My Coding Skills Are Atrophying

Scott and Wes answer your questions about coding in the AI era, atrophying skills from too much autocomplete, whether it’s finally time to leave VS Code, chasing flow state with agents, and which single AI subscription is worth your money. Plus: AT Protocol vs Solid, making your AI config portable across tools, and bringing Shadcn-level UX to server-rendered frameworks 🔥 Be the ~19,500th person to join our super tasty newsletter https://bit.ly/syntax_snackpack Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:57 AI-Generated Code: Are My Skills Atrophying? 06:03 Is It Time to Move On from VS Code? 13:19 Hitting Flow State with AI Coding 19:15 AT Protocol vs Solid: Decentralized Web Approaches 24:55 Which AI Should You Subscribe To? 30:23 Making Your AI Setup Portable Across Tools 33:56 When to Drop a Tool That Still Works 40:12 UX Quality for Traditional Server-Side Frameworks 44:14 Using Hermes and Self-Hosted AI Assistants 49:27 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs All links available at https://syntax.fm/1031 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: https://x.com/syntaxfm Scott: https://x.com/stolinski Wes: https://x.com/wesbos CJ: https://x.com/CodingGarden Randy: https://www.youtube.com/@randyrektor http://www.syntax.fm Brought to you by https://sentry.io/syntax #webdevelopment #webdeveloper #javascript #syntax #syntaxfm #webdev