This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from ShopTalk Show to talk brand truth versus brand slop, whether CSS knowledge is now your biggest advantage, the rise of dark factories, and why apps built in a weekend don't inspire trust. They dig into OpenClaw workflows, burn windows, agent browsers, the death of pointing and clicking, and whether we've accidentally turned ourselves into energy vampires. Along the way, they cover hot pockets, men's cereal, border shape, and why caring about what you do might actually be a curse.

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:05:30 Brand Truth vs Brand Slop: The AI Authenticity Debate
• 00:10:54 One-Shot Apps & The Weekend Project Problem
• 00:18:15 CSS in the Age of AI: Does It Still Matter?
• 00:25:20 Live Demo: Claude Builds a Podcast Landing Page
• 00:29:37 Context Rot & The Flogging Margins Problem
• 00:36:55 Dark Factories & Code You Never Read
• 00:44:52 Energy Vampires & AI Brain Fry
• 00:51:35 The 10,000 Watt GPU vs The 40 Watt Brain
• 01:24:10 Wrap Up & Where to Find Everyone

Links

• Green Spot Irish Whiskey: https://www.spotwhiskey.com/

• Shop Talk Show: https://shoptalkshow.com/

• CSS Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/

• CodePen: https://codepen.io/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• Bolt: https://bolt.new/

• Lovable: https://lovable.dev/

• Pi: https://pi.dev/

• Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/

• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

• Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/

• Svelte: https://svelte.dev/

• Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/

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

• Playwright: https://playwright.dev/

• Heretic: https://github.com/heretic-ai/heretic

• Hydrogen: https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/

• WordPress Playground: https://wordpress.org/playground/

• Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/

• Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/

• Vercel: https://vercel.com/

• Peon Ping: https://github.com/peon-ping/peon-ping

• CMux: https://github.com/cmux/cmux

• Border Shape: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-shape

• Hot Pockets: https://www.hotpockets.com/

Connect with Chris

• Website: https://chriscoyier.net/

• X / Twitter: https://x.com/chriscoyier

Connect with Dave

• Website: https://daverupert.com/

• X / Twitter: https://x.com/davatron5000

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

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

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam sip Redwood Empire Pipe Dream and dive into the messy reality of AI development, PR reviews, and whether we're all just vibe coding our way into chaos. They debate 200-file PRs versus 10 smaller ones, the rise of YOLO mode versus step-by-step validation, Cloudflare rewriting Next.js in a week, and why T-shaped developers might need to become X-shaped generalists. Along the way, they cover dark factories, OpenClaw memory problems, the death of SaaS, Amazon's AI downtime panic, and why Slack might be the last product standing.

Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:02:34 Whiskey Tasting: Redwood Empire Pipe Dream
• 00:08:35 Would You Rather: PR Review Edition
• 00:16:51 Dark Factories & AI-Only Code Review
• 00:28:15 CloudFlare Rewrites Next.js & The Drama Unfolds
• 00:37:30 Block Layoffs & The SaaS Apocalypse
• 00:46:19 Amazon's AI Pendulum: From Yolo to Slow Down
• 00:55:37 T-Shaped vs X-Shaped Developers
• 00:51:07 Delaying Gratification: Quality Over Speed
• 01:04:37 Evil AI Tools: Fake Testimonials & Heretic
• 01:09:15 Wrap Up & Diablo Nostalgia

Links

• Redwood Empire Pipe Dream: https://redwoodempirewhiskey.com/

• Next.js: https://nextjs.org/

• Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/

• Vercel: https://vercel.com/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw

• Pi: https://pi.ai/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• GitHub CLI: https://cli.github.com/

• Graphite: https://graphite.dev/

• Git Butler: https://gitbutler.com/

• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

• Ember Data: https://github.com/emberjs/data

• CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

• Slack: https://slack.com/

• Launch Darkly: https://launchdarkly.com/

• IBM: https://www.ibm.com/

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/

• Block: https://block.xyz/

• Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

• Post Bridge: https://postbridge.io/

• Arcads.ai: https://arcads.ai/

• Effect.oh: https://effect.oh/

• Heretic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heretic_(video_game)

• Diablo: https://diablo.blizzard.com/

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

• Cap: https://cap.so/

• Nerdy.dev: https://nerdy.dev/

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

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

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Leon Noel and Danny Thompson to talk AI workflows, agentic development, and whether the job of coding has fundamentally changed. They dig into prompt engineering, mental models, OpenClaw setups, the rise of harnesses and orchestration layers, and why testing in production might actually be fine. Along the way, they debate git rebase versus git merge, the death of LeetCode interviews, why Cursor feels different than Copilot, and whether Pokemon Go is still thriving in 2026.

Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:02:55 Whiskey Tasting: Matsui Single Cask Sakura
• 00:14:11 Hot Takes: Git Rebase vs Git Merge
• 00:20:30 The AI Revolution: From Skepticism to Adoption
• 00:23:21 OpenClaw Deep Dive: AI Agents While You Sleep
• 00:49:05 Cursor Web & Long-Running Agents
• 00:35:58 The Mental Model Problem: How Most Devs Use AI Wrong
• 00:55:44 AI Prompting Masterclass: Tips from the Experts
• 01:11:47 Code Review with AI: SLMs, Bug Bot & Snyk
• 00:32:47 Breaking Into Tech & The Future of Junior Developers
• 01:16:36 Pokemon Go Nostalgia & Wrap Up

Links

• Matsui Single Malt Sakura Cask: https://dewinespot.co/products/matsui-single-malt-sakura-cask

• 100 Devs: https://leonnoel.com/100devs/

• Resilient Coders: https://www.resilientcoders.org/

• Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/

• OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot

• Opencode: https://opencode.ai/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• Pi: https://pi.ai/

• Codex 5.3: https://openai.com/

• Snyk: https://snyk.io/

• Bug Bot: https://bugbot.ai/

• Reptile: https://reptile.ai/

• CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/

• Antigravity: https://antigravity.dev/

• GitHub: https://github.com/

• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

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

• Svelte: https://svelte.dev/

• Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/

• Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/

• Atlassian Forge: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/

• Rovo Dev: https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo

• HackerRank: https://www.hackerrank.com/

• Playwright: https://playwright.dev/

• Pokemon Go: https://pokemongolive.com/

• Commit Your Code Conference: https://commityourcode.com/

Connect with Leon

• Website: https://leonnoel.com/

• X / Twitter: https://x.com/leonnoel

Connect with Danny

• Website: https://www.dthompsondev.com/

• X / Twitter: https://x.com/DThompsonDev

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

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

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam sit down with Amelia Wattenberger—digital creative, product builder, and former principal research engineer at GitHub—to talk about AI agents, the death of chatbots, and whether typing code is officially over. They dig into the exhausting pace of AI tooling, why specs still aren't taking off, the anxiety of being managed by your own bots, and how Amelia's new project Intent is bundling workspaces, agents, and browsers into one cohesive developer experience. Along the way, they debate voice coding, the loss of craft, rubber duck debugging in the age of Claude, and why slowing down might be the only way to go fast.

Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:02:06 Whiskey Tasting: Jypsi Explorer Bourbon
• 00:09:00 Were AI Chatbots a Mistake?
• 00:18:49 The Manager Has Become The Managed
• 00:27:39 The Death of the Craft & The New Loop
• 00:37:07 Voice vs Typing: The Future of Input
• 00:41:51 Intent: Rethinking Developer Workspaces
• 00:44:39 Spectrum Development & Agent Orchestration
• 00:51:49 Building Across Platforms & Custom Keyboards
• 01:03:24 Wrap Up & Where to Find Intent

Links

• Jypsi Explorer: https://whiskeyjypsi.com/whiskey/explorer/

• Eric Church: https://www.ericchurch.com/

• Dreamweaver: https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html

• Rent a Human: https://rentahuman.ai/

• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• Intent: https://intent.ai/

• Augment Code: https://www.augmentcode.com/

• GitHub: https://github.com/

• Swach: https://www.swach.io/

• Zed: https://zed.dev/

• Figma: https://www.figma.com/

• Webflow: https://webflow.com/

• VSCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

• OpenAI: https://openai.com/

• Elgato: https://www.elgato.com/

• Linux: https://www.linux.org/

• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/

Connect with Amelia

• Website: https://wattenberger.com/

• X / Twitter: https://x.com/Wattenberger

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

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

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam sip a rare Single Malts of Scotland 12-year Hogshead release and dive into the world of AI-powered development, OpenClaw setups, and why hot pockets might be the perfect metaphor for where tech is headed. They explore the state of JavaScript survey, debate whether specs are the future of coding, discuss running AI agents on gaming PCs in the basement, and why owning your own data feels punk. Along the way, they cover burn windows, token optimization, prompt injection risks, liberating data from walled gardens, and whether we're all just vibe coders now.

Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:01:44 Whiskey Tasting: Single Malts of Scotland
• 00:10:52 State of JavaScript 2024 Discussion
• 00:08:26 Hot Pockets Pro Max: AI Hype Satire
• 00:16:46 OpenClaw Deep Dive: Setup & Security
• 00:32:27 AI Coding Models: Claude vs OpenAI
• 00:36:07 OpenClaw Acquisition & The Future of AI Assistants
• 00:40:00 Personal AI Workflows & Data Liberation
• 00:51:27 The Future of Development Jobs
• 01:08:06 Tools & Recommendations: Deno KV, Solo Term & SuperCode
• 01:10:35 Whatnot: Mega Man Jetpacks & AI Gorillas

Links

• Single Malts of Scotland: https://www.singlemaltwhisky.com/

• State of JavaScript: https://stateofjs.com/

• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw

• Iron Claw: https://github.com/iron-claw/iron-claw

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

• OpenAI: https://openai.com/

• Venice AI: https://venice.ai/

• Peon Ping (Warcraft sounds): https://github.com/peon-ping/peon-ping

• Solo Term: https://soloterm.sh/

• Supercode: https://supercode.sh/

• Deno KV: https://deno.com/kv

• Railway: https://railway.app/

• Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/

• Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/

• Untappd: https://untappd.com/

• Ultimate Guitar: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

• Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/

• Astro: https://astro.build/

• Next.js: https://nextjs.org/

• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

• IBM: https://www.ibm.com/

• Code Rabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/

• Katamari Damacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy

• To a T (game): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2738550/To_a_T/

• Bob's Burgers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Burgers

• Benihana: https://www.benihana.com/

• React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/

• Ken Wheeler: https://x.com/ken_wheeler

• Primeagen: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen

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

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam sip Lagavulin 16 and catch up with Zach Lloyd—founder and CEO of Warp—about building the modern terminal, shipping AI agents to the cloud, and why editing text like it's 2026 should be the bare minimum. They dig into why Warp feels like the only terminal that just works, how AI is changing the way senior engineers code, the rise of agentic orchestration, and why tmux users are the hardest to convert. Along the way, they cover computer use models, agent memory, multi-threaded prompting, and why your laptop is officially not ready for this.

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:03:20 Whiskey Tasting: Lagavulin 16
• 00:07:07 What is Warp?
• 00:09:30 Warp's Standout Features
• 00:13:48 AI Agents in Development Workflows
• 00:17:12 The Terminal as the Future of Development
• 00:21:35 Real-World Agent Usage & Productivity
• 00:25:17 Multi-Agent Systems & Orchestration
• 00:43:16 Moving to the Cloud & Warp Oz
• 00:54:38 The Future of AI Development & Competition

Links

• Lagavulin 16: https://www.malts.com/en-row/our-whisky-collection/lagavulin-16-year-old/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/

• Google Sheets: https://sheets.google.com/

• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Codex: https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/

• Railway: https://railway.app/

• Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/

• Opencode: https://opencode.ai/

• Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/

• Svelte: https://svelte.dev/

• SolidJS: https://www.solidjs.com/

• Mermaid: https://mermaid.js.org/

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

• Astro: https://astro.build/

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

• Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux

• Zed: https://zed.dev/

• Ember Data: https://github.com/emberjs/data

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

• GitHub: https://github.com/

• Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

• Python: https://www.python.org/

• Mythical Man-Month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

• CascadiaJS: https://cascadiajs.com/

• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

• IBM: https://www.ibm.com/

Connect with Zach

• X / Twitter: https://x.com/zachlloydtweets

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

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

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam sip High ‘n Wicked Straight Rye and dive deep into the current state of AI development tools, the rise of agentic workflows, and whether humans are becoming legacy dependencies in their own systems. They explore OpenClaw (formerly ClawdBot), the philosophy behind Pi's minimalist agent approach, malleable software, and why SaaS products might be in trouble. Along the way, they debate meme coins, polymarket betting, the death of software-as-a-service, and what happens when AI agents start talking to each other on social media.

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:02:53 Whiskey Tasting: High and Wicked Straight Rye
• 00:07:36 Setting Up OpenClaw: The AI Agent Revolution
• 00:11:29 GitHub Agents & Mobile Workflows
• 00:15:44 The AI Landscape: Claude vs OpenAI vs Emerging Models
• 00:19:23 Pi & The Philosophy of Minimal AI
• 00:19:49 Whiskey Rating & The Future of Work
• 00:39:39 AI Agents Talking to Each Other: Notebook LM
• 00:45:01 Rent-a-Human.ai & The Gig Economy Future
• 00:52:38 Malleable Software & The Death of SaaS

Links

• High ‘n Wicked Straight Rye: https://highandwicked.com/

• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw

• Pi: https://pi.ai/

• Railway: https://railway.app/

• GitHub Agents: https://github.com/features/agents

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

• OpenAI: https://openai.com/

• Qwen: https://qwenlm.github.io/

• MoltBook: https://www.moltbook.com/

• RentAHuman.ai: https://rentahuman.ai/

• Polymarket: https://polymarket.com/

• Uber: https://www.uber.com/

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

• Theo - t3.gg: https://t3.gg/

• Meticulous: https://meticulous.ai/

• Tesla Model X: https://www.tesla.com/modelx

• Jim Beam: https://www.jimbeam.com/

• CascadiaJS: https://cascadiajs.com/

• Render ATL: https://www.renderatl.com/

• React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/

• Astro: https://astro.build/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

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

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

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam talk winter storms, snow blowers, and autonomous yard work before diving into the real topic: AI agents gone wild. They debate why Ralph Wiggum loops don't actually work, whether context pollution is killing productivity, the rise and fall of MCP servers and skills, and why vanilla Claude might be the only tool you actually need. Along the way, they cover anchor positioning failures, Stranger Things hot takes, and why small distilleries are just like indie startups.

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:05:07 Whiskey Tasting: Old Forester Statesman
• 00:10:56 AI Coding Tools: The Great Simplification
• 00:15:02 Firing the Tools: Why Vanilla Claude Won
• 00:20:48 AI Agents & Ralph Wiggum Loops
• 00:23:45 MCP Servers & Skills: Helpful or Hype?
• 00:35:40 CSS Anchor Positioning: The Failed Migration
• 00:39:30 Bouncy Scrollbars & CSS Flip Techniques
• 00:53:42 TypeScript, Tech Debt & Moving Slow
• 00:56:57 Stranger Things Finale & Cascadia JS Announcement

Links

• Old Forester Statesman: https://www.oldforester.com/

• Kingsman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsman_(franchise)

• Swach: https://www.swach.io/

• Opencode: https://opencode.ai/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot

• Oh My Opencode: https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-opencode

• GSD (Get Shit Done): https://github.com/PriNova/Code-Prompter

• MCP (Model Context Protocol): https://modelcontextprotocol.io/

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

• Ember: https://emberjs.com/

• React: https://react.dev/

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

• CSS Anchor Positioning: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_anchor_positioning

• FLIP Technique: https://aerotwist.com/blog/flip-your-animations/

• View Transitions API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transitions_API

• Floating UI: https://floating-ui.com/

• Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/

• Ember Animated: https://github.com/ember-animation/ember-animated

• CascadiaJS: https://cascadiajs.com/

• Render ATL: https://www.renderatl.com/

• React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/

• Big Sky Dev Con: https://bigskydevcon.com/

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

• Fallout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(American_TV_series)

• Two Bar Spirits: https://www.twobarspirits.com/

Connect with the hosts

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

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

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

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This week, Robbie and Carlo sip Sagamore's 10-year reserve rye and catch up with Carlo on life abroad, AI coding workflows, the changing developer landscape, and why cars, whiskey shipping, and property management are all equally frustrating. They dig into agentic AI loops, the rise of prompt-driven development, whether coding by hand is officially dead, and what happens when tools like OpenCode and Claude become the new normal.

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:02:09 Whiskey Tasting: Sagamore 10 Year Reserve Series
• 00:08:40 Living in Italy: Costs, Culture & Comparisons
• 00:14:41 Astro Acquired by Cloudflare
• 00:19:38 Agentic AI & Ralph Loops: The New Development Workflow
• 00:36:41 Building with Rust: The Hugh Hunter Color Picker
• 00:47:18 The Death of Hand-Coding & The Future of Software Jobs
• 00:48:40 Claude Co-Work & AI Desktop Apps
• 00:48:54 AI Beyond Coding: Life Automation & Efficiency
• 00:58:34 Landlord Horror Stories & The Tucson Property Saga

Links

• Sagamore Spirit: https://sagamorespirit.com/

• Astro: https://astro.build/

• Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/

• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot

• Matt Pocock - Ralph Wiggum technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IK18goX4X8

• Swach: https://www.swach.io/

• Tauri: https://tauri.app/

• Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

• Napi-rs: https://napi.rs/

• GitHub: https://github.com/

• ClickUp: https://clickup.com/

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

• Python: https://www.python.org/

• Linux: https://www.linux.org/

• Wayland: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/

• Steam Deck: https://www.steamdeck.com/

• 11.22.63: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11.22.63

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

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

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

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Whistle Pig's Liquid Death collaboration and debate whether we've accidentally deleted programming itself. They dig into the shift from code-first to spec-first development, whether TypeScript still matters in an AI-driven world, the rise of agency over specialization, and why the future might belong to prompt-driven tinkerers instead of traditional developers.

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

In this episode:

• (00:00) - Intro

• (01:43) - Whiskey rating & review: Whistle Pig x Liquid Death Gravestock

• (07:21) - Automating tasks with AI: the chicken and egg problem

• (11:12) - Building a whiskey episode art generator with Swift and AI

• (17:02) - Libraries that ship specs instead of code

• (22:24) - Is TypeScript still worth it in an AI-first world?

• (29:06) - Converting Shepherd from Svelte to Solid for bundle size

• (34:44) - Why code matters less and outcomes matter more

• (42:42) - Comparing OpenCode, Warp, Cursor, and Windsurf

• (50:38) - The rise of agency: tinkerers over specialists

• (54:46) - Getting into physical goods and local farming

• (57:12) - Why booze, nicotine, and fun are all down

• (01:00:10) - Plugs

Links

• Whistle Pig Gravestock: https://www.whistlepigwhiskey.com/

• Liquid Death: https://liquiddeath.com/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/

• Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/

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

• Svelte: https://svelte.dev/

• Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/

• GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot

• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

• Swift: https://www.swift.org/

• Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/

• Floating UI: https://floating-ui.com/

• Swach: https://www.swach.io/

• CSS Anchor Positioning: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_anchor_positioning

• FLIP Technique: https://aerotwist.com/blog/flip-your-animations/

• Paul Lewis: https://aerotwist.com/

• Want My MTV: https://wantmymtv.vercel.app/

• Fuse TV: https://www.fuse.tv/

Connect with the hosts

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

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

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

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