Podcasts are officially back in the mix.

As well as Stripe-first design, more YouTube numbers and the death of Vibe coding.

Topics for this week:

• Stripe-First

• Almost 1%

• Bigger Numbers

• The Death of Vibe Coding

• Blind Recommendation

Stripe-First

Wave took a backseat last week to a number of other projects that suddenly flared up.

But this week I was able to make a little more progress.

I had built the screens and the datatables, so I got to get into some Go code this week to actually connect to Stripe.

Got as far as one method: Create a Wave Event

Not a ton of progress but it revealed another layer, as it always does.

Planning out the function with Gemini Pro 2.5, it brought up a valid point of making sure this endpoint, and all other endpoints, are “Stripe-first”.

If something goes wrong in the middle of an API call, it’s better to make sure that Stripe creates the product first, then creates the corresponding product in the Wave database afterward.

Of course it’s possible to correct the Stripe platform, but it would have to be done strictly through their APIs.

Not that their APIs are bad, but they will undoubtedly have some limitations.

If I need to correct the Wave database on the other hand, I have full admin control which presents many more options to do what I need to do, not limited by API definitions or restrictions.

So the first official Stripe-connected API is also a Stripe-first API, laying the foundation for a number of other APIs to come.

Almost 1%

It only took a year, but with Episode 11 going live on Monday, The Dev Sync is statistically, already past the top 10% of all podcasts just by having more than 3 episodes, and nearing the top 1% by making it to 21 episodes.

The data comes from Jack Butcher appearing on an episode of Chris Williamson’s podcast back in 2021 (and is referenced in the tweet above), but I would imagine the data is still pretty accurate to this day.

It’s hard to stay consistent.

I think it still counts if some of the episodes are over one year apart anyway.

It took a minute to edit this episode since it’s been a year since I last edited a podcast, but I think it turned out pretty well.

Felt right back to normal though, chatting away about AI like we never stopped.

And we had Jumpin’ Jim join us as our first ever guest to mark our one year return.

Only 10 more episodes left to get to the top 1% of podcasts.

Let me know if you check it out:

Bigger Numbers

I’m trending behind on my usual YouTube uploads.

The podcast took up the Thursday recording slot, and editing the podcast on Monday took up my backup recording slot, so I finally got a YouTube video uploaded to my other channel on Tuesday.

Not super exciting but it is a useful one!

n8n has a built in PDF extractor which is really convenient, but it only returns the text of the document.

GPT however can read that text and shape it to whatever data format you’d like, so in this case it was able to convert the content of a PDF to be uploaded to Monday.com directly.

Fairly straightforward, yet powerful.

But also not exactly viral YouTube content, sitting at 59 views 3 days later.

Even Nano Banana videos have been a little lack luster lately.

My first Nano Banana video caught a wave and is sitting at 3500 views, but the following 3 videos only have a few hundred.

Generally, it seems, having big faces in your thumbnails tend to perform better so may need to do more of that.

Still getting used to that idea but that may be a requirement for continued YouTube success.

And balancing the clickbait approach versus purely practical title and thumbnails.

We’ll get there eventually.

Despite this, still seeing steady growth.

Nearly 1100 subscribers to the channel which is kinda crazy.

Crazier still, Skool is over 500 members now too, and the only traffic that gets is from YouTube, and maybe a few people that browse within Skool.

Slow and steady with one video upload per week right now.

Always room for growth but I’m pleased with the progress so far.

Plenty more uploads to come and hopefully plenty more growth as well!

The Death of Vibe Coding

We talked about vibe coding in The Dev Sync episode above, where I gave my opinion there.

Coming from the perspective of someone that generally knows how to code and still has been stuck in the vibe coding loop myself, I’ve had my doubts about the trend.

But it’s a fun term, and makes for good marketable posts and clicks, so it’s been a good trend.

It could be that it’s dying down now, or at least shifting now that people are starting to see the cracks.

AI is getting better and better at coding, but there’s still plenty of room for mistakes.

Until it can successfully complete a task end to end with a general directive, I’m not sure developers are out of the job yet.

And if anything, it further enforces the need for developers because you need someone that can actually spot the problem when AI is innocently blind to the issue.

This post on LinkedIn seemed to have sparked the idea that vibe coding is dying, although the idea is derived from potentially inaccurate data about the traffic to an AI coding website called Lovable.

I was listening to Theo’s take on the situation because I was curious to hear more about vibe coding dying:

He brings up some good points after admitting the original data about traffic might not be the most reliable indicator of how Lovable is doing, but it’s certainly food for thought.

I’m happy to keep vibe coding or whatever we’re going to start calling AI generated code production instead.

Blind Recommendation

It’s been a while since I’ve recommended a podcast without having listened/watched it yet, but today breaks that streak.

I was reviewing my YouTube history to remind myself of the week (one of these days I’ll learn to take better notes for this newsletter), when I saw this thumbnail:

These are still 2 of my most listened to people right now, so I am certain this will be an entertaining episode, even at nearly 3 hours.

I’m sure I’ll have it done by Monday.

Chris celebrated his 1000th episode with Matthew McConaughey 2 weeks ago (which surprisingly I haven’t finished yet), and it doesn’t seem like Modern Wisdom is slowing down anytime soon.

Dr. K has been on a tour lately as well, showing up on a few other big podcasts including Flagrant and Jay Shetty’s On Purpose (I did listen to these).

But I’m looking forward to watching Chris and Dr. K chat for a while again.

Thoroughly enjoyed their last conversation from one year ago so I have no doubts this will be good as well.

Feel free to let me know if this doesn’t turn out to be a very good blind recommendation.

Always open to more data.

And that’s it for this week. Wave is operating Strip-first, and I snuck a few podcast recommendations in there for old time sake.

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