We Stopped Coding by Hand Because Agentic AI Is Too Good

This week, Robbie and Carlo sip Sagamore's 10-year reserve rye and catch up with Carlo on life abroad, AI coding workflows, the changing developer landscape, and why cars, whiskey shipping, and property management are all equally frustrating. They dig into agentic AI loops, the rise of prompt-driven development, whether coding by hand is officially dead, and what happens when tools like OpenCode and Claude become the new normal.

In this episode:

Chapters

00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
00:02:09 Whiskey Tasting: Sagamore 10 Year Reserve Series
00:08:40 Living in Italy: Costs, Culture & Comparisons
00:14:41 Astro Acquired by Cloudflare
00:19:38 Agentic AI & Ralph Loops: The New Development Workflow
00:36:41 Building with Rust: The Hugh Hunter Color Picker
00:47:18 The Death of Hand-Coding & The Future of Software Jobs
00:48:40 Claude Co-Work & AI Desktop Apps
00:48:54 AI Beyond Coding: Life Automation & Efficiency
00:58:34 Landlord Horror Stories & The Tucson Property Saga

Links

Sagamore Spirit: https://sagamorespirit.com/

Astro: https://astro.build/

Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/

OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/

Claude: https://claude.ai/

Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot

Matt Pocock - Ralph Wiggum technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IK18goX4X8

Swach: https://www.swach.io/

Tauri: https://tauri.app/

Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/

Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

Napi-rs: https://napi.rs/

GitHub: https://github.com/

ClickUp: https://clickup.com/

TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/

Python: https://www.python.org/

Linux: https://www.linux.org/

Wayland: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/

Steam Deck: https://www.steamdeck.com/

11.22.63: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11.22.63

Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

Connect with the hosts

Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner

Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/chuckcarpenter

Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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