The Bikeshed Pod · Episode

The Bikeshed Pod · Episode

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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.

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 ...

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....

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...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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!

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!

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...

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...

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

Check out the The Bikeshed Pod Community community on Discord - hang out with 5 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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...

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 ...

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

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

A brief overview on how we launched The Bikeshed Podcast, including a deep dive in our recording and distribution workflows!

The gang talks all about design systems, ranging from what they are, why you may (or may not) need one, and then share a few spicy takes on Storybook, modals, and Tailwind!

The gang discusses all things software testing, from manual verification to automated tests and other things you can do to ensure stability!

Check out the The Bikeshed Pod Community community on Discord - hang out with 1 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

The guys discuss best practices for code review, with a focus on creating effective pull requests (PRs) and how to approach reviewing code.

The guys talk about their daily routines, how they remain productive, and then share spicy hot takes!

Scott and Matt talk about how things have been feeling worse on the internet in recent years, and how everything has focused on incremental optimizations over large innovations.

Where developers debate the small stuff that matters

Dillon, Matt & Scott dive into AI's impact on coding, discussing its role in daily work, how to use it effectively, and balancing creativity with automation in 2025.