1046: The Pi Updates are insane

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 (x.com/oliverdunk_/status/2105414731745886717)

• IANA’s reply (oliverdunk.com/2026/09/30/iana-reply)

• 04:37 The death of pull requests

• Sindre Sorhus’ post (x.com/sindresorhus/status/2105693826690298314)

• Dave Kiss’ post (x.com/davekiss/status/2105714481380700505)

• SWC’s post (x.com/swc_rs/status/2105505428893544847)

• Andreas Kling’s post (x.com/awesomekling/status/2105571809370493272)

• Yusuke Wada’s post (x.com/yusukebe/status/2107027870019445007)

• Wes’ NiimBlue PR (github.com/MultiMote/niimblue/issues/157)

• JSON Alexander (chromewebstore.google.com/detail/json-alexande…)

• 12:46 pi v1.0 (earendil.com/posts/pi-durable)

• 24:14 Brought to you by Sentry! (sentry.io/syntax)

• 25:08 Turso Joining Supabase (x.com/tursodatabase/status/2106054567125532976)

• 28:13 Screen Studio (screen.studio) Updates

• Screen Studio 4.0 upscaling (x.com/pie6k/status/2105900587342606714)

• 33:24 Svelte 3.0 Release (svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here)

• 35:32 Effect 4.0 (effect.website/blog/releases/effect/40)

• 38:14 Alchemy (alchemy.run)

• Cloudflare’s Programmatic configuration (developers.cloudflare.com/cf/projects/cloudfla…)

• 42:59 Foldkit (foldkit.dev)

• 44:10 OpenAI Dev Day Announcements (openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap)

• Dots (openai.com/index/introducing-dots)

• Rahim Nathwani’s reply regarding Luna (x.com/RahimNathwani/status/2105001661588754742)

• Plugin Extensions (developers.openai.com/plugins/build/extensions)

• Sites in ChatGPT (chatgpt.com/features/sites)

• 56:40 Cloudflare Clef Decision Model (blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models)

• 01:01:25 Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-resea…)

• Google’s announcement post (x.com/GoogleAI/status/2105388478683119904)

• 01:09:04 Flux 3 Image Model (bfl.ai/models/flux-3-image)

• 01:11:50 Claude Mods (x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2105721434807083061)

• 01:13:44 Muse Gadgets (gadgets.muse.ai)

• Nat Friedman’s post (x.com/natfriedman/status/2106099383037309211)

• 01:17:27 Nvidia Lyra 2.0 World Model (nv-tlabs.github.io/Project-Lyra)

• 01:27:30 Game Recomps and Decomps (youtube.com/watch?v=mYZPHdKKMaI)

• 01:30:54 JS Composite Type (x.com/robpalmer2/status/2105210017897214462)

• 01:35:00 RFC 1149 Auction (onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-printed-books-…)

• First implementation of the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol (rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1149)

• 01:37:49 eslint cssicorn (github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-cssicorn)

• 01:39:15 Syntax Meetup (luma.com/5ng6bniy)

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