Aja Of this game adam always goes last or just like you someone gets the ability to oh to like play that card every once in a while or something. Adam Stacoviak Yeah. That's a good idea. Interesting. You know, I wasn't listening, so. I'm used to going last. And I get the power on, push my button. It's just, you know, the easy button, you know. Could I ask you to describe them to me again? Jerod Santo I'm going to give you a brief storys because this is a lot of reading. No, you can just give me the summary. All right, so number one was the story of Dr. Dennis Rockwell. Okay, yeah, I remember that. I was listening to that one. I was kidding. At the Mount Basker Mental Asylum. Number two. That's a pretty good one. Who wrote that? Number two was the disgruntled railroad worker who catches the next train out of town. Adam Stacoviak Oh, yeah, Also pretty good. Finds beauty in life. Yeah. Jerod Santo Number three was the veteran of the Great War who cheerfully tries to save his farm. Adam Stacoviak Yeah, that's a good one, too. Jerod Santo Number four, a disfigured nobleman with a permanent grin who's forced into circus life. Adam Stacoviak That does have smile feels. What? What is it? He said laugh. So I guess laughs, smile. It's all the same, right? Jerod Santo Number five was a comedian who's heartbroken when his lover leaves him for a member of his audience. The man who laughs. Taylor wrote that. Wow. Call out. Number six was the two laugh-filled men who are seeking the same, the woman's love. So there's your synopses of the synopses. What are you thinking? What are you convinced by? What are you? You know, I just want to ask if I can go last. You can't. Adam Stacoviak You can't go last. All right, fine. I will go with the disgruntled railroad worker who found a way to down the mountain. All right. Who's that guy? Is that, is that mixing them? Did I mix them? Jerod Santo A disgruntled railroad worker catches the next train out of town. That's when you want. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I like that one. All right. Well, we'll see. What was the one before that? Taylor, you're next. What was the one before that? The man who goes last. Are you not locked in? Adam Stacoviak No. Still thinking about him. Jerod Santo I thought we were moving on. Before that was the Dr. Dennis Rockwell at the mental asylum. He treats his patients. But he struggles when he loses a grip on reality. Yeah. Adam Stacoviak That's plausible for sure. You want that one? Nah. Railroad. Taylor Troesh Day railroad all right you're sticking with the railroad taylor what do you want let's see uh my grandma actually saw this one at theaters uh she said she said it uh did you say theaters 1928 right yeah 1928 yeah the cinema uh she said she she told me though it was it was the one about the old guy with the house with the balloons. That one's not an option. I'll go with the Nobleman. The disfigured face. Jerod Santo The disfigured Nobleman. Oh wait, what was the first one again? The Mount Baskerville Mental Asylum. You want that one instead? No, let's do noblemen. Thomas. Thomas Eckert I, let's see. So we have the mental asylum. We have beauty. Let's see. Man after the great war circus life, the comedian, and then the two laugh filled men. I feel like two laugh filled men. You call it the men who laugh or maybe that's the sequel. I'm going to go with the asylum one the number one number one that's a good choice that's a good choice is it yours no just good choice man we go to matthew mental asylum one railroad something Taylor Troesh Nobleman something you should go with the one with the great war uh in. Matthew Sanabria Something about a great war. Taylor Troesh Yeah, because I don't think it happened yet. Jerod Santo Can you read the Asylum one and the Nobleman one? Sure. No, they're not the same. The Asylum one is the story of Dr. Dennis Rockwell, who struggles with his grip on reality as he treats his patients at Mount Basker Mental Asylum. Got it. Okay. David Aja Are you saying the Great War wouldn't have happened by 28? What's the Great War? 1928? Taylor Troesh No, yeah, you're right. But 1928. See, he just said doctors. They didn't have doctors in 1928. That one's false too, dude. Matthew Sanabria Also synopsis is synopsis, whatever. Yes. Like a lot of, you introduced me with too many characters in that synopsis. Right. And the other one was a noble something. Yeah, disfigured nobleman. Disfigured nobleman. He's got a permanent grin. Oh, like the Joker. Jerod Santo Always smiling. He's forced into circus life. Matthew Sanabria And separated from his true identity that sounds fun so he's first forced okay i think i'm i think i'm leaning to that one someone already picked that one though right yeah taylor picked Jerod Santo That one and thomas picked the mental asylum one so they both have one person on them i think i'm leaning towards the nobleman the joker story the joker origin story okay you're gonna Matthew Sanabria Lock that in railroad is another one lovers something yes yeah i think the nobleman sounds the best here it feels i don't think anyone here is going to use the word disfigured. Jerod Santo Wow, that's a dis. Yeah. All right, I'm going to lock you in ([Time 1:04:25](https://share.snipd.com/snip/373c2be4-5d79-4c2c-b825-f1b29d2137d8)) - **Literary Roots Reveal Word Meanings** - 'Brobdingnagian' stems from Brobdingnag in Gulliver's Travels and means gigantic size. - Knowing literary origins helps decode obscure adjectives and prevents overcomplicated guesses. Transcript: Jerod Santo Number one, purposefully accelerating civilization collapse. Number two, having to do with the sport of brobsledding. Number three, a fictional area in the golden sun video game where the characters face the toughest enemies. Number four, a matrix of fourth derivatives. Number five cousin to the backyard against Malik, Zara, Benji, and they love to play in the front yard. Matthew Sanabria You're not helping anything with that. Jerod Santo Imagine themselves on fantastic adventures. That's awesome. That's amazing. And number five, or sorry, number six, marked by tremendous size. ([Time 1:19:09](https://share.snipd.com/snip/5857d55d-9749-41e1-8871-8398234b472c)) - **Use Quick Tiebreakers For Time Limits** - When a game reaches time or scheduling limits, agree to ties or quick tiebreakers to respect participants' constraints. - Use short, decisive mechanics (coin flip, autocomplete tiebreaker) to finish without forcing extra time. Transcript: Jerod Santo We also have hard stops. So we'll have to decide what we're going to do here because. People have won? Taylor and Matthew both have 13 points, putting them over the 12-point threshold. David has 12, putting them at the 12-point threshold. So we can end the game with a two-way tie for first. I know that Thomas has to wrap. I think everybody has dinner to have at a certain point. We can call it. We can continue. We can go without Thomas. We can just. Thomas Eckert I'm not going to win this one. Matthew Sanabria So I can back out, go walk my dog. Jerod Santo Let's talk to our two guys tied for first place, Taylor and Matthew. How would you like to proceed? Matthew Sanabria I don't have a preference. We can tie it. We can tie break it. Jerod Santo We can whatever. I have more rounds in my back pocket, so that's not a problem. Taylor Troesh Let me think. I am super hungry. Yeah. Jerod Santo Let's just call it a two-way tie for first. Oh, boy. ([Time 1:30:10](https://share.snipd.com/snip/5c0777e7-ff8c-4793-9b92-5d261af66a2c)) - **Tiebreaker Won By Google Autocomplete** - For the tiebreaker, Matthew guessed 'Bill Gates climate' and hit Google's top autocomplete, winning the championship. - The group discussed Gates' farm purchases and climate commentary while making the guess. Transcript: Jerod Santo You guys cool with that? Sure. Love it. All right. I have typed Bill Gates space, not space needle, but a literal blank character. Bill Gates space. And the first one to hit it wins. So how do we, how should we start with the changelog plus plus member? Who's Matthew? Matthew Sanabria But I'm not a changelog plus plus member. Oh, shoot. Jerod Santo I thought you were. Matthew Sanabria I thought I was too, but I, you know, I just listen so much. Jerod Santo We start with Taylor. I'm now offended by Matthew. I'll start with Taylor. Yeah, David is one, but he's also missing a point. Yeah, we'll start with matthew i'm not i'm not easily offended go ahead man it's better though all right so just say one yeah what do you think bill gates auto completes to net worth it's Taylor Troesh On there but it's not number one okay taylor feet is it bill gates versus godzilla that that should probably be up in the top five no let's go with uh bill gates it's feet man it's the blank's Already in there what keeps on coming up to me is like the bill gates epstein situation because there was a tie there so i'm thinking bill gates Epstein to be real topical maybe. Okay. Okay. Jerod Santo Nope. Matthew. Good try. Matthew Sanabria What is Bill Gates even? What is he known for now anymore? Who cares to Google him? He was in the news recently. Was he in the news recently? Yeah. I don't care about Bill Gates. I don't either. I just know he's in the news. What does he do? Isn't he like involved farm stuff now? Adam Stacoviak He's bought a bunch of farmland. Matthew Sanabria That's what I thought. Adam Stacoviak David's chopping the bit because he knows what this is about. Jerod Santo And he's like, I was one point away. I could be in this. The Andrew's feet. Yeah, okay. You're missing out. Bill Gates' feet. Matthew Sanabria I feel like if it's not worth, I'd laugh if it was like the other one. What was the other Google one? I would laugh if it was the same thing, the same Google thing. Because you put two names, right? Steve Jobs' daughter. Bill Gates' daughter. Okay, I think I would guess. Isn't he a big proponent of like i don't even know okay give me a timer time count down something it'll force something out of me three two one okay climate change doesn't need to do something With farms and climate change bill gates climate change yeah ding ding ding ding is it really you got it, man. Bill Gates, climate change. Jerod Santo Matthew, pull it out of nowhere is our winner. David knew that one. I, my wife told me a bunch that he like bought up a lot of farmland ([Time 1:32:31](https://share.snipd.com/snip/835062b0-94f4-4290-89d1-6d9a5e67d9d2))