We Stopped Coding by Hand Because Agentic AI Is Too Good

This week, Robbie and Carlo sip Sagamore's 10-year reserve rye and catch up with Carlo on life abroad, AI coding workflows, the changing developer landscape, and why cars, whiskey shipping, and property management are all equally frustrating. They dig into agentic AI loops, the rise of prompt-driven development, whether coding by hand is officially dead, and what happens when tools like OpenCode and Claude become the new normal. In this episode: Chapters 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions 00:02:09 Whiskey Tasting: Sagamore 10 Year Reserve Series 00:08:40 Living in Italy: Costs, Culture & Comparisons 00:14:41 Astro Acquired by Cloudflare 00:19:38 Agentic AI & Ralph Loops: The New Development Workflow 00:36:41 Building with Rust: The Hugh Hunter Color Picker 00:47:18 The Death of Hand-Coding & The Future of Software Jobs 00:48:40 Claude Co-Work & AI Desktop Apps 00:48:54 AI Beyond Coding: Life Automation & Efficiency 00:58:34 Landlord Horror Stories & The Tucson Property Saga Links Sagamore Spirit: https://sagamorespirit.com/ Astro: https://astro.build/ Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/ OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/ Claude: https://claude.ai/ Warp: https://www.warp.dev/ Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot Matt Pocock - Ralph Wiggum technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IK18goX4X8 Swach: https://www.swach.io/ Tauri: https://tauri.app/ Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/ Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/ Napi-rs: https://napi.rs/ GitHub: https://github.com/ ClickUp: https://clickup.com/ TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/ Python: https://www.python.org/ Linux: https://www.linux.org/ Wayland: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/ Steam Deck: https://www.steamdeck.com/ 11.22.63: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11.22.63 Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/ Connect with the hosts Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/chuckcarpenter Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://whiskey.fm Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch Enjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.