I know we're a bit behind on this one - but fortunately I had some time to try out OpenClaw and have since shut my agent down 🤣

New episode 🦾

The ClawdBot → MoldBot → OpenClaw saga, the marketplace malware scandal (1,184 malicious skills, one attacker shipped 677), and why Anthropic quietly cut subscription billing for always-on agents.

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AI Adoption Reality Check Matt, Scott, and Dillon push back on the AI hype cycle by digging into a Dax tweet about what AI adoption actually looks like inside larger tech companies — bloated LLM bills, unmotivated 9-to-5ers churning out slop, and the burned-out few left cleaning it all up. Plus thoughts on whether AI is really just a fancy search engine, and a hot take that the Super Bowl MVP should've gone to the kicker.

New episode 🚲

We finally flip the script on our usual AI talk and get honest about what adoption actually looks like at bigger companies: $500K LLM bills, slop code, and a CFO somewhere wondering what just happened.

Plus: is AI just a fancy search engine?

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How do I nuke all my triangle company deploys?

This post has inspired me to write a blog post that I might attempt to publish this weekend 🤞

Avoiding the Slop With AI Coding Dillon, Scott, and Matt discuss how to avoid the 'slop pit' of AI-assisted development — the tendency to accept mediocre AI-generated code without proper scrutiny. They share practical strategies for ...

🎙️ New ep: "Avoiding the Slop With AI Coding"

Throw prompt over wall → get code back → "sure, looks fine" → repeat

Sound familiar? We're breaking the cycle 🔄

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2026 Predictions Scott, Dillon, and Matt share their boldest (and not-so-bold) predictions for 2026 — from autonomous coding agents replacing engineers, to the AI bubble bursting, to one of the hosts getting laid off....

🔥 New Bikeshed episode! We made our 2026 predictions and rated them on the Spice-o-meter 🌶️

Will AI agents replace engineers? Will the AI bubble burst? Will one of us get laid off?

Tune in to find out 👇

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One slightly annoying aspect of mostly using the same theme everywhere, is that finding what app you wanted to open via Mission Control is that it takes just a bit more time to parse which window filled with text is the right window

Retro & React - 2 The bikeshed boys discuss two major tech industry developments: Anthropic's crackdown on third-party agent harnesses and Tailwind's recent layoffs. They explore how Anthropic is shifting focus from th...

AI drama double feature!

We break down Anthropic's crackdown on third-party tools & what Tailwind's layoffs reveal about competing with AI.

Turns out the product isn't the model—it's the ecosystem. 🤖

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AI Wrote My Performance Review It's review season, and the bikeshed boys dive into the dreaded annual performance review process—and how AI is changing everything about it. They share strategies for writing effective self-reviews, ...

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨

It's review season! We dive into using AI to write self-reviews, fighting for interesting projects on top-heavy teams, and the trap of being a senior who stops shipping code 💻

Plus: our 2026 resolutions & Arc Raiders drama 🎮

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One of the most annoying aspects of Claude Code on the web/mobile app - if I hit my limits I can't continue the work locally or with another llm.

My code is stuck there until the limits refresh

what’s one habit or life pro tip i should start in the new year?

assume i have heard all the common recommendations and even the rare ones

kinda crazy that the phrase “vibe coding” is only 10 months old

The Bikeshed Pod Where developers debate the small stuff that matters

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new search criteria for our next apartment or house, a dedicated podcasting studio room

@scottykaye.com please build a better homebrew while you’re on pto these next two weeks

why does it feel the need to fetch and show me other unrelated packages that have been updated when i just want to update one thing?!

How is homebrew so bad and yet so widely used? I know there’s many, many alternatives but none have taken off it seems?

I feel like bsky needs to have better content recommendation feeds

I like following who I do right now, but sometimes I don't want to see their politics content, or see their atproto content

Does ChatGPT Codex on the web just not work for everyone else also? I enter a prompt and then it just refreshes the page and clears the input??!

Why does Cursor change its layout basically every day?

Its great that the team is shipping fast updates, but updating the layout/design of it each time is getting tiresome as a user

This year on Bluesky I wrote 213 posts and 99 replies. I received 366 likes, whereas 56 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "use" and 🤔!

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The modern day "my code is compiling"

Maybe its just my circle of bluesky, but I feel like things are shifting more towards being accepting of AI vs anti-AI, feels like a good shift generally speaking!

Small annoyance with bluesky, when I go to open it on my computer I can search for `bsky`, when I go to open it on my phone I have to search for `bluesky` (`bsky` as a search term doesn't work)

Sure, iOS search could be better - but still wish the URL would match the app name

Onboarding Your New AI Teammate Are we reinventing the wheel when it comes to onboarding new AI agents to a codebase, when we already have primitives available for onboarding humans?

New blog post on why I think we're approaching "onboarding" AI agents incorrectly

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Shout out to @scottykaye.com on the Retro & React naming here!

Really enjoyed this format, let us know if you want more episodes like this!

Retro & React - 1 This week on The Bikeshed, Scott, Matt, and Dillon tackle two breaking stories that have the JavaScript community buzzing: React's severity 10 vulnerability in React Server Components and Anthropic's ...

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨

React drops a severity 10 vulnerability 🔥 and Anthropic acquires Bun 🤯—not exactly the calm December we expected.

We break down what it all means in our first news episode: Retro and React!

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