Email: Theo spent a week with my skills repo

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Theo spent a week with my skills repo
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8/19/2026, 8:28:50 PM
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"Matt Pocock (AI Hero)" <matt@aihero.dev>
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Hey Andrea,&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;I just wrapped up a great livestream with Robert C. Martin, aka Uncle Bob, about why software fundamentals still matter when working with coding agents.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;More than 1600 people tuned in live, but if you missed it live or couldn’t stay the whole time, check out the replay to see where we agree, and disagree, about the future of software engineering with AI coding agents.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;&lt;a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/d0um8dow44s0ho2mnzefmhzmkgm4wszmmll59le6vk4dnvmw887o2zm54k46rz5n5qv69nmom732gzrezrdqnz7n0q4rlgrwxgvem5x2g6x3kxlp5zp2n0pn25ea00llw/08hwhgu2l04ovpfpu5/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2NyYXNoLWNvdXJzZS11bmNsZS1ib2ItbGl2ZQ==" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1879484325"&gt;&lt;img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/total-typescript/image/upload/c_limit,f_jpg,q_auto:good,w_960/v1787170220/ai-hero-launch/crash-course-email-5b-uncle-bob-live-thumb.jpg" alt="LIVE: Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI" width="480" style="display:block;height:auto;line-height:100%;outline:none;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;max-width:100%;border:0 none;display:block;width:100%;max-width:480px;height:auto;margin:24px auto;border-radius:8px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Make sure you watch to the end, where I asked him directly: “Why do software fundamentals still matter?”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Uncle Bob gave an answer I loved and everyone needs to hear.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But wait, there’s more…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Late last night, fellow TypeScript enthusiast and AI-pilled YouTuber Theo Browne dropped his own video on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Theo spent a week using my skills repo on his own projects, and shared his favorite (and least favorite) parts of the experience.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;&lt;a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/d0um8dow44s0ho2mnzefmhzmkgm4wszmmll59le6vk4dnvmw887o2zm54k46rz5n5qv69nmom732gzrezrdqnz7n0q4rlgrwxgvem5x2g6x3kxlp5zp2n0pn25ea00llw/8ghqh3uore80z8alu9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2NyYXNoLWNvdXJzZS10aGVvLXZpZGVv" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1879484326"&gt;Watch Theo’s video →&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;He came in with a healthy dose of skepticism, but after just one grilling session on stream, he admitted:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote style="margin:1em 0"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“This is useful. I should have tried this before.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;He also added this to the comments since:&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;These two engineers are some of the most experienced I know, and even though we disagree on many things, we absolutely agree on the importance of good engineering processes and deeply understanding our tools for getting the most out of AI Coding agents.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;More than 1500 developers just like you already signed up for my AI Coding Crash Course to learn those fundamentals, too.&lt;/p&gt;

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