143: The AI Bill Is Due

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   E148 · 8 Jun 2026 · 59 min

   148: The Bots Have Officially Taken Over

   In this episode: people are still writing new programming language, Microsoft is going all "developers, developers, developers" again, and bots are apparently outnumbering humans on the web now. Timestamps: 1:55 - Bot traffic has passed human traffic5:28 - The Jam programming language12:04 - Jack at Microsoft Build29:26 - Cloudflare bought VoidZero34:46 - Red Hat is the latest victim of Shai Hulud38:39 - Anthropic wants AI dev to slow down41:35 - Someone used a Waymo in a robbery46:47 - What’...

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   E147 · 1 Jun 2026 · 53 min

   147: Vercel Made a Programming Language for Robots

   In this episode npm implements staged publishing, Deno is patrolling your claws, and Vercel has a new agent-first language. Timestamps: 0:58 - npm staged publishing4:52 - Claw Patrol11:00 - zerolang20:18 - Wordpress 7.023:46 - Dr. Axel takes down his blog and books33:31 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - zerolang, an agent first programming languageJack - Claw PatrolTJ - npm staged publishingLightning News: Wordpress 7.0 and AIDr. Axel takes down his blog and booksWhat Makes Us Happy...

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   E146 · 25 May 2026 · 52 min

   146: Humans vs AI—Fight!

   On this episode: Rust has another convert, npm takes another stab at stopping the hackers, and Jack had a coding battle against robots. Timestamps: 1:00 - Bun switches to Rust6:45 - Jack’s battle against AI on Greenfield Games16:01 - npm RFC to block install scripts22:10 - State of Web Dev AI survey results37:10 - Mark Erikson joins the AI revolution41:45 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Bun, but in RustJack - Jason Lengstorf’s Greenfield Games TV showTJ - npm RFC to block install script...

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   E145 · 18 May 2026 · 53 min

   145: AI Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves

   In this episode: An IDE written in Rust hits 1.0; more vulnerabilities, this time in TanStack and Next.js; and the AI layoffs continue—we’ll discuss whether you should be worried. Timestamps: 0:46 - Alternative editor Zed hits 1.010:48 - AI layoffs24:12 - TanStack’s CI pipeline was compromised30:01 - Another Next.js vulnerability31:46 - Tailwind 4.3 adds new scrollbar utilities35:03 - Fire Starter: The new install element41:22 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Alternative editor Zed hits ...

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   E144 · 11 May 2026 · 58 min

   144: Did Tanner Just Replace React?

   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...

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   E142 · 27 Apr 2026 · 56 min

   142: Vercel Had a Week

   In this episode: Anthropic sets its sights on designersVercel has a “security incident”And Elon eyes an IDETimestamps: 0:50 - Anthropic introduces Claude Design10:07 - Vercel’s security incident18:27 - SpaceX is buying Cursor26:15 - Google is cracking down on “back button hijacking”28:35 - Anthropic bans a 60-person company overnight32:45 - Fire Starter36:40 - What’s making us happyNews: Paige - Anthropic introduces Claude DesignJack - SpaceX is buying CursorTJ - Vercel has a “security incide...

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   E141 · 21 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

   141: When AI Belongs in Products with Dan Wilson & Kyler Krenek

   This week special guests Dan Wilson of DataCurl and Kyler Krenek of Vowel join us to discuss when AI belongs in products and what kinds of AI tools are best suited to different needs. Special Guests: Dan Wilson, Principal Partner of DataCurlKyler Krenek, cofounder of Vowel Relevant Links: Dan’s personal websiteDan’s company websiteDan on LinkedInKyler’s GitHubKyler’s blogKyler on LinkedInVowel.toWhat Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Shrinking season 3TJ - Claude CoworkJack - Giving stuf...

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   E140 · 13 Apr 2026 · 58 min

   140: Cloudflare is Coming for WordPress

   One of the former React Core team members caused quite the stir last week when he released Pretext, a TypeScript library that uses math to make text measurement and layout super fast. Handy for niche use cases? Definitely. Controversial online? Extremely. Also this week, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, a new initiative bringing together all the biggest players in tech to reshape cybersecurity because Anthropic's latest frontier model Mythos has identified thousands of high-severity vul...

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   E139 · 6 Apr 2026 · 36 min

   139: Claude Code’s Secrets Are Out

   This week, Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code’s source code to the world when it published a source map inside an npm release. While the offending file was quickly removed, the code was out there and folks got to work speculating about what’s next for Claude Code. Always running background daemons, something known as “undercover mode”, and a cute little ASCII animal next to inputs are some of the things we might see in Claude’s future. The npm hacks keep on coming as well, as popular d...

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    E138 · 30 Mar 2026 · 51 min

    138: Next.js Leans into AI Agents

    Microsoft dropped the last version of JavaScript-powered TypeScript this week with TS 6.0. TypeScript 6 bridges the gap between the TS of yesteryear and the soon to come Go-powered TS compiler of TypeScript 7 that users can fix now so they can smoothly upgrade later. Next.js 16.2 debuted this week with the usual performance improvements expected in a minor version upgrade, plus AI improvements to make AI-assisted development smoother and easier. In response to Cloudflare’s Vinext fork a few w...