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Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #102

Try harder. Ultrathink!

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2025-07-18T20:00:00Z

Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #101

Measuring the actual impact of AI coding

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2025-07-11T19:05:00Z 🎧 17,294

Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are actually making developers. Teaser: the productivity increase isn’t as high as we expected. We also discuss Jevons paradox, AI agents as extensions of humans, which tools are winning in the enterprise, how development budgets are changing, and more.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #96

Adventures in babysitting coding agents

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2025-06-06T19:00:00Z 🎧 22,105

The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software devs should approach coding agents, and what it all means for society.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #90

Hello, Matworld!

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2025-04-25T19:00:00Z #culture 🎧 20,055

Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #89

Vibing into the vibe

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2025-04-18T17:30:00Z 🎧 22,006

Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team’s complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #86

Of agents & agency

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2025-03-28T19:00:00Z 🎧 22,159

Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the viability agentic coding, to feel all the feelings that AI brings out of us as developers, and to share something new in her life that changes everything.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #76

Other people's robots

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2025-01-17T20:30:00Z 🎧 21,424

Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia’s recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo’s latest infinite loop, what’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup, and whether or not AI has gone mainstream… warts & all!

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