The Transactional Trap: How 97% of Developers Are Using AI Wrong w/ Leon Noel & Danny Thompson

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Leon Noel and Danny Thompson to talk AI workflows, agentic development, and whether the job of coding has fundamentally changed. They dig into prompt engineering, mental models, OpenClaw setups, the rise of harnesses and orchestration layers, and why testing in production might actually be fine. Along the way, they debate git rebase versus git merge, the death of LeetCode interviews, why Cursor feels different than Copilot, and whether Pokemon Go is still thriving in 2026.

Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz

In this episode:

Chapters

00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
00:02:55 Whiskey Tasting: Matsui Single Cask Sakura
00:14:11 Hot Takes: Git Rebase vs Git Merge
00:20:30 The AI Revolution: From Skepticism to Adoption
00:23:21 OpenClaw Deep Dive: AI Agents While You Sleep
00:49:05 Cursor Web & Long-Running Agents
00:35:58 The Mental Model Problem: How Most Devs Use AI Wrong
00:55:44 AI Prompting Masterclass: Tips from the Experts
01:11:47 Code Review with AI: SLMs, Bug Bot & Snyk
00:32:47 Breaking Into Tech & The Future of Junior Developers
01:16:36 Pokemon Go Nostalgia & Wrap Up

Links

Matsui Single Malt Sakura Cask: https://dewinespot.co/products/matsui-single-malt-sakura-cask

100 Devs: https://leonnoel.com/100devs/

Resilient Coders: https://www.resilientcoders.org/

Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/

OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/

Claude: https://claude.ai/

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

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

Opencode: https://opencode.ai/

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

Pi: https://pi.ai/

Codex 5.3: https://openai.com/

Snyk: https://snyk.io/

Bug Bot: https://bugbot.ai/

Reptile: https://reptile.ai/

CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/

Antigravity: https://antigravity.dev/

GitHub: https://github.com/

Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

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

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

Svelte: https://svelte.dev/

Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/

Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/

Atlassian Forge: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/

Rovo Dev: https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo

HackerRank: https://www.hackerrank.com/

Playwright: https://playwright.dev/

Pokemon Go: https://pokemongolive.com/

Commit Your Code Conference: https://commityourcode.com/

Connect with Leon

Website: https://leonnoel.com/

X / Twitter: https://x.com/leonnoel

Connect with Danny

Website: https://www.dthompsondev.com/

X / Twitter: https://x.com/DThompsonDev

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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