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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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, ...

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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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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 ...

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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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Clankers Can Review Code Now?!? The bikeshed boys dive deep into the emerging world of AI-powered code reviews—exploring whether our robot overlords are ready to stamp your PRs, or if they're just glorified linters with delusions of...

🚨 New Episode 🚨

🤖 Can AI actually review your code? We dig into Greptile, Copilot, CodeRabbit + internal tools at Airbnb, HubSpot & Whoop.

Spoiler: one company let AI approve its own PRs. It went exactly how you'd expect.

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Why Internal Tooling Sucks The bikeshed boys tackle one of software engineering's most contentious debates: should you build internal tools or adopt external solutions? With real examples from their companies—custom dependency ...

🚨 New Episode 🚨

Why Internal Tooling Sucks

Should you build that internal tool? Probably not. 🔥

New episode: we debate build vs buy, share war stories about custom dependency managers, and Dillon finally delivers a spicy take about Vercel.

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The Parking Lot - 1 The bikeshed boys ramble on about coffee, Cursor 2.0 and their new composer model, Claude Code tips and tricks, and pitfalls, as well as AI in coding interviews!

New Episode:

The Parking Lot

☕️ We debate Dunkin vs real coffee, dive into Cursor 2.0's AI-first redesign, share Claude Code workflows (ultrathink everything!), and discuss Git worktrees vs just cloning multiple copies.

Plus: AI in tech interviews gets weird.

🎧 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/14/...

The Downfall of React The bikeshed boys talk about the new hottest web framework on the block: Remix 3, hopefully its third times the charm for the remix guys!

🚨 Is React dead?

The Bikeshed boys unpack Remix 3's wild reinvention of components, AI-generated framework code, and why "just use events" might be the hottest (or most controversial) take of 2025.

🎧 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/13/...

Is The Web Screwed?! AI crawlers killing ads, chatbots replacing browsers, and the slow death of human-centric content. The bikeshed boys debate whether we're heading for a hard fork of the web or just a really awkward tr...

🚲 New Episode: Is the Web Screwed?!

AI crawlers killing ads, chatbots replacing browsers, and the slow death of human-centric content. We debate whether we're heading for a hard fork of the web or just a really awkward transition.

Spoiler: The web was already having a rough time 😬

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This one has been sitting in the vault for a while now - feels so good to get it out to our listeners!

We’re finally back‼️‼️

Deploy Fast, and Break Things?! The gang talks about whether chasing 5-minute deploys is worth it, debating the trade-offs between deployment speed and stability, and why moving fast might sometimes mask the real problems slowing yo...

🚲 New Bikeshed Episode: Deploy Fast and Break Things?!

Should you chase that 5-minute deploy dream? @scottykaye.com, @matthamlin.me, and Dillon debate whether hyper-optimized pipelines are the holy grail or just masking bigger problems.

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Managing Dependencies: It Depends The gang shares how FAANG-like companies manage their frontend dependencies without pain! Hint! They Don't!

🚲 New episode: Managing Dependencies—It Depends!

One version to rule them all? Auto-update everything? Let it rot? We dive into dependency management, from Wayfair’s one-version rule to HubSpot's evergreen system.

Spoiler: There's no silver bullet, just trade-offs 😅

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Are React Server Components Risky?!? Podcast Episode · The Bikeshed Pod · 06/16/2025 · 1h 17m

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Are React Server Components Risky?!? The Bikeshed Pod · Episode

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Are React Server Components Risky?!? The gang interviews Matt on this episode, talking about all things React Server Components (RSCs), exploring their benefits, trade-offs, and adoption strategies. The hosts draw on their experiences at...

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Are React Server Components Risky?!

The gang interviews Matt on this episode, talking about all things RSCs. Exploring their benefits, trade-offs, and adoption strategies with insight from using them at Wayfair, Fireworks, and Whoop!

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Monorepo Madness Podcast Episode · The Bikeshed Pod · 06/09/2025 · 1h 10m

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Monorepo Madness The Bikeshed podcast returns after a brief hiatus with hosts Scott Kaye, Matt Hamlin, and Dillon Curry. Tune in to hear the gang talk about keyboards, Scott's Italy trip, monorepos, and our hot takes ...

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Monorepo Madness

The Bikeshed podcast returns after a brief hiatus with hosts Scott Kaye, Matt Hamlin, and Dillon Curry. Tune in to hear the gang talk about keyboards, Scott's Italy trip, monorepos, and our hot takes on CSS!

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Ditch the Career Ladder The gang talks about engineering career levels, approaching promotions, building connections and leverage through time and effort, and why levels don’t really matter.

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Growth 🪴

Ditch the Career Ladder Podcast Episode · The Bikeshed Pod · 05/20/2025 · 45m

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Ditch the Career Ladder The Bikeshed Pod · Episode

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Ditch the Career Ladder The gang talks about engineering career levels, approaching promotions, building connections and leverage through time and effort, and why levels don’t really matter.

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Ditch the Career Ladder

Tune into this (slightly) shorter episode where the gang talks about career progression, engineering levels, and how to grow horizontally as well!

bikeshedpod.com/episodes/7/d...

sorry it's been such a long wait - hoping to get back to recording asap

Podcasting By Hand A brief overview on how we launched The Bikeshed Podcast, including a deep dive in our recording and distribution workflows!

Podcasting By Hand: matthamlin.me/blog/2025/ap...

A look behind the curtains in how we're making the @bikeshedpod.com at the moment!