Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/qqfcF3qHJ8g

Kristoffer Dalby, co-maintainer of Headscale and Member of Technical Staff at Tailscale, joined Vibe Check to tackle a real hostname normalization bug in the Headscale repo using AI coding agents. We use Codex and Claude side by side to plan and implement a fix, then dig into the harder questions: who actually wrote this code, how do you review AI-generated PRs, and what's changing about open source maintenance now that contributors are shipping agent-generated pull requests.

Topics covered:

• What Tailscale and Headscale do: mesh networking, direct connections, and self-hosted control planes
• Hostname normalizat ...