Faris Aziz joins PodRocket to unpack the front-end "dark arts" behind building resilient dashboards under API rate limits and bloated payloads. He walks through front-end caching strategies, why a backend for frontend pattern using Next.js API routes as a proxy solved a 13-second load time, and how TanStack Query resilience patterns hold up differently at fintech scale versus Smallpdf's tens of millions of users. They also dig into defining a retryable error to avoid runaway infrastructure costs.

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Website: https://www.faziz-dev.com/
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Resources

Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions: https://www.faziz-dev.com/talks/caching-payloads-and-other-dark-arts-optimizing-ux-in-suboptimal-conditions

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Aurora Sharf joins PodRocket once again to discuss Async React, the pattern behind React 19's transitions, useOptimistic, and Suspense. She explains why "in-between states" are a UX problem, not just a DX one, how Next.js's cache components and App Router fix years of caching confusion, and why perceived performance (INP) matters as much as cumulative layout shift. Plus: the action props pattern, Meta's new Astrix library, and what's still missing before Async React goes mainstream.

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Talk: https://www.youtube.com/@UnlearnDev

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Rich Harris joins the podcast to discuss his talk, fine-grained everything, exploring fine-grained reactivity, frontend performance, and the real costs of React Server Components and RSC payloads. Rich explains how Svelte and SvelteKit approach co-located data fetching, remote functions, and RPC to reduce server-side rendering costs, improve developer experience, and avoid unnecessary performance overhead on mobile networks. The conversation dives into async rendering, parallel async data fetching, type safety with schema validation, and why async-first frameworks may define the future of JavaScript frameworks and web performance.

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X: https://x.com/Rich_Harris
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Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rich-harris.dev

Resources

Modern front-end frameworks like Svelte are astonishingly fast at rendering, thanks to techniques such as signal-based fine-grained reactivity. But there's more to performance than updating the screen at 60 frames per second. In this talk, we'll learn about new approaches that help you build fast, reliable, data-efficient apps.

Slides: https://fine-grained-everything.vercel.app/1-1

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Special Guest: Rich Harris.

Carson Gross, computer science professor at Montana State and creator of htmx, joins the show to cut through the noise around AI and programming. He explains why the jump from high-level languages to LLMs is fundamentally different from past transitions, why junior developers who skip writing code risk being at the mercy of a stochastic system, and why systems architecture and managing code complexity are the skills that will matter most. A grounded, rational take on the future of software development jobs.

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Yes,and...: https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/

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00:00 Introduction — Carson Gross and the "Yes, And…" Blog Post
01:45 Why Carson Felt Compelled to Write About AI and Coding
03:30 The Assembly-to-High-Level Analogy — and Why It Falls Apart
06:00 Juniors Must Write Code to Be Able to Read Code
08:15 The Sorcerer's Apprentice Trap
10:30 Could AI Actually Increase Demand for Programmers?
12:45 Why "SaaS Is Dead" Is Shortsighted
15:00 Systems Architecture as the High-Value Skill Going Forward
17:30 Essential vs Accidental Complexity — The No Silver Bullet Framework
20:00 How LLMs Break the Natural Feedback Loop of Bad Code
23:00 Will AI Change How We Think About Testing?
26:30 Abstraction, Paradigms, and Human-Readable Code
29:00 How Much Has AI Actually Boosted Carson's Own Productivity?
32:00 The Mental Health Cost of the AI Hype Cycle
35:30 Final Thoughts — Give Yourself (and Others) a Break

Special Guest: Carson Gross.

Jack Herrington joins PodRocket to show why TanStack AI might be the last AI SDK you reach for. He breaks down code mode, a single-shot TypeScript execution that wipes out the round-trip tax of traditional LLM tool calling, plus the AGUI standard that frees your backend from vendor lock-in. We also discuss type-safe tool calls, self healing code mode skills, built in AI dev tools, and incoming Claude Code and MCP harness support.

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Jack's website: https://jackherrington.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6vRUjYqDuoUsYsku86Lrsw
Twitter: https://x.com/jherr
GitHub: https://github.com/jherr

Resources

TanStack AI: https://tanstack.com/ai/latest

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Paige, Jack, Paul, and Noel break down the Cloudflare VoidZero acquisition that puts Vite and Evan You under the Cloudflare roof and what it means for open source sustainability when it seems like acquisition is the only exit. We also talk about Uber burning its annual AI coding tools budget in four months, the Claude Max token subsidy math, and whether local AI models can break the cost curve.

Resources

Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/cloudflare-acquires-voidzero-build-future-130000461.html

Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Advance Open Source Vite Ecosystem: https://devops.com/cloudflare-acquires-voidzero-to-advance-open-source-vite-ecosystem/

Microsoft Reports Are Exposing AI's Real Cost Problem: https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-reports-are-exposing-ais-real-cost-problem-using-the-tech-is-more-expensive-than-paying-human-employees/

Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them: https://ea.rna.nl/2026/06/07/anthropic-openai-may-be-spending-more-than-1000-for-every-100-you-pay-them/?utm_source=tldrai

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Special Guest: Jack Herrington.

Sacha Greif, creator of the State of Web Dev AI survey, joins the podcast to walk through what over 7,000 web developers actually reported about their AI tool usage, code quality concerns, and growing worries about AI financial costs. Only 29% of developers generate a quarter or less of their code with AI, and the survey reveals surprisingly balanced views on LLM hallucinations, developer job security, and even AI's environmental footprint. A grounded, data-driven counterweight to the AI hype cycle.

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Website: https://sachagreif.com/
X: https://x.com/sachagreif
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Github: https://github.com/sachag

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State of AI 2025: https://2025.stateofai.dev/en-US

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Special Guest: Sacha Greif.

Mikayla Maki, software engineer at Zed, digs into what makes this Rust-built code editor tick... from GPUI, their GPU-accelerated UI framework with a Tailwind-inspired API, to CRDTs powering real-time live collaboration without merge conflicts. She talks about the Zed 1.0 release, their approach to AI, how the team builds popular features directly into core instead of relying on extensions, and why Rust might be the best language for agentic coding. Plus: native app comeback, GPUI on mobile, and where the framework is heading.

Links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikayla-maki
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rad.gendervibes.online
GitHub: https://github.com/mikayla-maki

Resources

Zed 1.0 announcement: https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0
DeltaDB / Sequoia Series B post: https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed
ACP overview: https://zed.dev/acp
GPUI engineering post: https://zed.dev/blog/leveraging-rust-and-the-gpu-to-render-user-interfaces-at-120fps
Builder.io "Is Zed ready for AI power users in 2026?": https://www.builder.io/blog/zed-ai-2026
Mikayla's RustConf 2025 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEU9DNbXA4
filtra.io interview with Mikayla: https://filtra.io/rust/interviews/zed-aug-25

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This month's panel digs into the SpaceX Cursor acquisition rumor and what a $60 billion valuation means for AI coding tools. They debate Bun's million-line Rust rewrite generated entirely by AI, the tradeoffs of agentic coding at scale, and a sophisticated CI/CD cache poisoning attack targeting TanStack. Plus: practical takes on Claude token optimization, session forensics, local AI models, and why most Claude Code skills work best when tailored, not pulled off the shelf.

Resources

SpaceX/Cursor deal, CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/spacex-says-it-can-buy-cursor-later-this-year-for-60-billion-or-pay-10-billion-for-our-work-together.html
Fortune, Cursor's uncertain future: https://fortune.com/2026/03/21/cursor-ceo-michael-truell-ai-coding-claude-anthropic-venture-capital/
GitHub Copilot usage-based billing announcement: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
Developer backlash, Visual Studio Magazine: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/04/27/devs-sound-off-on-usage-based-copilot-pricing-change-you-will-get-less-but-pay-the-same-price.aspx
"The IDE Is Dead, Long Live the ADE", Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-ide-is-dead-long-live-the-ade-0d81e9da3d
Companies spending crazy money on AI coding tools, Medium: https://medium.com/@Reiki32/companies-are-spending-crazy-money-on-ai-coding-tools-while-developers-burn-out-efe5908f3dda

The PR: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412
The Register writeup: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/05/14/anthropics-bun-rust-rewrite-merged-at-speed-of-ai/5240381
The 13,000 unsafe blocks piece: https://byteiota.com/bun-rust-rewrite-merged-the-13000-unsafe-block-problem/

TanStack postmortem: https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem
TanStack hardening follow-up: https://tanstack.com/blog/incident-followup
StepSecurity writeup (the researcher who caught it): https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/mini-shai-hulud-is-back-a-self-spreading-supply-chain-attack-hits-the-npm-ecosystem
SOC Prime writeup: https://socprime.com/active-threats/active-supply-chain-attack-compromises-node-ipc-package

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction
01:00 The $60B SpaceX Cursor deal
08:00 Token costs rising — the rug pull is real
09:30 Local models and sub-agent routing
12:00 Session forensics — cutting Claude token waste
15:00 Bun's AI-generated Rust rewrite
18:00 Should AI rewrite core infrastructure?
23:00 Does runtime choice even matter anymore?
29:00 The TanStack supply chain attack explained
33:00 How the GitHub Actions cache poisoning worked
36:00 Is GitHub Actions too flexible?
39:30 Ad break
40:00 Hot take — you'll be okay (local models and hardware)
42:30 Hot take — "They Will Kill You" (Jack's movie rec)
43:30 Hot take — stop hoarding Claude Code skills
46:00 Wrap-up

Special Guest: Jack Herrington.

pnpm lead maintainer Zoltan Kochan joins PodRocket to unpack pnpm 11's biggest shifts: a new minimum release age default that blocks npm registry packages under 24 hours old, a cleaner allow builds config replacing scattered post-install script settings, and the experimental global virtual store that slashes install times with Git worktrees. Zoltan also shares why a Rust rewrite of pnpm's engine is now underway, and how AI-assisted development made it possible far sooner than expected.

Links

Website: https://www.kochan.io/
Github: https://github.com/zkochan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zkochan
X: https://x.com/zoltankochan
Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@zkochan
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kochan.io

Resources

pnpm release blog post: https://pnpm.io/blog/releases/11.0

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00:00 Introduction
01:00 The 24-Hour Minimum Release Age Default
03:30 Community Pushback and the Polling Shift
05:00 Trusted Policy and OIDC Provenance Checking
07:00 Performance Trade-offs of Full Metadata Fetching
08:00 The New Allow Builds Configuration
10:30 Global Installs and the Virtual Store Explained
13:00 Which Packages Break with the New Layout
14:30 Global Virtual Store for Local Dev and Worktrees
16:30 TypeScript Go and the Golden Age of Development
17:30 AI Agents Influencing pnpm's Design Decisions
19:00 The Rust Rewrite — and Why Now
20:00 Dropping Node 18 and the Standalone Executable
22:00 Installing Node.js via pnpm and the New GitHub Action
24:00 Moving Config from npmrc to pnpm-workspace.yaml
26:00 Upgrade Smoothness and Common Migration Pain Points
28:30 pnpm v12 Roadmap — Frozen Installs in Rust
31:00 Contributing to pnpm and the Open Source PR Tsunami
33:00 Wrap-up

Google Chrome engineer Adam Argyle breaks down why AI is bad at frontend development and CSS in particular. From LLM training data problems to the fact that LLMs can't see, the issues run deep. But it's not all doom! Adam shares a game-changing technique for getting creative AI generated UI by asking for low probability outputs, introduces tools like Impeccable and V0 for AI assisted CSS editing, and dives into agentic loop engineering with auto research, an overnight AI workflow he uses to ship improvements while he sleeps.

Links

Website: https://nerdy.dev/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGr3ZMcV5jke40_Wrv3fNA
Twitter: twitter.com/argyleink
Github: github.com/argyleink
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamargyle

Resources

Why AI sucks at frontend: https://nerdy.dev/why-ai-sucks-at-front-end

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Special Guests: Adam Argyle and Jack Herrington.