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

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 the EU Accessibility Act (EAA) and what it means for developers

34:00 - Christian "Scepp" Schaefer looks back on 50 years of Microsoft and the "valley of tears" he experienced moving from PC to Mac.

36:40 - Tejas Kumar on why MCP is so exciting

41:00 - Luise Freese on why you have to speak to LLMs like a child

43:20 - Tejas Kumar on why we should ignore the hype in tech

49:29 - Zaid Zaim on YouTube turning 20 years old

52:04 - Rowdy Rabouw on why regular expressions are scary

54:15 - Dirk Ginader on why developers should stop converting designs into web pages

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