We Stopped Coding by Hand Because Agentic AI Is Too Good

This week, Robbie and Carlo sip Sagamore's 10-year reserve rye and catch up with Carlo on life abroad, AI coding workflows, the changing developer landscape, and why cars, whiskey shipping, and property management are all equally frustrating. They dig into agentic AI loops, the rise of prompt-driven development, whether coding by hand is officially dead, and what happens when tools like OpenCode and Claude become the new normal.

In this episode:

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:02:09 Whiskey Tasting: Sagamore 10 Year Reserve Series
• 00:08:40 Living in Italy: Costs, Culture & Comparisons
• 00:14:41 Astro Acquired by Cloudflare
• 00:19:38 Agentic AI & Ralph Loops: The New Development Workflow
• 00:36:41 Building with Rust: The Hugh Hunter Color Picker
• 00:47:18 The Death of Hand-Coding & The Future of Software Jobs
• 00:48:40 Claude Co-Work & AI Desktop Apps
• 00:48:54 AI Beyond Coding: Life Automation & Efficiency
• 00:58:34 Landlord Horror Stories & The Tucson Property Saga

Links

• Sagamore Spirit: https://sagamorespirit.com/
• Astro: https://astro.build/
• Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/
• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
• Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
• Matt Pocock - Ralph Wiggum technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IK18goX4X8
• Swach: https://www.swach.io/
• Tauri: https://tauri.app/
• Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/
• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
• Napi-rs: https://napi.rs/
• GitHub: https://github.com/
• ClickUp: https://clickup.com/
• TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
• Python: https://www.python.org/
• Linux: https://www.linux.org/
• Wayland: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
• Steam Deck: https://www.steamdeck.com/
• 11.22.63: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11.22.63
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/chuckcarpenter
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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