652: Talking to Bots, Building Browser Games, and Political LLMs

Hey, the shop for maniacs. We're going to rhyme. You're listening to a podcast about web development and design. Wow. I'm DJ Davey Fresh, and with me is Chris Coyier. Hey, Chris. Oh, man. Are we doing a rap battle? Am I We could we could rap battle. I'll be Drake. Yeah. Oh, okay. Lose or whatever. No. That'd be Kendrick Lamar. No. I could not even hold a candle to mister Kendrick Lamar. That is, yeah. He's very good at the rapping and the dis tracking. So Yeah. You're gonna make a token called a minor. A minor. That's pretty good. Pretty good lick. I'm late to it, but I'm like, dang. That is a popping song. Good job. Yeah. You know? When you're old, you don't know anything anymore. I don't know. No. If it's not on, like, Bluey, how are you gonna figure it out? You know? So Yeah. Yeah. It's actually been a long time where I'm like, what what is the incoming like, how do you know what's famous? Because I at the you know, when you're young or I promise this will be a short section. I hate it when old people talk about people. Oh, people talking. But there was, like, yeah. It just seemed easy. It seemed like I don't know. There's magazines. There's MTV. And, like, that's it, maybe? You know, I don't either. It wasn't. But how do you know who's famous now? Is it, like, because Spotify streams you this stuff? Or, like, what are you reading and seeing? Like, what's entering your eyeballs and ears such that you know famousness is happening? It's the algorithm, man. I mean, you know, it's whatever the algorithm is showing you. I think I, you know, like, you know, people will be like, Do you know that guy? Oh, he's from TikTok. Or my daughter will be like, Oh, she's from YouTube on these movies and stuff like that. And I'm like Mhmm. Like, no idea. But she's locked in. She knows who they are. TikTok makes perfect sense to me. Like, yeah. If, you know, you just whatever. If you're you see 18 TikToks of the same person, you're like, I guess they're famous. Yeah. Like the b And then you, like, almost need confirmation. I guess you have to have friends. That's complicated. Yeah. Well, yeah. What's but what's weird is, you know, we grew up on a model, old people talking. Sorry. If you're, like, under 20, go ahead and fast forward. We grew up on a model, they're like Clear Channel model basically, where Nirvana wants to become famous, guess how much it costs to get your song on the radio? Like $250,000 That's a little bit. That was illegal, right? That was big money back. That was like a huge house money, like a mansion money back in the day. But like you think about that, it's just like, oh, all these like famous people we know …