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The Standup with ThePrimeagen

September 10, 2026

[Sponsor] Sentry: Catch, trace, and fix bugs across your entire stack. [Description] The Standup dives into the future of developer tools, from GitHub’s move deeper into Microsoft’s AI organization and the fight over LLM training on open-source code to TJ’s attempt to turn Neovim into a full GUI.

Speakers ThePrimeagen, Casey, TJ, Trash

TopicsTechnology

ThePrimeagen (0:00)

Bye, bye Twitch, bye YouTube.

Casey (0:02)

Oh my.

SPEAKER_3 (0:07)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

ThePrimeagen (0:11)

Anyway, I'm sorry, you don't know TJ is cosplaying as himself.

TJ (0:15)

That's true, that's true. I'm cosplaying as myself.

Casey (0:18)

It's a great call.

Trash (0:19)

French Teej?

Casey (0:20)

Ed Harris. It's Ed Harris Teej.

ThePrimeagen (0:22)

Teej Harris. Thank you. Thank you.

TJ (0:24)

Teej Harris. I did, I thought I looked surprisingly like him with like the little bit of gray. If I can look as good as Ed Harris when I'm old, I'll be so stoked.

ThePrimeagen (0:35)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_6 (0:35)

Did you have like old makeup on?

Trash (0:37)

Did you have like makeup?

ThePrimeagen (0:38)

Yeah.

Trash (0:38)

Did you look old or is that AI?

ThePrimeagen (0:39)

Yes.

TJ (0:40)

No, no AI, Trash. No AI. We sat in a chair, me and Beegan both, for like at least an hour each, and had this really nice lady. She just like made us look old. It's not natural, obviously for me, Trash.

Trash (0:54)

I have a very youthful complexion.

Casey (0:56)

Young and youthful.

ThePrimeagen (0:58)

You know what the movie she did right before us? Like she went and did a movie.

Casey (1:02)

Oh, that's true.

SPEAKER_3 (1:03)

Yeah, that is true.

ThePrimeagen (1:04)

Then came and did makeup on us for The Truman Show.

Yeah. Also, I was in the chair also for an hour. But can you guess what movie she did right before us?

Trash (1:14)

Batman.

ThePrimeagen (1:16)

It's an extremely popular movie.

Casey (1:19)

It's a movie that's out?

ThePrimeagen (1:20)

Yes, it's out.

TJ (1:21)

It was not immediately before she came over to us. Prime is exaggerating.

ThePrimeagen (1:25)

I was like, if it's out, how could they make up?

Casey (1:27)

Like one of her previous jobs is what you mean.

ThePrimeagen (1:29)

Yes.

Casey (1:29)

Was on this movie, on a very popular movie.

ThePrimeagen (1:32)

Yep.

TJ (1:33)

Yes.

ThePrimeagen (1:34)

Lord of the Rings.

Casey (1:34)

The Odyssey.

Trash (1:36)

It starts with an...

ThePrimeagen (1:37)

It cost $800,000 to produce.

Trash (1:40)

Oppenheimer.

ThePrimeagen (1:41)

The...

Trash (1:43)

Oppenheimer does more than that. The Avengers doomsday?

ThePrimeagen (1:46)

No. It was... It was obsession.

Oh.

Casey (1:51)

800,000. I was thinking 800 million. I'm like...

ThePrimeagen (1:55)

I thought you said 800 million. 800,000. No, you said 1,000.

You said 1,000, Prime. 800,000. You did. You did. Obsess you. You literally can't... Like when I say a movie budget, if I say in the thousands, you're like millions. Yeah.

Casey (2:05)

My brain completely ignored that. It was like, yeah, that's not right.

TJ (2:09)

Also, Prime, you do have kind of a history of like not reading.

SPEAKER_3 (2:13)

So it could have...

TJ (2:15)

So I think everyone just assumed he meant millions. You know what I'm saying?

Casey (2:19)

Yeah.

ThePrimeagen (2:21)

Well, that was very rude of you. Thank you for this exposure of me. I appreciate that.

Casey (2:26)

All right, guys.

ThePrimeagen (2:27)

I got an HR complaint I want to file before we get started.

SPEAKER_6 (2:30)

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Trash (2:33)

I'm excited to hear this.

Casey (2:34)

I got an HR complaint I want to file.

ThePrimeagen (2:36)

Hold on. Hold. Hey, you hold on. Okay.

Trash (2:39)

First, you're not that guy, pal.

ThePrimeagen (2:40)

Hey, you're not that guy.

Casey (2:42)

What does that even mean?

ThePrimeagen (2:44)

Someone mean. You don't know. Okay. So there's this, I don't know, causing a ruckus or something with the grocery store and somehow him and another person got into an altercation. Okay. So two people in an altercation, one holding the phone, the other one talking to the guy on the phone.

Casey (2:58)

Okay.

ThePrimeagen (2:58)

The person on the phone must have said something like, oh, yeah, you want to go, you know, you want to go outside or say something, you know, like a little tough or something. Yeah, I don't exactly know.

And then the guy that's being recorded goes, you're not that guy, pal.

SPEAKER_6 (3:10)

You're not that guy.

Trash (3:12)

He's like an Italian accent, too. And he's like kind of buff, so you're like pointing, like not that guy, pal.

SPEAKER_3 (3:16)

You're not that guy.

TJ (3:17)

Say it, Trash, say it in the accent.

Trash (3:21)

I know, no, I can't.

TJ (3:22)

I can't do it on the spot like that.

SPEAKER_6 (3:24)

It has to be natural, okay?

TJ (3:25)

Okay, later, later you can do it.

ThePrimeagen (3:28)

Time for another great day of software engineering. Hey, good morning, Gippity.

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