More The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes
Published 23 Feb 2026
Duration: 07:48
The podcast discusses AI, software development, and the evolving dynamics of creation and attention in the modern economy.
Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare h...
The podcast explores various topics in technology and software development, revisiting Fred Brooks The Mythical Man-Month and its relevance to modern agentic software development. It introduces "Employ a Peon," a tool that integrates AI voice lines into command-line interfaces, and discusses Ladybird Pods transition from Swift to Rust, citing safety and ecosystem improvements as key factors. Additionally, the episode highlights Cloudflare's new code mode technique aimed at enhancing AI agent efficiency.
The discussion extends to challenges in spec-driven development and the necessity of maintaining specifications in both directions to ensure consistency and effectiveness. The podcast concludes with reflections on how the dynamics of creation and attention are evolving in the modern economy, emphasizing the increasing importance of capturing audience attention and the role of financial resources as a competitive advantage in this landscape.
3 Sept 2026 Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)
"AI-generated code floods open source projects, obscuring vulnerabilities and overwhelming maintainers, prompting shifts to private repositories and cloud-based development as security risks escalate."
25 Aug 2026 Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)
"PlanetScale launched a $5 PostgreSQL plan, detailed metal deployment for performance, previewed sharded PostgreSQL product Niki, and discussed AI workloads, CI/CD challenges, and engineering-driven scaling strategies."
21 Jul 2026 Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)
"Thinkst, a 50-person cybersecurity firm, specializes in Canary honeypots and Canary Tokens, offering simple, no-maintenance detection tools with $22.5M ARR, no price hikes in a decade, and AI-driven threat awareness."
5 Jun 2026 From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)
A deep dive into open source contributions, AI-driven developer roles, challenges in maintaining projects like Spectrum and GitHub's acquisitions, balancing altruistic work with career growth, technical topics such as GraphQL and database scalability, and the evolving landscape of cloud environments and plugin ecosystems.
15 May 2026 MCP on Code Mode (Interview)
The Field CTO role focuses on data-driven product alignment with customer needs, advocating secure cloud environments, the Model Context Protocol for agent interactions, and balancing automation with security in AI-driven development workflows.
More The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes