The Standup with ThePrimeagen – Details, episodes & analysis

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This week we’re joined by Luke to break down why RAM prices are exploding, how AI and hyperscalers are reshaping the hardware market, and why consumers are getting left behind. We dig into DDR5, HBM, data centers, enterprise priorities, and what all of this means for your next PC upgrade—plus a few dumb jokes and hard truths along the way.

Sam Altman’s “Worldcoin” is real… and somehow it’s even weirder than it sounds.

TJ walks the crew through the orb, iris scans, “proof of human,” and the pitch for AI-funded UBI.

We break down the funding, the rollout, the controversies, and why this all feels insanely ominous.

Plus: classic Standup chaos, conspiracy energy, and too many jokes about where the orb shouldn’t go.

Thanks to this week's sponsor: Code Rabbit If you're tired of developers just replying with LGTM, then you NEED Code Rabbit. An actually useful application of AI where it can use your own rules, lints and more to provide instant feedback in your editor OR a review on Github. https://coderabbit.link/primeagen-vscode Fil-C creators: https://x.com/filpizlo https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:29 - Fil-C Demo 00:07:56 - Security 00:11:52 - Game Engine Use Case 00:14:20 - What cant it do 00:18:02 - Different to ASan 00:23:57 - How Fil-C works 00:36:38 - Choosing Fil-C over Rust 00:51:31 - Outro

Thanks to this week's sponsor: Code Rabbit If you're tired of developers just replying with LGTM, then you NEED Code Rabbit. An actually useful application of AI where it can use your own rules, lints and more to provide instant feedback in your editor OR a review on Github. https://coderabbit.link/primeagen-vscode https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:14 - Unitree Robot Security 00:02:09 - Merge Cop ep. 1 00:03:33 - Base unit robot 00:07:50 - Back to the Unitree story 00:12:07 - Robots spread virus by proximity 00:13:13 - Skynet is coming 00:15:59 - Automation for no reason 00:19:51 - Software Success 00:22:01 - Whos gonna buy these 00:24:55 - Laundry 00:26:57 - what are you going to do after robots 00:31:50 - Early adoption risks 00:37:32 - Price 00:38:22 - Band name loop holes 00:39:34 - Jelly eyeballs 00:43:40 - Outro

https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis

https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis 00:00:00 - Intro & Snacks 00:02:24 - AWS Outage and companies effected 00:07:54 - Insident report 00:10:22 - How do data centers work? 00:20:07 - Actual Post mortem 00:22:00 - Vibe coding brought down the internet 00:24:00 - Why is every company on US-EAST-1 00:27:00 - CDNS and cloudDBS 00:28:49 - 8sleep rant 00:35:08 - Dumb IOT devices 00:39:11 - Culture of new product companies 00:43:00 - How much is cloud storage 00:44:05 - OpenAI Browser, Atlas 00:56:00 - Outro

https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis

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https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream 5 days a Week
https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH?
ssh terminal.shop
Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime
(plus i make courses for them)
This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer.
Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen
Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis

📍 Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:10 Printf Debugging
00:10:20 RAD Debugger Origins
00:25:00 PDB (Program Database) Limit
00:27:27 RAD Linker
00:28:40 Working for Epic
00:32:13 What the hell is MUMPS
00:33:28 D Sucks
00:34:45 Oodle Adjacent
00:35:40 How do steps work?
00:42:50 INT 3 Instruction/Trap
00:46:20 Step count
00:47:50 Overwrite and replace
00:49:42 The desire for user level INT 3 handling
01:00:39 Alternative to User level INT 3
01:03:10 Chrome Debugger complaints
01:07:51 RAD Debug features
01:16:52 Compatible languages
01:18:41 Gabe Newell annoucement strategy
01:19:37 Outro 1
01:20:01 Cleverer than Stack pointers
01:22:55 Prime pees on stream
01:24:20 Faking addresses and the shadow stack
01:27:50 Data breakpoints
01:28:38 Prime shoots his shot
01:32:46 TLDR
01:34:28 Debugging in VM langs
01:35:00 PUBE G
01:36:28 Outro 2