AI is generating more code than ever, and reviewing it has become a lonelier, more exhausting slog. This week we dig into whether ideas like shared review sessions can actually make code review better. Then we run through a brutal week of hacks hitting OpenCode, PHP, Next.js, and TLS certificates, count the many new TypeScript forks, and look at the custom source control Anthropic built to merge 30,000 changes a day.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro
1:31 - How can we make code review better?
19:45 - A roundup of this week’s hacks
30:04 - Claude Duet
34:31 - Everyone is forking TypeScript
41:05 - Anthropic’s new source control tool
47:00 - What’s making us happy

News

All: Code reviews suck, but how do we actually make them better?

Lightning News

Hacks! OpenCode hacked, PHP hacked, new CVEs in Next.js and React, eMudhra certificate hacks
Who isn’t forking TypeScript?? ts-rust, bun check, tsc-ts, tsrs, and the OG TS team dropped TS 7.1 beta
Claude Duet: Anthropic’s Muse or Dots
Anthropic’s new source control

What's Making Us Happy

Paige: Ted Lasso season 4
TJ: Vibe coded game ticket tracking site

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