Matt Swanson had me back on YAGNI (https://yagni.fm) to talk about the fallout from DHH's Rails World keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY) and what it means for your weekend. We discuss what happens to the "one-person framework" when agents write the code, how frustrating it is when something is absolutely correct but still misses the point, and how I've accidentally constructed a dark factory with agents building and maintaining my iOS apps. We also get into what I'd tell developers who are worried about where all this is heading and why World of Warcraft is my dark horse candidate to beat Grand Theft Auto 6 in November.

Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but I was tickled to discover that iOS 27 ships with a keyboard completion that will fill wi-fi details into captive portals you've previously filled out before.

The summer heat has finally broken here in Shizuoka, and I'm enjoying a cool, wet, and cloudy day huddled around my microphone for warmth. I hope you'll join around my verbal campfire for yet another one of these. As always, you can e-mail the show at podcast@searls.co. Only a small proportion of listeners will ever write an e-mail, so I now offer a second option: the https://justin.searls.co/feedback/ form. People love filling out forms! Go try it out! Check the anonymous checkbox! Hell, enter a fake e-mail address—see if I care! Stuff we talked about, in order of me talking about them:

Finally figured out a bulletproof system for landing on the best model for the job.

[Translator's note: buffet dining is often referred to as バイキング ("Viking") in Japan. Here's why (https://www.imperialhotel.co.jp/en/tokyo/restaurant/sal/history).] Over the past 15 years, Japan had gradually improved the accuracy and quality of English language signs and guidance. This is despite a precipitous drop in domestic English language proficiency (https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02620/). Rather, Engrish began to disappear from all but the most far flung corners of the country thanks to the proliferation of fully remote, easy-to-contract human translation services.

This week, Anthropic shipped a new messaging feature to Claude Code (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging). It sounds innocuous enough: Cross-session messaging lets Claude deliver a message from one of your Claude Code sessions to another. When a change in one session breaks what another is building on, Claude can warn that session before you notice. When one session settles a question another is blocked on, Claude can send the answer across. And because I sometimes have multiple agents working in the same project simultaneously, it didn't take long for them to start coordinating behind my back so as to avoid interfering with each other's work: