LLMs have read everything, but they haven't spent fifteen years at the company learning which rules actually matter. Can a model ever bring a career's worth of experience to a decision, or is human wisdom overrated to begin with? And now that every answer starts with "let me ask Claude", are we really more productive than ever, or have we all just hired a ghostwriter? This week we discuss the abdication of opinion.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Matt Pocock's skills — grill-me and Wayfinder.
• cron-job.org — the cron host Adam landed on.
• openblack — the open-source Black & White engine Tim is vibe-coding on.
• The Trevor Project — where Adam's thirty dollars from Infisical went.

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Uncle Bob wrote the book on clean code, and the whole argument rests on one number: you read code ten times for every time you write it, so you'd better make it readable. His agents write it now, and he doesn't read a line. This week we discuss who clean code is for now that machines are the ones reading it.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI — the Matt Pocock interview the whole episode is a reaction to. Yes, he's in a bathrobe.
• Infisical — where Adam moved his secrets after a long-running agent read his .env and cheerfully told him so.

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We're back after a week off and we have some things to get off our chest. Carol's agent doesn't understand auth, Ben explores the nature of performative coding, Adam agreed that meetings are for decisions, then spent two hours writing an email to prove it, and Tim's AI is better than yours. This week we have a grab bag of hot takes and hot takes on hot takes.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Taffy — Adam's CFML REST framework, the counterexample of a public repo whose product is the API, not the source
• Subway Takes — the 100% agree / 100% disagree format the table falls into mid-meeting-takes
• Adam's dotfiles blog post — the git bare repo trick for tracking a gitignored personal CLAUDE.md, promised on air

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