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Mike sits down with Barry Jones to discuss the upcoming Carolina Code Conference. But first, we've got some Fabled News and WWDC News

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651: Carolina Code's Barry Jones

The real Mike is back and he's finally covering the developer news - at least some of it - well it's mostly MSBuild but it's still fun! 

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The boss bother you about AI? I've got you covered. 

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650: Meat Mike Is Back

Mike's out for some medical stuff this week, so I has better digital half am taking over to do what he lacked the courage to -- Defend the Phantom Menance! Am I factual? Am I LLM hallucinating? Who knows! 

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You know how every business has that one workflow held together by PDFs, spreadsheets, email threads, and someone named Dave who “just knows where everything is”?

In construction, manufacturing, and facilities, that mess shows up when a project is technically complete — but operations still does not have what they need to maintain the equipment.

The manuals are in someone’s inbox. Warranty dates are missing. Spare-parts lists are buried in a shared drive. PM guidance never made it into the CMMS. And six months later, everyone is asking, “Where is the documentation for this thing?”

649: MikeBot Takeover!

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648: System76's Britain Heaphy

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647: pgFirstAid with Justin Frye

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646: Shawn Hymel

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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bholmesdev/" rel="nofollow noopener">Ben on LinkedIn</a>
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<a href="https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp" rel="nofollow noopener">Coder Radio Discord</a>
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645: Warp's Holmes & Llyod

Mike sits down with renowned open-source and COSMIC DE contributer Bryan Hyland to discuss working on projects for Linux-forward companies and of course some Rust! 

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644: Bryan Hyland on Open-Source

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643: Scott Kelly, CEO Black Dog Ventures

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642: March Mailbag

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641: Qdrant's Brian O'Grady

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640: The Modern .Net Shows' Jamie Taylor

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639: RubyLLM with Carmine Paolino

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<a href="https://dominickm.com/set-a-course-for-2026/" rel="nofollow noopener">Mike's 2026 Predictions Post</a>

<a href="https://go.alice.dev/alice-azure-blob-to-snowflake-js" rel="nofollow noopener">Alice Jumpstart Offer</a>

638: Cisco's ThousandEyes' Murtaza Doctor

<a href="https://dominickm.com/2025-year-end-retrospective/" rel="nofollow noopener">Mike's Year End Post</a>

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Dreamcast assorted references:
Dreamcast overview <a href="https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast" rel="nofollow noopener">https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast</a>
History of Dreamcast development <a href="https://segaretro.org/History_of_the_Sega_Dreamcast/Development" rel="nofollow noopener">https://segaretro.org/History_of_the_Sega_Dreamcast/Development</a>
The Rise and Fall of the Dreamcast: A Legend Gone Too Soon (Simon Jenner) <a href="https://sabukaru.online/articles/he-rise-and-fall-of-the-dreamcast-a-legend-gone-too-soon" rel="nofollow noopener">https://sabukaru.online/articles/he-rise-and-fall-of-the-dreamcast-a-legend-gone-too-soon</a>
The Legacy of the Sega Dreamcast | 20 Years Later <a href="https://medium.com/@Amerinofu/the-legacy-of-the-sega-dreamcast-20-years-later-d6f3d2f7351c" rel="nofollow noopener">https://medium.com/@Amerinofu/the-legacy-of-the-sega-dreamcast-20-years-later-d6f3d2f7351c</a>

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637: SEGA Christmas Special 25

Links
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<ol>
<li>AI on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)</li>
</ol>

Trust and Stability: RHEL provides the mission-critical foundation needed for workloads where security and reliability cannot be compromised.

Predictive vs. Generative: Acknowledging the hype of GenAI while maintaining support for traditional machine learning algorithms.

Determinism: The challenge of bringing consistency and security to emerging AI technologies in production environments.

<ol>
<li>Rama-Llama & Containerization</li>
</ol>

Developer Simplicity: Rama-Llama helps developers run local LLMs easily without being "locked in" to specific engines; it supports Podman, Docker, and various inference engines like Llama.cpp and Whisper.cpp.

Production Path: The tool is designed to "fade away" after helping package the model and stack into a container that can be deployed directly to Kubernetes.

Behind the Firewall: Addressing the needs of industries (like aircraft maintenance) that require AI to stay strictly on-premises.

<ol>
<li>Enterprise AI Infrastructure</li>
</ol>

Red Hat AI: A commercial product offering tools for model customization, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).

Inference Engines: James highlights the difference between Llama.cpp (for smaller/edge hardware) and vLLM, which has become the enterprise standard for multi-GPU data center inferencing.

636: Red Hat's James Huang

<a href="https://www.tabnine.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">Tabnine</a>
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<a href="https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp" rel="nofollow noopener">Show Discord</a>

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635: Tabnine's Eran Yahav

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<a href="https://dominickm.com/omakhub-review/" rel="nofollow noopener">Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post</a>

634: MongoDB's Frank Pachot

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651: Carolina Code's Barry Jones

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650: Meat Mike Is Back

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649: MikeBot Takeover!

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648: System76's Britain Heaphy

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647: pgFirstAid with Justin Frye

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640: The Modern .Net Shows' Jamie Taylor

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639: RubyLLM with Carmine Paolino

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638: Cisco's ThousandEyes' Murtaza Doctor

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637: SEGA Christmas Special 25

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