1046: The Pi Updates are insane

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Scott, Wes, and CJ break down the latest Pi updates, including durable long-running agents, Codemode, and MCP support, then debate whether pull requests are dead in favor of issues. Plus Supabase picks up Turso, Screen Studio 4 drops, JavaScript Composites bring value-based equality, and a stack of new AI models from Google, OpenAI, Cloudflare, and more. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax Weekly 00:46 example.com gets a facelift Oliver Dunk’s post IANA’s reply 04:37 The death of pull requests Sindre Sorhus’ post Dave Kiss’ post SWC’s post Andreas Kling’s post Yusuke Wada’s post Wes’ NiimBlue PR JSON Alexander 12:46 pi v1.0 24:14 Brought to you by Sentry! 25:08 Turso Joining Supabase 28:13 Screen Studio Updates Screen Studio 4.0 upscaling 33:24 Svelte 3.0 Release 35:32 Effect 4.0 38:14 Alchemy Cloudflare’s Programmatic configuration 42:59 Foldkit 44:10 OpenAI Dev Day Announcements Dots Rahim Nathwani’s reply regarding Luna Plugin Extensions Sites in ChatGPT 56:40 Cloudflare Clef Decision Model 01:01:25 Gemini 4 Argon Google’s announcement post 01:09:04 Flux 3 Image Model 01:11:50 Claude Mods 01:13:44 Muse Gadgets Nat Friedman’s post 01:17:27 Nvidia Lyra 2.0 World Model 01:27:30 Game Recomps and Decomps 01:30:54 JS Composite Type 01:35:00 RFC 1149 Auction First implementation of the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol 01:37:49 eslint cssicorn 01:39:15 Syntax Meetup Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads