Buggy software frustrates you, and the people who shipped it felt the same way when they sent it. You open your new laptop and a folder flickers, disappears, comes back wrong. You do the update and something that worked yesterday stops working. This isn't your device aging out. This is a decision someone made before the product ever reached you.

Greg Fish has been inside these systems. Every modern product is built on abstractions: black boxes stacked inside other black boxes, each hiding what's actually running underneath. Most of the time the stack holds. But introduce a new condition, a new device state, something nobody had time to test, and the bugs become structurally unavoidable. Then layer AI-generated code on top, turning out volume at speed, and you've made the review process nearly impossible before the deadline lands.

Fish is direct: the culture of quantity and hype over quality is the biggest battle inside tech right now. Programmers feel it. They wrote the code, they want it right, and the system won't let them. Your frustration isn't irrational. It's the correct response to a process working exactly as designed.

Topics: buggy software, tech quality decline, leaky abstractions, AI-generated code, software culture

GUEST: Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

Buggy software frustrates you, and the people who shipped it felt the same way when they sent it. You open your new laptop and a folder flickers, disappears, comes back wrong. You do the update and something that worked yesterday stops working. This isn't your device aging out. This is a decision someone made before the product ever reached you.
Greg Fish has been inside these systems. Every modern product is built on abstractions: black boxes stacked inside other black boxes, each hiding what's actually running underneath. Most of the time the stack holds. But introduce a new condition, a new device state, something nobody had time to test, and the bugs become structurally unavoidable. Then layer AI-generated code on top, turning out volume at speed, and you've made the review process nearly impossible before the deadline lands.
Fish is direct: the culture of quantity and hype over quality is the biggest battle inside tech right now. Programmers feel it. They wrote the code, they want it right, and the system won't let them. Your frustration isn't irrational. It's the correct response to a process working exactly as designed.
Topics:&nbsp;buggy software, tech quality decline, leaky abstractions, AI-generated code, software culture
GUEST:&nbsp;Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

Shane Hewitt & The Nightshift is your late-night companion for real talk, bold ideas, and unfiltered conversations that matter. Hosted by Canadian radio veteran Shane Hewitt, each episode dives into the headlines, human stories, and hidden truths shaping our world—always with curiosity, compassion, and a sharp edge.

From politics and pop culture to mental health, technology, and everyday life, this podcast is where night owls, deep thinkers, and curious minds come to connect. Featuring expert guests, passionate callers, and Shane’s signature style—thoughtful, fearless, and refreshingly real.

If you crave meaningful dialogue, smart perspectives, and late-night radio energy in podcast form, subscribe now and join The Nightshift.

Shane Hewitt &amp; The Nightshift is your late-night companion for real talk, bold ideas, and unfiltered conversations that matter. Hosted by Canadian radio veteran Shane Hewitt, each episode dives into the headlines, human stories, and hidden truths shaping our world&mdash;always with curiosity, compassion, and a sharp edge.
From politics and pop culture to mental health, technology, and everyday life, this podcast is where night owls, deep thinkers, and curious minds come to connect. Featuring expert guests, passionate callers, and Shane&rsquo;s signature style&mdash;thoughtful, fearless, and refreshingly real.
If you crave meaningful dialogue, smart perspectives, and late-night radio energy in podcast form, subscribe now and join The Nightshift.

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift

Shane Hewitt is known for his engaging and relatable on-air personality, which captivates listeners. His ability to blend insightful commentary with humour and empathy creates a genuine connection with listeners.  Shane Hewitt and the Night Shift provides relatable content, informative discussions and expert insights – along with a balance of anecdotes and entertainment.

Shane Hewitt is known for his engaging and relatable on-air personality, which captivates listeners. His ability to blend insightful commentary with humour and empathy creates a genuine connection with listeners.  Shane Hewitt and the Night Shift provides relatable content, informative discussions and expert insights – along with a balance of anecdotes and entertainment.

Your Tech Keeps Breaking On Purpose

Letters to your kids about who they are before you have to leave them. You've probably thought about it. Maybe you started. Sunny Dhillon started writing his because a racist incident at a playground in Ottawa scared his daughter in kindergarten, and he knew exactly what she was about to carry.

When Sunny was growing up and racism arrived, his response was to hide. Watch for the moment someone might notice his skin color or the food his family ate, and disappear before it happened. He writes about this because his daughter is five years old and already noticing the same things he noticed as a child. He can see every observation she makes. He made them first.

His first trip to India was supposed to answer questions about who he was. It didn't resolve the way he expected. What actually moved something was writing it down, sitting with the question he kept avoiding: what would I want on the page if I'm not here? That's the question worth asking before you think you have time.

Topics: letters to your kids, children of immigrants identity, racism brown skin Canada, Hide and Seek Sunny Dhillon, dad advice children

GUEST: Sunny Dhillon

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

Letters to your kids about who they are before you have to leave them. You've probably thought about it. Maybe you started. Sunny Dhillon started writing his because a racist incident at a playground in Ottawa scared his daughter in kindergarten, and he knew exactly what she was about to carry.
When Sunny was growing up and racism arrived, his response was to hide. Watch for the moment someone might notice his skin color or the food his family ate, and disappear before it happened. He writes about this because his daughter is five years old and already noticing the same things he noticed as a child. He can see every observation she makes. He made them first.
His first trip to India was supposed to answer questions about who he was. It didn't resolve the way he expected. What actually moved something was writing it down, sitting with the question he kept avoiding: what would I want on the page if I'm not here? That's the question worth asking before you think you have time.
Topics: letters to your kids, children of immigrants identity, racism brown skin Canada, Hide and Seek Sunny Dhillon, dad advice children
GUEST: Sunny Dhillon
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

The Letter You Keep Meaning to Write

AI and job satisfaction are moving in opposite directions and most workplaces haven't noticed yet. You finish the day having produced more than you ever could alone. You also finish it without the feeling that you did anything. A Harvard research study called the Progress Principle found that people who feel they accomplished something each day stay longer at their jobs and report higher satisfaction. AI is delivering the output without delivering that reward.

There's a famous story about cake mix companies requiring customers to add an egg. The egg wasn't necessary. But people felt like they baked the cake when they put it in. Remove the egg and the satisfaction disappears even though the cake is identical. AI meeting notes are accurate. They don't carry the tension between Fred and Erica that you'd have caught in the room. AI writing is efficient. The writer choosing music to set the mood for a session is doing something the output can't replicate. Harvey Schachter's argument is that managing AI at the end of a full day can leave you exhausted with nothing to point to.

The calculator parallel is already settled. A generation grew up without building the mental muscle. The question of whether they were robbed of something isn't rhetorical. His answer is yes.

Topics: AI and job satisfaction, AI productivity workplace, Progress Principle Harvard, task completion psychology, AI tools management

GUEST: Harvey Schachter |https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/careers/management/article-ai-can-rob-us-of-the-pleasure-of-task-completion-and-the-joy-of/

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

AI and job satisfaction are moving in opposite directions and most workplaces haven't noticed yet. You finish the day having produced more than you ever could alone. You also finish it without the feeling that you did anything. A Harvard research study called the Progress Principle found that people who feel they accomplished something each day stay longer at their jobs and report higher satisfaction. AI is delivering the output without delivering that reward.
There's a famous story about cake mix companies requiring customers to add an egg. The egg wasn't necessary. But people felt like they baked the cake when they put it in. Remove the egg and the satisfaction disappears even though the cake is identical. AI meeting notes are accurate. They don't carry the tension between Fred and Erica that you'd have caught in the room. AI writing is efficient. The writer choosing music to set the mood for a session is doing something the output can't replicate. Harvey Schachter's argument is that managing AI at the end of a full day can leave you exhausted with nothing to point to.
The calculator parallel is already settled. A generation grew up without building the mental muscle. The question of whether they were robbed of something isn't rhetorical. His answer is yes.
Topics: AI and job satisfaction, AI productivity workplace, Progress Principle Harvard, task completion psychology, AI tools management
GUEST: Harvey Schachter |<a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/careers/management/article-ai-can-rob-us-of-the-pleasure-of-task-completion-and-the-joy-of/"> https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/careers/management/article-ai-can-rob-us-of-the-pleasure-of-task-completion-and-the-joy-of/</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

NEW - First the Calculator, and now AI Is Doing the Work. That's Exactly the Problem

CIA secret operations history has a documented file titled Happy Days. It's 1959. Indonesia. The CIA wants to discredit a foreign leader named Sukarno, so they find a lookalike, film a fake sex tape, screen it internally, and conclude that nobody will believe it. The operation that was too unbelievable even for a propaganda campaign never gets released. The CIA moves on.

Operation Midnight Climax is a subproject of MKUltra, the verified program with documented victims and government payouts. The CIA approaches sex workers in San Francisco, asks them to bring clients to a CIA safe house, doses those clients with LSD without their knowledge, and watches from behind a one-way mirror to take notes on what happens. Meanwhile, British soldiers in a separate documented experiment are given LSD on a field exercise with weapons. One drops his gun and climbs trees to feed birds. The commanding officer stands exposed in an open field, unable to give instructions. They forget how to be soldiers entirely.

The historian covering this used to dismiss all of it. That's his own admission. The person most qualified to evaluate whether something is real or fringe changed his position after looking at the evidence. That's worth knowing before you decide which category this falls into.

Topics: CIA secret operations history, MKUltra LSD experiments, Operation Midnight Climax, Cold War spy history, government conspiracy facts

GUEST: Dr. Lee Kuhnle | @‌theuncoverup

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

CIA secret operations history has a documented file titled Happy Days. It's 1959. Indonesia. The CIA wants to discredit a foreign leader named Sukarno, so they find a lookalike, film a fake sex tape, screen it internally, and conclude that nobody will believe it. The operation that was too unbelievable even for a propaganda campaign never gets released. The CIA moves on.
Operation Midnight Climax is a subproject of MKUltra, the verified program with documented victims and government payouts. The CIA approaches sex workers in San Francisco, asks them to bring clients to a CIA safe house, doses those clients with LSD without their knowledge, and watches from behind a one-way mirror to take notes on what happens. Meanwhile, British soldiers in a separate documented experiment are given LSD on a field exercise with weapons. One drops his gun and climbs trees to feed birds. The commanding officer stands exposed in an open field, unable to give instructions. They forget how to be soldiers entirely.
The historian covering this used to dismiss all of it. That's his own admission. The person most qualified to evaluate whether something is real or fringe changed his position after looking at the evidence. That's worth knowing before you decide which category this falls into.
Topics: CIA secret operations history, MKUltra LSD experiments, Operation Midnight Climax, Cold War spy history, government conspiracy facts
GUEST: Dr. Lee Kuhnle | @&zwnj;theuncoverup
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

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