The Weekly Dev's Brew
by Jan-Niklas Wortmann
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About this podcast
The people building AI developer tools have stories most of us never hear. Stories of failed experiments, unexpected wins and workflows they swear by. The Weekly Dev's Brew host Jan-Niklas Wortmann pulls those stories out through honest conversations about what AI actually changes for developers and how we write software.
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- Why AI agents belong in the sandbox | Darren Shepherd · 1 h 33 min · Episode 23Why buy a sandbox when you can just launch a container? Darren Shepherd spent years at Rancher building on Kubernetes, so sandboxes looked dumb to him. Then he built his own…
- Why AI Coding Made Me More Productive - And Less Happy | Dillon Mulroy · 1 h 4 min · Episode 22Why did AI coding make Dillon Mulroy more productive and less happy? He stopped writing most of his own code after Claude Opus 4.5. Six months later he ships more than he ever…
- Dex Horthy - What Actually Gets You 2-3x With AI Coding · 1 h 39 min · Episode 21You can't get 10x with AI coding. Not today. Dex Horthy (Human Layer) makes the case for 2-3x if you refuse to ship slop, and why a perfect spec still produces garbage if you…
- How To Ship Real Code With AI (Not Junk) ft. David Cramer · 1 h 16 min · Episode 20Everyone is selling 100x developer productivity, but David Cramer runs production software at Sentry and says LLMs are not making his own work faster. We talk about what actually…
- Faster Isn't Better — Mario Zechner on Everything AI Made Us Forget (creator of Pi) · 1 h 17 min · Episode 19Mario Zechner has watched people generate 500,000 lines of code in a week with a swarm of agents. He'll tell you exactly how that ends.Mario is the creator of Pi, the minimal…
- A Google Engineer's Honest Take on AI, Angular, and the Future of Your Career · 55 min · Episode 18In this episode, I sit down with Minko Gechev — Google Engineer, former Angular team lead, and one of the most thoughtful voices on AI and developer productivity.We get into why…
- Microfrontends: Cutting Through the Hype and Misconceptions (w/ Luca) · 1 h 11 min · Episode 17Micro-frontends promise to help teams scale development, but AWS Principal Architect Luca Mezzalira has seen some succeed and some just fall apart. In this conversation, he…
- Why CSS is Now the Fastest-Moving Space in Web Development (with Una Kravets) · 52 min · Episode 16Why CSS is Now the Fastest-Moving Space in Web Development (with Una Kravets)While everyone's talking about AI disrupting development, Una Kravets from Google Chrome reveals a…
- Writing a Web Browser in 2025 (with Andreas Kling) · 1 h 7 min · Episode 15What does it take to build a web browser when everyone says it's impossible? In this episode, we sit down with Andreas Kling, the engineer behind Ladybird—the only major browser…
- From Discord Helper to OSS Maintainer (w/ Dominik Dorfmeister) · 54 min · Episode 14What does it take to accidentally become the maintainer of one of React's most popular libraries? In this episode, we sit down with Dominik Dorfmeister (aka. TkDodo), maintainer…
- Andrii Sherman: Breaking ORM Barriers with Drizzle · 35 min · Episode 13What does it take to build one of the fastest-growing database ORMs from scratch? In this episode, we sit down with Andrii Sherman, co-founder of Drizzle, to unpack their…
- How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg · 47 min · Episode 12Ever wondered who actually decides how JavaScript evolves? In this episode, Jan-Niklas Wortmann sits down with Daniel Ehrenberg, President of Ecma International and long-time…
- Scaling New Heights: Jeff Cross Discusses NX, Monorepos, and the Future of Development · 50 min · Episode 11Join us in this insightful episode of The Weekly Dev's Brew as we sit down with Jeff Cross, co-founder of NX, to explore the evolution of monorepos and their impact on modern web…
- Parenting Wisdom in Engineering Leadership: Skills from Raising Kids to Leading Developers · 58 min · Episode 10In this episode of The Weekly Dev's Brew, Jan sits down with Maya Shavin, Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce and mother of four, to explore an unconventional truth: parenting…
- Why JavaScript is Broken: How Effect and TypeScript Fixes It (w/ Michael Arnaldi) · 59 min · Episode 9In this episode of The Weekly Dev's Brew, Jan sits down with Michael Arnaldi, founder of Effect TS, to tackle a controversial truth: JavaScript's async model is fundamentally…
- Fast Sites Start with Fonts: A Deep Dive with Daniel Roe · 43 min · Episode 8In this episode of The Weekly Dev’s Brew, Jan sits down with Daniel Roe to dive deep into a topic devs often overlook: web fonts. From performance pitfalls to implementation…
- From Nuxt to Nitro: How One Engine Is Powering the Modern Web (w/ Alexander Lichter) · 47 min · Episode 7In this episode of The Weekly Dev’s Brew, we dive into the current state of web development with Alexander Lichter, a core member of Nuxt and DevRel at Void Zero. Join us as we…
- Revolutionizing Web Development: The Impact of Signals on Async JavaScript · 1 h 35 min · Episode 6In this episode, join Jan-Niklas Wortmann and Ryan Carniato, creator of SolidJS and CEO of Signals, as they explore how signals are revolutionizing web development and reshaping…
- Exporing AI's Impact on Web Development: The Future of Tech (w/ Rachel-Lee Nabors) · 49 min · Episode 5In this episode, we dive into the impact of AI on web development with Rachel Lee-Nabors. Discover how AI is transforming user experience and the future landscape of software…
- Scaling Vite: Responsibility & Community (with Capeletto Matias) · 47 min · Episode 4In this episode, Jan-Niklas Wortmann interviews Capeletto Matias, a key figure in the open-source community and a member of the Vite core team. They discuss Matias's journey into…
