The Manager Has Become The Managed (Presented by Warp)

This week, Robbie and Adam sit down with Amelia Wattenberger—digital creative, product builder, and former principal research engineer at GitHub—to talk about AI agents, the death of chatbots, and whether typing code is officially over. They dig into the exhausting pace of AI tooling, why specs still aren't taking off, the anxiety of being managed by your own bots, and how Amelia's new project Intent is bundling workspaces, agents, and browsers into one cohesive developer experience. Along the way, they debate voice coding, the loss of craft, rubber duck debugging in the age of Claude, and why slowing down might be the only way to go fast. Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz In this episode: Chapters 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions 00:02:06 Whiskey Tasting: Jypsi Explorer Bourbon 00:09:00 Were AI Chatbots a Mistake? 00:18:49 The Manager Has Become The Managed 00:27:39 The Death of the Craft & The New Loop 00:37:07 Voice vs Typing: The Future of Input 00:41:51 Intent: Rethinking Developer Workspaces 00:44:39 Spectrum Development & Agent Orchestration 00:51:49 Building Across Platforms & Custom Keyboards 01:03:24 Wrap Up & Where to Find Intent Links Jypsi Explorer: https://whiskeyjypsi.com/whiskey/explorer/ Eric Church: https://www.ericchurch.com/ Dreamweaver: https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html Rent a Human: https://rentahuman.ai/ OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw Claude: https://claude.ai/ OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/ Warp: https://www.warp.dev/ Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ Intent: https://intent.ai/ Augment Code: https://www.augmentcode.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/ Swach: https://www.swach.io/ Zed: https://zed.dev/ Figma: https://www.figma.com/ Webflow: https://webflow.com/ VSCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/ Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/ Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/ OpenAI: https://openai.com/ Elgato: https://www.elgato.com/ Linux: https://www.linux.org/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ Connect with Amelia Website: https://wattenberger.com/ X / Twitter: https://x.com/Wattenberger Connect with the hosts Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/ChuckCarpenter Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://whiskey.fm Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch Enjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.