AI Wins and Misses for 2025

I'm joined by Nirmal Mehta of AWS and Viktor Farcic from Upbound, to go through our 2025 year in review. We look into the AI tools that consumed us this year, from CLI agents to terminal emulators, IDEs, AI browsers - what worked, what flopped, what's worth your time and money, and what we think isn't!

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• Cristi Cotovan - Editor
• Bret Fisher - Host
• Beth Fisher - Producer
• Nirmal Mehta - Host
• Viktor Farcic - Guest

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• (00:00) - Introduction
• (04:15) - Game of AI Tools
• (04:41) - Reflecting on the Fast-Paced Year
• (07:52) - CLI Tools and AI Integration
• (09:30) - Ghostty
• (12:29) - Terminal Preferences and AI Tools
• (14:33) - Claude Code
• (16:54) - Skills
• (28:01) - Warp
• (35:22) - AWS Kiro and Spec-Driven Development
• (41:41) - Visual Editors (IDEs)
• (47:02) - Zed
• (49:12) - AI Browsers
• (01:02:53) - Notion AI
• (01:05:11) - Code Rabbit MCP
• (01:07:50) - AI Optimization
• (01:10:42) - Ad Blocking and AI SEO