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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