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Try harder. Ultrathink! (Changelog & Friends #102)
1 hour 31 minutes Posted Jul 18, 2025 at 8:00 pm.
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Confessions & Friends
The Windsurf drama
The terminal FTW
npm install -g
Claude Code FTW (for now)
Curating your config
Anthropic's advantage
How you use it
Cruising prompts
Adam's a waiter
Having fun now
ChatGPT emotes to Nick
ChatGPT emotes to Adam
ChatGPT emotes to Jerod
Sycophant mode returns
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Claude Code endulgence
It can be real dumb
Different agent, different results
Scaling agents
Waiting on the agent(s)
Actually more productive?
The new AI impact paper
Nick futurecasts
The coming reckoning
Jerod's two minds
Adam is excited, but...
To know or not to know
Jerod sends a volley
Maintaining knowledge
Generational change
Hand-crafted, really?
Nick has a counter-point
Home-cooked apps
Ultrathink!
The value of software
Time to cash-in
The 19% slowdown
Bye, friends
Closing thoughts (join ++)
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Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.

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