This week, Robbie and special guest co-host Adam Argyle talk about life after layoffs, the myth of job security at big tech companies, and what it really means to build meaningful things on the web.

In this episode:

(00:00) - Intro
(01:23) - Whiskey: Chicken Cock Rye
(02:45) - From FAANG to fired: the illusion of stability in Big Tech
(14:49) - How HTML and CSS are replacing JavaScript, one feature at a time
(23:13) - Robbie’s role at HashiCorp
(26:47) - What is AI actually good at?
(53:30) - Taste, tools, and the art of building with (or without) AI
(57:32) - Waking and baking
(58:54) - Robbie on raising twins
(01:03:05) - Why Robbie left Amazon
(01:04:25) - Where tech is headed: AI, burnout, and the future of creativity
(01:09:20) - Plugs

Links

Chicken Cock: https://chickencockwhiskey.com/
Seinfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld
Norlan Glass: https://norlanglass.com/
Chrome: https://www.google.com/chrome/
South Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park
Amazon: https://amazon.com
TanStack: https://tanstack.com/
Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/
Shopify: https://www.shopify.com
Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/
Lady Bird: https://ladybird.org
Mozilla: https://www.mozilla.org/
Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/
Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com/
Apple: https://apple.com
Westworld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)
Dead Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Space
Awwwards: https://www.awwwards.com/
Vue: https://vuejs.org/
Safari: https://www.apple.com/safari/
Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
Figma: https://www.figma.com/
Lodash: https://lodash.com/
HashiCorp: https://www.hashicorp.com/
Ember: https://emberjs.com/
Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/
Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/
Firebase Studio: https://firebase.studio/
Zed: https://zed.dev/
NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/
ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
Claude: https://claude.ai
Cline: https://cline.bot/
Deno: https://deno.com/
Sam Altman: https://x.com/sama
DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/
Dia: https://www.diabrowser.com/
Warp: https://www.warp.dev/
Honda Accord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Accord
Silicon Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)
Bitcoin: https://bitcoin.org/en/
Catch Me If You Can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can
Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
Ken Wheeler: https://x.com/ken_wheeler/
MySpace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace
GitHub: https://github.com

Connect with Adam

Website: https://nerdy.dev/
X / Twitter: https://x.com/argyleink

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Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd

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