Prepping for React Miami while Adam tries not to catch the plague, where are the tariffs at this week, moving off Astro, building docs in MCP, financial literacy is underrated, using Claude in AWS or Google Cloud, and why aren't more people playing to win? Oh and a 👼 🎉

Links:

• Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing
• React Miami
• Static Site Generator
• JavaScript Runtime
• Plinko Record Break
• Jamie Dimon Biography
• VIX Index
• The editor for what’s next
• Windsurf Editor - Codeium

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• (00:00) - This was originally a 3 hour episode

Adam's excited about Termai, they debate whether they're in the prime or twilight of their careers, what even is CoPilot and Microsoft's AI approach, Dax's plans for building the SSTPhone, what's happening with young men, and what's happening with tariffs—and are they related? (No.)

Links:

• Kujtim (@h_kujtim) / X
• Kujtim on X: “Working on something really cool - Multiple provider - TUI with vim like editor and shortcuts - Build in tools + MCPs - LSP support Still early stage but its coming together. https://t.co/EfpjaxQLCf” / X
• Claude Code overview - Anthropic
• Termai
• Liz on Vibe Coding
• A More Caring Computer
• The Bill Simmons Podcast
• The Diary Of A CEO Podcast
• Ace Ventura — Package Delivery

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• (00:00) - Podcasts are dumb

Terminal's launch week was also a bad week for CEOs, prepping for ReactMiami, Adam unintentionally pokes Replit, thoughts on the new AI image models, and Dax updates Adam on the world news he missed while travelling.

Links:

• OpenAI ChatGPT Users Are Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images
• OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data | TechCrunch
• Claude Code Overview
• React Miami Events
• ThePrimeTime
• Terminal Initial Commit
• Commission-Free Trading
• Finance Smarter
• GameStop Short Squeeze
• I Love Gold!
• Game Boy Color Overview
• Adam on Replit

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• (00:00) - Adam loves goooooooooold

Sam Lambert returns to chat about the launch of PlanetScale Metal, the importance of looking past averages, constraints of working with Amazon, how building good software is like building an airline, thoughts on the standard software dev playbooks, advice for younger developers, and reflections on killing the free tier at PlanetScale.

Links:

• Sam Lambert
• Metal — PlanetScale
• PlanetScale Design

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• (00:00) - The fun of building with paranoia

Adam's hooked on Claude Code, why the sudden panic over MCP (model context protocol), OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Claude, why is Sam Altman so annoying, do we believe in free will, and are we on the slow decline of America—and more importantly, will Dax have to learn a new language?!

Links:

• Claude Code Overview - Anthropic
• Home - OpenAPI Initiative
• Working with the GraphQL API | Linear API
• Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia
• How to Use Git Worktree | Add, List, Remove

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• (00:00) - A great start

Aaron Boodman joins us to chat about his tech journey from building Greasemonkey, working on Google Chrome, being obsessed with sync on the web, Replicache, to his new project, Zero.

Links:

• The Expanse (novel series) - Wikipedia
• Zero
• Zero Bugs
• Greasemonkey - Wikipedia
• Linear – Plan and build products
• Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
• SST
• Mongo Zero Adapter

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• (00:00) - He waved

Is the flu lasting longer this year, why is it so hard to keep up with conspiracy theories, Dax has an AI based social news app idea, what is really quantum computing, and Adam's trying to sort out the crazy world.

Links:

• Tomorrow Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory - YouTube
• Elon Musk’s startup rolls out new Grok-3 chatbot as AI competition intensifies | The Guardian
• piccolo
• Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Breaks on AI Hype | Gizmodo
• Powerful quantum computers in years not decades, says Microsoft | BBC

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• (00:00) - Scan for the normal people

What is happening with Musk and DOGE and government, who does the USA owe money to, o3-mini vs Google Flash vs avante thoughts, what does Dax watch instead of sports, Adam makes a case for why sports matter, and should Adam trust Marc Andreessen or Ben Horowitz?

Links:

• OpenAI o3-mini | OpenAI
• Claude
• Gemini Flash - Google DeepMind
• GitHub - yetone/avante.nvim: Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE!
• Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
• Wes Bos on X: "this website is nuts! I downloaded the entire codebase and was surprised to find out it's built with web components, Vanilla.js, Shopify and Tailwind! Full vid diving into the stack up now
• The Last Dance
• Below Deck - Wikipedia
• Marc Andreessen - Wikipedia
• Ben Horowitz - Wikipedia
• Andreessen Horowitz | Software Is Eating the World
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Andreessen Horowitz

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• (00:00) - We're so prepared

Dax is finally warming up in frigid Florida, AI isn't as dangerous as everyone thinks it is, DeepSeek is full of holes, Adam's concerned about techno signatures, and what does it mean to have AI first app development?

Links:

• Lex Fridman Podcast
• Anthropic
• dax pranked by claude
• Granola
• Superhuman Email Productivity
• Dax’s Remote Dev Setup video
• Bare Metal & Servers
• 9950x VPS Miami
• Cockpit Project
• Tailscale
• thdxr/environment
• tmux/tmux Wiki
• Neovim
• Syncthing
• AI Code Editor
• The editor for what’s next
• Bun JavaScript Runtime

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• (00:00) - Shocking if true!

Adam discusses a bipolar diagnosis, do we want to be great people, therapy and therapists who help therapists with therapy, inauguration thoughts, the Stargate announcement, money invested in AI, and LinkedIn parenting quotes.

Links:

• Peer Support: A Safe Space
• Richard Feynman
• DeepSeek
• Google Quantum AI

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• (00:00) - Guess who has to pee?