• New Sep 29, 2026

  How to Prepare for a Tech Layoff

  Tech layoffs can happen with little warning, even when your company is doing well. In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss the warning signs that layoffs may be coming, how to prepare while you're st...

• New Sep 26, 2026

  AI’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Intelligence Anymore

  AI models are already remarkably capable, but their intelligence doesn’t matter much if they’re too expensive, limited, or confusing to use. In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike discuss wh...

• New Sep 22, 2026

  AI Basics: Learn These Tips First

  AI is easy to start using, but getting good at it takes practice. In this episode, Matt and Mike break down the AI basics everyone should learn first, from improving your prompts and knowing when AI...

• New Sep 19, 2026

  Is AI Coding Making Technical Debt Worse?

  Is AI coding making technical debt worse, or could it help us finally clean it up? In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike debate how tighter deadlines, unchecked code, and AI’s context li...

• New Sep 15, 2026

  My Favorite Developer and Productivity Apps Right Now

  Every once in a while, a new app actually sticks and changes how you work. In this episode, Mike shares the developer and productivity apps that have earned a permanent spot in his workflow, in...

• New Sep 12, 2026

  I Let AI Help Plan My Vacation... Here’s How It Went

  Can AI actually plan a good vacation? Matt recently used ChatGPT and Gemini to help plan a trip to the UK, from sightseeing and transportation to fitting everything into a packed itinerary. We br...

• New Sep 8, 2026

  Don't Just Vibe Code, Learn While You Code

  AI coding tools can generate huge amounts of functional code in seconds, but does that mean developers no longer need to learn how to code? In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss how aspiring and ju...

• New Sep 5, 2026

  Does AGI Actually Matter to You?

  GPT-6 Astra is here, bringing another huge jump in AI capabilities - and once again raising the question: are we approaching AGI? But defining artificial general intelligence gets messy fast. If...

• New Sep 1, 2026

  AI Agent Skills Explained: What They Are and Which Ones to Use

  Most of us repeatedly teach our AI coding agents the same lessons: ask questions before coding, write a specification, break the work into tickets, test everything, and review the result. Agent sk...

• New Aug 29, 2026

  AI Lets Me Game More - and Work Better

  AI agents can handle tasks independently for minutes at a time - but what should you do while you wait? Start more work, run additional agents, or finally take a break? In this edition of the Web N...

• New Aug 25, 2026

  How to Design Websites for Small Businesses

  A small business website doesn’t always need a fully custom design. In fact, spending too much time on bespoke visuals can waste the client’s budget without helping the business achieve its go...

• New Aug 22, 2026

  Are Tech Leaks Real - or Just Marketing?

  Leaks have become an unavoidable part of following technology and entertainment. Unreleased phones appear online months before their announcements, unfinished games are shown without context, and sp...

• New Aug 18, 2026

  How to Become a GTM Engineer: A New Career Path for Developers

  Developer job titles are changing, and GTM Engineer is one of the fastest-growing roles at the intersection of software, data, automation, AI, and revenue. Instead of building only for product or in...

• New Aug 15, 2026

  Developers Are Exhausted by AI Coding

  After using AI coding tools professionally and personally, Brett Codes says he is done. His viral video and blog post describe feeling detached from his work, less engaged with programming, and in...

• New Aug 11, 2026

  Small Business Websites Need to Do More Than Exist

  Small-business websites used to have a straightforward job: explain who you are, what you offer, and how customers can contact you. Then search became a major source of discovery, and businesses ad...

• New Aug 8, 2026

  Can Company Mission Compete With a $100 Million Paycheck?

  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reportedly worries that some new hires are joining the company for the paycheck rather than its AI safety mission. But with competitors offering top researchers co...

• New Aug 4, 2026

  From Dishwasher to Engineering Manager

  Before becoming an engineering manager, Mike spent nearly two years washing dishes and another five working as a line cook. The jobs may seem completely unrelated to software development, but the le...

• New Aug 1, 2026

  Is AI in a Bubble? History Says It's Complicated

  Every major technological revolution seems to come with the same question: is this a bubble? AI is no exception. In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike explore why so many people are co...

• New Jul 28, 2026

  How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Website

  Choosing the right CMS isn't about picking the most popular platform - it's about asking the right questions. In this episode, Matt and Mike break down the framework they use before recommend...

• New Jul 25, 2026

  Do You Actually Own Your Digital Games?

  Do you actually own the digital games you buy? An Xbox player in Brazil successfully sued Microsoft after a hacked account left him locked out of his entire digital game library - and his other Mic...

• New Jul 21, 2026

  AI Coding Makes Development Easier - So Why Are We Burning Out?

  AI coding tools can make developers faster, remove tedious work, and help us build things that once felt out of reach. So why can using them still leave us feeling drained? In this episode, Matt an...

• New Jul 18, 2026

  Kimi K3 Brings Frontier AI Into the Open

  Kimi K3 is a massive new open AI model with 2.8 trillion parameters, native vision and a one-million-token context window. Its creator claims it can compete near the frontier of coding, reasoning an...

• New Jul 14, 2026

  JavaScript Isn't Always the Answer: Native Browser Features Every Developer Should Know

  Modern browsers have evolved dramatically over the past two decades, quietly absorbing many features that once required custom JavaScript or third-party libraries. In this episode, Matt and Mike ex...

• New Jul 11, 2026

  Growing Your App: From MVP to MLP

  Should you ship your app as soon as it's functional, or keep building until users love it? In this episode, Matt and Mike explore the difference between a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and a Minimum L...

• New Jul 7, 2026

  How to Build an Async Remote Team That Actually Works

  Remote work isn't simply about working from home - it’s about building systems that let people do their best work without constant meetings or interruptions. In this episode, Mike shares nearly a...

• New Jul 4, 2026

  What Happens When Physical Games Disappear?

  Sony has announced that beginning in 2028, new PlayStation games will no longer be released on physical discs. While much of the discussion has focused on digital ownership and game preservation, we...

• New Jun 30, 2026

  AI Safety: From Narrow AI to Superintelligence

  Artificial Intelligence is advancing faster than ever, but can it actually be made safe? In this episode, we explore the evolution of AI from today's Narrow AI systems to the theoretical future of Ar...

• New Jun 27, 2026

  Web News: Consumer Electronics Are Getting Gutted

  The price of consumer electronics keeps climbing, and it may not be slowing down anytime soon. Using Valve's new Steam Machine as a case study, we examine how the ongoing RAM pricing crisis and AI...

• New Jun 25, 2026

  Get Found: SEO, Social Media, and Building an Audience with Matt Diamante

  Matt Diamante joins the show to discuss modern SEO, social media growth, and building an audience in the age of AI. We explore how he grew his following to over 600,000 people, why he fired his la...

• New Jun 23, 2026

  The $2 Trillion AI Panic: Is SaaS Really Dead?

  For years, SaaS companies seemed untouchable. Now, investors have wiped trillions of dollars from software stocks as AI agents become capable of building functional clones of popular products in mi...

• New Jun 20, 2026

  Web News: Would You Risk Your Job to Oppose AI? (Debate)

  In this edition of the Web News we address one of Mike's recent statements where he advised anti-AI workers to "shut up" in the face of a pro-AI workplace. He stated that you should not be bringing up...

• New Jun 16, 2026

  Are AI Data Centers Good or Bad?

  Artificial intelligence may live in the cloud, but the infrastructure powering it exists in the real world. As companies race to build hyperscale AI data centers, communities are raising concerns ab...

• New Jun 13, 2026

  Web News: Anthropic Released An AI It Doesn't Fully Trust

  Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-level AI model with built-in safeguards designed to route certain high-risk prompts to older models instead. As AI capabilities continue to ac...

• New Jun 9, 2026

  AI Isn’t Just Taking Jobs, It’s Creating Weird New Ones

  Most conversations about AI focus on job displacement, but a different story is unfolding at the same time. As companies rush to adopt AI, entirely new roles are appearing to bridge the gap between po...

• New Jun 6, 2026

  Web News: AI vs No-Code

  In this edition of Web News, Matt and Mike debate whether AI coding agents are starting to reverse the no-code revolution. Inspired by a recent article about a company abandoning its no-code we...

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