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The Weekly Dev's Brew

Jan-Niklas Wortmann
Artificial Intelligence
Vite
Open Source
Javascript
Software Engineering
Angular
Microfrontends
Google
Drizzle
Effect TS
Typescript
Ladybird
CSS
TC39
Monorepos
Web Development
Sentry
Context Engineering
Web Fonts
React Query

The people building AI developer tools have stories most of us never hear. Stories of failed experiments, unexpected wins and workflows they swear by. The Weekly Dev's Brew host Jan-Niklas Wortmann pulls those stories out through honest conversations about what AI actually changes for developers and how we write software.

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Why did AI coding make Dillon Mulroy more productive and less happy? He stopped writing most of his own code after Claude Opus 4.5. Six months later he ships more than he ever has, still reads every line, and enjoys the work less. The small implement... more

You can't get 10x with AI coding. Not today. Dex Horthy (Human Layer) makes the case for 2-3x if you refuse to ship slop, and why a perfect spec still produces garbage if you give the model permission to skip quality. That permission is how you burn ... more

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Everyone is selling 100x developer productivity, but David Cramer runs production software at Sentry and says LLMs are not making his own work faster. We talk about what actually holds up when AI meets real codebases, security review, open source eco... more

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Mario Zechner has watched people generate 500,000 lines of code in a week with a swarm of agents. He'll tell you exactly how that ends.Mario is the creator of Pi, the minimal, self-modifying coding agent that took off after Claude Code stopped fittin... more

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Recent Guests

Dillon Mulroy
Engineer discussing AI coding and productivity impacts
Cloudflare (implied)
Episode: Why AI Coding Made Me More Productive - And Less Happy | Dillon Mulroy
Dex Horthy
Founder of Human Layer, proponent of context engineering
Human Layer
Episode: Dex Horthy - What Actually Gets You 2-3x With AI Coding
David Kramer
Co-founder of Sentry, experienced in shipping production software with AI
Sentry
Episode: How To Ship Real Code With AI (Not Junk) ft. David Cramer
Mario Zechner
Creator of Pi, coding agent open source project
Pi / Earendil (open source project)
Episode: Faster Isn't Better — Mario Zechner on Everything AI Made Us Forget (creator of Pi)
Una Kravets
Web developer and advocate focused on CSS and web platform features
Una Kravets / web platform expert
Episode: Why CSS is Now the Fastest-Moving Space in Web Development (with Una Kravets)
Andreas Kling
Browser developer and open source maintainer of Ladybird; former Apple Safari engineer
Ladybird browser project / open source nonprofit
Episode: Writing a Web Browser in 2025 (with Andreas Kling)
Dominik Dorfmeister
Open source maintainer, React Query and TanStack contributor
Sentry (current)
Episode: From Discord Helper to OSS Maintainer (w/ Dominik Dorfmeister)
Andrii Sherman
Co-developer/creator of Drizzle, involved in building Drizzle ORM and DrizzleKit
Drizzle team
Episode: Andrii Sherman: Breaking ORM Barriers with Drizzle
Daniel Ehrenberg
TC39 member and Bloomberg engineer
Bloomberg
Episode: How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg

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Jan-Niklas Wortmann
Host of The Weekly Dev's Brew

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How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg
Q: What is one proposal you believe JavaScript needs to push to stage four soon?
Module declarations and module expressions are a priority, as native ES module support within a single file and improved bundling could significantly improve load performance and reduce the complexity of bundlers, addressing a major practical bottleneck on the web.
How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg
Q: How do you see collaboration with TypeScript shaping JavaScript proposals?
TypeScript has been a strong partner, often pushing proposals forward within TC39 and informing type-related decisions; the TypeScript team has helped move features like optional chaining into the language by engaging in the standardization process rather than bypassing it.
How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg
Q: How does the TC39 process balance backwards compatibility with introducing new features?
Backwards compatibility is a guiding constraint; most changes avoid breaking existing code, and when potential risks exist, proposals are carefully debated, tested, and rolled out progressively through stages with broad input and observability to prevent breaking the web.
Scaling New Heights: Jeff Cross Discusses NX, Monorepos, and the Future of Development
Q: What is the role of AI in NX's roadmap?
AI is leveraged to increase developer velocity at scale, for example through MCP and polyrepo context that helps code assistants understand cross-repo relationships, and to optimize pipelines and resource planning.
Scaling New Heights: Jeff Cross Discusses NX, Monorepos, and the Future of Development
Q: Why pursue open source by default, and where do you draw the line with NX Cloud?
Open source by default is a tool for broad adoption and community engagement, while NX Cloud remains proprietary to deliver the advanced, enterprise-ready capabilities like multi-repo context, analytics, and cross-repo automation that customers rely on.

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The show centers on the people building AI-powered developer tools, offering honest conversations about what AI actually changes for software teams. Episodes explore practical strategies for integrating AI into production workflows, balancing automation with engineering rigor, and managing context, tooling, and governance in real-world projects. Guests span from AI researchers and startup founders to engineers at large tech companies, often sharing hard-earned lessons, trade-offs, and hands-on experiences with open-source projects, coding agents, and cloud-native architectures. The format tends to be technical, pragmatic, and grounded in production realities, making it particularly valuable for listeners who code, ship software, and want to... more

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