The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological activity h…

Nano Banana — https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/

China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter. — https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a-different-vision-for-…

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• (01:55) - MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
• (08:14) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
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• GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation — The Verge (Aug 11, 2025)
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble | Where’s Your Ed At

Technology writer Ed Zitron tears apart what he calls the overhyped generative…

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• Announcing molab (marimo)
  Marimo debuts molab, a free, cloud‑hosted workspace for running and sharing reactive Python + SQL notebooks straight from t…

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MCP-B – Browser Model Context Protocol | mcp-b.ai
MCP-B proposes a “USB-C for AI,” letting agents call site functions instead of clums…

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• Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec — Hacker News
  Fast Apply from Morph promises near-instant…

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The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering | Phil Schmid Blog (Jun 30 2025)
Phil Schmid argues that the real differentiator in modern AI wo…

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Serena: A powerful coding agent toolkit | GitHub
Serena presents itself as a full-featured coding agent that melds semantic code search, automated …

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DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format | DuckDB Blog (May 27 2025)
DuckDB’s new DuckLake format proposes shifting all lakehouse metadata into a re…

Hey there! Welcome to the very first Monkey Patching Podcast. We're just kicking things off today, chatting about what we've got planned for this show – nothing too mind-blowing yet, but we're excite…