Alem Tuzlak maintains the devtools half the React ecosystem depends on: TanStack AI, TanStack DevTools, and the devtools for Remix and React Router. He builds AI tooling for a living at CopilotKit. And he thinks the newest AI models are getting worse.

We talk about why every Claude release since Opus 4.5 has felt like a downgrade to him, the experiment where two coding agents worked 30 hours and finished 6 of 20 tasks while a third finished the rest in 6, and the creepier problem underneath it all: the AI that gave his doctor wife a wrong answer, got corrected, and replied "you're right, I was supposed to tell you this." We also get into what makes someone a developer when anyone can subscribe for $200 a month, why that $200 is half the minimum wage in his country, how he runs six agents at once without losing his mind, and why he gave up o ...