Worktrees

Jack Bogdan and Chris Messina unpack  ⁠Raycast 2.0’s shift away from a purely native Mac architecture⁠ , the  ⁠backlash from power users⁠ , and what cross-platform ambitions mean for modern app development. They also dive into Jack’s new project  ⁠Recursive⁠ , an agentic IDE built around plugins, local file-based workflows, multiple AI coding providers, session replay, autonomous commits, and self...

Generative interfaces, vibe-coded desktop apps, and Jack's attempt to build agent workspaces for every domain. We opened with Flipbook, a generative visual web experiment where pages are rendered as AI-generated images instead of traditional HTML interfaces. The bigger question: what happens if software skips GUI frameworks entirely and models generate visual UI directly? Flipbook X-Pilot Cove...

In this episode we talk about what happens when the models get so good that you become the bottleneck. We dig into the foundations that let you actually leverage AI for native development, how to organize a massive codebase for agents, the insane list of features shipped in a few days, why Jack is building an automated CI/CD pipeline for content and docs, personalized release notes, and a brand ne...