The panel digs into the Cloudflare vs Vercel turf war over Next.js, breaking down what it really means that one engineer vibe coded a full framework rewrite in a week for $1,100 using Claude Code. Then things get spicy: from the Lovable data breach to an early Anthropic model escaping its sandbox, the crew debates whether the wave of AI security incidents is systemic, and what the build vs buy collapse means for developers rolling their own tools in the AI agent era.

One Engineer, One AI, One Week: Cloudflare Just Rebuilt Next.js: https://bytesizedbets.com/p/one-engineer-one-ai-one-week-cloudflare
Cloudflare's vibe-coded Next.js replacement starts a turf war: https://cybernews.com/security/hackers-find-critical-flaws-in-cloudflares-nextjs-alternative/
How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week: https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/
JavaScript survey reveals gripes against Next.js: https://www.devclass.com/development/2026/02/10/javascript-survey-reveals-gripes-against-date-handling-webpack-and-nextjs-and-that-typescript-has-won/4090262
Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked — here's what we know: https://venturebeat.com/technology/claude-codes-source-code-appears-to-have-leaked-heres-what-we-know
Anthropic accidentally exposes Claude Code source code: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/anthropic_claude_code_source_code/
Claude Mythos Preview (Anthropic Red Team blog): https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/
Claude Mythos Preview — BBC coverage: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk1py1jgzko

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00:00 Introduction & Panelist Welcome
02:00 Cloudflare Rewrote Next.js for $1,100 — Does It Matter?
06:30 Vercel Lock-In, Open Next & the Adapter Debate
09:00 AI Security Incidents — Lovable, Anthropic Source Code Leak & More
12:30 Is the Security Crisis Systemic or a People Problem?
16:00 Rolling Your Own Stack With AI Is a Terrible Idea
18:30 Mythos, Zero-Day Bugs & Anthropic's Security Credibility
22:00 Is Anthropic's "Safety First" Framing Just Marketing?
26:00 Fleet Management, Agent Burnout & Brain Fry
28:30 Hot Take — Noel: Software Is Getting Worse and AI Is to Blame
32:30 Hot Take — Paul: The Second Internet & Claude Code's Future
36:30 Hot Take — Jack: The Highlander Reboot Is Going to Slap
37:30 Hot Take — Paige: Think Before You Grant OAuth Permissions
40:00 Wrapping Up

Special Guest: Jack Herrington.

Alexander Lichter, DevRel at VoidZero, walks us through Void, a Vite-native deployment platform where your code is your infrastructure. From automatic provisioning of databases and KV storage to Rolldown's massive build speed improvements in Vite 6, Alex explains how Vite Plus handles local tooling while Void handles deployment, and how MCP support lets AI coding agents like Claude scaffold and deploy apps end-to-end with minimal human input.

Website: https://www.lichter.io
X: https://x.com/TheAlexLichter
Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@manniL
Github: https://github.com/manniL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAlexLichter
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/TheAlexLichter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderlichter

Void: https://void.cloud

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Special Guest: Alexander Lichter.

Miriam Suzanne joins the podcast to unpack the surprisingly deep world of CSS value resolution, the browser program running beneath every website. She explains how cascade and inheritance work together, why CSS custom properties introduce invalid at computed value time errors, and how CSS functions and mixins change the game. Plus: is Sass actually dead, or does it still solve real problems that the browser can't touch?

Website: https://www.miriamsuzanne.com
Mastodon: https://front-end.social/@mia
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/miriam.codes
Github: https://github.com/mirisuzanne
Codepen: https://codepen.io/miriamsuzanne

Is Sass Dead Yet? CSS Mixins and Functions - Miriam Suzanne - CSS Day 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIvqkkfmPYE
When Variables Cascade with MIRIAM SUZANNE - SmashingConf New York 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-vopd4wMvI

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Special Guest: Mia Suzanne.

Most developers reach for date-fns or Moment.js without realizing the browser already ships a powerful string formatting library called the JavaScript Intl API. Killian Valkhof, creator of Polypane, walks through how locale-aware date formatting, currency formatting, the Segmenter API, and the Collator API can replace heavy npm dependencies, with support for over 7,000 locales baked right into every evergreen browser since 2017.

INTL: The best browser API you’re not using | Kilian Valkhof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhzJ1UFlRjw

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00:00 Introduction — Browser APIs & the Intl API
01:00 Why Developers Overlook Internationalization
02:30 What the Intl API Actually Is (It's a Formatting Library)
04:00 7,000 Locales Built Into Every Browser
06:00 What Intl Does NOT Do — It's String Output Only
07:00 date-fns, Moment.js, Luxon, and Numeral.js Compared
09:00 Why the Segmented Rollout Slowed Adoption
11:00 Currency Formatting and Locale Trust Signals
13:00 The Worst Under-Used API in the Browser
16:00 How Browser Specs Have Evolved Since HTML5
18:30 Dialogue, Popover, Anchor Positioning — New Primitives
23:00 The Top Layer and Z-Index Problems Solved
25:00 WebGPU, WASM, and Native API Trends
27:30 The Easiest Way to Start Using Intl Today
31:00 Collator, Segmenter, and List Format APIs
32:00 Wrap-Up and Where to Find Killian's Full Talk

Special Guest: Kilian Valkhof.

The Amazon AI coding outage reignited a debate the industry can't ignore: is this an AI failure or a process failure, and does that distinction even matter anymore? Paige, Jack, Paul, and Noel dig into vibe coding culture, the engineer retention crisis, and the rise of harness engineering as a discipline in this month's panel. They also tackle autonomous agents running while you sleep, zero-touch engineering, what a senior engineer even means now, and whether open source can survive the agentic era.

Beyond the Hype: Why Vibe Coding Leaders Are Facing a Retention Crisis: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/03/09/beyond-the-hype-why-vibe-coding-leaders-are-facing-a-retention-crisis/
Atlassian layoffs as part of AI push: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/12/atlassian-layoffs-software-technology-ai-push-mike-cannon-brookes-asx
I'm Building Agents That Run While I Sleep: https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep

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00:00 Introduction & Panel Welcome
01:30 Amazon's AI Outage - Process Failure or AI Failure?
05:00 Harness Engineering and the Real Lesson from Stripe
08:30 The Retention Crisis - Are Good Engineers Leaving Tech?
11:30 The Satisfaction Problem - AI Stole the Mountain Climb
14:00 Code Review Is the New Bottleneck
16:00 Stripe vs Amazon - Two Different Philosophies on AI at Scale
18:00 Would You Restart Your Career in a World of Code Review?
21:00 Domain Experts as the New Engineers
24:00 Is Artisanal Code a Real Future?
28:30 Content in the AI Era - Who's It Even For?
30:30 Agents Running While You Sleep - The Verification Problem
33:00 Zero-Touch Engineering and How Paul's Team Does It
36:00 Auto-Research, LLMs Judging LLMs, and Brain Rot Scripts
40:00 Are We Actually Shipping Faster?
41:00 What Does "Senior Engineer" Mean Now?
47:00 Hot Takes - Open Source, USB-C, Defense Contracts, and Taste
53:00 Wrap-Up

Special Guest: Jack Herrington.