The Midwest Artisan
We Hardly Knew Ye, Fable 5
20 June 2026 1:08:14 Andy Hinkle & Dalton McCleery
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About this episode
In this episode, we talk how we've both stopped writing code and basically live in Claude Desktop, teaching someone to break into dev today, pouring one out for Fable Five. Plus Laracon Boston and whether anyone's still excited about new framework features.
- (00:00) - Welcome and Personal Updates
- (02:29) - Do you write any code by hand?
- (08:13) - Voice-Activated Programming and Workflow Innovations
- (15:55) - What's the pathway for a junior developer?
- (25:55) - Do people still get excited about code?
- (31:43) - Workflows + Worktrees
- (38:24) - Skills and Automation in Development
- (49:19) - Fable 5
- (59:40) - Logging All Validation Errors
- (01:07:45) - Outro
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