Software Development interviews. Show notes have links and transcript. Episodes are available as audio and video.
Episodes
3 Sept 2026
"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."
Open episode25 Aug 2026
"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."
Open episode21 Jul 2026
"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."
Open episode5 Jun 2026
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.
Open episode15 May 2026
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.
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13 May 2026
The text explores the shift to secure cloud-based software development, AI's transformative role in reshaping workflows and roles, the challenges of cross-disciplinary communication, emerging automation practices like agent-driven systems, and the evolving implications of AI on developer responsibilities and team dynamics.
Open episode24 Apr 2026
Software development grapples with agent integration complexities, necessitating tool redesign for agent-first workflows, addressing security and identity challenges, balancing single/multi-agent trade-offs, reimagining collaboration through workspaces, and redefining developer roles in an AI-driven, open-source landscape.
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27 Mar 2026
Adam's spring break and Chuck Norris tribute aside, the focus is on tech updates including Astro's Open AI acquisition, AI-driven developer tools, supply chain vulnerabilities in Light LLM, OpenCode's legal hurdles, Rust's compilation issues, Work OS's secure authentication methods, AI-powered tax software challenging incumbents, and concerns over the stalled HTTPX library and its potential fork.
Open episode11 Mar 2026
Tailscale is redefining itself as a secure connectivity platform, integrating identity and connectivity, while Aperture serves as an API gateway for secure collaboration, and the company is focusing on enterprise readiness, self-hosting, and leveraging AI and LLMs to enhance its services.
Open episode10 Mar 2026
Major news and tech updates are discussed, including an attack on AWS data centers, new MacBook Pro models, and advancements in AI, robotics, and coding tools.
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