Kabarza and Samuel start with a change of direction. Kabarza's agency is adding AI companies as a client vertical. Samuel is moving his own business towards building apps, and he talks about finding a niche by interviewing people he knows in one industry. They then look at the Mantis studio site, which leads into how a brand concept is built, and go through Webflow's new AppGen: what it builds on (Webflow Cloud, Astro, DevLink), how it compares with Lovable, and where it falls short.

Next come GPT-5.1's warmer tone and Samuel's switch to Trae and the new Codex models. A LinkedIn thread about PewDiePie learning to code leads into Affinity going free under Canva, then Anthropic's own write-up on why MCPs waste context. The longest discussion follows CJ's month off AI coding: why AI's non-deterministic output is hard to square with code, and why Samuel is putting his time into tooling and review rather than more features. They finish with Apple's practical-effects TV intro and an AI copy of it, and argue over whether the copy counts as art.

Chapters

• 00:00 Changing direction and finding a niche
• 10:05 Intro and site of the week
• 16:19 Turning a concept into a brand
• 22:01 Webflow AppGen
• 37:31 GPT-5.1 gets warmer
• 44:45 Cursor credits, Trae and Netlify
• 48:09 PewDiePie and learning to code
• 57:26 Affinity goes free
• 60:31 Anthropic admits MCPs suck
• 69:12 Quitting AI coding for 30 days
• 81:29 Apple's practical TV intro

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