You've Been a Bad Agent
Wil and Matt discuss tech, startups, and building really cool things with AI. Sometimes joined by (actual expert) friends.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2025
In Person!!! Topic of Agent Payments, Friendly Acquisitions, GPT-5, Endless Model Name and Many Free Ideas
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Context of the Podcast
07:23 Updates on SimplePoll and AI Integration
18:14 Telemetry and Continuous Improvement in Development
24:30 Acquisitions and Industry Insights
32:…
Uncut with Danilo Leal, Design Engineer at Zed, Prototyping in React and Built in Rust, Designing for an AI Assisted UX
TDLR: 10 episodes in and we are going full uncut conversation with Danilo Leal. One of the magician Design Engineers working on the Zed code editor.
“I'll be making a jingle”
“We prototype everything …
Sub Agent or Super Agent, MCP UI Over Lunch, Bitter Lesson Learnings, Locking in on Prompts and Trying to Live in the Future
TLDR
- Matt caught whitebait for dinner during his outdoor adventures.
- Wing foiling is a new sport gaining popularity.
- Sub agents are necessary for exploring context windows in AI.
- A2A and MCP servers are …
Study Says AI Makes Developers Slower? F1 Movie Review, Coding and Testing for AI, Free Perplexity and Free Ideas
News
The pod has twitter/x - https://x.com/badagentpod
Wil’s new brand - tritanclub.com
Links
Boris Tane post on Cloudflare DOs + Drizzle - https://boristane.com/blog/durable-objects-database-per-user/
Ex…
Sunil Pai, Agents SDK at Cloudflare, Becoming Accidentally Important at Work, React Core Team, Durable Objects EXPLAINED and Future of Computing
“UI is so over”
“If all humans were perfect robots”
"I just got stoned and did open source."
"I rewrote their entire CLI."
Sunil Pai's Backstory and Career Journey from India to London
The Evolution of Re…
Massive Trail Marathons, Got Parekh'd, Context Engineering Strikes Back, Armin Ronacher Shares Tips and .env Suckkksss
"Bullish on claude code"
"I found Soham in our ATS"
"these things have been like RLHF to fuck"
Vibe Tunnel - https://vibetunnel.sh/
Armin Ronacher on Simon Willison’s blog - https://simonwillison.net/tag…
CLOUDFLARE CONTAINERS!!! Claude Code vs AI SDK Showdown, Offsite Fun, United Sucks and Wil Goes Out Out in Berlin
"Context window… kaboom"
"Am I gonna get cancelled for this"
"United is not a good airline"
"Just make more money."
Takeaways
Integrations bring people together in meaningful ways.
Video podcasts are gaini…
Structuring Codebases for AI, Claude Code in GitHub, Scale Acquired! Granola Cafe, AI Rules and More MCP
"Cortex podcast is God tier"
"Claude Code is the best devtool this year"
"gotta structure your codebase for AI"
Stuff we talked about:
Cortex podcast - https://www.relay.fm/cortex
Claude Code in Github - …
AI Engineering is Dead? Hectic Stag Dos, Event FOMO or Not to Go and Agent Evals are HARRDDD
"We're always live."
"I think evals are so hard."
"AI engineering is dead."
- Stag do experiences can lead to unexpected personal updates.
- Consumer behavior in Las Vegas highlights the allure of gambling d…
With Lu Wilson, Teach was the Hardest Demo, Dev Rel?, Return to Office, Windsurf Acquisition and more MCP
Lu, Wilhelm, and Matt discuss the evolution and features of tldraw, "a very good whiteboard". They explore the office culture, community engagement through demos, and the integration of AI technologi…
Opencode, Cloudflare, MCP MCP MCP, Scented Bin Liners and Broken Garmin Watches
- Wilhelm and Matt are starting a podcast together.
- They discuss the differences in humor between the UK and the US.
- Scented trash bags are surprisingly beneficial.
- Matt's Garmin watch has malfunctioned a…