Developers vs Scammers, Bad Design, AI is Pointless, AJAX is 20 and more - The Best of LIVE 2025 - Part 1

Coffee with Developers · Dec 17, 2025 · 56m

This week we're looking back on the best of 2025 from the Weekly Developer Show, with part 1 of a 3-part series:

00:20 - Brian Rountree on writing a script to turn the tables on scammers

09:10 - Stefan Judis on how bad design can actually be good

11:53 - Salma Alam-Naylor on why developers should try to solve real problems with AI, not just create GPT wrappers

14:30 - Christophe Porteneuve on nested if statements and ternaries

20:00 - Alexander Lichter on 20 years of AJAX and learning how to deal with state

23:50 - Luise Freese on how humans should push back against AI

28:30 - Emma Dawson on…