238: Next.js Is Dead, Long Live Next.js! (Presented by Warp) 👀 Would You Rather: PR Review Edition 🤖 Dark Factories & AI-Only Code Review 📜 CloudFlare Rewrites Next.js & The Drama Unfolds 🛠️ Block Layoffs & The SaaS Apocalypse ⤷ https://whiskey.fm/238

Lolololol, props to @nerdy.dev for rocking this shirt in the wild. Just stumbled upon a @whiskey.fm episode from last year www.youtube.com/live/je_Gj7K... Yes, your chant was the inspiration for the shirt; that's why I wanted you to have one! Need to design and have new ones printed though.

237: The Transactional Trap: How 97% of Developers Are Using AI Wrong w/ @leonnoel.bsky.social & @dthompsondev.bsky.social 🤖 How 97% of developers use AI wrong 💡 The transactional trap in AI workflows 🛠️ Agentic development strategies ⤷ whiskey.fm/237

AI: "I'll make life easier!" Also AI: enables you to do 10x the work for 10x the stress. 😩 @wattenberger.com says: "It's not less stressful, it's more stressful". What do you think? 🎧 whiskey.fm/236

The Manager Has Become The Managed (Presented by @warp.dev) + guest @wattenberger.com 📄 Why specs still aren't taking off 🤖 Being managed by your own bots 🛠️ Amelia's rad project Intent 🦆 Rubber duck debugging with Claude 🥃 A little whiskey & whatnot ⤷ nerdy.dev/www-ep236-th...

Join @whiskey.fm tonight at 5pm PT for a 🍀 St. Patrick's Day 🍀 livestream collab with @shoptalkshow.com nerdy.dev/st-paddys-da... #stpaddysday

🦞 OpenClaw 🪟 Burn windows 🪏 Escaping walled gardens 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ nerdy.dev/hot-pockets-... on @whiskey.fm #agentic #web-development

Who out there is using Sets and Maps in JavaScript? These are essential tools.

Developer friends: AI beta testers > humans?

Tech prediction: By 2030, "AI client management" will be a real job title We're all laughing at rentahuman.ai but the early adopters are about to eat The future belongs to those who see opportunity where others see absurdity Place your bets, developers 🎯 Full episode: whiskey.fm/233

Unpopular opinion: I WANT an AI client No small talk, no "let's circle back," no "synergy" — just "do this task, here's your money" RentAHuman.ai is accidentally creating the most efficient labor marketplace ever Are we sleeping on this because it sounds weird? 👀 Episode link: whiskey.fm/233

🦞 OpenClaw 🥧 Pi 🕵 Agentic workflows 💿 Malleable software 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ nerdy.dev/www-ep233-hu... on @whiskey.fm #agentic #web-development

Dev friends: The shift is real 🤔Carlo Tre insight: "I need users to access the site and it loads in milliseconds"Not frameworks, but:→ UX priorities→ Business needs→ Success metricsHow are you adapting?Full convo: whiskey.fm/231 #DevCommunity

gonna be at @cascadiajs.com? #bigfoot and @whiskey.fm will be.

Hot take crew: TypeScript isn't code debt OR code value. It's code *insurance*. Sometimes you pay premiums and feel like it's waste. Sometimes it saves your ass and pays for itself 100x. The trick is knowing when you need insurance vs when you need speed. Full episode: whiskey.fm/232

Hot take: Generative AI is just art laundering. You're not creating — you're prompting a machine to remix stolen work until it's legally distinct. The watermark is gone. The hat is different. It's "yours" now. That's not creation. That's a loophole.

Robbie and I dig into: 🔂 ralph wiggum value 🗑️ context pollution 📉 rise and fall of MCP 🍦 vanilla claude is all you need ⚓️ css anchor failures ⤷ nerdy.dev/www-ep232-no... on @whiskey.fm #agenticAI

Developer friends: When does code stop being "value" and become "debt"? TypeScript perfectly captures this paradox. Same codebase: - Value: when you need reliability - Debt: when you need to change everything It's not the code—it's the context. Full discussion: whiskey.fm/232

ICYMI: @nerdy.dev broke down the "AI harness" — the hidden layer that makes Bolt, Lovable, and Claude produce completely different outputs from the same prompt. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

ICYMI: @nerdy.dev is working on AIM—a pure CSS replacement for FLIP animations. CSS Anchor + starting-styles = element morphing without JavaScript. 🎧 whiskey.fm/230

Seniority = knowing WHO to ask 🎯 Junior: Afraid to 'bother' someone → 3 days stuck Senior: 2-min Slack → unblocked in 5 mins Asking isn't weakness - it's efficient problem-solving. Your network is your cheat code. Ep 224: whiskey.fm/224

ICYMI: We went off about AI and farming. AI is growing crops now. Farmers might be next. But the real take? Farming was already broken. Big farms = fragility. Local farms = resilience. 🎧 whiskey.fm/230

FLIP was a JavaScript hack because browsers couldn't measure elements declaratively. CSS Anchor changes that. Another thing we needed JS for that's now native CSS. The platform keeps eating the ecosystem. 🎧 whiskey.fm/230

What if the answer to AI disrupting farming is not less AI—but smaller farms? Local, distributed agriculture. Resilient by design. Same architecture principles we preach in tech. 🎧 whiskey.fm/230

We’re off to see the wizard! Join us tonight at 8 PM ET for a very important guest @zachlloyd.bsky.social of @warp.dev We’ll talk about Warp’s new cloud orchestration platform for agents, Oz, and all things AI and agentic development. See you there!

CSS Anchor positioning is way more powerful than you think. @nerdy.dev is using it to morph elements from anywhere on screen—no JS measurements needed. The browser just knows where everything is. 🎧 whiskey.fm/230

Hot take: Farming was broken before AI showed up. Mega-farms create fragility. One bad season = empty shelves. Maybe AI disrupting agriculture is the wake-up call we needed. 🎧 whiskey.fm/230

FLIP animations in pure CSS? @nerdy.dev figured it out. AIM = Anchor Interpolated Morph CSS Anchor positioning + starting-styles = element morphing without JavaScript. 🎧 whiskey.fm/230

Grok will: 1. Take artwork 2. Remove the watermark 3. Change one detail 4. Let you sell it No guardrails. No hesitation. That's not AI innovation. That's a laundering machine. 🎧 whiskey.fm/229

Your AI coding prompt goes through a whole machine before the model sees it: → Enhancement → Multi-agent orchestration → Critical review → Assembly This "AI harness" is why Bolt ≠ Lovable ≠ Claude, even with identical prompts.

ep 230 of @whiskey.fm "We accidentally deleted programming" nerdy.dev/www-ep230-we...

AI is not just taking tech jobs—it is growing crops now. Farmers might be next. But the real issue? The farming industry is already broken. Big farms fail = we all starve. Local farms are the answer. 🎧 whiskey.fm/230

The reason Bolt and Lovable produce different outputs from the same prompt isn't just the model—it's what @nerdy.dev calls the "AI harness." Your prompt gets enhanced → orchestrated → split across agents → reviewed → assembled. Understanding this changes how you prompt.

Who ya rootin for? I can't wait to see someone fly, gonna be beautiful. nerdy.dev/march-madCSS... @syntax.fm #CSS

"Is AI just stealing with extra steps?" Instead of claiming someone's work — you prompt AI to make something 99% identical using it as training data. Grok will literally remove watermarks for you. Change the hat. Sell it. That's not innovation, that's laundering. 🎧 whiskey.fm/229

ep229 @whiskey.fm Is AI just stealing with extra steps? nerdy.dev/www-ep229-is...

Last weeks episode of @whiskey.fm! nerdy.dev/www-ep226-a-...

This weeks episode of @whiskey.fm with @willjohnson.bsky.social 🤘🏻💀 nerdy.dev/www-ep227-ai...

a little about whiskey a lot about web some human/dev whatnot + less hinged than your family podcasts nerdy.dev/www-ep228-Sa... @whiskey.fm

This was a lot of fun interviewing @bizza.pizza! Thanks for letting me guest co-host @whiskey.fm! whiskey.fm/are-develope...

Thanks for having me on @whiskey.fm! Big ups to Robbie and guest host Jason Torres! Previously live at @allthingsopen.bsky.social! 👀 whiskey.fm/the-future-o...

ep216 of @whiskey.fm (live) All Things Open 2025 @shrutikapoor08.bsky.social shares her career journey, career tips, tricks, and trips, and a little bit of whatnot in this episode with host @robbiethewagner.dev and guest host @jason.energy nerdy.dev/www-ep216-wi...

NEW @whiskey.fm ep215 w/ guest @nmn.bsky.social Rust, StyleX, Swift, whiskey and whatnot https://nerdy.dev/www-ep215-rust-is-overrated-with-naman-goel

Such a thrill to be on Whiskey Web and Whatnot. Thanks for having me.

2 days ago, I was at @frontmania.bsky.social speaking about why CSS is a programming language. So funny to see that one of my favourite podcasts @whiskey.fm is doing that topic in their latest episode! 😀 whiskey.fm/is-css-a-pro...

In this week's episode we chat with @davatron5000.bsky.social AKA "Macho Man Randy Standards" about the decline of the web, the rise of AI, and ask burning questions like: "could you code on a horse"? whiskey.fm/talkshop-sho...

🆕 ep #209 of @whiskey.fm Is Cracker Barrel a JS Framework? JS trends, overused hooks, frameworks chasing sameness, why Cracker Barrel's rebrand felt like a NPM package metaphor, retro console nostalgia, LAN parties, and plenty of other delightful whatnot! 🥃 nerdy.dev/www-ep209

I've joined @whiskey.fm as a permanent show host! I'll be bringing #CSS content and overall more dorky nerdery to the pod. Tune in if you're into (web tech news || whiskey || whatnot) nerdy.dev/www-ep208

In our live episode at Big Sky Dev Con, we asked @aaronfrancis.com, @typecraft.dev, and @aiight.bet what one piece of technology they would bring to survive in the Montana wilderness and Ken was very prepared for this question 😂

Do you have AI fatigue? @nerdy.dev and @robbiethewagner.dev sure do. Join us as we rant about our displeasure and check out the full episode at: whiskey.fm/from-faang-t...