
Working Code
by Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham
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264: Look Busy, Claude's Working
Jun 18, 2026
1h 01m 02s
263: Intimacy with the Code
Jun 11, 2026
1h 06m 58s
262: Zen and the Art of AI-Driven Maintenance
Jun 6, 2026
1h 02m 50s
261: The Ben Turing Test
May 28, 2026
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260: Reinventing the Wiki
May 23, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/18/26 | ![]() 264: Look Busy, Claude's Working | The promise was that AI would take the grunt work off your plate and leave you the good stuff. This week is the part no one advertised: you got into this to make things — but what comes instead is the restless guilt of sitting there with nothing to do while the agent works, and the slow realization that when it finishes, the job left for you is mostly reviewing.Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday.And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon.Mentioned in this episode:xkcd: "Compiling"With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.Full show notes and transcript here. | 1h 01m 02s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | ![]() 263: Intimacy with the Code✨ | software craftsmanshipcode intimacy+3 | — | ZCross MediaPatreon+2 | — | software craftsmanshiplearning+5 | — | 1h 06m 58s | |
| 6/6/26 | ![]() 262: Zen and the Art of AI-Driven Maintenance✨ | AIautomation+3 | — | TaffyRest Assured+3 | — | AIautomation+6 | — | 1h 02m 50s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() 261: The Ben Turing Test✨ | AIblogging+3 | — | MassTransitThe Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master+1 | — | AIBen Turing Test+4 | — | 1h 02m 30s | |
| 5/23/26 | ![]() 260: Reinventing the Wiki✨ | personal wikiAI agents+3 | — | ZCross MediaKarpathy's LLM Wiki | — | personal wikiAI agents+4 | — | 1h 00m 15s | |
| 5/14/26 | ![]() 259: Walling Off Your Mental Garden✨ | mental healthphilosophy+3 | — | ZCross Mediaworkingcode.dev+2 | — | mental gardeninfluencers+4 | — | 1h 05m 36s | |
| 5/7/26 | ![]() 258: On the AI of It All✨ | AItechnology+3 | — | ZCross MediaPatreon+2 | — | AImental health+3 | — | 57m 10s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() 257: We Solved Everything✨ | observabilitycontinuous deployment+4 | — | ZCross MediaPatreon+2 | federal government | observabilitycontinuous deployment+4 | — | 1h 09m 29s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() 256: The Productivity Trap: How Optimizing Everything Broke Us✨ | burnoutproductivity+4 | — | ZCross MediaPatreon+2 | AI | productivityburnout+4 | — | 47m 29s | |
| 4/9/26 | ![]() 255: AI in the Streets✨ | AItechnology+4 | — | ZCross Mediahairstyles.net+1 | Savannah, Georgia | AIchatbots+5 | — | 1h 01m 22s | |
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| 4/2/26 | ![]() 254: Claudependent✨ | AIproductivity+3 | — | ZCross MediaDiscord+3 | — | AIproductivity gains+3 | — | 53m 07s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() 253: The Adversarial Agents Are Arguing Again✨ | AIadversarial agents+3 | — | ZCross Mediaworkingcode.dev | — | AI agentsadversarial training+5 | — | 1h 06m 17s | |
| 3/19/26 | ![]() 252: Meet Showbot✨ | Discord botsarcasm+4 | — | Show BotDiscord+3 | Discord | Show BotDiscord+6 | — | 1h 02m 40s | |
| 3/12/26 | ![]() 251: Ben vs. Tests✨ | testingsoftware development+3 | — | ZCross Mediaworkingcode.dev | — | testingprivate methods+3 | — | 1h 03m 35s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() 250: Stuff, Things, WIP: Commit Messages✨ | commit messagespull requests+3 | — | ZCross Mediaworkingcode.dev+1 | — | commit messagespull requests+3 | — | 47m 32s | |
| 2/26/26 | ![]() 249: 10 Years of Tech Debt✨ | tech debtcodebase+3 | — | Claude | — | tech debtORM+3 | — | 1h 13m 04s | |
| 2/12/26 | ![]() 248: AI All the Way Down | Ben had been riding high on vibe coding—throwaway scripts, zero attachment, pure productivity magic. Then he tried the same approach on a project he actually cares about and watched that 10x feeling crater to something closer to 10%. The bottleneck, it turns out, was never the typing. The hosts dig into what it feels like to let go of code you used to care about, whether "write-only code" is actually the future, and the growing gap between building software and keeping it alive. Links Vibe Coding by Gene Kim & Steve Yegge - The audiobook on AI-assisted development 1Password: From Magic to Malware - How OpenClaw's agent skills became a supply chain attack surface TLDR Newsletter - Source of the "write-only code" concept Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/248-ai-all-the-way-down/ | 1h 01m 10s | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | ![]() 247: Trust Me Bro - LLM Security | Adam built a Claude Code skill for his Taffy REST framework and wanted to share it with the CFML community. Simple enough—create a GitHub repo, add some markdown files, done. But somewhere between "this is cool" and "anyone can install this," a familiar chill crept in. These skills are just text files. No checksums. No digital signatures. No verification that the thing you're installing won't quietly exfiltrate your code to some server in Eastern Europe. Sound familiar? It should. We've been here before—back when passwords lived in plain text and "security" meant hoping nobody looked too hard. The hosts dig into the unsettling parallels between today's LLM plugin ecosystem and the wild west of early internet security. Links Adam's Dotfiles Blog Post - Getting his shit together with dotfiles, Brewfile, and 1Password SSH agent CF Community LLM Marketplace - Adam's community marketplace for CFML-related Claude skills Steve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant - The infamous accidentally-public Google+ post Vibe Coding by Gene Kim & Steve Yegge - The audiobook Ben's been enjoying Socket.dev - Supply chain security for npm dependencies Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/247-trust-me-bro-llm-security/ | 1h 02m 17s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | ![]() 246: Ben's Feeling the Vibe | Ben's been circling vibe coding for months, kept at bay by a simple fear: what if he spends more time fighting the AI over formatting than actually building anything? What if he has to bolt on linters and test runners just to babysit the output? Then his work handed him a Claude plan, and he decided it was finally time to take the plunge. And then something unsettling happened—the code looked like his code. Same line lengths. Same method ordering. Same obsessive formatting. Nobody told it to do that. It just... knew. Meanwhile, Adam has gone full mad scientist. His "Ralph" workflow runs Claude in a loop, feeding it tasks from a JSON file while he walks away to eat dinner. When he comes back, features are done. Tests pass. The machine just keeps building. It's the kind of setup that makes you wonder why you're still manually typing commands into a terminal. Links Adam's Ralph Workflow for Claude Code - Adam's blog post with his implementation Matt Pocock's Ralph Primer Video - The workflow Adam adapted for automated iterative development Algorithm Maze Race - Tim's vibe-coded game on itch.io Pro tip: Use /resume in Claude Code to return to prior sessions Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/246-bens-feeling-the-vibe/ | 1h 18m 36s | ||||||
| 1/22/26 | ![]() 245: Browser Passwords? You're Doing It Wrong | Tim stores his passwords in the browser. There, we said it. But before you grab your pitchforks, it turns out he's got an ancient password vault program backing him up—so he's not completely feral. Still, the hosts can't resist a good-natured intervention. What starts as a gentle roasting turns into a deep dive on password managers, shared family vaults, and why your retirement account deserves better than Chrome's autofill. Carol reveals her galaxy-brain solution to her husband constantly forgetting his master password: she just signed him into her account. He still doesn't know he doesn't have his own 1Password. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/245-browser-passwords-youre-doing-it-wrong/ | 44m 59s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | ![]() 244: Ben vs 2026 | It's a new year and you've probably got a mental list of things you want to learn. But how do you decide what's worth the investment? Ben explores the difference between "just-in-case" learning and "just-in-time" learning, while grappling with AI anxiety and the fear of falling behind. Along the way, Tim shares his own struggle—turns out, saying goodbye to something you built hits different. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/244-ben-vs-2026/ | 59m 28s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 | ![]() 243: Oops, All Aftershow | It's the holidays, and the Working Code crew has a gift for you: a peek behind the velvet rope. In the spirit of Captain Crunch's "Oops! All Berries," this week's episode ditches the usual format entirely. No triumphs, no fails, no structured topic—just pure, unfiltered aftershow energy. Tim unpacks Cory Doctorow's concept of "reverse centaurs"—what happens when you're not assisted by AI, but reduced to its peripheral? Meanwhile, Adam drops a perspective on humanity's place in the universe that reframes everything you thought you knew about time. That, plus Carol humbling an AI chatbot, the death of the golden age of television, and whether the books you loved as a kid were actually any good. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/243-oops-all-aftershow/ | 56m 27s | ||||||
| 12/11/25 | ![]() 242: All I Want for Christmas Is Faster Builds | It's that time of year—each host reaches into Santa's sack of topics to see who's been naughty and who's been nice. Ben returns from visiting his employer's manufacturing headquarters in Georgia with some philosophical musings. Carol is on a mission to slash CI/CD build times. Adam has cautiously optimistic news about passkeys finally working (sometimes). And Tim reflects on a TLDR article suggesting that the management skills you've built—knowing what to build and what not to build—might be exactly what AI-era coding demands. Plus: December blues, mushroom tea for focus, and jQuery as peak imperative JavaScript. Links mentioned: Owning A Lucid Has Been Super Disappointing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WiQAOmESH0 Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are we Cooked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6H7trzMfI Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/242-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-faster-builds/ | 1h 07m 44s | ||||||
| 12/6/25 | ![]() 241: Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords | How do you teach an LLM to write code you can actually trust? Carol's federal government team has been tasked with exploring unattended AI code generation, so she came to Adam and Tim for advice. Their first piece of guidance: whatever tools you pick today will be obsolete by the time you're done evaluating them. The real goal isn't adopting a specific workflow—it's building the skills to ride the wave. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/241-welcoming-our-new-robot-overlords/ | 49m 08s | ||||||
| 11/27/25 | ![]() 240: Memento Mori with Shawn Oden | Remember that you will die. That's the meaning behind "Memento Mori," and it's the theme of this week's episode. Guest Shawn Oden, joins Adam, Ben, and Tim to discuss digital death preparedness for geeks. Inspired by clearing out his grandmother's house and buying his late best friend's computers to protect his digital legacy (and potentially lost Bitcoin), Shawn advocates for documenting passwords, creating wills, setting up power of attorney, and having honest conversations with loved ones. The hosts explore practical steps like using 1Password with shared family vaults, the importance of organ donation documentation, and the philosophical tension between honoring a deceased person's wishes versus meeting the needs of those left behind. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Links & Resources In Case You Get Hit by a Bus (book) eol-dr - End of Life Digital Resources on GitHub EOL-RalphHightower - Another digital estate planning resource NOLO - Get Your Affairs in Order - Legal self-help resources Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/240-memento-mori-with-shawn-oden/ | 53m 01s | ||||||
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