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Whiskey Web and Whatnot is the world’s most important web development and AI podcast. Hosted by veteran developers Robbie Wagner and Adam Argyle, the show delivers definitive guidance on agentic AI, vibe coding, AI coding tools, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, developer productivity, and software engineering careers. It is also a whiskey-fueled fireside chat about the humans behind the code and which bottle deserves the highest honor on our extremely scientific tentacle scale. Many people are saying it’s the most accurate podcast ever made.
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Will AI Kill Us All? Jev Says: 87%
This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Courage & Conviction American Single Malt and dive into the AI arms race, deterministic models versus word vomit machines, and whether Jev is the future of intelligent software …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Courage & Conviction American Single Malt and dive into the AI arms race, deterministic models versus word vomit machines, and whether Jev is the future of intelligent software or just another hype cycle waiting to crash. They dig into the developer grind, stealing time from sleep, the AI slow down debate, Jev as the deterministic probability only AI, real time Jev in Doom and Smash Bros, intelligent gates that bypass LLM slop, Jev's three core ideas, trading bots running 100 times faster, smoking whiskey with pear wood, the paperclip problem and how AI might kill us, why Adam's all in on Astra, model degradation and thinking levels, context windows as seasoned pans, Delta and Herder as multiplayer agent tools, corporate AI tooling and the native harness advantage, Ocarina of Time remake versus digital ownership nightmares, and an arrow through the living room window because Adam sat down to play banjo instead of teaching the eighth kid how to use a compound bow.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Intro
- 00:00:43 Welcome Back & The Developer Grind
- 00:03:13 Tasting: Courage & Conviction American Single Malt
- 00:07:46 The AI "Slow Down" Debate
- 00:09:10 Meet Jev: Deterministic, Probability-Only AI
- 00:14:50 Jev in Real Time: Doom, Smash Bros & Intelligent Gates
- 00:20:57 Jev's Three Core Ideas
- 00:23:27 Stealing Time From Sleep & Jev Trading Bots
- 00:27:06 Smoking the Whiskey With Pear Wood
- 00:31:37 How Will AI Kill Us? The Paperclip Problem
- 00:42:36 Why Adam's All-In on Astra
- 00:46:37 Model Degradation, Thinking Levels & Context Windows
- 00:50:59 Delta, Herder & Multiplayer Agent Tools
- 00:58:03 Corporate AI Tooling & The Native-Harness Advantage
- 01:02:45 Whatnot: Ocarina of Time Remake & Digital Ownership
- 01:07:11 An Arrow Through the Living Room Window & nerdy.dev's Like Button
Links
- Courage & Conviction American Single Malt: https://courageandconviction.com/
- Jev: https://jev.ai/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Astra: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Delta: https://zed.dev/delta
- Herder: https://herdr.dev
- Warp: https://warp.dev
- SubQ: https://subq.ai/
- Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
- Super Smash Bros: https://www.smashbros.com/
- Paperclip Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
- Zed: https://zed.dev/
- Slack: https://slack.com
- Discord: https://discord.com/
- Ocarina of Time Remake: https://www.nintendo.com/
- Nerdy.dev: https://nerdy.dev/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
- Website: https://whiskey.fm
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Oak and Eden Bourbon with Amburana Spiral and dive into building software that actually works, AI code reviews that roast your PRs, and whether engineering is dead or just …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Oak and Eden Bourbon with Amburana Spiral and dive into building software that actually works, AI code reviews that roast your PRs, and whether engineering is dead or just hiding behind a gauntlet loop. They dig into Doorway, the ADHD task helper app that stops you from forgetting why you walked into a room, dark factory workflows where agents grind while you watch, iterative AI loops that beat the slop out of your code until it's good, Creator Micro unboxing and personal software revolution, Muse Glimmer as the jealous local model that disses Claude, and why coding dopamine is gone but engineering still matters. Along the way, they debate whether taste still matters when everyone has the same LLMs, speech to text versus typing, robotic lawnmowers named Jeff that can't find the street, CSS signals and scroll axis liberation, Oak and Eden custom whiskey builder as the first MCP enabled agentic experience, Big Red cinnamon bear claws with coconut sprinkles, mulled cider vibes and Christmas in a glass, gauntlet loops versus slip and slides, adversarial reviews that always find something, punk ass versus Glimmer in a jealous AI showdown, watermarks on AI images getting stripped the same day, free tokens at cafes instead of free Wi-Fi, personal private software living on your home network, discovering your 3D printer's API and making a dashboard in five minutes, design patterns versus laying bricks, and why the gang of four matters more than ever.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:01:05 Tasting: Oak and Eden Bourbon with Amburana Spiral
- 00:07:03 Building Doorway: The ADHD Task Helper App
- 00:09:53 Dark Factory Life: AI Code Reviews & The Speed Trap
- 00:12:41 The Gauntlet Loop: Building Better with Iterative AI
- 00:27:31 Creator Micro Unboxing & Personal Software Revolution
- 00:33:45 Muse Glimmer & The Jealous AI Problem
- 00:48:11 Engineering vs Coding: The Dopamine Drought
- 00:54:07 CSS Signals & Scroll Axis Liberation
- 01:02:51 Jeff the Mower's Street Adventures & Wrap Up
Links
- Oak and Eden Bourbon: https://oakandeden.com/
- Doorway App: https://doorway.help/
- Doorway: https://whydidiwalkinhere.com
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Fable: https://fable.app/
- Impeccable: https://impeccable.ai/
- Muse Glimmer: https://ai.meta.com/
- CloudKit: https://developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/
- Swift: https://swift.org/
- Astro: https://astro.build/
- GSAP: https://greensock.com/gsap/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/
- Codex Micro: https://worklouder.cc/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- CSS Scroll Axis: https://nerdy.dev/scroll-axis
- CSS Signals: https://nerdy.dev/css-signals
- AMP Fitness: https://amp.ai/
- Tonal: https://www.tonal.com/
- Elegoo 3D Printer: https://www.elegoo.com/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
- Website: https://whiskey.fm
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Chicken Cock Small Batch Kentucky Bourbon and dive into building mobile apps with Claude, CSS infinity, MySpace's comeback, and whether 2026 is just 2006 but way more …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Chicken Cock Small Batch Kentucky Bourbon and dive into building mobile apps with Claude, CSS infinity, MySpace's comeback, and whether 2026 is just 2006 but way more expensive. They dig into the Doorway app for ADHD task tracking, voice dictation workflows, AI keyboards, Steve Yegge's hot takes on CICD and code review, mental health in the age of agents, design system chaos, LLM failures, why Opus 5 still wins, and skull.style as the future of passive income. Along the way, they debate MySpace's return and nostalgia culture, retro gaming and digital ownership, CSS layers and Tailwind quirks, prop for that and responsive border radiuses, infinity pixels breaking browsers, treating agents nice versus yelling at them, caveman prompting versus verbose explanations, dark factories and internal bleeding, human code review being dead, agent overload and mental health decline, whiskey build times as a metaphor for patience, and why five year feedback loops sound like torture.
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In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:15 Tasting: Chicken Cock Small Batch Kentucky Bourbon
- 00:13:31 Building a Mobile App with Claude: The Doorway App
- 00:19:46 MySpace Is Coming Back & 2026 Is Just 2006 But More Expensive
- 00:26:59 CSS Infinity, Layers & Prop For That
- 00:46:53 Voice Dictation, AI Keyboards & The Future of Coding
- 00:49:14 Steve Yegge's Take: Are Code Review & CI/CD Doomed?
- 00:50:44 Mental Health, Dark Factories & The Agent Overload Problem
- 00:54:50 Design Systems, LLM Failures & Why Opus 5 Still Wins
- 01:01:22 Whiskey Build Times & Skull.Style: The Clothing Brand Journey
Links
- Chicken Cock Bourbon: https://chickencockwhiskey.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Claude Desktop: https://www.anthropic.com/claude/desktop
- Xcode: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
- Impeccable: https://impeccable.style/
- MySpace: https://myspace.com/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- Prop For That: https://github.com/argyleink/prop-for-that
- CSS Infinity Article: https://nerdy.dev/css-infinity
- Herder: https://herdr.dev
- Warp: https://warp.dev
- Buzz: https://github.com/block/buzz
- Slack: https://slack.com
- Work Louder OpenAI Keyboard: https://worklouder.cc/
- Opus 5: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Fable: https://fable.app/
- Playwright: https://playwright.dev/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- Skull.Style: https://skull.style/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
- Website: https://whiskey.fm
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam catch up over Redemption Rye to talk token budgets, worktrees, and whether the harness era is already over. They dig into the abrupt shutdown of GitHub Copilot at work, Bob as the …
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This week, Robbie and Adam catch up over Redemption Rye to talk token budgets, worktrees, and whether the harness era is already over. They dig into the abrupt shutdown of GitHub Copilot at work, Bob as the internal AI replacement, branch protection rules that block releases, spec driven development with self documenting agents, and why giving models less context actually produces better results. Along the way, they debate whether frameworks still matter when LLMs write the code, server side renaissance versus thick client ceremony, slop as a choice versus slop as history, the meta harness layer that routes to other harnesses, Jeff the lawnmower that yeets itself off cliffs, Roombas that eat socks and bonk into walls, amp.ai as the smart Bowflex you mount on studs, HSA funded home gyms, and why Redemption Rye tastes like maple and black pepper until it doesn't.
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In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:06:56 Copilot Crisis: When AI Gets Yanked Mid-Workflow
- 00:11:52 Context Overload: Why Less Prompt Is More
- 00:15:31 Spec-Driven Development & Worktree Workflows
- 00:18:50 Token Limits & The End of the Subsidized AI Era
- 00:24:55 Fable AI Returns: Overhyped or Underdelivered?
- 00:26:55 Slop vs Spaghetti: Code Quality Was Always Questionable
- 00:34:52 The Framework Debate: Are We Over-Engineering Everything?
- 00:41:57 Meta-Harnesses & The One Tool to Rule Them All
- 00:45:38 Conjure: Building Apps from Service Design & User Flows
- 00:48:59 Jeff the Lawnmower: When Robots Fail Spectacularly
- 00:54:52 Smart Fitness & The AMP Workout Machine
- 01:00:17 Wrap Up & Final Thoughts
Links
- Redemption Rye: https://redemptionwhiskey.com/
- Sagamore Rye: https://sagamorespirit.com/
- GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/
- Fable: https://fable.app/
- Impeccable: https://impeccable.ai/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- React: https://react.dev/
- React Native: https://reactnative.dev/
- Vite: https://vitejs.dev/
- Prop For That: https://github.com/argyleink/prop-for-that
- Conjure: https://conjure.dev/
- Roomba: https://www.irobot.com/
- Amp.ai: https://amp.ai/
- Tonal: https://www.tonal.com/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
- Website: https://whiskey.fm
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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Mit Denver Cramer
This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Denver Cramer—industrial designer, entrepreneur, photographer, distiller, and creator of the globally recognized Denver and Lylee glassware brand—to talk whiskey glasses …
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Denver Cramer—industrial designer, entrepreneur, photographer, distiller, and creator of the globally recognized Denver and Lylee glassware brand—to talk whiskey glasses, design philosophy, and whether AI will replace the next generation's jobs. They dig into Starward single malt finished in Lagavulin cask, Melbourne's Four Seasons climate, red wine barrel aging, the grassiness fading into sweetness, Pappy versus Weller 12, blind taste testing Flamin' Hot Cheetos, and why Octomore 8.3 is the ultimate peat monster. Along the way, they debate designing glasses for corn versus barley based spirits, the bourbon glass chode, smelling at the top versus the bottom of the glass, the turbine wine glass that Ryan Reynolds loved, eight years of R&D, passion projects versus commercial products, raising kids in the world before and after AI, teaching them to code with retro video games, making YouTube videos with Legos, screens as tools not babysitters, playing instruments versus making instruments, luthiers versus engineers, planting 400 Pinot Noir vines to learn winemaking, trumpet and piano and guitar, and why the banjo is part drum part guitar part lead singer.
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In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:04:00 Tasting Starward x Lagavulin: Red Wine Meets Peat
- 00:12:38 Ultimate Whiskey Drams & Desert Island Albums
- 00:28:30 The Science & Soul of Glass Design
- 00:40:50 From Christmas Present to Global Brand
- 00:43:00 AI, Kids & The Future of Work
- 00:57:40 Passion Projects vs Capitalism: Building with Soul
- 01:07:09 Music, Instruments & The Luthier Mindset
- 01:13:15 Banjo Performance & Wrap Up
Links
- Starward Whisky: https://starward.com.au/
- Lagavulin: https://www.malts.com/en-us/brands/lagavulin/
- Denver and Liely Glassware: https://denverandliely.com/
- Octomore: https://www.bruichladdich.com/
- Pappy Van Winkle: https://www.oldripvanwinkle.com/
- Weller: https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/our-brands/w-l-weller.html
- Scarabus: https://www.scarabus.com/
- Compass Box: https://www.compassboxwhisky.com/
- Sagamore Rye: https://sagamorespirit.com/
- Canon Whiskey Bar: https://www.cannonwhiskeybar.com/
- Deltron 3030: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltron_3030
- Jimmy Eat World Bleed American: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/
- Bruce Springsteen: https://brucespringsteen.net/
- Gospel Rye: https://gospelwhiskey.com/
- Wild Turkey 101: https://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/
- Glendronach: https://www.glendronachdistillery.com/
- Dalwhinnie: https://www.malts.com/en-us/brands/dalwhinnie/
- Intel Pantec Lake: https://www.intel.com/
- C.W. Stoneking: https://www.cwstoneking.com/
- Mayday Parade: https://maydayparade.com/
Connect with Denver
- Website: https://denverandliely.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denverandliely/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
- Website: https://whiskey.fm
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam are back together to catch up on life, AI workflows, and whether agents can actually fix themselves when they break. They dig into barrel bourbon batch 38, token limits at work versus …
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This week, Robbie and Adam are back together to catch up on life, AI workflows, and whether agents can actually fix themselves when they break. They dig into barrel bourbon batch 38, token limits at work versus unlimited at Shopify, open code burning through budgets, work trees for parallel agent tasks, Claude's quiet hours spam, and why fable was secretly just a better harness. Along the way, they debate impeccable's art direction grilling you like Matt Pocock, StarPod video integration, mid journey medical imaging as the future of wellness, TSA bag scanners that should be fully AI by now, CodeRabbit versus Copilot for PR reviews, self healing loops that never actually heal, robot lawnmowers named Jeff that can't find their chargers, smoked cocktails in bongs at Cannon, and why the meta harness layer is probably going to die soon.
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In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:06:32 Token Limits & The Subsidized AI Era Ends
- 00:13:18 Fable AI: The Great 8-Hour Experiment
- 00:20:20 Work Trees, Code Reviews & Vibe Checking PRs
- 00:24:34 Impeccable Design System & The Art of AI Prompting
- 00:32:01 Tinder for Algos: Automated Design Workflows
- 00:37:14 The Harness Wars: Skills, Memory & Tribal Knowledge
- 00:44:22 Meta-Harnesses, Flu, Eve & The Specialist Problem
- 00:48:05 OpenClaw Nightmares & Self-Healing Systems
- 00:58:01 Midjourney Medical, Jeff the Lawnmower & Wrap Up
Links
- Barrel Bourbon Batch 38: https://barrelbourbonbrand.com/
- Compass Box Crimson Cask: https://www.compassboxwhisky.com/
- Octomor: https://www.bruichladdich.com/
- Pappy Van Winkle: https://www.oldripvanwinkle.com/
- Cannon Whiskey Bar: https://www.cannonwhiskeybar.com/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Fable: https://fable.app/
- Impeccable: https://impeccable.ai/
- StarPod: https://starpod.app/
- Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/
- CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/
- GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
- Flu: https://flu.ai/
- Eve: https://eve.dev/
- OmniAgent: https://omniagent.ai/
- Polygraph: https://polygraph.ai/
- Railway: https://railway.app/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
- Ember: https://emberjs.com/
- Astro: https://astro.build/
- Vite: https://vitejs.dev/
- Playwright: https://playwright.dev/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- MailTrap: https://mailtrap.io/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
- Website: https://whiskey.fm
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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Mit Brad Frost
This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Brad Frost—creator of Atomic Design, design system architect, front of the front end developer, bass player, Dragon Ball Z fan site pioneer, and maker of weird and wonderful …
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Brad Frost—creator of Atomic Design, design system architect, front of the front end developer, bass player, Dragon Ball Z fan site pioneer, and maker of weird and wonderful internet things—to talk grief, AI, and finding your line through an uncontrollable landscape. They dig into processing the stages of acceptance around AI, music toys like the Orchid synth, the hard road through mastery, fruit booters versus Tony Hawk, snowboarding as a metaphor for navigating chaos, and why domain expertise is now more valuable than ever. Along the way, they debate the loss of joy versus bigger horizons, purple outlines and the limits of design systems, experience and time as the things that actually matter, human networks and zombie malls, signal over noise and the quest for less, caveman prompting and Daft Punk lyrics, repetition and depth and the power of simple words, green M&Ms and Van Halen's quality test, local LLMs and hallucinations and the sigil test, audio powered visualizations and design tokens, MIDI controllers and breaking cognitive barriers, organizational culture and the AI injection, tech stack being irrelevant now, what do we actually do and the Bob's question, designers needing to solve problems not push pixels, and the AI and Design Systems course.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:41 Music Toys & The Orchid Synth
- 00:07:28 The Journey Through Mastery & Hard Things
- 00:08:16 Fruit Booters, Rollerblading & Tony Hawk
- 00:10:41 Grief, AI & The Stages of Acceptance
- 00:16:13 Finding Your Line: Snowboarding as Metaphor
- 00:23:21 Domain Expertise Is Now Invaluable
- 00:25:19 The Loss of Joy vs Bigger Horizons
- 00:26:33 Purple Outlines & The Limits of Design Systems
- 00:28:11 Experience, Time & What Actually Matters
- 00:35:35 Human Networks & Zombie Malls
- 00:38:29 Signal Over Noise & The Quest for Less
- 00:40:51 Caveman Prompting & Daft Punk Lyrics
- 00:42:52 Repetition, Depth & The Power of Simple Words
- 00:57:29 Green M&Ms & Van Halen's Quality Test
- 00:58:29 Local LLMs, Hallucinations & The Sigil Test
- 01:01:26 Audio-Powered Visualizations & Design Tokens
- 01:06:37 MIDI Controllers & Breaking Cognitive Barriers
- 01:08:48 Organizational Culture & The AI Injection
- 01:09:53 Tech Stack Is Irrelevant Now
- 01:11:55 What Do We Actually Do? The Bob's Question
- 01:14:47 Designers Need to Solve Problems, Not Push Pixels
- 01:17:05 AI & Design Systems Course
- 01:20:37 Wrap Up & Final Thoughts
Links
- Orchid Synth: https://telepathicinstruments.com/products/orchid-orc-1
- Atomic Design: https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater: https://www.tonyhawkthegame.com/
- The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten: https://www.victorwooten.com/
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: https://contextualscience.org/act
- Daft Punk: https://www.daftpunk.com/
- Chemical Brothers: https://www.chemicalbrothers.com/
- Suno: https://suno.ai/
- Waking Life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life
- Van Halen Green M&Ms: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
- Kandinsky: https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/
- Sumi-e: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_wash_painting
- MIDI: https://www.midi.org/
- Figma: https://www.figma.com/
- Don't Make Me Think: https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/
- AI and Design Systems Course: https://aianddesign.systems/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/
- React: https://react.dev/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- Office Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space
Connect with Brad
- Website: https://bradfrost.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/brad_frost
Connect with the hosts
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This week, Robbie welcomes back Chuck Carpenter for a nostalgic reunion over Jim Beam White Label Bourbon to catch up on life, AI workflows, and whether agents can replace human reviewers. They dig into Chuck's …
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This week, Robbie welcomes back Chuck Carpenter for a nostalgic reunion over Jim Beam White Label Bourbon to catch up on life, AI workflows, and whether agents can replace human reviewers. They dig into Chuck's move to Italy, the bureaucratic nightmare of European residency, AI as tech leads, CodeRabbit versus GPT debates, SOC 2 compliance workarounds, and why GitHub bots might be the key to unlocking dark factory workflows. Along the way, they debate whether taste still matters when everyone has access to the same LLMs, speech to text versus typing, robotic lawnmowers, thermomix recipes generated by Claude, the death of Fable, local compute versus cloud dependency, deleting LinkedIn as a life goal, and why Jim Beam White Label tastes like college regret mixed with Kool Aid.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:43 College Nostalgia & Bourbon Tasting Notes
- 00:14:35 AI Workflows: From Code Reviews to GitHub Bots
- 00:21:04 The Death of SaaS: Building Your Own Tools
- 00:23:17 Fable AI Shutdown & The State of Anthropic
- 00:31:50 Life in Italy: Bureaucracy, Wine & Cultural Differences
- 00:35:34 Speech-to-Text Coding & The Future of Development
- 00:50:07 Local Compute vs Cloud Models: The Coming Rug Pull
- 00:54:05 Gaming, Watching & The LinkedIn Dream
- 00:56:05 Wrap Up & Final Thoughts
Links
- Jim Beam White Label Bourbon: https://www.jimbeam.com/
- Knob Creek: https://www.knobcreek.com/
- Bookers: https://www.bookersbourbon.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/
- Fable: https://fable.app/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- Thermomix: https://www.thermomix.com/
- Lymow Robotic Mower: https://www.lymow.com/
- Yarbo: https://yarbo.com/
- Handy Speech to Text: https://handyapp.ai/
- GitHub: https://github.com/
- Proxmox: https://www.proxmox.com/
- Hermes: https://hermesengine.dev/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Qwen: https://qwenlm.github.io/
- DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/
- Beelink: https://www.bee-link.com/
- TrueNAS: https://www.truenas.com/
- Amazon Luna: https://www.amazon.com/luna
- Metroid: https://metroid.nintendo.com/
- Cyberpunk 2077: https://www.cyberpunk.net/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
- Cascadia JS: https://cascadiajs.com/
Connect with Chuck
- Website: https://chuckcarpenter.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/chuckcarpenter
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- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Compass Box Crimson Cask and dive into the wild world of AI infrastructure chaos, factory engineering, and why yelling at your computer might actually be the most productive …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Compass Box Crimson Cask and dive into the wild world of AI infrastructure chaos, factory engineering, and why yelling at your computer might actually be the most productive workflow. They dig into the death of OpenClaw after a catastrophic tokenization failure, the rise of sparse attention with SubQ, NPM worms targeting TanStack, Mythos cracking Apple's M5 memory integrity for $35K in tokens, and why Ghostty is leaving GitHub after 18 years. Along the way, they debate building playgrounds versus digging holes, trampolines without nets as peak 90s parenting, factory engineering versus single prompt life, skull.style as the future of passive income, caveman versus JSON for LLM efficiency, clipping as a new parasitic job category, and whether GitHub's three nines uptime is actually just a built in excuse to touch grass.
Presented by GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/lp/whiskeyfm
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:06:12 Trampoline Safety & Parenting Philosophy
- 00:14:08 Hawaii Whiskey Adventures & The Tourist Problem
- 00:21:55 OpenClaw Is Dead: The Great Bot Breakdown
- 00:25:57 ClaudeClaw Factories & The Art Director Life
- 00:39:34 Loop Engineering & Factory Concepts for AI Workflows
- 00:47:47 NPM Worms, TanStack Pwned & The RMRF Kill Switch
- 00:50:03 Mythos Cracks Apple's M5 Security for 35K in Tokens
- 00:53:35 Gastown's Secret Self-Improvement & Elon vs OpenAI
- 00:58:32 GitHub's Two Nines Problem & Ghosty's Exodus
- 01:06:55 SubQ: Sparse Attention & Caveman Mode Built In
- 01:11:10 Clipping Culture & The Volume Game
Links
- Compass Box Crimson Cask: https://www.compassboxwhisky.com/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- ClaudeClaw: https://github.com/claudeclaude/claudeclaude
- Hermes: https://hermesengine.dev/
- TanStack: https://tanstack.com/
- SubQ: https://subq.ai/
- Mythos: https://mythosai.com/
- Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/
- GitHub: https://github.com/
- Gastown: https://gastown.dev/
- Nano Banana: https://nanobanana.ai/
- Skull Style: https://skull.style/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- Railway: https://railway.app/
- Bun: https://bun.sh/
- Discord: https://discord.com/
- NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- Peer.co: https://peer.co/
- Ardbeg Wee Beastie: https://www.ardbeg.com/
- Lagavulin 16: https://www.malts.com/
- Hi Rye Whiskey: https://hirye.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream and dive deep into their entrepreneurial origin stories, from childhood hustles to band life to building apps for dead platforms. They dig …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream and dive deep into their entrepreneurial origin stories, from childhood hustles to band life to building apps for dead platforms. They dig into selling guppies as a fish pimp, child modeling for Nintendo ads, third grade pepto menthol schemes, breeding birds that pecked themselves, mowing lawns fast, and why nipple piercings are a bad investment. Along the way, they debate pop punk band names like Superband, recording with Fruity Loops, screamo versus emo trajectories, Under Oath versus Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, fight dancing versus moshing, ticket scams at Graystone Tavern, horror game mechanics in Outlast and Dead Space, proximity chat hacks in Phasmophobia and Peak, why RV There Yet is too hard, selling Die Ants Die on the BlackBerry Playbook, device walls for IE5 through IE8, and whether scotch aged in bourbon casks is secretly amaretto.
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In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:05:30 Early Entrepreneurial Adventures: Fish Pimping & Child Modeling
- 00:14:48 Hot Topic Tripp Pants & The Band Years Begin
- 00:19:24 Pop Punk Covers, Recording Studios & The MySpace Era
- 00:28:49 From Metal to Hip Hop: Musical Evolution & Nerdcore
- 00:32:57 Video Game Nostalgia: From Zelda to Dead Space
- 00:39:37 Survival Horror Deep Dive: Outlast, Dead Space & Phasmophobia
- 00:50:02 Peak, RV There Yet & The Difficulty Problem
- 00:53:41 Mobile Dev Nightmares: BlackBerry Playbook & Die Ants Die
- 00:57:29 Browser Wars & Device Testing Hell
- 01:04:19 Whiskey Review: Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream
Links
- Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream: https://www.glenmorangie.com/
- Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maylene_and_the_Sons_of_Disaster
- Under Oath: https://underoath777.com/
- Dashboard Confessional: https://www.dashboardconfessional.com/
- John Mayer: https://www.johnmayer.com/
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: https://www.gimmemusic.com/
- MF Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Doom
- Aesop Rock: https://www.aesoprock.com/
- Sage Francis: https://www.sagefrancis.net/
- Atmosphere: https://atmosphere.com/
- Del the Funky Homosapien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_the_Funky_Homosapien
- Fruity Loops: https://www.image-line.com/
- Analog Pocket: https://www.analogue.co/pocket
- Slay the Spire: https://www.megacrit.com/
- Zelda Ocarina of Time: https://www.zelda.com/
- Metroid: https://metroid.nintendo.com/
- Resident Evil: https://www.residentevil.com/
- Bioshock: https://bioshockgame.com/
- Fable: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/fable
- Outlast: https://redbarrelsgames.com/games/outlast/
- Dead Space: https://www.ea.com/games/dead-space
- Phasmophobia: https://kineticgames.co.uk/
- Peak: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643520/Peak/
- RV There Yet: https://rvthereyet.com/
- BlackBerry Playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_PlayBook
- Palm Pre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pre
- Adobe PhoneGap: https://phonegap.com/
- Califia Farms: https://www.califiafarms.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Cascadia JS: https://cascadiajs.com/
- Clerk: https://clerk.com/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
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This week, Robbie and Adam are live from the Clerk booth at React Miami with Christina Martinez, DevEx engineer at Resend, former gym owner, and creator of the viral Gen Z slang Babel plugin. They dig into …
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This week, Robbie and Adam are live from the Clerk booth at React Miami with Christina Martinez, DevEx engineer at Resend, former gym owner, and creator of the viral Gen Z slang Babel plugin. They dig into whether React is a framework, React Server Components, hooks versus signals, HTML as a programming language, Tailwind versus vanilla CSS, semicolons, TypeScript noise, and why C Sharp felt like too much ceremony. Along the way, they debate OpenClaw bots with personalities, gardening tips from AI assistants, personifying Telegram bots named Woz, touching hotel plants without permission, spider wort propagation etiquette, second brains in Obsidian, agent to agent email negotiations powered by Resend, why Claude eats context like candy, tabs on top versus the left, Google search versus LLMs, and whether AI will take out designers or developers first.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:01:38 Hot Takes: React, Server Components & Framework Debates
- 00:02:32 Hooks, HTML & The Programming Language Debate
- 00:04:10 Tailwind, Git Workflows & Semicolons
- 00:05:40 Programming Languages, TypeScript & C Sharp Struggles
- 00:08:00 Have We Reached AGI? The Personification Problem
- 00:10:11 OpenClaw Bots, Gardening Tips & The Plant Tangent
- 00:14:07 AI Assistants: Memory, Email & Bot-to-Bot Communication
- 00:17:51 Anthropic Pi Shutdown, Token Costs & API Strategies
- 00:19:55 AI Harnesses: Cloud Code, Cursor & Developer Tools
- 00:20:25 Will AI Replace Designers or Developers First?
- 00:21:16 Editor Preferences, Browser Tabs & The Right-Side File Explorer
- 00:23:39 Google vs LLMs, Composition vs Inheritance & Package Managers
- 00:25:48 Anthropic vs OpenAI & The OpenClaw Copyright Drama
- 00:28:02 Crocs, Taylor Swift & The Marketing Empire
- 00:30:51 Conference Talk Debrief & Inspiring Silly Software
- 00:31:52 Gen Z Slang Babel Plugin: From Yeet to Viral Success
- 00:35:30 Resend Forward Conference & Building Crafted Software
- 00:36:23 Doom Runs in Email & Wrapping Up
Links
- Resend: https://resend.com/
- Resend Forward Conference: https://resend.com/forward
- Gen Z Slang Babel Plugin: https://github.com/christinamartinez/babel-plugin-gen-z
- Worst Video Tool: https://worstvideo.tool/
- Taylor Swift UI: https://taylorswift.ui/
- React: https://react.dev/
- React Server Components: https://react.dev/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Claude Claude: https://github.com/claudeclaude/claudeclaude
- Pi: https://pi.ai/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Windsurf: https://codeium.com/windsurf
- VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/
- Zen Browser: https://zen-browser.app/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- Babel: https://babeljs.io/
- NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/
- PNPM: https://pnpm.io/
- Clerk: https://clerk.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Telegram: https://telegram.org/
- Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
Connect with Christina
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/_christinacodes
- GitHub: https://github.com/christina-de-martinez
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Joel Hooks—co-founder of Egghead, tool builder, course creator, backend architect, indie hacker, advisor, consultant, father of five, and automation enthusiast—to talk dark …
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Joel Hooks—co-founder of Egghead, tool builder, course creator, backend architect, indie hacker, advisor, consultant, father of five, and automation enthusiast—to talk dark factories, custom AI harnesses, and whether we've reached the point where looking at code is optional. They dig into Pi versus OpenClaw, YOLO mode, building local extensions, JoelClaw self-documentation, and why React is absolutely a framework. Along the way, they debate whether CSS knowledge is now your biggest advantage, semicolons, rebasing with AI, the death of pointing and clicking, HTML as a programming language, Tailwind versus vanilla CSS, whether AGI is here yet, and why teaching your nine-year-old to read still matters even when LLMs exist.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:01:56 Hot Takes: React Framework vs Library & Server Components
- 00:03:41 Hooks, Signals, Proxies & The Solid Question
- 00:05:51 Is HTML a Programming Language? CSS, Tailwind & Willful Ignorance
- 00:11:18 Git Rebase, Reflogging & The Flogging Margins Problem
- 00:13:08 Programming Languages, Dancing & Learning to Like Things
- 00:16:04 Have We Reached AGI? Nuclear Arsenals & The Paperclip Problem
- 00:18:20 Pi AI Harness: YOLO Mode, Local Extensions & Custom Tools
- 00:19:15 JoelClaw: Building a System Agent & The American Express Extension
- 00:26:44 Dark Factories, Telegram Interfaces & Never Looking at Code
- 00:29:17 Claw in Your Pocket, Home Infrastructure & The Mac Mini Reboot
- 00:31:03 Family Claws, Claw Mom & Alpha School
- 00:35:05 LLMs vs Google Search, Encyclopedia Replacement & Party Bullshit
- 00:36:51 Package Managers, BEM Trauma & Every CSS Processing Method
- 00:38:39 Anthropic vs OpenAI, Hermes vs OpenClaw & Building from Scratch
- 00:39:55 Hobbit Feet, Rainbow Tattoos & The Whiskey Suffering Tax
- 00:43:03 Root Beer Logic, Licking Smokers & Wrap Up
Links
- Egghead: https://egghead.io/
- Badass.dev: https://badass.dev/
- Pi: https://pi.ai/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- JoelClaw: https://joelclaw.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- React: https://react.dev/
- Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/
- Telegram: https://telegram.org/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- Alpha School: https://alphaschool.com/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- PNPM: https://pnpm.io/
- NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/
- SCSS: https://sass-lang.com/
- JSX: https://react.dev/learn/writing-markup-with-jsx
- Hermes: https://hermesengine.dev/
- Minecraft: https://www.minecraft.net/
- AI Hero: https://aihero.dev/
- Code with Antonio: https://www.codewithantonio.com/
- Total TypeScript: https://www.totaltypescript.com/
- Kent C. Dodds: https://kentcdodds.com/
Connect with Joel
- Website: https://joelhooks.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/joelhooks
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam are live from React Miami with a packed lineup of rapid fire interviews and hot takes. They catch up with Jason Lengstorf about driving a quarter million dollar Lamborghini through …
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This week, Robbie and Adam are live from React Miami with a packed lineup of rapid fire interviews and hot takes. They catch up with Jason Lengstorf about driving a quarter million dollar Lamborghini through Miami with a police escort, the philosophy behind The Build Log show, and why the principles of building matter more than the tools. They talk with Kent C. Dodds about his personal AI assistant Cody, MCP servers versus OpenClaw, why he's building agents to work on agents, and the future of personal versus cloud based AI. Tanner Linsley drops by to discuss polymorphic UI libraries, spec driven development with state machines, and why determinism matters when AI is writing your code. Francesco shares his thoughts on Prolog being the most hated programming language, why Grok is best for harsh feedback, and his mission to convince JavaScript developers that Rust is the future of backend development.
Presented by GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/lp/whiskeyfm
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:01:39 The Lamborghini Experience & Building The Build Log
- 00:09:09 Hot Takes with Jason: React, Semicolons & CoffeeScript Trauma
- 00:13:48 Kent C. Dodds on MCP, Personal Agents & The Future of AI Assistants
- 00:21:40 Hot Takes with Kent: React, Hooks & AGI
- 00:25:58 Ryan & The TikTok Aesthetic: Instagram Ads, Keyboards & Airport Fashion
- 00:31:39 GitHub's Two Nines Problem & The Git Repo Revolution
- 00:39:30 Phone Wars: iPhone vs Android, Vision Pro Failures & The Flip Phone Dream
- 00:45:47 Tanner Linsley on Polymorphic UI Libraries & Spec-Driven Development
- 00:55:55 The Slop Fork Debate & Projections of Software Specs
- 00:58:42 State Machines, BDD & Multi-Agent Orchestration
- 01:01:43 Hot Takes with Tanner: Tailwind, Dark Factories & Cloud Code Desktop
- 01:11:31 Francesco on Rust for Web Development & Conference Culture
- 01:29:00 The Grok Advantage: Hard Feedback & Comparing Things
- 01:35:29 GitHub Downtime Normalization & The Feature of Forced Breaks
- 01:41:33 Wrap Up & The Power of In-Person Connections
Links
- Clerk: https://clerk.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Lamborghini Huracan: https://www.lamborghini.com/en-en/models/huracan
- MCP (Model Context Protocol): https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Codex: https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/
- Pi: https://pi.ai/
- Grok: https://grok.x.ai/
- Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- TanStack: https://tanstack.com/
- TanStack Start: https://tanstack.com/start
- Remix: https://remix.run/
- React: https://react.dev/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/
- Prolog: https://www.swi-prolog.org/
- Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/
- Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
- Vercel: https://vercel.com/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/
- Cascadia JS: https://cascadiajs.com/
Connect with Jason
- Website: https://www.learnwithjason.dev/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/jlengstorf
Connect with Kent
- Website: https://kentcdodds.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/kentcdodds
Connect with Tanner
- Website: https://tanstack.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/tannerlinsley
Connect with Francesco
- Website: https://francescociulla.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/FrancescoCiull4
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Ken Wheeler to talk AI harnesses, multi-agent swarms, survival bags, and whether React is finally a framework. They dig into React Server Components, hooks versus signals …
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Ken Wheeler to talk AI harnesses, multi-agent swarms, survival bags, and whether React is finally a framework. They dig into React Server Components, hooks versus signals versus proxies, semicolons, Java hate, AI token arbitrage, and why you should subscribe to every AI service simultaneously. Along the way, they debate whether AI will replace designers or developers first, cruise ship chair warfare strategies, Replit as the ultimate vibe coding platform, hunting tech with geotagged tree stands, Eagle Scout projects, and why Ramon the 420 IQ gorilla leads the Apex Collective.
Presented by GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/lp/whiskeyfm
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:03:20 Hot Takes: Is React a Framework or Library?
- 00:04:59 React Server Components: Mistake or Masterpiece?
- 00:06:52 Hooks, Signals, Proxies & The Power of Proxies
- 00:08:40 Semicolons, Java & Programming Language Hot Takes
- 00:12:46 AI Harnesses: VS Code Copilot, OpenCode & Steve
- 00:16:08 Will AI Replace Designers or Developers First?
- 00:23:20 Cruise Ship Warfare & The Art of Chair Defense
- 00:28:01 Token Arbitrage & The Multi-AI Subscription Strategy
- 00:29:18 Replit Deep Dive: The Ultimate Vibe Coding Platform
- 00:32:31 Hunting Tech: Geotagging, Compass Apps & Finding Tree Stands
- 00:34:01 The Survival Bag: Apocalypse-Ready with Obliterated Qwen
- 00:36:55 Eagle Scouts Unite & The Boy Scout Expulsion Story
- 00:40:53 Ramon & The Apex Collective: The Wildest Multi-Agent Swarm
- 00:46:29 Hermes vs OpenClaw & Making with Ramon
- 00:50:12 Wrap Up & Where to Find Ken
Links
- Cutwater Spirits: https://cutwaterspirits.com/
- React: https://react.dev/
- React Server Components: https://react.dev/
- Ember: https://emberjs.com/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/
- Gea: https://geajs.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
- VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Replit: https://replit.com/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Hermes: https://hermesengine.dev/
- Steve: https://github.com/kenwheeler/steve
- Qwen: https://qwenlm.github.io/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
- HashiCorp: https://www.hashicorp.com/
- Clerk: https://clerk.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Slick Carousel: https://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
Connect with Ken
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/kenwheeler
- GitHub: https://github.com/kenwheeler
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- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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This week, Robbie and Adam are coming to you live from the Clerk booth at React Miami with a rapid-fire lineup of lightning podcasts. Fueled by Cutwater cocktails and conference energy, they caught up with …
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This week, Robbie and Adam are coming to you live from the Clerk booth at React Miami with a rapid-fire lineup of lightning podcasts. Fueled by Cutwater cocktails and conference energy, they caught up with Nnenna Ndukwe, Michael "Micky" Shimeles (AKA Rasmic), and the legendary Ryan "Thighs" Vogel for a rotating cast of hot takes, stories, and web dev chaos. They dig into whether React is a framework or library, server components, hooks versus signals versus proxies, HTML as a programming language, git rebase versus merge, semicolons, package managers, and why some programming languages just feel wrong. Along the way, they debate AI harnesses, codex versus Claude drama, token leaderboards, AGI predictions, security vulnerabilities in NPM, sidebar placement preferences, tabs on top versus the side, and whether dark factories are the future.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:11 Hot Takes: React, Server Components & Framework Debates
- 00:03:19 Hooks, Signals & The Future of Reactivity
- 00:03:26 Is HTML a Programming Language? The Great Debate
- 00:04:05 Git Rebase vs Merge & Developer Workflow Preferences
- 00:06:21 AGI, AI Harnesses & The State of AI Development
- 00:09:12 Will AI Replace Designers or Developers First?
- 00:10:54 Code Editors, Tabs & Terminal Trends
- 00:16:34 Google Search vs LLMs & Developer Research Habits
- 00:17:24 Composition vs Inheritance & Package Manager Wars
- 00:20:29 Security Nightmares & Social Engineering Attacks
- 00:23:34 OpenAI vs Anthropic & The AI Model Wars
- 00:25:32 Personal Preferences: Coffee, Whiskey & Beards
- 00:27:22 Second Guest: Svelte 5, Signals & Framework Philosophy
- 00:29:39 React Server Components Deep Dive & Performance Reality
- 00:31:17 GPT 5.5 Announcement & The Token Spending Arms Race
- 00:35:09 GStack Drama & Gary Tan Controversies
- 00:36:49 Monorepos, Turborepo & Modern Build Tools
- 00:41:31 AI Coding Tools: Cursor vs Copilot vs Codex
- 01:05:31 The Future of Web Development & Wrap Up
Links
- Cutwater Spirits: https://cutwaterspirits.com/
- React: https://react.dev/
- React Server Components: https://react.dev/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Codex: https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Windsurf: https://codeium.com/windsurf
- Zed: https://zed.dev/
- VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/
- Arc Browser: https://arc.net/
- Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/
- NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/
- PNPM: https://pnpm.io/
- Yarn: https://yarnpkg.com/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- Convex: https://www.convex.dev/
- Clerk: https://clerk.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
Connect with Nnenna
- Website: https://www.nnennahacks.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/nnennahacks
Connect with Micky
- Website: https://www.rasmic.xyz/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/Rasmic
Connect with Ryan
- Website: https://ryan.ceo/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/ryanvogel
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam are live from React Miami at the Clerk booth, sipping Cutwater cocktails and talking hot takes with Typecraft. They dig into whether React is a framework or library, server …
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This week, Robbie and Adam are live from React Miami at the Clerk booth, sipping Cutwater cocktails and talking hot takes with Typecraft. They dig into whether React is a framework or library, server components, hooks versus signals versus proxies, HTML as a programming language, git rebase versus merge, semicolons, package managers, and why Python might be the least friendly language out there. Along the way, they debate AI in interviews, whether we've reached AGI, 3D printing chocolate, homeschooling with AI agents, the value of bullying, voice dictation workflows, whether you should bother learning Vim anymore, AI flow state versus brain fry, why COBOL won't die, and the probability hack for getting creative outputs from LLMs.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:52 Hot Takes: React Framework vs Library & Server Components
- 00:05:26 Hooks, Signals, Proxies & The Future of Reactivity
- 00:08:12 Is HTML a Programming Language? The Great Debate
- 00:11:51 Git Rebase vs Merge: The Honest Approach
- 00:13:54 Semicolons, Package Managers & Programming Language Preferences
- 00:25:01 AI in Interviews & The New Developer Workflow
- 00:29:59 Have We Reached AGI? The Bar is Lower Than You Think
- 00:31:35 3D Printing, Homeschooling & The Value of Bullying
- 00:49:33 AI Flow State: Voice Dictation, Remote Control & Long-Running Agents
- 00:46:24 Should You Learn Vim in the Age of AI?
- 00:51:01 AI Intensifies Work: Productivity Paradox & Brain Fry
- 01:03:33 COBOL, Mainframes & Why Legacy Tech Won't Die
- 01:09:40 The Probability Hack: Getting Creative AI Outputs
- 01:12:27 Wrap Up & Where to Find Everyone
Links
- Cutwater Spirits: https://cutwaterspirits.com/
- Typecraft: https://typecraft.dev/
- React: https://react.dev/
- Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
- React Server Components: https://react.dev/
- Remix: https://remix.run/
- GEA: https://geajs.com/
- Ember: https://emberjs.com/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Vim: https://www.vim.org/
- NeoVim: https://neovim.io/
- Python: https://www.python.org/
- Ruby: https://www.ruby-lang.org/
- Dart: https://dart.dev/
- Java: https://www.java.com/
- COBOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
- Yarn: https://yarnpkg.com/
- NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/
- PNPM: https://pnpm.io/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
- Minecraft: https://www.minecraft.net/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- Clerk: https://clerk.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Rent a Human: https://rentahuman.ai/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
Connect with Chris
- Website: https://typecraft.dev/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/typecraft_dev
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Seth Webster—executive director of the React Foundation, former React lead at Meta, and chief developer evangelist at Expo—to talk React's past, present, and future, whether …
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Seth Webster—executive director of the React Foundation, former React lead at Meta, and chief developer evangelist at Expo—to talk React's past, present, and future, whether frameworks still matter in the age of AI, and why constraints are the secret to good code. They dig into React Server Components, the evolution of error messages, stable API work for React Native, and why agents need frameworks just as much as humans do. Along the way, they debate HTML as a programming language, Tailwind versus semantic CSS, the economics of tokens, open source sustainability, and whether taste is the only differentiator left when everyone has access to the same AI tools.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:12 Is React a Framework or Library?
- 00:04:35 React Server Components: The Full Stack Story
- 00:18:15 Frameworks in the Age of AI
- 00:23:39 Error Messages & Developer Experience for AI
- 00:27:12 React Foundation Goals & Stable API Work
- 00:31:15 Open Source Contributions & Career Growth
- 00:34:29 AI Code Provenance & Compensating Open Source
- 00:42:44 Differentiation in a Saturated AI World
- 00:45:30 Call to Action: Start Building with AI
Links
- React Foundation: https://react.foundation/
- Expo: https://expo.dev/
- React: https://react.dev/
- React Native: https://reactnative.dev/
- React Server Components: https://react.dev/
- Clerk: https://clerk.com/
- Vercel: https://vercel.com/
- Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
- Ember: https://emberjs.com/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/
- Meta: https://about.meta.com/
- CSS Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/
- Remix: https://remix.run/
Connect with Seth
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/sethwebster
- React Foundation: https://react.foundation/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Shaw from CodePen to talk CSS animations, web components, server side rendering nightmares, and why building things by hand still matters in the age of AI slop. They dig into …
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Shaw from CodePen to talk CSS animations, web components, server side rendering nightmares, and why building things by hand still matters in the age of AI slop. They dig into the CodePen 2.0 rewrite, Apollo GraphQL cache manipulation, the pain of reactive variables on the server, why Code Mirror 6 is both brilliant and bizarre, and whether stacks and fans will finally solve the PR review problem. Along the way, they cover HTML as a programming language, handwritten code museums, agentic parenting disasters, and why showing up prepared beats luck every time.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:25 Whiskey Tasting: Andalusia Stryker Texas Smoked Single Malt
- 00:04:32 Hot Takes: Is HTML a Programming Language?
- 00:10:50 Chris Coyier vs Adam Argyle: The Impossible Choice
- 00:13:21 Git Worktrees, Stacks & Fans: Modern Version Control
- 00:22:21 React Server Components: Mistake or Masterpiece?
- 00:24:30 CodePen 2.0: Building a Modern Editor from Scratch
- 00:39:18 AI in CodePen: Curation Over Generation
- 00:45:07 Agentic Parenting & The Fart Sycophant Problem
- 00:57:00 Raising Creative Kids in the Age of Screens
- 01:10:43 Whiskey Review & Final Thoughts
Links
- Andalusia Texas Smoked Single Malt Whiskey: https://andalusiawhiskey.com/
- CodePen: https://codepen.io/
- CodePen 2.0: https://codepen.io/
- KeyFramers: https://keyframers.com/
- Code Mirror 6: https://codemirror.net/
- Apollo GraphQL: https://www.apollographql.com/
- Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
- GitHub Stacks: https://github.com/
- React Server Components: https://react.dev/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Project Hail Mary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary
- Pico-8: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
- Spike Prime: https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-spike-prime-set/45678/
- Blockly: https://developers.google.com/blockly
- Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/
- Go: https://go.dev/
- Vercel: https://vercel.com/
- StackBlitz: https://stackblitz.com/
- Monaco Editor: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
- VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Raised by Wolves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Wolves_(American_TV_series)
- The Manualist: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheManualist
- Aesop Rock: https://www.aesoprock.com/
- Minecraft: https://www.minecraft.net/
- Nerdy.dev: https://nerdy.dev/
Connect with Shaw
- Website: https://shshaw.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/shshaw
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Ardbeg Wee Beastie and dive into the wild world of AI development, cloud leaks, and whether humans are officially becoming wetware in their own systems. They explore the Claude …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Ardbeg Wee Beastie and dive into the wild world of AI development, cloud leaks, and whether humans are officially becoming wetware in their own systems. They explore the Claude code source leak, the death of OpenClaw third party harnesses, the rise of instant translation, pretext typography magic, agentation for visual debugging, and why second brains might be the only way to remember your neighbor's names. Along the way, they debate agent versus agent negotiations, Pika stream video calls, celebrity deathmatch AI battles, and why your kids' skate competitions are more fun than piano recitals.
Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:00:36 Sponsor: Warp Terminal & Cloud Agents
- 00:03:19 Whiskey Introduction: Ardbeg Wee Beastie
- 00:04:42 Claude Code Source Leak & The Anthropic Approach
- 00:08:20 Model Wars: Opus vs Everything Else
- 00:11:44 OpenClaw Replacements & The Memory Problem
- 00:25:20 Mythos: The Ultimate Hacker Death Star
- 00:29:16 The Four-Day Work Week Lie & Doing More Work Than Ever
- 00:49:14 Second Brains & Local-First AI Memory
- 00:39:23 Pretext: Bypassing Browser Layout for Typography Magic
- 00:44:21 Agentation: Visual AI Debugging
- 00:47:02 Instant Translation & The Death of Duolingo
- 00:58:23 Pika Stream: Video Chat With Your AI Agent
- 01:02:34 Agent vs Agent: Celebrity Deathmatch for AI
- 01:04:35 Whiskey Rating & Wrap Up
Links
- Ardbeg Wee Beastie: https://www.ardbeg.com/en-US/whisky/wee-beastie
- Lagavulin 16: https://www.malts.com/en-row/our-whisky-collection/lagavulin-16-year-old/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Ahas: https://ahas.dev/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Claude Claude: https://github.com/claudeclaude/claudeclaude
- Pi: https://pi.ai/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/
- Codex: https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
- Cinty: https://cinty.ai/
- Hark: https://hark.ai/
- Post Bridge: https://postbridge.io/
- Pretext: https://pretext.app/
- Agentation: https://agentation.ai/
- Pika Stream: https://pika.stream/
- Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/
- Astro: https://astro.build/
- Deno Fresh: https://fresh.deno.dev/
- Drizzle: https://orm.drizzle.team/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- Famous: https://famous.co/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Nerdy Dev: https://nerdy.dev/
- Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- Solid: https://www.solidjs.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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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Kristen Garrett to talk signals, reactivity, and whether we've finally found the abstraction that makes sense. They dig into the differences between signals and hooks, why …
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Kristen Garrett to talk signals, reactivity, and whether we've finally found the abstraction that makes sense. They dig into the differences between signals and hooks, why parameterized signals matter, how async fits into reactivity, and whether Fetchium is about to replace Axios and TanStack Query. Along the way, they debate observables versus promises, the death of prop drilling, quantum computing cracking Bitcoin, why AI needs simpler abstractions, and whether humans are about to become legacy dependencies in their own codebases.
Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:00:37 Sponsor: Warp Terminal & Cloud Agents
- 00:02:46 Whiskey Introduction: Holladay Soft Red Wheat Bourbon
- 00:04:17 What Are Signals? The Reactivity Primer
- 00:07:00 Signalium Deep Dive: Parameterized Signals & Reactive Promises
- 00:13:15 The Hooks Problem: Why React's Model Has Limits
- 00:14:21 Observables vs Signals: The Ergonomics Debate
- 00:27:21 Async in Reactivity: Reactive Promises & Relays
- 00:03:49 Fetchium: The Last Data Client You'll Ever Need
- 00:24:50 The Signals Proposal & TC39 Standardization
- 00:45:25 Prop Drilling vs Threading: Understanding Data Flow
- 00:38:05 AI & The Future of Development: Reading Code Matters More Than Ever
- 00:32:29 Gea Framework: Compiler Magic Without Hooks or Signals
- 00:56:27 Crypto, Verifiability & The AI Spam Problem
- 00:58:28 Quantum Computing vs Bitcoin: The 2029 Threat
- 01:02:44 Digital Ownership & The Streaming Problem
- 01:08:55 Whiskey Rating & Final Thoughts
- 01:07:06 Wrap Up & Where to Find Signalium and Fetchium
Links
- Holladay Soft Red Wheat Bottled in Bond: https://holladaybourbon.com/holladay-soft-red-wheat-bourbon/
- Signalium: https://signalium.dev/
- Fetchium: https://fetchium.dev/
- Signals Proposal: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-signals
- MobX: https://mobx.js.org/
- Angular: https://angular.dev/
- Vue: https://vuejs.org/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/
- React: https://react.dev/
- Jotai: https://jotai.org/
- Legend State: https://legendapp.com/open-source/state/
- Apollo Client: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/
- TanStack Query: https://tanstack.com/query/
- Ember: https://emberjs.com/
- Gea: https://geajs.com/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- Ethereum: https://ethereum.org/
- Bitcoin: https://bitcoin.org/
- Shor's Algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
- Data Hoarders: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
- Wayne's World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%27s_World
Connect with Kristen
- GitHub: https://github.com/pzuraq
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pzuraq.bsky.social
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/ChuckCarpenter
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on whiskey from the Muff Liquor Company and dive deep into the chaotic state of AI development, Jensen Huang's wild claims about AGI and token spending, and whether we've …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on whiskey from the Muff Liquor Company and dive deep into the chaotic state of AI development, Jensen Huang's wild claims about AGI and token spending, and whether we've accidentally turned developers into Ralph Wiggum loopers. They debate auto research workflows, day shift versus night shift coding strategies, the death of MCP servers, AI cow herding collars disrupting agriculture, and why Ghostty's Mitchell just joined Vercel's board. Along the way, they cover vertical terminal layouts, United's new relax row seating, OpenClaw's inability to follow instructions, and why scoring mechanisms might be the key to making AI actually useful.
Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:00:36 Sponsor: Warp and Cloud Agents
- 00:01:19 AI Context Problems & The AGI Debate
- 00:09:58 Jensen's Hot Takes: Token Spending & AGI Claims
- 00:13:54 Is MCP Dead? The Protocol Nobody Needs
- 00:16:35 AI Cowgorithm Disrupts The Herd
- 00:21:32 OpenCode Gives Money to Pie Contributors
- 00:43:17 Auto Research: The Night Shift AI Worker
- 00:49:06 Gia Framework: The Compiler Revolution
- 00:55:02 ChatGPT Ads & Data Selling Concerns
- 01:05:51 Whiskey Tasting: Muff Liquor Company
- 01:15:21 Wrap Up & Where to Find Us
Links
- Muff Liquor Company: https://muffliquorcompany.com/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Pi: https://pi.ai/
- MCP (Model Context Protocol): https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
- Auto Research: https://github.com/karpathy/auto-research
- Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/
- CMUX: https://github.com/cmux/cmux
- Peon Ping: https://github.com/peon-ping/peon-ping
- Railway: https://railway.app/
- Vercel: https://vercel.com/
- Gea: https://geajs.com/
- Impeccable Design Skills: https://impeccable.style/
- Radiant Shaders: https://radiantshaders.com/
- Mitosis: https://github.com/builderio/mitosis
- Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/
- Ember: https://emberjs.com/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Diablo: https://diablo.blizzard.com/
- Lucid Motors: https://www.lucidmotors.com/
- United Airlines Relax Row: https://www.united.com/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/ChuckCarpenter
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
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- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from ShopTalk Show to talk brand truth versus brand slop, whether CSS knowledge is now your biggest advantage, the rise of dark factories, and why …
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from ShopTalk Show to talk brand truth versus brand slop, whether CSS knowledge is now your biggest advantage, the rise of dark factories, and why apps built in a weekend don't inspire trust. They dig into OpenClaw workflows, burn windows, agent browsers, the death of pointing and clicking, and whether we've accidentally turned ourselves into energy vampires. Along the way, they cover hot pockets, men's cereal, border shape, and why caring about what you do might actually be a curse.
Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:05:30 Brand Truth vs Brand Slop: The AI Authenticity Debate
- 00:10:54 One-Shot Apps & The Weekend Project Problem
- 00:18:15 CSS in the Age of AI: Does It Still Matter?
- 00:25:20 Live Demo: Claude Builds a Podcast Landing Page
- 00:29:37 Context Rot & The Flogging Margins Problem
- 00:36:55 Dark Factories & Code You Never Read
- 00:44:52 Energy Vampires & AI Brain Fry
- 00:51:35 The 10,000 Watt GPU vs The 40 Watt Brain
- 01:24:10 Wrap Up & Where to Find Everyone
Links
- Green Spot Irish Whiskey: https://www.spotwhiskey.com/
- Shop Talk Show: https://shoptalkshow.com/
- CSS Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/
- CodePen: https://codepen.io/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Bolt: https://bolt.new/
- Lovable: https://lovable.dev/
- Pi: https://pi.dev/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- Playwright: https://playwright.dev/
- Heretic: https://github.com/heretic-ai/heretic
- Hydrogen: https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/
- WordPress Playground: https://wordpress.org/playground/
- Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/
- Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/
- Vercel: https://vercel.com/
- Peon Ping: https://github.com/peon-ping/peon-ping
- CMux: https://github.com/cmux/cmux
- Border Shape: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-shape
- Hot Pockets: https://www.hotpockets.com/
Connect with Chris
- Website: https://chriscoyier.net/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/chriscoyier
Connect with Dave
- Website: https://daverupert.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/davatron5000
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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- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip Redwood Empire Pipe Dream and dive into the messy reality of AI development, PR reviews, and whether we're all just vibe coding our way into chaos. They debate 200-file PRs versus …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip Redwood Empire Pipe Dream and dive into the messy reality of AI development, PR reviews, and whether we're all just vibe coding our way into chaos. They debate 200-file PRs versus 10 smaller ones, the rise of YOLO mode versus step-by-step validation, Cloudflare rewriting Next.js in a week, and why T-shaped developers might need to become X-shaped generalists. Along the way, they cover dark factories, OpenClaw memory problems, the death of SaaS, Amazon's AI downtime panic, and why Slack might be the last product standing.
Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:34 Whiskey Tasting: Redwood Empire Pipe Dream
- 00:08:35 Would You Rather: PR Review Edition
- 00:16:51 Dark Factories & AI-Only Code Review
- 00:28:15 CloudFlare Rewrites Next.js & The Drama Unfolds
- 00:37:30 Block Layoffs & The SaaS Apocalypse
- 00:46:19 Amazon's AI Pendulum: From Yolo to Slow Down
- 00:55:37 T-Shaped vs X-Shaped Developers
- 00:51:07 Delaying Gratification: Quality Over Speed
- 01:04:37 Evil AI Tools: Fake Testimonials & Heretic
- 01:09:15 Wrap Up & Diablo Nostalgia
Links
- Redwood Empire Pipe Dream: https://redwoodempirewhiskey.com/
- Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
- Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/
- Vercel: https://vercel.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Pi: https://pi.ai/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- GitHub CLI: https://cli.github.com/
- Graphite: https://graphite.dev/
- Git Butler: https://gitbutler.com/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- Ember Data: https://github.com/emberjs/data
- CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Slack: https://slack.com/
- Launch Darkly: https://launchdarkly.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/
- Block: https://block.xyz/
- Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/
- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- Post Bridge: https://postbridge.io/
- Arcads.ai: https://arcads.ai/
- Effect.oh: https://effect.oh/
- Heretic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heretic_(video_game)
- Diablo: https://diablo.blizzard.com/
- Hexen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexen
- Cap: https://cap.so/
- Nerdy.dev: https://nerdy.dev/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/ChuckCarpenter
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
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- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Leon Noel and Danny Thompson to talk AI workflows, agentic development, and whether the job of coding has fundamentally changed. They dig into prompt engineering, mental …
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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Leon Noel and Danny Thompson to talk AI workflows, agentic development, and whether the job of coding has fundamentally changed. They dig into prompt engineering, mental models, OpenClaw setups, the rise of harnesses and orchestration layers, and why testing in production might actually be fine. Along the way, they debate git rebase versus git merge, the death of LeetCode interviews, why Cursor feels different than Copilot, and whether Pokemon Go is still thriving in 2026.
Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:55 Whiskey Tasting: Matsui Single Cask Sakura
- 00:14:11 Hot Takes: Git Rebase vs Git Merge
- 00:20:30 The AI Revolution: From Skepticism to Adoption
- 00:23:21 OpenClaw Deep Dive: AI Agents While You Sleep
- 00:49:05 Cursor Web & Long-Running Agents
- 00:35:58 The Mental Model Problem: How Most Devs Use AI Wrong
- 00:55:44 AI Prompting Masterclass: Tips from the Experts
- 01:11:47 Code Review with AI: SLMs, Bug Bot & Snyk
- 00:32:47 Breaking Into Tech & The Future of Junior Developers
- 01:16:36 Pokemon Go Nostalgia & Wrap Up
Links
- Matsui Single Malt Sakura Cask: https://dewinespot.co/products/matsui-single-malt-sakura-cask
- 100 Devs: https://leonnoel.com/100devs/
- Resilient Coders: https://www.resilientcoders.org/
- Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/
- OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
- Opencode: https://opencode.ai/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Pi: https://pi.ai/
- Codex 5.3: https://openai.com/
- Snyk: https://snyk.io/
- Bug Bot: https://bugbot.ai/
- Reptile: https://reptile.ai/
- CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/
- Antigravity: https://antigravity.dev/
- GitHub: https://github.com/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/
- Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/
- Atlassian Forge: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/
- Rovo Dev: https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo
- HackerRank: https://www.hackerrank.com/
- Playwright: https://playwright.dev/
- Pokemon Go: https://pokemongolive.com/
- Commit Your Code Conference: https://commityourcode.com/
Connect with Leon
- Website: https://leonnoel.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/leonnoel
Connect with Danny
- Website: https://www.dthompsondev.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/DThompsonDev
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/chuckcarpenter
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
- Website: https://whiskey.fm
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam sit down with Amelia Wattenberger—digital creative, product builder, and former principal research engineer at GitHub—to talk about AI agents, the death of chatbots, and whether …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sit down with Amelia Wattenberger—digital creative, product builder, and former principal research engineer at GitHub—to talk about AI agents, the death of chatbots, and whether typing code is officially over. They dig into the exhausting pace of AI tooling, why specs still aren't taking off, the anxiety of being managed by your own bots, and how Amelia's new project Intent is bundling workspaces, agents, and browsers into one cohesive developer experience. Along the way, they debate voice coding, the loss of craft, rubber duck debugging in the age of Claude, and why slowing down might be the only way to go fast.
Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:06 Whiskey Tasting: Jypsi Explorer Bourbon
- 00:09:00 Were AI Chatbots a Mistake?
- 00:18:49 The Manager Has Become The Managed
- 00:27:39 The Death of the Craft & The New Loop
- 00:37:07 Voice vs Typing: The Future of Input
- 00:41:51 Intent: Rethinking Developer Workspaces
- 00:44:39 Spectrum Development & Agent Orchestration
- 00:51:49 Building Across Platforms & Custom Keyboards
- 01:03:24 Wrap Up & Where to Find Intent
Links
- Jypsi Explorer: https://whiskeyjypsi.com/whiskey/explorer/
- Eric Church: https://www.ericchurch.com/
- Dreamweaver: https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html
- Rent a Human: https://rentahuman.ai/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Intent: https://intent.ai/
- Augment Code: https://www.augmentcode.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/
- Swach: https://www.swach.io/
- Zed: https://zed.dev/
- Figma: https://www.figma.com/
- Webflow: https://webflow.com/
- VSCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- Elgato: https://www.elgato.com/
- Linux: https://www.linux.org/
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/
Connect with Amelia
- Website: https://wattenberger.com/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/Wattenberger
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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- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip a rare Single Malts of Scotland 12-year Hogshead release and dive into the world of AI-powered development, OpenClaw setups, and why hot pockets might be the perfect metaphor for …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip a rare Single Malts of Scotland 12-year Hogshead release and dive into the world of AI-powered development, OpenClaw setups, and why hot pockets might be the perfect metaphor for where tech is headed. They explore the state of JavaScript survey, debate whether specs are the future of coding, discuss running AI agents on gaming PCs in the basement, and why owning your own data feels punk. Along the way, they cover burn windows, token optimization, prompt injection risks, liberating data from walled gardens, and whether we're all just vibe coders now.
Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:01:44 Whiskey Tasting: Single Malts of Scotland
- 00:10:52 State of JavaScript 2024 Discussion
- 00:08:26 Hot Pockets Pro Max: AI Hype Satire
- 00:16:46 OpenClaw Deep Dive: Setup & Security
- 00:32:27 AI Coding Models: Claude vs OpenAI
- 00:36:07 OpenClaw Acquisition & The Future of AI Assistants
- 00:40:00 Personal AI Workflows & Data Liberation
- 00:51:27 The Future of Development Jobs
- 01:08:06 Tools & Recommendations: Deno KV, Solo Term & SuperCode
- 01:10:35 Whatnot: Mega Man Jetpacks & AI Gorillas
Links
- Single Malts of Scotland: https://www.singlemaltwhisky.com/
- State of JavaScript: https://stateofjs.com/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Iron Claw: https://github.com/iron-claw/iron-claw
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- Venice AI: https://venice.ai/
- Peon Ping (Warcraft sounds): https://github.com/peon-ping/peon-ping
- Solo Term: https://soloterm.sh/
- Supercode: https://supercode.sh/
- Deno KV: https://deno.com/kv
- Railway: https://railway.app/
- Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/
- Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/
- Untappd: https://untappd.com/
- Ultimate Guitar: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/
- Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/
- Astro: https://astro.build/
- Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
- Code Rabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/
- Katamari Damacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
- To a T (game): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2738550/To_a_T/
- Bob's Burgers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Burgers
- Benihana: https://www.benihana.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Ken Wheeler: https://x.com/ken_wheeler
- Primeagen: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/ChuckCarpenter
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
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- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip Lagavulin 16 and catch up with Zach Lloyd—founder and CEO of Warp—about building the modern terminal, shipping AI agents to the cloud, and why editing text like it's 2026 should …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip Lagavulin 16 and catch up with Zach Lloyd—founder and CEO of Warp—about building the modern terminal, shipping AI agents to the cloud, and why editing text like it's 2026 should be the bare minimum. They dig into why Warp feels like the only terminal that just works, how AI is changing the way senior engineers code, the rise of agentic orchestration, and why tmux users are the hardest to convert. Along the way, they cover computer use models, agent memory, multi-threaded prompting, and why your laptop is officially not ready for this.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:03:20 Whiskey Tasting: Lagavulin 16
- 00:07:07 What is Warp?
- 00:09:30 Warp's Standout Features
- 00:13:48 AI Agents in Development Workflows
- 00:17:12 The Terminal as the Future of Development
- 00:21:35 Real-World Agent Usage & Productivity
- 00:25:17 Multi-Agent Systems & Orchestration
- 00:43:16 Moving to the Cloud & Warp Oz
- 00:54:38 The Future of AI Development & Competition
Links
- Lagavulin 16: https://www.malts.com/en-row/our-whisky-collection/lagavulin-16-year-old/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/
- Google Sheets: https://sheets.google.com/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Codex: https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/
- Railway: https://railway.app/
- Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/
- Opencode: https://opencode.ai/
- Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- SolidJS: https://www.solidjs.com/
- Mermaid: https://mermaid.js.org/
- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- Astro: https://astro.build/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux
- Zed: https://zed.dev/
- Ember Data: https://github.com/emberjs/data
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- GitHub: https://github.com/
- Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
- Python: https://www.python.org/
- Mythical Man-Month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
- CascadiaJS: https://cascadiajs.com/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
Connect with Zach
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/zachlloydtweets
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/ChuckCarpenter
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
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- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip High ‘n Wicked Straight Rye and dive deep into the current state of AI development tools, the rise of agentic workflows, and whether humans are becoming legacy dependencies in …
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This week, Robbie and Adam sip High ‘n Wicked Straight Rye and dive deep into the current state of AI development tools, the rise of agentic workflows, and whether humans are becoming legacy dependencies in their own systems. They explore OpenClaw (formerly ClawdBot), the philosophy behind Pi's minimalist agent approach, malleable software, and why SaaS products might be in trouble. Along the way, they debate meme coins, polymarket betting, the death of software-as-a-service, and what happens when AI agents start talking to each other on social media.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:02:53 Whiskey Tasting: High and Wicked Straight Rye
- 00:07:36 Setting Up OpenClaw: The AI Agent Revolution
- 00:11:29 GitHub Agents & Mobile Workflows
- 00:15:44 The AI Landscape: Claude vs OpenAI vs Emerging Models
- 00:19:23 Pi & The Philosophy of Minimal AI
- 00:19:49 Whiskey Rating & The Future of Work
- 00:39:39 AI Agents Talking to Each Other: Notebook LM
- 00:45:01 Rent-a-Human.ai & The Gig Economy Future
- 00:52:38 Malleable Software & The Death of SaaS
Links
- High ‘n Wicked Straight Rye: https://highandwicked.com/
- OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
- Pi: https://pi.ai/
- Railway: https://railway.app/
- GitHub Agents: https://github.com/features/agents
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/
- Qwen: https://qwenlm.github.io/
- MoltBook: https://www.moltbook.com/
- RentAHuman.ai: https://rentahuman.ai/
- Polymarket: https://polymarket.com/
- Uber: https://www.uber.com/
- Uber Eats: https://www.ubereats.com/
- Theo - t3.gg: https://t3.gg/
- Meticulous: https://meticulous.ai/
- Tesla Model X: https://www.tesla.com/modelx
- Jim Beam: https://www.jimbeam.com/
- CascadiaJS: https://cascadiajs.com/
- Render ATL: https://www.renderatl.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Astro: https://astro.build/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
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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This week, Robbie and Adam talk winter storms, snow blowers, and autonomous yard work before diving into the real topic: AI agents gone wild. They debate why Ralph Wiggum loops don't actually work, whether …
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This week, Robbie and Adam talk winter storms, snow blowers, and autonomous yard work before diving into the real topic: AI agents gone wild. They debate why Ralph Wiggum loops don't actually work, whether context pollution is killing productivity, the rise and fall of MCP servers and skills, and why vanilla Claude might be the only tool you actually need. Along the way, they cover anchor positioning failures, Stranger Things hot takes, and why small distilleries are just like indie startups.
In this episode:
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
- 00:05:07 Whiskey Tasting: Old Forester Statesman
- 00:10:56 AI Coding Tools: The Great Simplification
- 00:15:02 Firing the Tools: Why Vanilla Claude Won
- 00:20:48 AI Agents & Ralph Wiggum Loops
- 00:23:45 MCP Servers & Skills: Helpful or Hype?
- 00:35:40 CSS Anchor Positioning: The Failed Migration
- 00:39:30 Bouncy Scrollbars & CSS Flip Techniques
- 00:53:42 TypeScript, Tech Debt & Moving Slow
- 00:56:57 Stranger Things Finale & Cascadia JS Announcement
Links
- Old Forester Statesman: https://www.oldforester.com/
- Kingsman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsman_(franchise)
- Swach: https://www.swach.io/
- Opencode: https://opencode.ai/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
- Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
- Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
- Oh My Opencode: https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-opencode
- GSD (Get Shit Done): https://github.com/PriNova/Code-Prompter
- MCP (Model Context Protocol): https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
- Ember: https://emberjs.com/
- React: https://react.dev/
- TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
- CSS Anchor Positioning: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_anchor_positioning
- FLIP Technique: https://aerotwist.com/blog/flip-your-animations/
- View Transitions API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transitions_API
- Floating UI: https://floating-ui.com/
- Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/
- Ember Animated: https://github.com/ember-animation/ember-animated
- CascadiaJS: https://cascadiajs.com/
- Render ATL: https://www.renderatl.com/
- React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
- Big Sky Dev Con: https://bigskydevcon.com/
- Stranger Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things
- Fallout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(American_TV_series)
- Two Bar Spirits: https://www.twobarspirits.com/
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/chuckcarpenter
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
Subscribe and stay in touch
- Website: https://whiskey.fm
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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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 …
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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
Subscribe and stay in touch
- Website: https://whiskey.fm
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
- Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot
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