2025 Reflections: What surprised us, Comeback of the CLI, Claude Code

About this episode

The episode reflects on the surprises of 2025, discusses the comeback of CLI tools, and previews upcoming trends for 2026.

Matt's Big Move to Lisbon Cloudflare Code Mode: 2,500 Tools in 1,000 Tokens Code Mode vs Bash vs SQLite: What Actually Works for Agents 2025 Reflections: The Year of Claude Code and MCP 2026 Preview: Files Are Back Quick Fire: Best Model, Best Lab, Biggest Surprises

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt Carey, Wilhelm Klopp

Topics covered

• technology
• business
• entrepreneurship
• CLI tools
• Claude Code
• 2025 reflections
• 2026 preview

Keywords

• CLI
• Claude Code
• Cloudflare
• 2025
• 2026
• tools
• entrepreneurship
• business

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cloudflare

Products: Claude Code

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