Dillon, Scott, and Matt dig into Matt's hot take that you shouldn't be using plan mode in your AI coding agents anymore. They land on a nuanced agreement — planning still matters, but plan mode in Claude Code and Codex has stopped pulling its weight, spinning for 30 minutes and dumping a markdown doc instead of asking the clarifying questions it used to. Plus grill-me skills, POC-first workflows, Scott's eighth powerlifting meet, and Matt accidentally reinventing Tanstack Query.

Dillon walks Scott and Matt through the daily briefing dashboard he's been vibe-coding at work — a single page that aggregates his to-dos, PRs, JIRA tickets, Datadog alerts, and recent notes — and shares the custom Claude skills he's built around it. The conversation explores AI as a fast track to personal software, where AI agents struggle (keeping consistent UI), where they shine (generating visual diagrams to understand problems), and the trap of suddenly having 20 open PRs because you can ship faster than you can review.

Dillon, Scott, and Matt dig into the drama around Matteo Collina's 19,000-line Node.js PR — written largely with Claude Code over Christmas break — that's forced the Node.js community to confront how AI-assisted contributions fit into open source governance, the DCO, and the future of runtimes like Bun and Deno.