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- (00:00) - This Month in React April
- (00:26) - Introductions
- (02:36) - What convinced you AI code tools were worth using?
- (04:24) - Using early ChatGPT for DB migrations
- (06:59) - Watching AI use a command-line
- (08:16) - Background chat agents
- (08:58) - Staying very hands-on while using AI tools
- (11:00) - Driving AI closely without reading its code
- (17:50) - Mark's workflow; OpenCode with CodeNomad UI, plus IDE+git UI. Opus 4.6 on API
- (20:39) - Swizec's workflow, latest Cursor on Opus
- (23:58) - Carl's workflow, mostly ClaudeCode but looking at custom orchestrators
- (25:23) - Exploring fully autonomous agents
- (28:08) - Mark's AI debugging work in React core
- (31:42) - Value of providing more context
- (33:58) - AI-owned documentation
- (37:09) - Using good engineering practices still matters?
- (40:47) - How do you know the right code to make?
- (42:49) - Good communication still matters
- (45:13) - What will "review" look like in the future?
- (46:17) - Automating functionality tests with deployment practices
- (51:49) - What behaviors belong to the agent, and what fundamentally can't be part of the agent?
- (56:17) - Impacts of LLMs on software engineering?
- (01:03:22) - A superpower right now is a domain expert who can kind of code
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