The Transactional Trap: How 97% of Developers Are Using AI Wrong w/ Leon Noel & Danny Thompson

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Leon Noel and Danny Thompson to talk AI workflows, agentic development, and whether the job of coding has fundamentally changed. They dig into prompt engineering, mental models, OpenClaw setups, the rise of harnesses and orchestration layers, and why testing in production might actually be fine. Along the way, they debate git rebase versus git merge, the death of LeetCode interviews, why Cursor feels different than Copilot, and whether Pokemon Go is still thriving in 2026. Presented by Warp: https://www.warp.dev/oz In this episode: Chapters 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions 00:02:55 Whiskey Tasting: Matsui Single Cask Sakura 00:14:11 Hot Takes: Git Rebase vs Git Merge 00:20:30 The AI Revolution: From Skepticism to Adoption 00:23:21 OpenClaw Deep Dive: AI Agents While You Sleep 00:49:05 Cursor Web & Long-Running Agents 00:35:58 The Mental Model Problem: How Most Devs Use AI Wrong 00:55:44 AI Prompting Masterclass: Tips from the Experts 01:11:47 Code Review with AI: SLMs, Bug Bot & Snyk 00:32:47 Breaking Into Tech & The Future of Junior Developers 01:16:36 Pokemon Go Nostalgia & Wrap Up Links Matsui Single Malt Sakura Cask: https://dewinespot.co/products/matsui-single-malt-sakura-cask 100 Devs: https://leonnoel.com/100devs/ Resilient Coders: https://www.resilientcoders.org/ Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/ OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/ Claude: https://claude.ai/ Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot Opencode: https://opencode.ai/ Warp: https://www.warp.dev/ Pi: https://pi.ai/ Codex 5.3: https://openai.com/ Snyk: https://snyk.io/ Bug Bot: https://bugbot.ai/ Reptile: https://reptile.ai/ CodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.ai/ Antigravity: https://antigravity.dev/ GitHub: https://github.com/ Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/ Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/ TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/ Svelte: https://svelte.dev/ Solid: https://www.solidjs.com/ Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/ Atlassian Forge: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/ Rovo Dev: https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo HackerRank: https://www.hackerrank.com/ Playwright: https://playwright.dev/ Pokemon Go: https://pokemongolive.com/ Commit Your Code Conference: https://commityourcode.com/ Connect with Leon Website: https://leonnoel.com/ X / Twitter: https://x.com/leonnoel Connect with Danny Website: https://www.dthompsondev.com/ X / Twitter: https://x.com/DThompsonDev 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.