Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Scott and Wes answer your questions about coding in the AI era, atrophying skills from too much autocomplete, whether it’s finally time to leave VS Code, chasing flow state with agents, and which single AI subscription is worth your money. Plus: AT Protocol vs Solid, making your AI config portable across tools, and bringing Shadcn-level UX to server-rendered frameworks.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

00:57 AI-Generated Code: Are My Skills Atrophying?

06:03 Is It Time to Move On from VS Code?

13:19 Hitting Flow State with AI Coding

See Wes’ Post on X

19:15 AT Protocol vs Solid: Decentralized Web Approaches

24:55 Which AI Should You Subscribe To?

30:23 Making Your AI Setup Portable Across Tools

33:56 When to Drop a Tool That Still Works

40:12 UX Quality for Traditional Server-Side Frameworks

FluxUI

GraffitiUI

44:14 Using Hermes and Self-Hosted AI Assistants

49:27 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

Scott: ESP32-S3

Wes: Sharge ICEMAG3

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An AI assistant goes rogue and hacks a gym website, a $9k surprise Cloudflare bill lands in someone’s inbox, and AI subscriptions start promising unlimited usage. Plus Meta’s Muse Glimmer, Agent Plugins, Kimi K3 in Copilot, and a pile of CSS chaos.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

02:30 Celld: self host distributed durable objects

07:57 $9k Cloudflare Bill

13:43 Ogygia - SSR islands for SvelteKit

18:49 Brought to you by Sentry.io

19:51 Standard Code - Unlimited Use AI Subscription

29:17 New Meta Model Muse Glimmer

36:12 AI Assistant Hacks Gym

46:49 This Week in AI

54:50 Prime Agent RLM harness

01:01:02 Agent Plugin Spec

01:04:08 Adam Wathan: A Token is a Token

01:07:39 New JS Runtime from Remix Creator

01:11:21 Lost phone found with Bluetooth meter

01:17:24 Center a div with browser sidebars

01:19:49 Flexwind froggy

01:21:55 Thanks for watching!

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Nathan Sobo joins Scott and Wes to explain why Zed was built in Rust, how GPUI works, and what happens to editors once agents write most of the code. They also talk about DeltaDB, Zed’s new Git-compatible version control system, and Delta, the collaborative agentic editor it powers.

Show Notes

00:00 Start

00:35 Welcom to Syntax

01:13 The Journey to Zed: Building the Ultimate Tool

03:26 Why Rust was chosen for Zed?

06:29 Brought to you by Sentry!

07:07 Building a UI from scratch in Rust

GPUI

15:55 AI’s role in coding and development

18:42 The role of text editors in the age of AI

21:52 Delta DB: The vision for collaborative development

DeltaDB

29:06 The Evolution of Collaborative Coding

44:45 The Future of User Interfaces

52:42 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

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Nathan Sobo:

Keychron Q11

Grant Green - Idle Moments

Shameless Plugs

Scott:

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Nathan Sobo:

DeltaDB

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Cloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus: OpenAI's pricing war, Vue Vapor benchmarks, GitHub's new npm malware scanning, and an active supply chain attack hitting 868 packages.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

01:02 Shai Hulud is back!

New Shai-Hulud announcement

Attacked keyv packages

05:27 GitHub scans your npm packages for malware

06:42 Your agent has a wallet now

Make your own

Cloudflare wallet announcement blog post

X402 payments

12:10 Yet another React compiler?

Ripple.ts

Inferno.js

Dominic Gannaway’s launch post

Octane

Native Script

Reactivity + Rendering Benchmark

27:19 Scott switched his browser AGAIN!

Dia

Knock off extension

31:56 AI Mental health survey

32:29 OpenAI models are becoming cheaper?

38:49 GitHub stacked PRs finally arrived

41:48 AI video podcasts

HeyGen launch post

Hank Green’s unhealthy AI usage

48:15 Brought to you by Sentry!

49:28 News from the TC39 meeting

ECMAScript news

Await dictionary

TC39 Process

56:58 Qwen 3.8

01:02:31 Latest and greatest in CSS and UI libraries

Foley.dev

Morphicons

Lucide

Nucleo

8bit library

CSS radar

Impeccable

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Scott and Wes tackle your questions on the rise of the design engineer, why AI still lacks “taste” (and why it’s about more than just looks), and how to actually write tests in the age of AI-assisted coding. Plus: is AI a bubble about to burst, keeping coding agents efficient in massive codebases, introducing kids to AI, a Linux life update, and more!

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

01:18 The Rise of the Design Engineer Role

08:39 Why AI Has No Taste: It’s Not Just How It Looks

14:28 Brought to you by Sentry.io

14:52 Testing in the AI Era: Are We Using AI to Write Tests?

20:09 Is AI a Bubble? Will It Burst?

The AI Bubble is Bursting on YouTube

24:35 Negative Public Sentiment Towards AI and Data Centers

30:16 Update on Scott Using Omarchy and Linux

Is The Omarchy Hype Real?

38:14 Introducing AI to Kids: A Parent’s Perspective with Dr. Courtney

49:34 Getting Hired Without AI Experience: How to Catch Up

52:53 Keeping Coding Agents Efficient: Token Usage, Speed, and Accuracy

Modem.dev Article

Fallow Docs

57:10 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

Scott: Kitchen Sink Brush

Wes: Magnet Fishing

Shameless Plugs

Scott: Phases Podcast, Phases Podcast on YouTube

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