In this episode, Stanislav Khromov joins the Svelte Radio team to discuss his work on Svelte Bench, a

benchmarking tool that scientifically measures how well different LLMs understand and write Svelte 5 code.

The conversation explores the challenges of AI-assisted coding with Svelte 5, the development of the official

Svelte MCP (Model Context Protocol) that provides LLMs with documentation and auto-fixing capabilities, and

the surprising performance differences between major AI providers. Stanislav also shares insights on working

with AI tools, the future of local models, and the economics of AI coding assistants.

Notes

• Stanislav Khromov
• Svelte Bench
  • GitHub
• Svelte MCP
• Anthropic Spending VC Money

Unpopular Opinions

• Kevin: Serverless is overrated
• Stanislav: OpenAI has the worst models of the big three
• Antony: Heat Pumps are bad
  • Technology Connections
  • Tech Ingredients

Picks

• Kevin: Kasai Hibachi Grill (now tested, and can confirm, it is PENG!)
  Stanislav: Ball x Pit
  Antony: Saunas By the Sea

In this episode of Svelte Radio, Ken Kunz joins the hosts to discuss his journey with Svelte, from discovering it

through Rich Harris's "Rethinking Reactivity" talk to building complex financial applications. Ken shares his

experience working on Trading Strategy, a decentralized finance platform, and the challenges of implementing

sophisticated charting solutions.

The conversation also covers Ken's memorable Svelte Summit talk where he

recreated the Macrodata Refinement interface from the TV show Severance, complete with props and staying in

character throughout. The episode touches on testing philosophies, state management with his library Svelte-

FSM, and the newly launched Svelte Society Chicago chapter.

Notes

• Trading Strategy
• LayerChart
• TradingView Lightweight Chart
• xstate
• svelte-fsm
  • Talk
• Runed
• Macrodata Refinement Talk
  • GitHub Repo
  • Website
• Bert B's Svelte Summit Talk
• Svelte Chicago

Picks

• Kevin: Zen Browser
  • Zed
  • Zod
• Antony: n8n
  • Active Pieces
• Brittney: Tab Groups!
• Ken: Rock Climbing!
  • Brene Brown

Summary

In this episode of Svelt Radio, the hosts welcome Jeppe Reinhold from Chromatic to discuss the dramatic

improvements in Storybook's Svelte integration. Jeppe shares how a critical video by Brittany struggling with

Storybook setup sparked a complete overhaul of the Svelte experience, leading to better collaboration with the

Svelte core team and significant enhancements in functionality.

The conversation covers new features like Svelte

CSF for writing stories in native Svelte syntax, improved testing capabilities, support for async components, and

upcoming features in Storybook 10. The team also discusses the philosophy behind component-driven

development, the challenges of integrating with remote functions, and Storybook's future direction including AI

support and better theming capabilities.

Links

• Storybook
  • Storybook Svelte Guide
• addon-svelte-csf

Unpopular Opinions

• Antony: Svelte is an independent project! Don’t throw it in the bin
• Jeppe: I like GANTT charts

Picks

• Antony: Castles!
• Brittney: Spain!
• Jeppe: Tuple