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Voice AI in production - does it work?
A demo of several popular voice AI providers, how it works, and my experience with real customers talking to my agents.
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How to use agentic AI with your ecommerce store
Learn how to get your products to show in ChatGPT or Claude using MCP, and how connectors like UCP and ACP work.
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AI Agent basics: tools and MCP
Understand how tools and MCP work in your customer facing AI agents so you can reduce hallucinations and get them to follow instructions better.
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What Jev is and how to use it in your AI apps
Jev is a new classifier model released by the co-creator of ChatGPT. It's not an LLM, but it's really fast and cheap way to make decisions using structured output. You should definitely use it in your apps, but it may not work the way you think.
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Jev, Grok Bot, and slop grenades
Scott and Wes discuss Amp Orbs, the new Jev model, Grok Bot, slop grenades, and the whiteboard test for AI engineers.
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AI Agent basics: writing good prompts
Your customer facing AI agent prompts need 5 things: job, truth, workflow, guardrails, and FAQ. Avoid these 2 big mistakes: too much and too little.
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AI Agents explained
An AI Agent is a loop with LLM calls, tools, and more, here's what that actually looks like.
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Cloud harnesses are the future of coding for SWEs
Wes and Scott discuss LLM-assisted coding in cloud containers like Amp Orbs, and Wes shares an AI-built side hustle.
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AI coding skill loss, Codex workflows, and SWE jobs report
Wes and Scott discuss whether agentic coding atrophies your skills, demo a Codex workflow with computer use, and share news about the SWE job market.
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No hype: how real engineers are using AI in production today
Scott and Wes discuss how they use Codex and Claude in production at work, from workflow improvements to AI harnesses and automation.
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What's new in AI and software engineering
Wes and Scott explore practical AI integration, misconceptions about AI progress, and the enduring value of creativity and strategic thinking.
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AI and software engineering: what is valuable now if it's not code?
Scott Bolinger and Wes Cole discuss AI, Skills, Open Claw, Codex, Pi, and what makes software engineers valuable beyond writing code.
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AI Predictions for 2026: What Software Engineers Need to Know
Scott and Wes share their AI predictions for 2026, covering agentic coding, developer tooling, jobs, and interviewing.
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AI at a big tech company - all hype or losing our jobs?
Wes and Scott discuss how AI feels at work, why it isn't taking their jobs any time soon, and Google's Universal Commerce Protocol.
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Dear Software Engineer: You Still Have Value
Even if AI writes all the code.
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What happens to engineers when AI writes all the code?
A discussion of coding agents, software engineers' value and jobs, missing hands-on coding, Anthropic agent skills, and Tailwind's business decline.
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Is Opus 4.5 going to take my software engineering job?
Scott and Wes discuss AI-built apps, lower barriers to MVPs, and why engineers need to focus on business value as software development changes.
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How AI is transforming customer support
Guest Richard Clayton, director of engineering in Care at GoDaddy, joins Scott and Wes to discuss AI in customer care and internal engineering.
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You're Absolutely Right Episode 7: Cloudflare workers and durable objects
Scott and Wes talk about Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5, then dive into Cloudflare workers and durable objects.
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How LLM Context Windows Work
A short clip about LLM context windows from episode 6 of You're Absolutely Right.
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From Prompts to Agents: 7 Essential Concepts You Should Know About AI
The basics of building with LLMs
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A deep dive on LLM context and tools with 2 principal engineers
Wes and Scott discuss context windows, prompt scope creep, context overflow, MCP, and getting better model outputs.
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2 principal engineers talk AI tools and testing
Scott and Wes discuss testing multi-agent systems, Convex.dev, voice AI tools, and measuring AI's impact on engineering.
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2 principal engineers talk AI coding, layoffs, data models, and 0github.com
Wes and Scott discuss layoffs, a vibe-coding app, data models, Cursor's Composer model and new UI, and 0github.com.
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AI Agents
A simple way to think about what AI agents are, what they do, and why getting them to work reliably is hard.
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Challenges of AI in production
Building a demo app with an LLM is easy, because you don’t need it to work perfectly.
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Everything I’ve Learned Building an AI App
From my experience using Open AI to build an AI Assistant, hopefully it’s helpful!