{Trail,Tri}-Racing, Grind slop, Sloptember, Opus 4.8 Rollercoaster, Dynamic Workflows, Compaction

• Matt's Portuguese vineyard 22K with salted-cod finisher medals
• Wilhelm's Olympic tri on the edge of Yosemite
• Matt's winging race: reigning windsurfing world champ finishes second to last, Matt third to last
• Harry Stebbings on the Corgi Insurance founder: 3am office cafe, two-thirds with the corgi tattoo
• Juliette: "a long tweet to say you have no hobbies"
• Karri at Linear vs the six-monthly 996 debate
• The secret company gym spreadsheet
• George Hotz's Eternal Sloptember
• Matt's tolerance rebuttal: if you can't tell, it is correct
• Benedict Evans on Lenny's: the SPAC era of AI labs?
• Sergio shipped Root from last week's pod ask
• Opus 4.8 vibe whiplash
• Ultra code mode is sparkly purple
• Dynamic workflows: Jarred rewrote Bun in Rust in a week
• Compaction is a harness problem
• Herdr.dev: one terminal for the whole herd

Links:

• George Hotz, "The Eternal Sloptember" — https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html
• Karri Saarinen (Linear) rejects 996 hustle culture — https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/why-this-1-billion-startup-ceo-rejects-996-hustle-culture/500649
• Benedict Evans on Lenny's Podcast, a rational conversation on where AI is going — https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/a-rational-conversation-on-where
• Every's Opus 4.8 vibe check (Dan Shipper) — https://every.to/vibe-check/opus-4-8-vibecheck
• Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code (the Bun rewrite) — https://claude.com/blog/introducing-dynamic-workflows-in-claude-code
• Herdr, one terminal for the whole herd — https://herdr.dev/