242: All I Want for Christmas Is Faster Builds

It's that time of year—each host reaches into Santa's sack of topics to see who's been naughty and who's been nice. Ben returns from visiting his employer's manufacturing headquarters in Georgia with some philosophical musings. Carol is on a mission to slash CI/CD build times. Adam has cautiously optimistic news about passkeys finally working (sometimes). And Tim reflects on a TLDR article suggesting that the management skills you've built—knowing what to build and what not to build—might be exactly what AI-era coding demands. Plus: December blues, mushroom tea for focus, and jQuery as peak imperative JavaScript. Links mentioned: Owning A Lucid Has Been Super Disappointing Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are we Cooked? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .

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242: All I Want for Christmas Is Faster Builds is an episode from Working Code by Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham.

This episode is 67:44 long.

This episode was published on Dec 11, 2025.

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