December 05, 2025

Very important agents (Changelog & Friends #120)

1 hour 38 minutes

Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they’re impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic’s acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub’s challenges and the Amp/Sourcegraph split. We dive into AI development practices, context management, voice assistants, Home Assistant OS and home automation, the state of the AI browser war, and we close with a prediction from Nick.

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Featuring:

Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip and Dual Knit Band

Bun is joining Anthropic

Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone

Amp, Inc.

The Browser Company explains why it stopped developing Arc

Letter to Arc members 2025

The Browser Company launches Dia in beta

Home Assistant 2025.12: Triggering the holidays

Home Assistant Green

Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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