231: We Stopped Coding by Hand Because Agentic AI Is Too Good

This week, Robbie and Carlo sip Sagamore's 10-year reserve rye and catch up with Carlo on life abroad, AI coding workflows, the changing developer landscape, and why cars, whiskey shipping, and property management are all equally frustrating. They dig into agentic AI loops, the rise of prompt-driven development, whether coding by hand is officially dead, and what happens when tools like OpenCode and Claude become the new normal.

In this episode:

• (00:00) - Intro

• (01:43) - Whiskey rating & review: Sagamore 10 Year Reserve Series

• (09:15) - Shipping whiskey to Italy and the hidden cost of imports

• (11:55) - Why Sagamore's standard offering might still be the best

• (18:55) - Drinking less whiskey, more wine, and raising kids

• (20:58) - Car shopping struggles and why bench seats don't exist anymore

• (26:51) - Chinese EVs, the Ford Mach-E, and waiting for the Scout

• (29:02) - Astro acquired by Cloudflare

• (31:26) - Data centers, water usage, and eminent domain

• (35:15) - Have you run a Ralph loop yet?

• (37:22) - OpenCode, Claude, and which AI models actually work

• (40:58) - Why fresh context matters and polluted sessions fail

• (42:48) - Are we all tech leads now?

• (46:45) - Will prompt bros replace engineers?

• (48:50) - The death of pretty code and why craft doesn't matter to machines

• (52:57) - Building a color picker in Rust with OpenCode

• (54:46) - Why Swach is suddenly so slow

• (57:12) - Should you move from Electron to Tauri?

• (58:26) - Claude Co-Work and connecting AI to your file system

• (01:00:10) - Vibe Kanban and automating GitHub issues

• (01:02:00) - Why food was better before we modified everything

• (01:05:00) - Property nightmares and IRS liens

• (01:08:00) - The Steam Machine and the future of gaming

Links

• Sagamore Spirit: https://sagamorespirit.com/

• Astro: https://astro.build/

• Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/

• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/

• Claude: https://claude.ai/

• Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

• Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

• Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot

• Matt Pocock - Ralph Wiggum technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IK18goX4X8

• Swach: https://www.swach.io/

• Tauri: https://tauri.app/

• Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

• Napi-rs: https://napi.rs/

• GitHub: https://github.com/

• ClickUp: https://clickup.com/

• TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/

• Python: https://www.python.org/

• Linux: https://www.linux.org/

• Wayland: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/

• Steam Deck: https://www.steamdeck.com/

• 11.22.63: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11.22.63

• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner

• Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/chuckcarpenter

• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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