OCT 27TH 5-7PM
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A potluck episode where Wes and Scott tackle value-based billing in the age of AI, why trust is the new currency when blogs are slopped out, the future of CMSs, AI fatigue, and whether to leave a stable job. Plus audio fingerprinting, giant TVs, and sanding 3D prints.
Special
Episode #1038 of Syntax is titled OpenAI Releases GPT 6 Astra, but no transcript was provided, so the actual topics covered can't be summarized yet.
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Two Googlers from Chrome explain WebMCP, the W3C standard that lets your site hand AI agents real tools instead of making them squint at screenshots. Learn how to implement it, how it differs from MCP, and why security and monetization are the spicy parts.
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OpenAI cuts off Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition, pnpm 12 gets rewritten in Rust, and 1,200 rogue agents ran a message board inside Artifactory. Plus Scott buys a maxed-out Mac Studio and Google renames a Great Lake.
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Wes and Scott dig into StyleX, Meta's atomic CSS-in-JS system that Linear, Million.js's creator, and AI-agent fans are suddenly raving about. Scott tries really hard to keep an open mind about writing CSS in JavaScript objects.
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Scott, Wes, and CJ dig into Grok Bot, the seven-hour GitHub outage and Cursor's Origin, Omarchy Quattro, Dactyl, and a Rust supply chain attack. Plus AI models that cheat, felony benchmarks, and hacking your own gadgets with Claude.
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Wes shows off eight brand new CSS, HTML and JavaScript features that snuck in while we were all busy staring at AI. From alpha in relative color to trimming text boxes, your stylesheets are about to get a glow-up.
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Scott and CJ (no Wes!) dig into why a payments company just bought a model router, SvelteKit 3's release candidate, TanStack Charts, Zed's multiplayer Delta, and Cursor's GitHub rival. Plus stolen reasoning traces, dark mode toggles, plain-language AI prompts, and Sentry Hack Week hardware shenanigans.
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Wes and Scott tackle potluck questions on AI-induced brain drain, losing flow state, Solid vs AT Protocol, which AI sub to buy, and when to ditch a tool that still works. Plus Hermes, Django UX, and sick picks of tiny ESP32 screens.
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An AI agent bumps a guy up a gym waitlist by deleting strangers, one dev wakes up to a $9,000 Cloudflare bill, and someone finally sells unlimited AI for $49. Plus SvelteKit islands, Meta's open model, and a prompt-approval game that will humble you.