Samuel and Kabarza are back after a fortnight off. They catch up on Kabarza's move to Payload CMS, his interactive Christmas card for clients and a Rubik's cube race that turns into a lesson on God's number. Kabarza's site of the week is the Getty's 3D Persepolis experience, which he picked in solidarity with protesters in Iran. He praises its accessibility settings and its unusually complete slider.

The main discussion is the Tailwind paradox: usage has never been higher, yet revenue has fallen far enough that the company laid off most of its engineers, because AI writes the classes and nobody visits the docs any more. They go on to Andrej Karpathy's post about feeling behind as a programmer, work through Boris Cherny's tips on how he uses Claude Code, and look at Cursor's dynamic context discovery for MCP tools. The episode closes with MKBHD's collaboration with Epic Spaceman on how small transistors have become.

Chapters

• 00:00 Happy new year and Payload CMS
• 05:24 Christmas cards for clients
• 08:34 Rubik's cube race and God's number
• 13:01 Site of the week: Persepolis
• 20:39 The Tailwind paradox
• 35:39 Andrej Karpathy feels behind
• 47:13 How Claude Code's creator uses Claude Code
• 59:35 Cursor's dynamic context discovery
• 63:16 MKBHD and Epic Spaceman

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Samuel surprises Kabarza with a cloned version of his voice, made in ElevenLabs from the show's transcripts, and plays an AI-generated three-minute roundup of last week's episode. That sparks a frank debate about whether AI-voiced content helps or harms a small show's brand, and where the line sits between a useful new format and something that takes the hosts out of the equation. They then pick apart the Twitter row over a $50,000 landing page, covering value-based pricing, what a "landing page" actually includes, and why so much of the cost is unseen.

In the news, GPT-5.2 lands to benchmark fatigue and a slow first impression in real coding work. A maximum-severity React Server Components exploit means everyone should patch now. Anthropic hands MCP to a new Linux Foundation group, Apple quietly releases an open-source image model, Figma adds pixel-editing tools that edge towards Photoshop, and Cursor's new visual editor raises the question of who it is really for. Along the way: Shopify Editions as site of the week, listener comments on Webflow's shrinking creator scene, Liquid Glass, and Hank Green's take on AI's water use.

Chapters

• 00:00 New chair and a feedback request
• 04:48 Cloning our voices with ElevenLabs
• 26:34 The $50K landing page drama
• 49:00 Site of the week: Shopify Editions
• 52:11 GPT-5.2 and benchmark fatigue
• 66:55 React's critical security exploit
• 71:21 Your comments: Webflow's creator drought
• 83:36 MCP donated and Apple's Starflow
• 94:27 Figma takes on Photoshop
• 97:53 Cursor's visual editor
• 113:04 AI's water use and sign-off

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Kabarza and Samuel open with phones, watch batteries and why both have swapped Siri for ChatGPT or Gemini on the action button, which turns into a frank chat about why developers neglect front-end UI. Samuel shares what he has learnt running coding models locally and why one-shot benchmarks say little about working in a real codebase. Kabarza's site of the week is Shopify's Black Friday pinball machine and globe, built in three.js and streamed in 8K to the Las Vegas Sphere, which promptly crashes his browser on air.

The main news is OpenAI's reported "code red" after Gemini 3, followed by Gemini 3 Deep Think, DeepSeek 3.2, OpenAGI's computer-use model and Anthropic's acquisition of Bun, which prompts a discussion about why software engineering still matters. Samuel explains how he uses agentic browsers to build a sponsorship CRM and why Perplexity's BrowseSafe benchmark matters, before both hosts talk about tool fatigue and learning through the hard part. They finish by asking where all the Webflow content creators have gone, looking at Webflow's marketing, new component libraries from Timothy Ricks and Alicia Sanizarro, Bradford Huber's holiday challenge and Kabarza's client Christmas cards.

Chapters

• 00:00 AirPods, phones and AI on the action button
• 07:22 Local models and context windows
• 17:18 Site of the week: Shopify's Black Friday pinball
• 23:05 Code red at OpenAI
• 32:26 Gemini 3 Deep Think and DeepSeek 3.2
• 39:11 OpenAGI and Nordcraft
• 42:35 Anthropic acquires Bun
• 52:13 Agentic browsers and BrowseSafe
• 61:34 Replit, Google and tool fatigue
• 73:50 Where are all the Webflow creators?
• 83:17 Webflow components and Christmas cards

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