Scott, Dillon, and Matt dig into 'tokenomics' — the economics of AI models and whether the ever-climbing cost of running them is actually buying anyone more value. They swap notes on the rug-pull theory of AI pricing, tokenizer changes that quietly tax you 30%, and how their companies are clamping down (HubSpot defaulting to Sonnet and zeroing out the Fable budget). Plus a standup of weddings, World Cup corruption, a 16-0 soccer loss, and a first-ever Fourth of July party.

Dillon, Scott, and Matt dig into automated testing — the high upfront cost of getting started, why smoke tests deserve to gate code before it hits master, and whether enforced page object models are a useful abstraction or just a layer of indirection. Scott makes the case that smoke tests should come first while his coworkers insist the end-to-end suite will catch everything, and the crew lands on a surprising amount of agreement for a show built on disagreement. Plus: a launch that turned into permanent backend ownership, a 75-day estimate squeezed into two months, and a CLI feedback hook for agents.

Dillon, Scott, and Matt dust off the parking lot for the first time in seven months to work through a backlog of tech news. They open with the 'everything app' land grab — Google's new Whoop competitor, Uber muscling onto Airbnb's turf — and where the line sits between a smart adjacent bet and plain enshittification. From there it's the Cloudflare and Coinbase layoffs and whether 'because AI' actually holds up, then RoboBun quietly becoming Bun's top committer and out-pacing the human who's worked on it for four years. Plus Pi the 'Vim of agent harnesses,' tech bros flexing token spend, and the pod's quietly-passed one-year anniversary.