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• (00:00) - This Month in React April
• (00:26) - Introductions
• (02:36) - What convinced you AI code tools were worth using?
• (04:24) - Using early ChatGPT for DB migrations
• (06:59) - Watching AI use a command-line
• (08:16) - Background chat agents
• (08:58) - Staying very hands-on while using AI tools
• (11:00) - Driving AI closely without reading its code
• (17:50) - Mark's workflow; OpenCode with CodeNomad UI, plus IDE+git UI. Opus 4.6 on API
• (20:39) - Swizec's workflow, latest Cursor on Opus
• (23:58) - Carl's workflow, mostly ClaudeCode but looking at custom orchestrators
• (25:23) - Exploring fully autonomous agents
• (28:08) - Mark's AI debugging work in React core
• (31:42) - Value of providing more context
• (33:58) - AI-owned documentation
• (37:09) - Using good engineering practices still matters?
• (40:47) - How do you know the right code to make?
• (42:49) - Good communication still matters
• (45:13) - What will "review" look like in the future?
• (46:17) - Automating functionality tests with deployment practices
• (51:49) - What behaviors belong to the agent, and what fundamentally can't be part of the agent?
• (56:17) - Impacts of LLMs on software engineering?
• (01:03:22) - A superpower right now is a domain expert who can kind of code