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Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they’re impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic’s acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub’s challenges and the Amp/Sourcegraph split. We dive into AI development practices, context management, voice assistants, Home Assistant OS and home automation, the state of the AI browser war, and we close with a prediction from Nick.

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Featuring:

• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip and Dual Knit Band
• Bun is joining Anthropic
• Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone
• Amp, Inc.
• The Browser Company explains why it stopped developing Arc
• Letter to Arc members 2025
• The Browser Company launches Dia in beta
• Home Assistant 2025.12: Triggering the holidays
• Home Assistant Green
• Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg

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