A few predictions about where software engineering is going, including some counter arguments as well

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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, ...

Where developers debate the small stuff that matters

Are we reinventing the wheel when it comes to onboarding new AI agents to a codebase, when we already have primitives available for onboarding humans?

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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 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!

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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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