v39.0.1 - Dave Mosher: Use AI in Anger

Welcome to the first episode of 🔥Hotfix🔥! Breaking Change's first show-within-a-show, wherein I let somebody else talk for once. Each episode will show up as a patch release in the Breaking Change feed and feature guests with Hot takes about a relevant issue and a clear fix in mind for what we can do about it. That first guest is a long-time collaborator and top 5 all-time colleague of mine named Dave Mosher, who's here to drop some truth bombs labeled "agentic coding" on the unsuspecting populace. My secret mission on each of these is to lean into the show's E-for-explicit tag and try to get the guest to say something that could get them fired. I failed this time, but in fairness to me, Dave is Canadian. We'd love to get your feedback to [email protected] — I'll read it all and flag relevant questions and comments for the next Breaking Change. You can follow Dave Mosher online at: GitHub Twitter/X Dave's personal blog The Test Double blog A handful of things we mentioned: Full-breadth Developers The "Double Loop" model to agentic coding Simon Willison's blog Claude Code