This Month in React

Mark & Carl talk with Swizec Teller about using AI at work

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  • (00:00) - This Month in React April
  • (00:26) - Introductions
  • (02:36) - What convinced you AI code tools were worth using?
  • (04:24) - Using early ChatGPT for DB migrations
  • (06:59) - Watching AI use a command-line
  • (08:16) - Background chat agents
  • (08:58) - Staying very hands-on while using AI tools
  • (11:00) - Driving AI closely without reading its code
  • (17:50) - Mark's workflow; OpenCode with CodeNomad UI, plus IDE+git UI. Opus 4.6 on API
  • (20:39) - Swizec's workflow, latest Cursor on Opus
  • (23:58) - Carl's workflow, mostly ClaudeCode but looking at custom orchestrators
  • (25:23) - Exploring fully autonomous agents
  • (28:08) - Mark's AI debugging work in React core
  • (31:42) - Value of providing more context
  • (33:58) - AI-owned documentation
  • (37:09) - Using good engineering practices still matters?
  • (40:47) - How do you know the right code to make?
  • (42:49) - Good communication still matters
  • (45:13) - What will "review" look like in the future?
  • (46:17) - Automating functionality tests with deployment practices
  • (51:49) - What behaviors belong to the agent, and what fundamentally can't be part of the agent?
  • (56:17) - Impacts of LLMs on software engineering?
  • (01:03:22) - A superpower right now is a domain expert who can kind of code

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