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495: 2025 Wrapped - The Official Year of AI Development

December 29th, 2025  |  1 hr 24 mins

James and Frank unwrap 2025 as the Year of AI Development, covering new models, the rise of agents, and editor integrations like Copilot in VS Code that changed how developers write and maintain code. You’ll hear practical takeaways—how next-edit, local models, RAG/vectorization and app‑on‑demand sped prototyping, slashed maintenance time, and why the hosts think the AI boom has legs into 2026 despite looming uncertainty.

451: Mac mini dongles & AI?!?!

February 24th, 2025  |  36 mins 51 secs

AI, USB dongles, more AI, and more dongles? What is even going on this episode?

441: AI Driven Development

December 16th, 2024  |  31 mins 19 secs

Start with AI first is James' new plan for just about everything he does. We discuss some wins we have had recently with infusing AI into our workstream.

409: Let's Discuss AI Devices

May 6th, 2024  |  1 hr 2 mins

The Rabbit R1 and Humane AI pin are here! Is this the future of AI devices? We discuss what we really think and what we really want.

402: AI Made Easy with Smart Components for ASP.NET Core Web Apps

March 18th, 2024  |  32 mins 30 secs

AI is here for your Blazor, MVC, and Razor pages apps with Smart Components and is super simple. Use a control and AI is infused and ready to go!

364: What is an AI Developer?

June 26th, 2023  |  36 mins 41 secs

AI is all around us and everyone is talking about it. As a developer, what do we actually need to know to start developing for and with AI? Are we data scientists? Are we prompt engineers? Or are we just consumers of APIs? We discuss in this week's pod.

Microsoft Engineer Scott Seiber on Early AI with Microsoft Bob's Rover and Our AI Future

April 22nd, 2025  |  11 mins 42 secs

Scott helped revolutionize how Microsoft software operates on Mac, bridging the Windows-Mac divide long before cross-platform excellence was the norm. He also contributed significantly to Microsoft Bob, a daring initiative designed to bring a human touch to computing by creating an engaging, accessible interface. Join me as we explore the fascinating stories behind these pivotal contributions!

500: How Frank Builds Apps Has Changed Forever

February 2nd, 2026  |  54 mins 43 secs

On our 500th episode James and Frank celebrate the milestone, reminisce about their mobile‑dev roots, and dig into how AI, the Copilot CLI/SDK and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are reshaping workflows. Frank demos an MCP‑powered tool that turns app reviews into prioritized GitHub issues and automations — a real example of AI-as-glue — with practical takeaways on prompt engineering, UI extensions, and when to automate versus curate manually.

342: Democratizing AI... and GPT3

January 23rd, 2023  |  35 mins 17 secs

ai, dall-e, gpt3, machine learning, ml, openai, vall-e

OpenAI as a service is here! We discuss!

251: #AppleEvent - AirTags, M1 iMac, & Purple iPhone

April 26th, 2021  |  1 hr 4 mins

airtag, apple event, imac, ios, ipad pro, m1, purple iphone, xamarin

No upgraded MacBook devices for us just yet, but the M1 is in full force on the new iMac and iPad Pro! We break down the entire apple event.