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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Google has finally rejoined the chat. Kabarza and Samuel unpack the Gemini 3 launch: the benchmark jumps, how it has been pushed into Replit, Stitch and AI Studio, and why its creative, less wireframe-y output stands out. Samuel argues it is a bigger leap than GPT-5.1 but still not a match for his Claude Code setup. They also give their verdicts on the Antigravity code editor, compare it with Trae's solo mode, and try putting themselves into Nano Banana 2 meme images, which leads to a worried chat about AI-faked passports and ID checks.

Before that, Kabarza's site of the week is Stripe Press, with its 3D bookshelf. Later, a listener comment asks whether AI turns developers into full-time reviewers, Samuel follows up on ditching MCPs in favour of plain code folders, and the hosts ask whether OpenAI can ever be profitable, what AGI really means, and whether Gemini 3 is already good enough for most people.

Chapters

• 00:00 Atlas, Arc and an M3 Ultra deal
• 02:44 Site of the week: Stripe Press
• 13:27 Gemini 3 arrives
• 18:48 Gemini 3 vs Claude Code
• 23:43 Antigravity first impressions
• 28:42 Trae and Solo mode
• 33:16 Gemini pricing and Code Wiki
• 37:18 Nano Banana 2 and deepfaked IDs
• 45:45 Comments: is AI making coding less fun?
• 55:05 Ditching MCPs for code
• 58:21 Can the AI boom last?

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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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Samuel and Kabarza open with Halloween costumes, a birthday trip to a 1940s bar and a crash course in Cockney rhyming slang, before a warning that LinkedIn trains AI on your posts by default. They look at a TypeGPU experiment and what TypeScript actually adds, Freepik's node-based Spaces canvas, OpenAI's Aardvark security agent, and a long debate over whether people will one day build their own software instead of paying for SaaS.

They also cover Ilya Sutskever's deposition and what it says about Sam Altman, PewDiePie's turn towards running and training his own AI, Amazon's legal threat to Perplexity over AI shopping agents, and Mr.doob vibe coding updates to Three.js. Webflow gets Finsuite's dev mode and new Cloud storage options, GitHub's report puts TypeScript at number one, Builder.io promises a design and dev tool for whole teams, and Kabarza reports back on spending eight euros trying to animate a thumbnail with Freepik.

Chapters

• 00:00 Halloween, birthdays and a LinkedIn jump scare
• 08:45 TypeGPU and the CSS of Jhey
• 21:02 Freepik Spaces
• 30:36 OpenAI's Aardvark and whether SaaS is dead
• 48:28 Ilya Sutskever's deposition and Sam Altman
• 54:14 PewDiePie trains his own AI
• 62:02 Amazon's legal threat to Perplexity
• 70:04 Mr.doob vibe codes Three.js
• 72:00 Finsuite dev mode and Webflow Cloud storage
• 84:39 TypeScript tops GitHub and Builder.io Fusion
• 94:39 Testing Freepik Spaces

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Samuel and Kabarza open with a story about a strategic workshop that went badly wrong, then pick a site of the week from Niccolò Miranda and get into Cursor 2: the new agent mode, the Composer model, running several models side by side, worktrees and the built-in browser. Kabarza explains why Cursor feels like Webflow did in 2019, and Samuel replies to listener comments on M1 Macs, unified memory and running LLMs locally, before both take aim at Framer's per-site editor pricing and explain why Webflow is better value than people think.

On the AI side they cover OpenAI's hire for a non-invasive, ultrasound-based brain interface and how it compares with Neuralink, the Neo home robot that turns out to be teleoperated, and OpenAI's livestream predictions on devices, AGI by 2028 and compute. The second half is design: Affinity going free under Canva, Adobe Max and Adobe's hold on the creative pipeline, Figma's Weave acquisition and Schema updates including slots, and Rivian's bike with its neo-brutalist interface.

Chapters

• 00:00 Live intro and a workshop horror story
• 05:07 Site of the week
• 10:47 Cursor 2 and its new agent mode
• 24:20 Your comments: M1 Macs and local LLMs
• 30:31 Framer pricing and why Webflow is good value
• 40:02 OpenAI's ultrasound brain interface vs Neuralink
• 46:29 Neo, the teleoperated home robot
• 55:37 OpenAI's livestream: devices, AGI and compute
• 66:54 Affinity goes free and Adobe Max
• 77:29 Figma Weave, Schema and slots
• 84:00 Rivian's bike and neo-brutalism

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Kabarza and Samuel start with why Kabarza won't leave Arc, whether voice and text beat knobs and menus, and how a minimalist and a maximalist each want their tools to work. They then cover Claude Skills and why they save context compared with MCP servers, Claude Code on the web, and DeepSeek's OCR paper on packing text into images.

Most of the episode goes on ChatGPT Atlas: Kabarza's centre-a-div test in Webflow, the training setting that is on by default, and why agentic browsing suits slow background jobs rather than your main work. After that come Manus 1.5 and its trillion-token competition, a listener question on connecting your own database, Instagram's AI Restyle, Framer's AI-generated ad and what counts as slop, a man who sent an AI avatar to argue his case in court, Webflow's real-time collaboration and the website of the week.

Chapters

• 00:00 Arc, voice input and maximalism
• 15:25 This week's line-up and Claude Skills
• 20:27 Claude Code on the web
• 24:35 DeepSeek OCR
• 29:24 ChatGPT Atlas first impressions
• 41:11 Agentic browsers as side quests
• 54:53 DJI gripes and Manus's trillion-token giveaway
• 65:03 Instagram's AI Restyle
• 68:45 Framer's AI ad and what counts as slop
• 82:47 The AI lawyer in court
• 84:47 Webflow real-time collaboration and website of the week

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