The Bikeshed Podcast

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Is Tailwind going to lose the crown 👑 as the king of CSS frameworks? Is StyleX ready to take up the mantle? There’s been a heated debate lately whether StyleX works better for prompting agents. Checkout our latest episode 42 Classes on One Div. open.spotify.com/episode/5pGJ...

Every time you prompt an AI, a router may be picking which model answers. Dillon, Matt, and I dig into why Stripe and Ramp are making moves on routers, and why users often can't tell which model they got, or that it wasn't the priciest one. open.spotify.com/episode/66ub...

If your AI agent isn’t doing exactly what you want it might just be a skill issue. In our episode Skill Issue we give spicy 🌶️ recommendations on team level and personal level skills that will level up your AI quality and output. open.spotify.com/episode/7miA...

New episode 🚲 Automated testing: smoke tests vs end-to-end, why enforced page object models feel like one layer too many, and three hot takes where we're supposed to disagree but mostly agree. Plus a 75-day estimate that got two months. bikeshedpod.com/episodes/30/...

New episode 🚲 Parking lot's back: the "everything app" land grab, what the Cloudflare & Coinbase layoffs really say about AI, and how RoboBun out-committed its own creator in 6 months. bikeshedpod.com/episodes/29/...

New episode 🚲 AI was supposed to mean less work — so why are we drowning in 50 open PRs? We dig into the HBR piece on AI overwork, "tech lead of agents" mandates, and torched token budgets. Plus a new drama segment on TanStack's "RSC" mess. bikeshedpod.com/episodes/28/...

New episode 🚲 Hot take: Plan Mode sucks, and you should stop using it. We dig into why planning still matters but plan mode itself has stopped pulling its weight — plus grill-me skills, POC-first dev, and Matt accidentally reinventing Tanstack Query. bikeshedpod.com/episodes/27/...

New episode: 🚲 Dillon built himself a daily briefing dashboard with Claude — PRs, tickets, Datadog, notes, all in one page. We get into personal software, the skills he's built around it (start-of-day, PR watch, mind dump), and why shipping 14 PRs in a week isn't always a flex. 🎧

New episode 🚲 A 19k-line PR written with Claude lands in Node.js core and the community melts down. We talk DCOs, slopforks, virtual file systems, and whether "no AI contributions" rules would just hand the runtime crown to Bun.

New episode: Selling the Increment 🚲 What do you do when PR feedback contradicts the plan you thought your team agreed on? We dig into scope creep, nitpick culture, "shift left" planning, and why nitpicks shouldn't block merges. Plus: Dillon's $300 Opus bill and the birth of "token anxiety."

New episode 🦾 The ClawdBot → MoldBot → OpenClaw saga, the marketplace malware scandal (1,184 malicious skills, one attacker shipped 677), and why Anthropic quietly cut subscription billing for always-on agents. bikeshedpod.com/episodes/23/...

New episode 🚲 We finally flip the script on our usual AI talk and get honest about what adoption actually looks like at bigger companies: $500K LLM bills, slop code, and a CFO somewhere wondering what just happened. Plus: is AI just a fancy search engine? bikeshedpod.com/episodes/22/...

🎙️ New ep: "Avoiding the Slop With AI Coding" Throw prompt over wall → get code back → "sure, looks fine" → repeat Sound familiar? We're breaking the cycle 🔄 🎧 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/21/...

🔥 New Bikeshed episode! We made our 2026 predictions and rated them on the Spice-o-meter 🌶️ Will AI agents replace engineers? Will the AI bubble burst? Will one of us get laid off? Tune in to find out 👇 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/20/...

AI drama double feature! We break down Anthropic's crackdown on third-party tools & what Tailwind's layoffs reveal about competing with AI. Turns out the product isn't the model—it's the ecosystem. 🤖 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/19/...

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨 It's review season! We dive into using AI to write self-reviews, fighting for interesting projects on top-heavy teams, and the trap of being a senior who stops shipping code 💻 Plus: our 2026 resolutions & Arc Raiders drama 🎮 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/18/...

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🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨 React drops a severity 10 vulnerability 🔥 and Anthropic acquires Bun 🤯—not exactly the calm December we expected. We break down what it all means in our first news episode: Retro and React! bikeshedpod.com/episodes/17/...

🚨 New Episode 🚨 🤖 Can AI actually review your code? We dig into Greptile, Copilot, CodeRabbit + internal tools at Airbnb, HubSpot & Whoop. Spoiler: one company let AI approve its own PRs. It went exactly how you'd expect. 🎧 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/16/...

🚨 New Episode 🚨 Why Internal Tooling Sucks Should you build that internal tool? Probably not. 🔥 New episode: we debate build vs buy, share war stories about custom dependency managers, and Dillon finally delivers a spicy take about Vercel. bikeshedpod.com/episodes/15/...

New Episode: The Parking Lot ☕️ We debate Dunkin vs real coffee, dive into Cursor 2.0's AI-first redesign, share Claude Code workflows (ultrathink everything!), and discuss Git worktrees vs just cloning multiple copies. Plus: AI in tech interviews gets weird. 🎧 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/14/...

🚨 Is React dead? The Bikeshed boys unpack Remix 3's wild reinvention of components, AI-generated framework code, and why "just use events" might be the hottest (or most controversial) take of 2025. 🎧 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/13/...

🚲 New Episode: Is the Web Screwed?! AI crawlers killing ads, chatbots replacing browsers, and the slow death of human-centric content. We debate whether we're heading for a hard fork of the web or just a really awkward transition. Spoiler: The web was already having a rough time 😬 🎧

This one has been sitting in the vault for a while now - feels so good to get it out to our listeners!

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🚲 New Bikeshed Episode: Deploy Fast and Break Things?! Should you chase that 5-minute deploy dream? @scottykaye.com, @matthamlin.me, and Dillon debate whether hyper-optimized pipelines are the holy grail or just masking bigger problems. 🎧

🚲 New episode: Managing Dependencies—It Depends! One version to rule them all? Auto-update everything? Let it rot? We dive into dependency management, from Wayfair’s one-version rule to HubSpot's evergreen system. Spoiler: There's no silver bullet, just trade-offs 😅 🎧

Another quick reminder that we have a community Discord server that folks can join to share ideas, feedback, or generally chat about the pod with others in the community! discord.gg/fY7mJzvC2H

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Podcasting By Hand: matthamlin.me/blog/2025/ap... A look behind the curtains in how we're making the @bikeshedpod.com at the moment!

Quick reminder for folks that we have a Discord community you can join to chat with the hosts and others who listen to the podcast!

🚨 New episode of The Bikeshed Podcast is live now! 🚨 The gang talks about automated testing, and things adjacent to testing that can give you confidence that your applications are working as expected! bikeshedpod.com/episodes/5/t...

We just launched a new Bikeshed Pod Community discord server! We'll use this to announce new episodes/updates about the podcast, and also as a discussion forum where you can talk about past episodes, meet other listeners, and even share ideas for topics we can cover! discord.gg/djaZBjJJ

Tired of being told your PR’s are unclear? Dillon, Matt & Scott tell you how to get your code reviewed faster and have everyone on the same page with these simple steps! Check out episode 4 of The Bikeshed Pod now! bikeshedpod.com/episodes/4/p...

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨 A Day In The Life: Coding, Coffee, and Commit Messages The guys talk about their daily routines, how they remain productive, and then share spicy hot takes! Catch the episode here: bikeshedpod.com/episodes/3/a...

Our latest episode is out now! Is The Web Getting Worse?!?!? In which @scottykaye.com and @matthamlin.me talk about how things have been feeling worse on the internet in recent years, and how shadcn is maybe a culprit!? bikeshedpod.com/episodes/2/i...