144: Did Tanner Just Replace React?

About this episode

The episode discusses Tanner's potential React replacement, AI acqui-hire trends, and a new SpaceX deal with Anthropic.

In this episode, we look at whether “founding sponsor” is becoming the new AI acqui-hire, Tanner building a possible React replacement, and how Claude could get faster thanks to a new deal with SpaceX. Timestamps: 0:58 - Tanner builds Redact8:14 - Anthropic makes a deal with SpaceX19:03 - Warp is now open source29:58 - Node 26 is out32:07 - ChatGPT is obsessed with goblins42:21 - What’s making us happy News: Paige - Warp is open source and OpenAI is its founding sponsorJack - Projecting Re...

People in this episode

Hosts: Paige, Jack, TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

Topics covered

• AI acqui-hire
• React replacement
• SpaceX deal
• open source
• Node 26 release
• ChatGPT

Keywords

• Tanner
• React
• AI acqui-hire
• SpaceX
• Warp
• Node 26
• ChatGPT

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SpaceX, Anthropic

Products: React, Warp, Node 26, ChatGPT

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