When coding agents can produce changes faster than you can inspect them, what does a useful code review look like?
In this Fresh from the Oven episode, Marco walks us through his agentic development setup. He explains how he reviews plans and architecture before implementation, how he uses fresh contexts and different models to review generated code, and why the signals he looks for are changing as code becomes a commodity.
The core of the conversation is Difftray, Marco’s local-first review desk for Git changes. Marco built it after repeatedly losing track of files that an agent had changed after his first pass.
Difftray remembers which files were reviewed, flags them when their diffs drift, and turns inline review comments into a prompt that can be sent back to the agent.
We also explore Marco’s remote workflow: HTML plans in Obsidian, Codex and Claude Code running on his Mac Studio, Difftray Companion on his phone, Tailscale for private remote access, and plenty of Git worktrees for parallel agents.
Enjoy the show 👨🍳
Show Notes
- 00.00 Intro
- 00.59 Episode Start
- 01.43 Do we still review agent-written code?
- 06.01 From prompt to code review
- 09.08 Marco’s models and coding agents
- 11.27 Planning with agents
- 15.36 Why Marco built Difftray
- 20.04 Turning review comments into prompts
- 24.42 Reviewing code from a phone
- 28.36 Marco’s remote agentic setup
- 32.03 Parallel agents and Git worktrees
- 34.41 Bringing agent reviews into Difftray
- 36.43 Do developers still need an IDE?
- 42.06 FOSDEM 2027
- 44.26 Recipe of the Week
- 48.44 Closing
Resources
- Difftray - Marco’s local-first review desk for Git changes
- Difftray on GitHub
- HTML Shelf on GitHub - Marco’s Obsidian plugin for browsing HTML plans on desktop and mobile
- Obsidian
- Tailscale
- OpenCode
- FOSDEM 2027
- Recipe of the Week:
- Marco: Archify
- Nicola: Zencastr
- Paolo: GitHub stacked pull requests
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