This week, Robbie, Chuck, and Adam bring you the holiday edition of Whiskey Web and Whatnot: random whiskeys, Christmas hot takes, and dev debates. They discuss AI agents, guardrails, prompt-driven development, and whether we’re drifting toward a world where code matters less than outcomes.

Presented by CodeRabbit: http://coderabbit.link/whiskey

In this episode:

• (00:00) Intro

• (02:15) Whiskey selections

• (07:43) Christmas Hot Take: Real tree vs fake tree

• (12:14) Christmas Hot Take: White lights vs colored lights

• (15:07) What everyone's watching right now

• (17:55) What is Ball Pit?

• (19:58) Video games everyone's playing

• (21:58) Chuck's overseas shipping challenges

• (23:09) The modern grocery store experience (and why Chuck refuses to “work there”)

• (28:18) Are types dead in an AI-first dev world?

• (45:53) Disney giving money to OpenAI

• (47:57) Netflix acquiring Warner Bros… what?

• (48:35) Are AI tools actually worth the cost?

• (51:30) Just-in-time apps: the future of the web?

• (54:39) Living in Italy + the language barrier

• (57:50) Adam’s food analogy: web platform vs React apps

• (58:15) Fast food tier list

• (01:00:06) Adam's banjo Christmas tunes

Links

• The Nightmare Before Christmas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare_Before_Christmas

• Ember: https://emberjs.com/

• South Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park

• Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/

• Stranger Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things

• Sean Combs: The Reckoning: https://www.netflix.com/title/81906780

• 50 Cent: https://x.com/50cent

• Today Show: https://www.today.com/

• Ball Pit: https://www.ballxpit.com/

• Breakout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)

• Risk of Rain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_of_Rain

• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/

• Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch/

• FIFA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_(video_game_series)

• GOG: http://Gog.com

• Luna: https://luna.amazon.com/

• Rue Valley: https://ruevalley.com/

• Memento: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: https://indianajones.bethesda.net/en-US

• Uncharted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted

• Whole Foods: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/

• Opencode: https://opencode.ai/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/

• Airtable: https://www.airtable.com/

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

• MacOS: https://www.apple.com/macos/

• Windows: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows

• Linux: https://www.linux.org/

• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Vite: https://vite.dev/

• JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript

• CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

• Disney: https://www.disney.com/

• Sora: https://openai.com/sora/

• Studio Ghibli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli

• OpenAI: https://openai.com

• Scarlett Johansson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson

• Harry Potter: https://www.harrypotter.com/

• Uber Eats: https://www.ubereats.com/

• React: https://react.dev/

• Taco Bell: https://www.tacobell.com/

• KFC: https://www.kfc.com/

• Bob's Burgers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob's_Burgers

• Garth Brooks: https://www.garthbrooks.com/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner

• Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd

• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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