Whiskey Web and Whatnot

This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Courage & Conviction American Single Malt and dive into the AI arms race, deterministic models versus word vomit machines, and whether Jev is the future of intelligent software or just another hype cycle waiting to crash. They dig into the developer grind, stealing time from sleep, the AI slow down debate, Jev as the deterministic probability only AI, real time Jev in Doom and Smash Bros, intelligent gates that bypass LLM slop, Jev's three core ideas, trading bots running 100 times faster, smoking whiskey with pear wood, the paperclip problem and how AI might kill us, why Adam's all in on Astra, model degradation and thinking levels, context windows as seasoned pans, Delta and Herder as multiplayer agent tools, corporate AI tooling and the native harness advantage, Ocarina of Time remake versus digital ownership nightmares, and an arrow through the living room window because Adam sat down to play banjo instead of teaching the eighth kid how to use a compound bow.

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:00:43 Welcome Back & The Developer Grind
• 00:03:13 Tasting: Courage & Conviction American Single Malt
• 00:07:46 The AI "Slow Down" Debate
• 00:09:10 Meet Jev: Deterministic, Probability-Only AI
• 00:14:50 Jev in Real Time: Doom, Smash Bros & Intelligent Gates
• 00:20:57 Jev's Three Core Ideas
• 00:23:27 Stealing Time From Sleep & Jev Trading Bots
• 00:27:06 Smoking the Whiskey With Pear Wood
• 00:31:37 How Will AI Kill Us? The Paperclip Problem
• 00:42:36 Why Adam's All-In on Astra
• 00:46:37 Model Degradation, Thinking Levels & Context Windows
• 00:50:59 Delta, Herder & Multiplayer Agent Tools
• 00:58:03 Corporate AI Tooling & The Native-Harness Advantage
• 01:02:45 Whatnot: Ocarina of Time Remake & Digital Ownership
• 01:07:11 An Arrow Through the Living Room Window & nerdy.dev's Like Button

Links

• Courage & Conviction American Single Malt: https://courageandconviction.com/
• Jev: https://jev.ai/
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• Astra: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
• Delta: https://zed.dev/delta
• Herder: https://herdr.dev
• Warp: https://warp.dev
• SubQ: https://subq.ai/
• Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
• Super Smash Bros: https://www.smashbros.com/
• Paperclip Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
• IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/
• GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
• Zed: https://zed.dev/
• Slack: https://slack.com
• Discord: https://discord.com/
• Ocarina of Time Remake: https://www.nintendo.com/
• Nerdy.dev: https://nerdy.dev/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Oak and Eden Bourbon with Amburana Spiral and dive into building software that actually works, AI code reviews that roast your PRs, and whether engineering is dead or just hiding behind a gauntlet loop. They dig into Doorway, the ADHD task helper app that stops you from forgetting why you walked into a room, dark factory workflows where agents grind while you watch, iterative AI loops that beat the slop out of your code until it's good, Creator Micro unboxing and personal software revolution, Muse Glimmer as the jealous local model that disses Claude, and why coding dopamine is gone but engineering still matters. Along the way, they debate whether taste still matters when everyone has the same LLMs, speech to text versus typing, robotic lawnmowers named Jeff that can't find the street, CSS signals and scroll axis liberation, Oak and Eden custom whiskey builder as the first MCP enabled agentic experience, Big Red cinnamon bear claws with coconut sprinkles, mulled cider vibes and Christmas in a glass, gauntlet loops versus slip and slides, adversarial reviews that always find something, punk ass versus Glimmer in a jealous AI showdown, watermarks on AI images getting stripped the same day, free tokens at cafes instead of free Wi-Fi, personal private software living on your home network, discovering your 3D printer's API and making a dashboard in five minutes, design patterns versus laying bricks, and why the gang of four matters more than ever.

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:01:05 Tasting: Oak and Eden Bourbon with Amburana Spiral
• 00:07:03 Building Doorway: The ADHD Task Helper App
• 00:09:53 Dark Factory Life: AI Code Reviews & The Speed Trap
• 00:12:41 The Gauntlet Loop: Building Better with Iterative AI
• 00:27:31 Creator Micro Unboxing & Personal Software Revolution
• 00:33:45 Muse Glimmer & The Jealous AI Problem
• 00:48:11 Engineering vs Coding: The Dopamine Drought
• 00:54:07 CSS Signals & Scroll Axis Liberation
• 01:02:51 Jeff the Mower's Street Adventures & Wrap Up

Links

• Oak and Eden Bourbon: https://oakandeden.com/
• Doorway App: https://doorway.help/
• Doorway: https://whydidiwalkinhere.com
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
• Fable: https://fable.app/
• Impeccable: https://impeccable.ai/
• Muse Glimmer: https://ai.meta.com/
• CloudKit: https://developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/
• Swift: https://swift.org/
• Astro: https://astro.build/
• GSAP: https://greensock.com/gsap/
• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
• CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/
• Codex Micro: https://worklouder.cc/
• Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
• CSS Scroll Axis: https://nerdy.dev/scroll-axis
• CSS Signals: https://nerdy.dev/css-signals
• AMP Fitness: https://amp.ai/
• Tonal: https://www.tonal.com/
• Elegoo 3D Printer: https://www.elegoo.com/
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/
• GitHub: https://github.com/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

Subscribe and stay in touch

• Website: https://whiskey.fm
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• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
• Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot

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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Chicken Cock Small Batch Kentucky Bourbon and dive into building mobile apps with Claude, CSS infinity, MySpace's comeback, and whether 2026 is just 2006 but way more expensive. They dig into the Doorway app for ADHD task tracking, voice dictation workflows, AI keyboards, Steve Yegge's hot takes on CICD and code review, mental health in the age of agents, design system chaos, LLM failures, why Opus 5 still wins, and skull.style as the future of passive income. Along the way, they debate MySpace's return and nostalgia culture, retro gaming and digital ownership, CSS layers and Tailwind quirks, prop for that and responsive border radiuses, infinity pixels breaking browsers, treating agents nice versus yelling at them, caveman prompting versus verbose explanations, dark factories and internal bleeding, human code review being dead, agent overload and mental health decline, whiskey build times as a metaphor for patience, and why five year feedback loops sound like torture.

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In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:02:15 Tasting: Chicken Cock Small Batch Kentucky Bourbon
• 00:13:31 Building a Mobile App with Claude: The Doorway App
• 00:19:46 MySpace Is Coming Back & 2026 Is Just 2006 But More Expensive
• 00:26:59 CSS Infinity, Layers & Prop For That
• 00:46:53 Voice Dictation, AI Keyboards & The Future of Coding
• 00:49:14 Steve Yegge's Take: Are Code Review & CI/CD Doomed?
• 00:50:44 Mental Health, Dark Factories & The Agent Overload Problem
• 00:54:50 Design Systems, LLM Failures & Why Opus 5 Still Wins
• 01:01:22 Whiskey Build Times & Skull.Style: The Clothing Brand Journey

Links

• Chicken Cock Bourbon: https://chickencockwhiskey.com/
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• Claude Desktop: https://www.anthropic.com/claude/desktop
• Xcode: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
• Impeccable: https://impeccable.style/
• MySpace: https://myspace.com/
• Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
• Prop For That: https://github.com/argyleink/prop-for-that
• CSS Infinity Article: https://nerdy.dev/css-infinity
• Herder: https://herdr.dev
• Warp: https://warp.dev
• Buzz: https://github.com/block/buzz
• Slack: https://slack.com
• Work Louder OpenAI Keyboard: https://worklouder.cc/
• Opus 5: https://www.anthropic.com/
• Fable: https://fable.app/
• Playwright: https://playwright.dev/
• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
• Skull.Style: https://skull.style/
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/
• GitHub: https://github.com/
• IBM: https://www.ibm.com/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

Subscribe and stay in touch

• Website: https://whiskey.fm
• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
• Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot

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This week, Robbie and Adam catch up over Redemption Rye to talk token budgets, worktrees, and whether the harness era is already over. They dig into the abrupt shutdown of GitHub Copilot at work, Bob as the internal AI replacement, branch protection rules that block releases, spec driven development with self documenting agents, and why giving models less context actually produces better results. Along the way, they debate whether frameworks still matter when LLMs write the code, server side renaissance versus thick client ceremony, slop as a choice versus slop as history, the meta harness layer that routes to other harnesses, Jeff the lawnmower that yeets itself off cliffs, Roombas that eat socks and bonk into walls, amp.ai as the smart Bowflex you mount on studs, HSA funded home gyms, and why Redemption Rye tastes like maple and black pepper until it doesn't.

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In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:06:56 Copilot Crisis: When AI Gets Yanked Mid-Workflow
• 00:11:52 Context Overload: Why Less Prompt Is More
• 00:15:31 Spec-Driven Development & Worktree Workflows
• 00:18:50 Token Limits & The End of the Subsidized AI Era
• 00:24:55 Fable AI Returns: Overhyped or Underdelivered?
• 00:26:55 Slop vs Spaghetti: Code Quality Was Always Questionable
• 00:34:52 The Framework Debate: Are We Over-Engineering Everything?
• 00:41:57 Meta-Harnesses & The One Tool to Rule Them All
• 00:45:38 Conjure: Building Apps from Service Design & User Flows
• 00:48:59 Jeff the Lawnmower: When Robots Fail Spectacularly
• 00:54:52 Smart Fitness & The AMP Workout Machine
• 01:00:17 Wrap Up & Final Thoughts

Links

• Redemption Rye: https://redemptionwhiskey.com/
• Sagamore Rye: https://sagamorespirit.com/
• GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/
• Fable: https://fable.app/
• Impeccable: https://impeccable.ai/
• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
• IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/
• React: https://react.dev/
• React Native: https://reactnative.dev/
• Vite: https://vitejs.dev/
• Prop For That: https://github.com/argyleink/prop-for-that
• Conjure: https://conjure.dev/
• Roomba: https://www.irobot.com/
• Amp.ai: https://amp.ai/
• Tonal: https://www.tonal.com/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

Subscribe and stay in touch

• Website: https://whiskey.fm
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• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
• Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot

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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Denver Cramer—industrial designer, entrepreneur, photographer, distiller, and creator of the globally recognized Denver and Lylee glassware brand—to talk whiskey glasses, design philosophy, and whether AI will replace the next generation's jobs. They dig into Starward single malt finished in Lagavulin cask, Melbourne's Four Seasons climate, red wine barrel aging, the grassiness fading into sweetness, Pappy versus Weller 12, blind taste testing Flamin' Hot Cheetos, and why Octomore 8.3 is the ultimate peat monster. Along the way, they debate designing glasses for corn versus barley based spirits, the bourbon glass chode, smelling at the top versus the bottom of the glass, the turbine wine glass that Ryan Reynolds loved, eight years of R&D, passion projects versus commercial products, raising kids in the world before and after AI, teaching them to code with retro video games, making YouTube videos with Legos, screens as tools not babysitters, playing instruments versus making instruments, luthiers versus engineers, planting 400 Pinot Noir vines to learn winemaking, trumpet and piano and guitar, and why the banjo is part drum part guitar part lead singer.

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In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:04:00 Tasting Starward x Lagavulin: Red Wine Meets Peat
• 00:12:38 Ultimate Whiskey Drams & Desert Island Albums
• 00:28:30 The Science & Soul of Glass Design
• 00:40:50 From Christmas Present to Global Brand
• 00:43:00 AI, Kids & The Future of Work
• 00:57:40 Passion Projects vs Capitalism: Building with Soul
• 01:07:09 Music, Instruments & The Luthier Mindset
• 01:13:15 Banjo Performance & Wrap Up

Links

• Starward Whisky: https://starward.com.au/
• Lagavulin: https://www.malts.com/en-us/brands/lagavulin/
• Denver and Liely Glassware: https://denverandliely.com/
• Octomore: https://www.bruichladdich.com/
• Pappy Van Winkle: https://www.oldripvanwinkle.com/
• Weller: https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/our-brands/w-l-weller.html
• Scarabus: https://www.scarabus.com/
• Compass Box: https://www.compassboxwhisky.com/
• Sagamore Rye: https://sagamorespirit.com/
• Canon Whiskey Bar: https://www.cannonwhiskeybar.com/
• Deltron 3030: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltron_3030
• Jimmy Eat World Bleed American: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/
• Bruce Springsteen: https://brucespringsteen.net/
• Gospel Rye: https://gospelwhiskey.com/
• Wild Turkey 101: https://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/
• Glendronach: https://www.glendronachdistillery.com/
• Dalwhinnie: https://www.malts.com/en-us/brands/dalwhinnie/
• Intel Pantec Lake: https://www.intel.com/
• C.W. Stoneking: https://www.cwstoneking.com/
• Mayday Parade: https://maydayparade.com/

Connect with Denver

• Website: https://denverandliely.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denverandliely/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

Subscribe and stay in touch

• Website: https://whiskey.fm
• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf
• Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot

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This week, Robbie and Adam are back together to catch up on life, AI workflows, and whether agents can actually fix themselves when they break. They dig into barrel bourbon batch 38, token limits at work versus unlimited at Shopify, open code burning through budgets, work trees for parallel agent tasks, Claude's quiet hours spam, and why fable was secretly just a better harness. Along the way, they debate impeccable's art direction grilling you like Matt Pocock, StarPod video integration, mid journey medical imaging as the future of wellness, TSA bag scanners that should be fully AI by now, CodeRabbit versus Copilot for PR reviews, self healing loops that never actually heal, robot lawnmowers named Jeff that can't find their chargers, smoked cocktails in bongs at Cannon, and why the meta harness layer is probably going to die soon.

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In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:06:32 Token Limits & The Subsidized AI Era Ends
• 00:13:18 Fable AI: The Great 8-Hour Experiment
• 00:20:20 Work Trees, Code Reviews & Vibe Checking PRs
• 00:24:34 Impeccable Design System & The Art of AI Prompting
• 00:32:01 Tinder for Algos: Automated Design Workflows
• 00:37:14 The Harness Wars: Skills, Memory & Tribal Knowledge
• 00:44:22 Meta-Harnesses, Flu, Eve & The Specialist Problem
• 00:48:05 OpenClaw Nightmares & Self-Healing Systems
• 00:58:01 Midjourney Medical, Jeff the Lawnmower & Wrap Up

Links

• Barrel Bourbon Batch 38: https://barrelbourbonbrand.com/
• Compass Box Crimson Cask: https://www.compassboxwhisky.com/
• Octomor: https://www.bruichladdich.com/
• Pappy Van Winkle: https://www.oldripvanwinkle.com/
• Cannon Whiskey Bar: https://www.cannonwhiskeybar.com/
• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• Fable: https://fable.app/
• Impeccable: https://impeccable.ai/
• StarPod: https://starpod.app/
• Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/
• CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/
• GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
• Flu: https://flu.ai/
• Eve: https://eve.dev/
• OmniAgent: https://omniagent.ai/
• Polygraph: https://polygraph.ai/
• Railway: https://railway.app/
• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
• IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
• Ember: https://emberjs.com/
• Astro: https://astro.build/
• Vite: https://vitejs.dev/
• Playwright: https://playwright.dev/
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/
• MailTrap: https://mailtrap.io/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

Subscribe and stay in touch

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• Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot

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This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Brad Frost—creator of Atomic Design, design system architect, front of the front end developer, bass player, Dragon Ball Z fan site pioneer, and maker of weird and wonderful internet things—to talk grief, AI, and finding your line through an uncontrollable landscape. They dig into processing the stages of acceptance around AI, music toys like the Orchid synth, the hard road through mastery, fruit booters versus Tony Hawk, snowboarding as a metaphor for navigating chaos, and why domain expertise is now more valuable than ever. Along the way, they debate the loss of joy versus bigger horizons, purple outlines and the limits of design systems, experience and time as the things that actually matter, human networks and zombie malls, signal over noise and the quest for less, caveman prompting and Daft Punk lyrics, repetition and depth and the power of simple words, green M&Ms and Van Halen's quality test, local LLMs and hallucinations and the sigil test, audio powered visualizations and design tokens, MIDI controllers and breaking cognitive barriers, organizational culture and the AI injection, tech stack being irrelevant now, what do we actually do and the Bob's question, designers needing to solve problems not push pixels, and the AI and Design Systems course.

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:02:41 Music Toys & The Orchid Synth
• 00:07:28 The Journey Through Mastery & Hard Things
• 00:08:16 Fruit Booters, Rollerblading & Tony Hawk
• 00:10:41 Grief, AI & The Stages of Acceptance
• 00:16:13 Finding Your Line: Snowboarding as Metaphor
• 00:23:21 Domain Expertise Is Now Invaluable
• 00:25:19 The Loss of Joy vs Bigger Horizons
• 00:26:33 Purple Outlines & The Limits of Design Systems
• 00:28:11 Experience, Time & What Actually Matters
• 00:35:35 Human Networks & Zombie Malls
• 00:38:29 Signal Over Noise & The Quest for Less
• 00:40:51 Caveman Prompting & Daft Punk Lyrics
• 00:42:52 Repetition, Depth & The Power of Simple Words
• 00:57:29 Green M&Ms & Van Halen's Quality Test
• 00:58:29 Local LLMs, Hallucinations & The Sigil Test
• 01:01:26 Audio-Powered Visualizations & Design Tokens
• 01:06:37 MIDI Controllers & Breaking Cognitive Barriers
• 01:08:48 Organizational Culture & The AI Injection
• 01:09:53 Tech Stack Is Irrelevant Now
• 01:11:55 What Do We Actually Do? The Bob's Question
• 01:14:47 Designers Need to Solve Problems, Not Push Pixels
• 01:17:05 AI & Design Systems Course
• 01:20:37 Wrap Up & Final Thoughts

Links

• Orchid Synth: https://telepathicinstruments.com/products/orchid-orc-1
• Atomic Design: https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater: https://www.tonyhawkthegame.com/
• The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten: https://www.victorwooten.com/
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: https://contextualscience.org/act
• Daft Punk: https://www.daftpunk.com/
• Chemical Brothers: https://www.chemicalbrothers.com/
• Suno: https://suno.ai/
• Waking Life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life
• Van Halen Green M&Ms: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
• Kandinsky: https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/
• Sumi-e: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_wash_painting
• MIDI: https://www.midi.org/
• Figma: https://www.figma.com/
• Don't Make Me Think: https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/
• AI and Design Systems Course: https://aianddesign.systems/
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/
• React: https://react.dev/
• TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
• Office Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space

Connect with Brad

• Website: https://bradfrost.com/
• X / Twitter: https://x.com/brad_frost

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

Subscribe and stay in touch

• Website: https://whiskey.fm
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• Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot

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This week, Robbie welcomes back Chuck Carpenter for a nostalgic reunion over Jim Beam White Label Bourbon to catch up on life, AI workflows, and whether agents can replace human reviewers. They dig into Chuck's move to Italy, the bureaucratic nightmare of European residency, AI as tech leads, CodeRabbit versus GPT debates, SOC 2 compliance workarounds, and why GitHub bots might be the key to unlocking dark factory workflows. Along the way, they debate whether taste still matters when everyone has access to the same LLMs, speech to text versus typing, robotic lawnmowers, thermomix recipes generated by Claude, the death of Fable, local compute versus cloud dependency, deleting LinkedIn as a life goal, and why Jim Beam White Label tastes like college regret mixed with Kool Aid.

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:02:43 College Nostalgia & Bourbon Tasting Notes
• 00:14:35 AI Workflows: From Code Reviews to GitHub Bots
• 00:21:04 The Death of SaaS: Building Your Own Tools
• 00:23:17 Fable AI Shutdown & The State of Anthropic
• 00:31:50 Life in Italy: Bureaucracy, Wine & Cultural Differences
• 00:35:34 Speech-to-Text Coding & The Future of Development
• 00:50:07 Local Compute vs Cloud Models: The Coming Rug Pull
• 00:54:05 Gaming, Watching & The LinkedIn Dream
• 00:56:05 Wrap Up & Final Thoughts

Links

• Jim Beam White Label Bourbon: https://www.jimbeam.com/
• Knob Creek: https://www.knobcreek.com/
• Bookers: https://www.bookersbourbon.com/
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
• CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/
• Fable: https://fable.app/
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/
• Thermomix: https://www.thermomix.com/
• Lymow Robotic Mower: https://www.lymow.com/
• Yarbo: https://yarbo.com/
• Handy Speech to Text: https://handyapp.ai/
• GitHub: https://github.com/
• Proxmox: https://www.proxmox.com/
• Hermes: https://hermesengine.dev/
• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
• Qwen: https://qwenlm.github.io/
• DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/
• Beelink: https://www.bee-link.com/
• TrueNAS: https://www.truenas.com/
• Amazon Luna: https://www.amazon.com/luna
• Metroid: https://metroid.nintendo.com/
• Cyberpunk 2077: https://www.cyberpunk.net/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/
• IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
• Cascadia JS: https://cascadiajs.com/

Connect with Chuck

• Website: https://chuckcarpenter.com/
• X / Twitter: https://x.com/chuckcarpenter

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Compass Box Crimson Cask and dive into the wild world of AI infrastructure chaos, factory engineering, and why yelling at your computer might actually be the most productive workflow. They dig into the death of OpenClaw after a catastrophic tokenization failure, the rise of sparse attention with SubQ, NPM worms targeting TanStack, Mythos cracking Apple's M5 memory integrity for $35K in tokens, and why Ghostty is leaving GitHub after 18 years. Along the way, they debate building playgrounds versus digging holes, trampolines without nets as peak 90s parenting, factory engineering versus single prompt life, skull.style as the future of passive income, caveman versus JSON for LLM efficiency, clipping as a new parasitic job category, and whether GitHub's three nines uptime is actually just a built in excuse to touch grass.

Presented by GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/lp/whiskeyfm

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:06:12 Trampoline Safety & Parenting Philosophy
• 00:14:08 Hawaii Whiskey Adventures & The Tourist Problem
• 00:21:55 OpenClaw Is Dead: The Great Bot Breakdown
• 00:25:57 ClaudeClaw Factories & The Art Director Life
• 00:39:34 Loop Engineering & Factory Concepts for AI Workflows
• 00:47:47 NPM Worms, TanStack Pwned & The RMRF Kill Switch
• 00:50:03 Mythos Cracks Apple's M5 Security for 35K in Tokens
• 00:53:35 Gastown's Secret Self-Improvement & Elon vs OpenAI
• 00:58:32 GitHub's Two Nines Problem & Ghosty's Exodus
• 01:06:55 SubQ: Sparse Attention & Caveman Mode Built In
• 01:11:10 Clipping Culture & The Volume Game

Links

• Compass Box Crimson Cask: https://www.compassboxwhisky.com/
• OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• ClaudeClaw: https://github.com/claudeclaude/claudeclaude
• Hermes: https://hermesengine.dev/
• TanStack: https://tanstack.com/
• SubQ: https://subq.ai/
• Mythos: https://mythosai.com/
• Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/
• GitHub: https://github.com/
• Gastown: https://gastown.dev/
• Nano Banana: https://nanobanana.ai/
• Skull Style: https://skull.style/
• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/
• Railway: https://railway.app/
• Bun: https://bun.sh/
• Discord: https://discord.com/
• NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/
• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/
• Peer.co: https://peer.co/
• Ardbeg Wee Beastie: https://www.ardbeg.com/
• Lagavulin 16: https://www.malts.com/
• Hi Rye Whiskey: https://hirye.com/
• React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/

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

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This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream and dive deep into their entrepreneurial origin stories, from childhood hustles to band life to building apps for dead platforms. They dig into selling guppies as a fish pimp, child modeling for Nintendo ads, third grade pepto menthol schemes, breeding birds that pecked themselves, mowing lawns fast, and why nipple piercings are a bad investment. Along the way, they debate pop punk band names like Superband, recording with Fruity Loops, screamo versus emo trajectories, Under Oath versus Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, fight dancing versus moshing, ticket scams at Graystone Tavern, horror game mechanics in Outlast and Dead Space, proximity chat hacks in Phasmophobia and Peak, why RV There Yet is too hard, selling Die Ants Die on the BlackBerry Playbook, device walls for IE5 through IE8, and whether scotch aged in bourbon casks is secretly amaretto.

Presented by GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/lp/whiskeyfm

In this episode:

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:05:30 Early Entrepreneurial Adventures: Fish Pimping & Child Modeling
• 00:14:48 Hot Topic Tripp Pants & The Band Years Begin
• 00:19:24 Pop Punk Covers, Recording Studios & The MySpace Era
• 00:28:49 From Metal to Hip Hop: Musical Evolution & Nerdcore
• 00:32:57 Video Game Nostalgia: From Zelda to Dead Space
• 00:39:37 Survival Horror Deep Dive: Outlast, Dead Space & Phasmophobia
• 00:50:02 Peak, RV There Yet & The Difficulty Problem
• 00:53:41 Mobile Dev Nightmares: BlackBerry Playbook & Die Ants Die
• 00:57:29 Browser Wars & Device Testing Hell
• 01:04:19 Whiskey Review: Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream

Links

• Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream: https://www.glenmorangie.com/
• Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maylene_and_the_Sons_of_Disaster
• Under Oath: https://underoath777.com/
• Dashboard Confessional: https://www.dashboardconfessional.com/
• John Mayer: https://www.johnmayer.com/
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: https://www.gimmemusic.com/
• MF Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Doom
• Aesop Rock: https://www.aesoprock.com/
• Sage Francis: https://www.sagefrancis.net/
• Atmosphere: https://atmosphere.com/
• Del the Funky Homosapien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_the_Funky_Homosapien
• Fruity Loops: https://www.image-line.com/
• Analog Pocket: https://www.analogue.co/pocket
• Slay the Spire: https://www.megacrit.com/
• Zelda Ocarina of Time: https://www.zelda.com/
• Metroid: https://metroid.nintendo.com/
• Resident Evil: https://www.residentevil.com/
• Bioshock: https://bioshockgame.com/
• Fable: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/fable
• Outlast: https://redbarrelsgames.com/games/outlast/
• Dead Space: https://www.ea.com/games/dead-space
• Phasmophobia: https://kineticgames.co.uk/
• Peak: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643520/Peak/
• RV There Yet: https://rvthereyet.com/
• BlackBerry Playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_PlayBook
• Palm Pre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pre
• Adobe PhoneGap: https://phonegap.com/
• Califia Farms: https://www.califiafarms.com/
• React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
• Cascadia JS: https://cascadiajs.com/
• Clerk: https://clerk.com/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

Subscribe and stay in touch

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• Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot

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