Dax and Adam talk about melted protein bars and the weather in Missouri, to deeper reflections on living conditions, food choices, aging, and the impact of technology on their lives. City versus suburban living, the complexities of homelessness, the current AI hype cycle, programming practices, and the evolution of technology trends, highlighting the challenges and excitement that come with adapting to new tools and workflows.

Links:

• Gartner hype cycle - Wikipedia
• v0 by Vercel
• ThePrimeagen - YouTube
• Arch Linux
• Buy Mac Studio - Apple (CA)
• i3 – i3: improved tiling X11 window manager
• Raycast - Your shortcut to everything
• AeroSpace Guide
• WezTerm - Wez’s Terminal Emulator
• Ghostty
• GitHub - sst/opentui: OpenTUI is a TypeScript library for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs)
• Bun – A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
• Home ⚡ Zig Programming Language
• GitHub - BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
• The Go Programming Language

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• (00:00) - Adam's going cordless

Candy and fake sugar, Adam has so many vacuums, weird AI startup vibes and optimization brags, working with different AI models, how we decide what our default prompt is, the normie view of GPT5, and why do you hate software engineers?

Links:

• JOYRIDE
• GATSBY Chocolate 🍫 (@gatsbychocolate)
• Vacuum Cleaning | Miele
• Amp
• A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home.

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• (00:00) - Stop talking

What it's like working on software that has a lot of competition, how opencode might handle permissions and ditching features, living like a dog in the moment, and Dax is ready to be right about everything—including parenting.

Links:

• Fireship - YouTube
• Gemini AI video generator powered by Veo 3
• opencode | AI coding agent built for the terminal

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• (00:00) - Dax Jr will be the perfect sleeper

Sam Lambert, the CEO of PlanetScale, joins Dax for a candid discussion about the remarkable journey of launching the Postgres product and scaling the company's success. Discover how PlanetScale is on track to achieve a million dollars in ARR for their Postgres product, delve into the technical nuances of their groundbreaking infrastructure, and learn why PlanetScale is considered a reliable alternative to Amazon Aurora for large-scale database solutions. Sam shares his experiences and insights on navigating startup challenges, maintaining focus amidst tempting opportunities, and fostering a culture that thrives on innovation and reliability. 

Links:

• Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres – PlanetScale
• The principles of extreme fault tolerance – PlanetScale
• Sam Lambert (@isamlambert) / X
• Death wrestling with ogres
• Whop
• Kick
• Cursor - The AI Code Editor
• Convex | The reactive database for app developers
• Figma

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• (00:30) - Airline travel advice with a baby

Adam Wolff from AnthropicAI discusses various aspects of AI development, particularly focusing on Claude Code and its impact on programming workflows. They explore the challenges and benefits of integrating AI into development processes, the importance of community feedback, and the evolving landscape of developer tools. The discussion also touches on personal experiences with work-life balance and the excitement surrounding the future of AI in technology.

Links:

• Claude Code
• opencode.ai

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• (00:00) - Making apps that taste good

Links:

• Dax's tweet about opencode rewrite
• opencode.ai
• Intro | opencode
• GitHub - sst/opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal.
• Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) - YouTube
• Models.dev — An open-source database of AI models

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• (00:00) - A Canadian standoff

Is AI going to help us build our own individual apps or are we years away from that happening, thoughts on Crunchydata being acquired, Elon vs Trump on Twitter, the annoying benefits of physical activity, the shocking amount of screen time on Dax's iPhone, video game addictions, and what it means for Anthropic to cut Windsurf's Claude access.

Links:

• Replit – Build apps and sites with AI
• bolt.new
• Postgres for Cloud
• Crunchy Data Joins Snowflake
• Average Database CEO
• Three-Body Problem
• Welcome to Minecraft
• Dax’s Switch 2
• GeForce NOW Cloud Gaming
• Watch The Studio - Apple
• Anthropic Claude Access

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• (00:00) - Adam likes to know they're balanced

Dax is ditching OpenAI and ChatGPT, Adam's looking down, are jobs being lost to AI or are we just asking the wrong questions, the truth about VCs changing the world, Remix finally announces the thing, is NextJS the ASP.net of today, and how has tech and Twitter changed recently?

Links:

• dax on X: “i should start renting my backyard for weddings"
• Introducing Claude 4  Anthropic
• Build apps and sites with AI
• Vercel v0 Updates
• Wake up, Remix!
• Search StatMuse, save time.
• SST Technology

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• (00:03) - Whoo

Teej sits in for Adam to chat with Dax about OpenCode, Heex, building an auto-scaling gym how to fix your garden and your grass, chickens + kids + LEGO, and what the deal is between Prime and Sabrina Carpenter.

Links:

• Phoenix.Component — Phoenix LiveView v1.0.12
• Home  Anthropic
• AI Code Editor
• TerminalDotShop Accessories
• Tomato Investment
• Trump Tours Al Wajba Palace
• Trump on Florence
• Uncle Bob on Inheritance
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Pirates of the Caribbean Review
• Kenneth Copeland’s Jet

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• (00:00) - Is this on the pod?

Dax has to work on his lighting, Adam's wondering if Dax ever gets stressed, an updated on OpenCode, the confusing AI models (still), DHH and Twitter fights, and OpenAI introduces Codex as the show ends.

Links:

• Zack Kanter on X
• DHH on X
• DHH on Facebook-Free Business
• Linear
• DHH on Apple and Linux
• Typefully
• Minimal Theme for Twitter / X
• Julius
• Introducing Codex

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• (00:00) - Tomorrow on Terminal on YouTube?