264: Look Busy, Claude's Working
The promise was that AI would take the grunt work off your plate and leave you the good stuff. This week is the part no one advertised: you...
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263: Intimacy with the Code
Getting unstuck has gotten so cheap that Ben can't remember the last time he actually learned something at work — and the struggle he's skip...
262: Zen and the Art of AI-Driven Maintenance
This week is the quiet worry underneath all the productivity gains: that every time you hand the boring work to a machine, you're handing ov...
261: The Ben Turing Test
Adam trained an AI on twenty years of Ben's blog, then asked Ben to pick his own words out of a lineup of forgeries. This week the hosts pla...
260: Reinventing the Wiki
What's the point of a personal wiki when AI agents have already read the entire internet? This week is about patterns for co-maintaining a p...
259: Walling Off Your Mental Garden
This week is a philosophical conversation about what you let into your head — the podcasts, the influencers, the political figures, the frie...
258: On the AI of It All
Adam wrote a blog post this week about why AI keeps making him feel worse. This week is an honest conversation about the hypocrite's bind: n...
257: We Solved Everything
"We have solved all of the world's problems." Observability past the point where more logs stop helping, continuous deployment when the cust...
256: The Productivity Trap: How Optimizing Everything Broke Us
It's 11:30 PM and you're still prompting. The code is better than anything you'd have shipped a year ago. The output is prolific, the roadma...
255: AI in the Streets
You spend all day steering AI through code. Then you step outside and it's steering everything else. AI is listening to therapy sessions and...
254: Claudependent
The productivity gains are real. So is the nagging feeling that something else might be happening. The crew use AI every day, and this week...
253: The Adversarial Agents Are Arguing Again
What if the best way to get good work out of AI is to stop being nice to it? Adam and Tim have both landed on the same uncomfortable discove...
252: Meet Showbot
Tim spent a single Sunday afternoon with Claude and built Show Bot -- a sarcastic Discord bot trained on every Working Code transcript, comp...
251: Ben vs. Tests
Testing sounds simple until you actually try it. Private methods that can't be reached without hacks. Dependency injection that doubles your...
250: Stuff, Things, WIP: Commit Messages
Do commit messages even matter anymore, or did pull requests kill them? Ben works one commit per PR and thinks the commit message is the PR...
249: 10 Years of Tech Debt
For ten years, Adam's codebase has carried an ORM layer that everybody knew was wrong and nobody was touching. Nine hundred functions. Fifte...
248: AI All the Way Down
Ben had been riding high on vibe coding—throwaway scripts, zero attachment, pure productivity magic. Then he tried the same approach on a pr...
247: Trust Me Bro - LLM Security
Adam built a Claude Code skill for his Taffy REST framework and wanted to share it with the CFML community. Simple enough—create a GitHub re...
246: Ben's Feeling the Vibe
Ben's been circling vibe coding for months, kept at bay by a simple fear: what if he spends more time fighting the AI over formatting than a...
245: Browser Passwords? You're Doing It Wrong
Tim stores his passwords in the browser. There, we said it. But before you grab your pitchforks, it turns out he's got an ancient password v...