New Weekly Dev's Brew is live. I got
@badlogicgames properly grumpy about AI coding: why code is never free, why spec-driven dev is just waterfall again, and how he survives 50 AI PRs a day.
Chapters 👇
0:00 Intro
2:20 Why Pi exists (and why Claude Code stopped fitting)
8:53 What success actually looks like for Pi
10:58 Building beyond the coding agent
13:13 Local AI is getting real
20:13 How Mario actually works
26:38 Discipline, atrophy, and juniors
29:08 Spec-driven dev is just hyper-waterfall
35:03 Code isn't actually free
37:56 Async agents and thinking time
44:42 Learning without the pain
49:13 The coming wave of sloppy software
52:11 GitHub under clanker load
53:31 Family, work, and balance
57:05 The Pi team and leadership
58:52 Refactoring Pi's core
1:03:32 Security, YOLO, and trust
1:06:27 Taming the PR flood
1:12:11 Token prices, and why Anthropic stopped courting devs