Matt Pocock
Author of AI Hero, ETN. European Technology Network
6 May 2026Elon Vs OpenAI 2, Gamestop’s Half Cash Half Stock, Tech Gala, Pints Hit £10
Matt Pocock: The Dictionary of AI Coding
Developer educator Matt Pocock joins for a surprise 'mystery AI talk': his Dictionary of AI Coding GitHub repo, which spells out 61 terms in plain English and draws the key line between a model, its harness, the environment, and an agent. He argues shared vocabulary combats both fear-driven anti-AI sentiment (citing the Sebastian Mallaby 'one in three Americans fear AI' stat) and day-to-day collaboration, applying domain-driven design's 'ubiquitous language' concept and demonstrating his dictation-based 'grill me' workflow for nailing down language before building. On tools, he uses Claude Code but stays agnostic (likely to try Codex), says open-source models aren't yet cutting it for state-of-the-art coding, and offers newcomers a starter pack: read the dictionary, pay for a frontier model, and notice how much of your job is text-in, text-out. Asked about the future of work, he declines to speculate — 'I am a teacher, not a pundit' — noting AI is already very good and the knowledge gap is what he's trying to fill.
Met Gala 2026: The 'Tech Gala' & Watch Spotting
The hosts dig into the 2026 Met Gala, noting that tech companies — OpenAI, Snapchat and Meta — bought charity tables ($100k tickets, $350k tables) while Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez co-chaired, prompting talk of the 'tech gala' and tech's spread into sports, fashion and advertising. They then run through Forbes' list of watches spotted at the event, guessing prices on Rami Malek's 1992 platinum Cartier Crash (only 8–10 made; last one auctioned ~$450k), Bad Bunny's Cartier Cloche, Morgan Spector's IWC Portugieser, Connor Storrie's Omega Constellation and Dwyane Wade's Tiffany & Co. They come away underwhelmed by the price tags.