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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/...

Every E2E Is a Smoke Test: Page Object Models, Flaky Pipelines, and When Testing Is Actually Worth It

Dillon, Scott, and Matt dig into automated testing — the high upfront cost of getting started, why smoke tests deserve to gate code before it hits master, and whether enforced page object models are a...

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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/...

The Parking Lot - 2

Dillon, Scott, and Matt dust off the parking lot for the first time in seven months to work through a backlog of tech news. They open with the 'everything app' land grab — Google's new Whoop competito...

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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/...

The Agents Aren’t The Only Ones Overworked

Dillon, Scott, and Matt dig into a Harvard Business Review piece on the central irony of the AI era: the tools sold to reduce our workload are quietly making us do more, because it's cheap to start wo...

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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/...

Plan Mode Sucks

Dillon, Scott, and Matt dig into Matt's hot take that you shouldn't be using plan mode in your AI coding agents anymore. They land on a nuanced agreement — planning still matters, but plan mode in Cla...

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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. 🎧

Vibe-Coding Your Own Productivity Stack

Dillon walks Scott and Matt through the daily briefing dashboard he's been vibe-coding at work — a single page that aggregates his to-dos, PRs, JIRA tickets, Datadog alerts, and recent notes — and sha...

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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.

No(de.js) AI

Dillon, Scott, and Matt dig into the drama around Matteo Collina's 19,000-line Node.js PR — written largely with Claude Code over Christmas break — that's forced the Node.js community to confront how ...

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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."

Selling The Increment: PR Scope, Nitpicks, and Token Anxiety

Dillon, Scott, and Matt dig into what happens when PR feedback drifts from the plan the team thought they aligned on — scope creep, nitpick comments that block merges, and the eternal tension between ...

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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/...

Retro & React - 3

Dillon, Scott, and Matt unpack the chaotic saga of ClawdBot → MoldBot → OpenClaw — the rapidly-rebranded autonomous agent platform that's exploded on GitHub — and dig into the marketplace malware scan...

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The Bikeshed Podcast @bikeshedpod.com · 7mo ago

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/...

AI Adoption Reality Check

Matt, Scott, and Dillon push back on the AI hype cycle by digging into a Dax tweet about what AI adoption actually looks like inside larger tech companies — bloated LLM bills, unmotivated 9-to-5ers churning out slop, and the burned-out few left cleaning it all up. Plus thoughts on whether AI is really just a fancy search engine, and a hot take that the Super Bowl MVP should've gone to the kicker.

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🎙️ 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/...

Avoiding the Slop With AI Coding

Dillon, Scott, and Matt discuss how to avoid the 'slop pit' of AI-assisted development — the tendency to accept mediocre AI-generated code without proper scrutiny. They share practical strategies for ...

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The Bikeshed Podcast @bikeshedpod.com · 7mo ago

🔥 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/...

2026 Predictions

Scott, Dillon, and Matt share their boldest (and not-so-bold) predictions for 2026 — from autonomous coding agents replacing engineers, to the AI bubble bursting, to one of the hosts getting laid off....

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The Bikeshed Podcast @bikeshedpod.com · 8mo ago

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/...

Retro & React - 2

The bikeshed boys discuss two major tech industry developments: Anthropic's crackdown on third-party agent harnesses and Tailwind's recent layoffs. They explore how Anthropic is shifting focus from th...

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The Bikeshed Podcast @bikeshedpod.com · 8mo ago

🚨 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/...

AI Wrote My Performance Review

It's review season, and the bikeshed boys dive into the dreaded annual performance review process—and how AI is changing everything about it. They share strategies for writing effective self-reviews, ...

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The Bikeshed Podcast @bikeshedpod.com · 9mo ago

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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/...

Retro & React - 1

This week on The Bikeshed, Scott, Matt, and Dillon tackle two breaking stories that have the JavaScript community buzzing: React's severity 10 vulnerability in React Server Components and Anthropic's ...

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🚨 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/...

Clankers Can Review Code Now?!?

The bikeshed boys dive deep into the emerging world of AI-powered code reviews—exploring whether our robot overlords are ready to stamp your PRs, or if they're just glorified linters with delusions of...

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🚨 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/...

Why Internal Tooling Sucks

The bikeshed boys tackle one of software engineering's most contentious debates: should you build internal tools or adopt external solutions? With real examples from their companies—custom dependency ...

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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/...

The Parking Lot - 1

The bikeshed boys ramble on about coffee, Cursor 2.0 and their new composer model, Claude Code tips and tricks, and pitfalls, as well as AI in coding interviews!

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🚨 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/...

The Downfall of React

The bikeshed boys talk about the new hottest web framework on the block: Remix 3, hopefully its third times the charm for the remix guys!

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Matt Hamlin @matthamlin.me · 11mo ago

🚲 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 😬 🎧

Is The Web Screwed?!

AI crawlers killing ads, chatbots replacing browsers, and the slow death of human-centric content. The bikeshed boys debate whether we're heading for a hard fork of the web or just a really awkward tr...

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

The Bikeshed Podcast@bikeshedpod.com · 11mo ago

🚲 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. 🎧

scottykaye @scottykaye.com · 11mo ago

We’re finally back‼️‼️

The Bikeshed Podcast@bikeshedpod.com · 11mo ago

🚲 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 😅 🎧

Deploy Fast, and Break Things?!

The gang talks about whether chasing 5-minute deploys is worth it, debating the trade-offs between deployment speed and stability, and why moving fast might sometimes mask the real problems slowing yo...

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Managing Dependencies: It Depends

The gang shares how FAANG-like companies manage their frontend dependencies without pain! Hint! They Don't!

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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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🚨 New episode alert 🚨 Are React Server Components Risky?! The gang interviews Matt on this episode, talking about all things RSCs. Exploring their benefits, trade-offs, and adoption strategies with insight from using them at Wayfair, Fireworks, and Whoop! bikeshedpod.com/episodes/9/a...

Are React Server Components Risky?!?

The gang interviews Matt on this episode, talking about all things React Server Components (RSCs), exploring their benefits, trade-offs, and adoption strategies. The hosts draw on their experiences at...

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scottykaye @scottykaye.com · last yr.

🚨 New episode alert 🚨 Monorepo Madness The Bikeshed podcast returns after a brief hiatus with hosts Scott Kaye, Matt Hamlin, and Dillon Curry. Tune in to hear the gang talk about keyboards, Scott's Italy trip, monorepos, and our hot takes on CSS! bikeshedpod.com/episodes/8/m...

Monorepo Madness

The Bikeshed podcast returns after a brief hiatus with hosts Scott Kaye, Matt Hamlin, and Dillon Curry. Tune in to hear the gang talk about keyboards, Scott's Italy trip, monorepos, and our hot takes ...

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Ditch the Career Ladder

The gang talks about engineering career levels, approaching promotions, building connections and leverage through time and effort, and why levels don’t really matter.

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