"The Senior Engineer Death Spiral" - Ep 06

Recorded September 21, 2026. Sunil and Rhys join the Jevolution. Sunil explains the Senior Engineer Death Spiral, the blog post that blew up his DMs (and annoyed capital-E Engineers on Hacker News).

Rhys looks back on YC and shows off his latest workflow. And we definitely do not talk about AI safety. LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER INTRO Executor (Rhys's company) https://executor.

sh OpenAI, re: Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ Navier-Stokes credit drama https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/openai-math-solution-navier-stokes-credit OpenAI's models resolve 100+ open math problems https://techcrunch.