Dillon, Scott, and Matt dig into Matt's hot take that you shouldn't be using plan mode in your AI coding agents anymore. They land on a nuanced agreement — planning still matters, but plan mode in Claude Code and Codex has stopped pulling its weight, spinning for 30 minutes and dumping a markdown doc instead of asking the clarifying questions it used to. Plus grill-me skills, POC-first workflows, Scott's eighth powerlifting meet, and Matt accidentally reinventing Tanstack Query.
