1024: Open Models Replace Big AI

**Wes Bos** (0:00)
That so often, I would post something to Stack Overflow, and I would get, why are you doing it this way? And sometimes that's frustrating, but sometimes that's the best thing. I don't know that the quick fix from a lot of these AI agents is often, let's take a step back and redo this. Often the fix is like, all right, well, here's how you can fix it, the hole that you're in. So that kind of makes me bummed, because people are not going through that. Like, hmm, what's the best way to approach it?
And coincidentally, that's one of the highest skills you can have right now, is like, not just writing the sheer code, but how do you tackle these problems?

**Scott Tolinski** (0:43)
Oh, welcome to Syntax. Today, we are talking about all kinds of stuff. Wes has been gone for two weeks, and now he is back, and the entire web world has forever changed. Everything is different.

**Wes Bos** (0:57)
Holy smokes.

**Scott Tolinski** (0:58)
Yes. Everything is different, folks. We're going to be talking about all kinds of stuff in this episode. Vue 3.6 has entered Release Candidate, and there's something called Alien Signals. That sounds cool as hell.
We're going to be talking about how you can stay on top of every single browser update that happens. We're going to be talking about an, what is this, a work tree alternative. Work trees, my gosh. Those are one thing that I can't seem to get a handle on. So I love to see that there is an alternative idea. And we're even going to be diving into open weight models. There's been a lot of new open weight models released. There's been a ton of crazy conversation around that. And we're going to host a funeral for Stack Overflow. With me as always is CJ Reynolds and Wes Bos. What's up, CJ? What's up, Wes?

**CJ Reynolds** (1:51)
Yo, doing good. Wes, how's it going? You've been gone? How was your vacation? You feeling good? Ready to be back?

**Wes Bos** (1:56)
Fantastic. Yep. Went to New York, went to the cottage.
I was gone for what? Two and a half weeks. And I feel like, like, I don't know what, I don't know what soul is. Fable is back apparently. Kimi, is that Kim Kardashian's model? What the hell? Like I can't-

**CJ Reynolds** (2:14)
It's Kimi Antonelli's model.

**Wes Bos** (2:16)
When I was gone.

**Scott Tolinski** (2:18)
Yes, Kim Kardashian's AI model, Kimi Antonelli's AI model, all that good stuff. Wes, do you know Kimi Antonelli is? Mr. Lando Norris himself.

**Wes Bos** (2:28)
No idea who that is. Who's that?

**Scott Tolinski** (2:30)
He's the current first place Formula One driver and he's like 19 or 18 years old. He was a Formula One driver before he had his driver's license. That's crazy.

**Wes Bos** (2:40)
Holy smokes.

**Scott Tolinski** (2:41)
So he's a little young guy, but he is going to win Formula One probably. What's up, CJ? I think we're going to get into your story first, talking about the latest release from the Vue.js, folks. I'm stoked just because it seems like it's got some cool naming stuff and I'm down to hear about some cool naming stuff.

**CJ Reynolds** (3:00)
Yes. So for the uninitiated, Vue.js is the progressive JavaScript framework. vue.js.org. They're one of the OGs. They came out around the same time as React. They've been here all along. They're not new and they've been working hard on some new stuff. So I've never heard of it.
I'm sure most people have, but yeah.

**Wes Bos** (3:24)
It looks vibe coded. Is this the gradient on the text? What is this new JavaScript framework?

**CJ Reynolds** (3:31)
We can look at the web archive. This was probably before LLMs even existed.

**Wes Bos** (3:35)
Yes.

**Scott Tolinski** (3:35)
Created by Evan Vue himself.

**CJ Reynolds** (3:37)
Evan Vue, yes. Okay. But version 3.6 RC has been released. So RC means Release Candidate, and that basically means that the API is stable. It's ready for people to try. So if you're a user of Vue, if you just want to try it out, you can try out the RC one. But there's two big things that are happening in version 3.6. The first is a major refactor of Vue slash reactivity. So when Vue moved from version 2 to version 3, there was a lot of internals that were reworked, and they essentially made it so the reactivity piece, the piece for state management, is actually a separate package that you could use without Vue if you really even wanted to. But they've been hard at work refactoring it using a library called AlienSignals.