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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.

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Featuring:

• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• How Windsurf was Split between OpenAI, Google, and Cognition in a billion-dollar acquisition deal?
• Repo Prompt
• AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.
• How I use Git Worktrees
• Ultrathink++ | ClaudeLog
• Changelog LIVE in Denver

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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Auth0 (00:00:38)

https://auth0.com/ai

3. Confessions & Friends (00:02:07)

4. The Windsurf drama (00:04:39)

https://techfundingnews.com/how-windsurf-was-split-between-openai-google-and-cognition-in-a-billion-dollar-acquisition-deal/

5. The terminal FTW (00:10:42)

6. npm install -g (00:12:24)

7. Claude Code FTW (for now) (00:13:53)

8. Curating your config (00:15:31)

9. Anthropic's advantage (00:17:27)

10. How you use it (00:20:19)

11. Cruising prompts (00:21:26)

12. Adam's a waiter (00:24:01)

13. Having fun now (00:24:50)

14. ChatGPT emotes to Nick (00:26:54)

15. ChatGPT emotes to Adam (00:29:45)

16. ChatGPT emotes to Jerod (00:30:12)

17. Sycophant mode returns (00:30:56)

18. Sponsor: CodeRabbit (00:32:16)

https://www.coderabbit.ai

19. Claude Code endulgence (00:34:59)

20. It can be real dumb (00:38:04)

21. Different agent, different results (00:40:20)

22. Scaling agents (00:41:28)

23. Waiting on the agent(s) (00:42:47)

24. Actually more productive? (00:47:04)

25. The new AI impact paper (00:50:09)

https://johnwhiles.com/posts/mental-models-vs-ai-tools

26. Nick futurecasts (00:54:34)

27. The coming reckoning (00:57:09)

28. Jerod's two minds (00:59:06)

29. Adam is excited, but... (01:02:43)

30. To know or not to know (01:05:46)

31. Jerod sends a volley (01:08:11)

32. Maintaining knowledge (01:09:46)

33. Generational change (01:10:26)

34. Hand-crafted, really? (01:13:54)

35. Nick has a counter-point (01:15:52)

36. Home-cooked apps (01:17:33)

37. Ultrathink! (01:20:15)

38. The value of software (01:22:09)

39. Time to cash-in (01:24:38)

40. The 19% slowdown (01:25:21)

41. Bye, friends (01:27:42)

42. Closing thoughts (join ++) (01:28:05)

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