654: UI + State, AI Missing Context But Adds Browsers, and Scalability on the Web
UI and state struggles, AI missing important sand context, should we look forward to AI browsers, how bad is the mobile web in 2025, what does scalability with websites actually mean, and is there a role for someone as a project manager with tech insight?
Guests

Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert
This episode is with just Chris & Dave, ShopTalk Show's hosts. Chris is the co-founder of CodePen and creator of CSS-Tricks, and Dave is lead developer at Paravel.
Time Jump Links
Links
- Dribbble - Discover the World’s Top Designers & Creative Professionals
- UI = f(statesⁿ) - daverupert.com
- Welcome to Steam
- Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images – Eric Bailey
- The Browser Company | Building Arc
- Dia from The Browser Company
- Perplexity teases a web browser called Comet | TechCrunch
- Introducing Operator | OpenAI
- Daring Fireball: One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps
- Sill | Top news shared by the people you trust