From COBOL to Claude: Live Coding, AI Agents, and the Death of Typing w/ Typecraft

This week, Robbie and Adam are live from React Miami at the Clerk booth, sipping Cutwater cocktails and talking hot takes with Typecraft. They dig into whether React is a framework or library, server components, hooks versus signals versus proxies, HTML as a programming language, git rebase versus merge, semicolons, package managers, and why Python might be the least friendly language out there. Along the way, they debate AI in interviews, whether we've reached AGI, 3D printing chocolate, homeschooling with AI agents, the value of bullying, voice dictation workflows, whether you should bother learning Vim anymore, AI flow state versus brain fry, why COBOL won't die, and the probability hack for getting creative outputs from LLMs.

In this episode:

Chapters

00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions

00:02:52 Hot Takes: React Framework vs Library & Server Components

00:05:26 Hooks, Signals, Proxies & The Future of Reactivity

00:08:12 Is HTML a Programming Language? The Great Debate

00:11:51 Git Rebase vs Merge: The Honest Approach

00:13:54 Semicolons, Package Managers & Programming Language Preferences

00:25:01 AI in Interviews & The New Developer Workflow

00:29:59 Have We Reached AGI? The Bar is Lower Than You Think

00:31:35 3D Printing, Homeschooling & The Value of Bullying