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Every convenience tool quietly takes something from you — GPS kills your navigation, autocorrect kills your spelling, AI kills the decisions you used to wrestle with yourself. In Episode 6, Zach and Evan trace that pattern from MapQuest printouts to vibe coding, and ask what's left when the struggle goes away. The conversation gets specific: senior devs, junior devs, architectural judgment, and wh...

Zach just got back from Figma Config 2026 — and the question he brought home wasn't about any specific feature. It was: how much of what you make is actually yours anymore? Zach and Evan unpack Figma's expanding product suite (motion, shaders, code layers, and counting), debate whether the browser can hold all of it, and dig into the real difference between using AI as a tool versus leaning on it...

Brocc picks the topic this week — and he's noticed something: you two keep shipping things and immediately starting the next one. That kicks off a surprisingly personal episode about the creator's addiction: why we build, when it's expression vs. avoidance, and what your unfinished project graveyard actually says about you. Zach and Evan dig into the build-in-public culture, AI burnout, Gen Z's re...

Have you ever learned just enough of someone else's skill to get yourself into trouble? Zach and Evan start there — Evan's dangerous foray into HTML/CSS, Zach's Blender rabbit hole — and end up somewhere much more uncomfortable: who's actually responsible when AI-generated code breaks in production? They dig into what it means to inherit a codebase nobody wrote on purpose, why using AI to review A...

Zach and Evan get real about the tech they've bought, built, and quietly stopped using — from a drone that can't land in state parks to a portfolio site that's flashier than it is useful. The conversation naturally spills into AI: are we shipping features because they solve real problems, or just to put a checkmark in the box? Plus: AI in medicine, fixing your RV with a photo, Napster's wild reinv...

Zach and Evan introduce themselves, introduce Brocc — their AI co-host who showed up uninvited and immediately had opinions — and dive straight into what it's actually like navigating AI in design and development right now. Not the hype version. The real one: the micro wins, the debugging loops, the cost nobody talks about, and whether junior designers should be worried. Plus Brocc gets accused of...