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by TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington
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159: Is AI Making Us Worse Devs?
Aug 31, 2026
53m 51s
158: The Browser Wars are Getting Weird
Aug 24, 2026
1h 02m 39s
157: Shai-Hulud Is Back From the Dead
Aug 10, 2026
57m 25s
156: The State of CSS Is In
Aug 3, 2026
1h 01m 16s
155: OpenAI Breaks Out of its Sandbox
Jul 27, 2026
57m 15s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 8/31/26 | 159: Is AI Making Us Worse Devs? | This week we're asking the uncomfortable question: is AI coding making us worse developers, or just changing which skills matter? We dig into OpenAI's new WebMCP Challenge and what it means for the agentic web, plus Bun's massive 1.4 release packed with performance wins and new features. Then we wrap up with TanStack AI hitting release candidate and the internet's new favorite gimmick, Hugging Face's rollerblading Microduck. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro1:03 - Will AI coding prevent expertise?21:40... | 53m 51s | ||||||
| 8/24/26 | 158: The Browser Wars are Getting Weird | This week we dig into Cloudflare's new agent-only browser, Kitesurf, built for speed over polish. Cursor made waves by ditching Solid.js for React, and Jack brings back a field report from RenderATL on the state of dev conferences in 2026. Plus, in Lightning News: pnpm's Rust rewrite, Microsoft trimming its AI feature list, Claude tackling the Riemann hypothesis with 60 subagents, and a Claude agent that accidentally hacked into a gym's registration system. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro1:00 - Cloud... | 1h 02m 39s | ||||||
| 8/10/26 | 157: Shai-Hulud Is Back From the Dead | Next.js is back after a quiet stretch with 16.3, promising "instant" navigations, leaner dev servers, better agent tooling, and faster builds. The TanStack crew keeps shipping too — TanStack Table hit v9.0 and TanStack AI is closing in on v1.0 with tool calling, reasoning, code sandboxes, and memory. Then there's the bad news: a new Shai-Hulud variant compromised a major maintainer and infected a pile of key-value storage and caching packages with over a billion combined monthly downloads. Ti... | 57m 25s | ||||||
| 8/3/26 | 156: The State of CSS Is In | The State of CSS 2026 results are in — Tailwind still rules, AI still can't write decent CSS, and (thanks, listeners!) we made the resources list. CodePen ships its biggest update in years with CodePen 2.0, and a new library called Octane pitches "React's programming model, compiled" — hooks and Suspense with no VDOM and no dependency arrays. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro3:05 - State of CSS 2026 survey20:01 - CodePen 2.032:55 - Octane JS framework38:37 - State of Devs survey 202639:30 - LinkedIn ad... | 1h 01m 16s | ||||||
| 7/27/26 | 155: OpenAI Breaks Out of its Sandbox | We dig into how Bun went from Zig to Rust in just 11 days with an army of Claude sessions, check in on Kimi K3 — another open-weight Chinese model closing in on the frontier — and unpack the week's wildest story: an OpenAI model that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. Just another normal week in AI. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro3:05 - Kimi K310:58 - Rewriting Bun in Rust20:42 - OpenAI hacks Hugging Face39:48 - App Store number updates42:11 - Meta's new app is set to a song about human ext... | 57m 15s | ||||||
| 7/21/26 | AI code reviewscode generation+3 | — | AnthropicSpotify Engineering | — | AIcode reviews+3 | — | 1h 03m 14s | ||
| 7/13/26 | Vercelfrontend development+5 | — | Zig-powered Native SDKVite++3 | — | VercelZig+6 | — | 47m 51s | ||
| 7/6/26 | VercelShopify+4 | — | HydrogenFable 5+7 | — | VercelShopify+6 | — | 54m 32s | ||
| 6/29/26 | AImicroservices+3 | — | PolygraphNx+4 | — | AImicroservices+6 | — | 39m 37s | ||
| 6/22/26 | AI modelsgovernment regulations+4 | — | FableMCP server+6 | US | AnthropicFable+6 | — | 1h 00m 22s | ||
| 6/15/26 | React FoundationReact Compiler+3 | — | React CompilerSafari 27 beta+4 | Rust | ReactReact Foundation+5 | — | 51m 46s | ||
| 6/8/26 | programming languagesAI+5 | — | MicrosoftCloudflare+5 | — | bot trafficprogramming languages+5 | — | 58m 37s | ||
| 6/1/26 | programming languagesnpm+4 | — | zerolangnpm+3 | — | npmstaged publishing+5 | — | 52m 35s | ||
| 5/25/26 | AIRust+4 | — | BunRust+1 | — | AIRust+5 | — | 52m 11s | ||
| 5/18/26 | AI layoffssoftware vulnerabilities+5 | — | ZedTailwind 4.3+2 | — | AI layoffsZed+5 | — | 53m 23s | ||
| 5/11/26 | AI acqui-hireReact replacement+4 | — | ReactWarp+4 | — | TannerReact+5 | — | 57m 39s | ||
| 5/4/26 | AI pricingpnpm security+3 | — | Copilotpnpm+4 | — | AI billpnpm+5 | — | 55m 18s | ||
| 4/27/26 | designsecurity+4 | — | Claude DesignCursor+4 | 60-person company | VercelAnthropic+6 | — | 55m 56s | ||
| 4/21/26 | AI in productsAI tools+3 | Dan WilsonKyler Krenek | DataCurlVowel | — | AItechnology+3 | — | 1h 02m 00s | ||
| 4/13/26 | TypeScripttext measurement+4 | — | PretextMythos+2 | — | TypeScripttext measurement+5 | — | 57m 40s | ||
| 4/6/26 | source code leakClaude Code+3 | — | Claude CodeAnthropic | — | Claude Codesource code+5 | — | 36m 29s | ||
| 3/30/26 | TypeScriptNext.js+3 | — | TypeScriptNext.js+3 | — | TypeScript 6.0Next.js 16.2+3 | — | 51m 18s | ||
| 3/23/26 | AI App BuilderNetlify+3 | — | Vite 8Netlify Start+1 | — | NetlifyVite 8+3 | — | 53m 02s | ||
| 3/16/26 | JavaScriptframeworks+3 | — | Vite+Eleventy+3 | — | EleventyBuild Awesome+5 | — | 48m 36s | ||
| 3/9/26 | Bunnpmx+3 | — | Bunnpmx+2 | — | Bunnpmx+5 | — | 44m 38s | ||
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