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Very important agents (Changelog & Friends #120)
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. They 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
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