Weekly Report 2026-07

15 Feb 2026

AI Engineering Podcast - From Blind Spots to Observability: Operationalizing LLM Apps with OpenLit

Current AI app development trends are hindered by challenges such as vendor lock-in, unclear value creation, and limited understanding of AI behavior, but open-source tools like OpenLit can help address these issues.

13 Feb 2026

Practical AI - AI incidents, audits, and the limits of benchmarks

Experts highlight the need for robust AI safety measures, including developing methods to catalog and prevent AI incidents, and using data and third-party audits to identify and address flaws.

11 Feb 2026

How I AI - Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3 Codex: How I shipped 93,000 lines of code in 5 days

Recent advancements in AI coding models, including OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Opus 4.6, are discussed in the context of their effectiveness and limitations in software development.

10 Feb 2026

The AI Native Dev - From IBM Acquisition to AI-Native Observability | Dash0 CEO

The shift in software interaction toward AI-native tools enhances user experiences, with emerging observability tools and agents streamlining troubleshooting and making insights more accessible.

9 Feb 2026

How I AI - How to build your own AI developer tools with Claude Code | CJ Hess (Tenex)

A speaker outlines a workflow for creating a personal AI tool ecosystem, using Claude and other tools to generate UI mockups, flowcharts, and code, enhancing individual efficiency and code quality.

13 Feb 2026

My First Million - This AI agent completes your To-Do list (plus 4 AI tools thatll blow you away)

AI tools are revolutionizing business and productivity with capabilities such as content analysis, automation, and personalized creation, but come with limitations and a need for human collaboration and experimentation.

12 Feb 2026

Tropical MBA Entrepreneurship - #845 How to Build a 6-Figure Digital Business with Claude Code

Experts discuss the evolution and applications of AI in automating complex tasks, from content generation to workflow automation, highlighting practical uses and implications for business and design.

11 Feb 2026

My First Million - My mother-in-law's side hustle made $1M selling pillows?!?

A 55-year-old individual with no prior e-commerce experience started a pillow business online and grew it to 17,000 orders using a made-to-order model and strategic partnerships.

9 Feb 2026

My First Million - 6 Trends Youve Never Heard Of (That Might Explode)

Current cultural trends include a shift away from traditional substances and towards alternative health and lifestyle options, driven by changing social norms and emerging technologies.

12 Feb 2026

The AI Report Live - Elon Musk Just Built a $1.25 TRILLION AI-Space Empire | AI News in 5

Technological advancements in AI are driving growth and potential IPOs for some companies, but also causing declines in traditional stocks and investor skepticism due to branding and deployment issues.

15 Feb 2026

Scaling DevTools - Louis from Vibe Kanban - 20,000 GitHub stars and walking away from 6-figure deals

A podcast explores key aspects of startup product development, including founder-led marketing, AI's impact on development, and the importance of human oversight and team motivation.

15 Feb 2026

The Cloudcast - Three AI Rooms to be a Fly on the Wall in 2026

Global topics in cloud computing are discussed in the podcast, with some transcription formatting issues present.

14 Feb 2026

Code with Jason - 311 - Tyler Ewing, Creator of Ductwork

The podcast discusses the development of a physical newsletter and a Ruby/Rails workflow framework, along with related topics such as framework design, product development, and customer feedback.

14 Feb 2026

Code with Jason - 310 - Brad Taylor, Fractional CTO

The podcast explores the creation of **Nonsense Monthly**, a physical programming newsletter covering diverse topics from software development to risk management and intentional design.

13 Feb 2026

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source - Han shot first (Friends)

The podcast covers various topics, including CI/CD, Python governance, Star Wars viewing orders, and the impact of AI in media, exploring their complexities and implications.

13 Feb 2026

MLOps.community - Rethinking Notebooks Powered by AI

The podcast highlights the importance of context, flexibility, and evolution in workflow tools and data analysis, emphasizing the need for refinement and dynamic interaction with AI agents.

13 Feb 2026

Goto tech - Clean Architecture with Python Sam Keen & Max Kirchoff

A podcast discusses applying Clean Architecture principles to Python development to manage dependencies and write clean, testable code.

13 Feb 2026

Dev Interrupted - Breaking GitHub, AI vampires & the great Oz | Warps Zach Lloyd

A podcast discusses the increasing importance of AI automation in engineering workflows, citing infrastructure challenges and introducing a new cloud platform as a possible solution.

13 Feb 2026

FreeCodeCamp Podcast - Why maintaining a codebase is so damn hard with OhMyZSH creator Robby Russell

The podcast delves into the hidden aspects of software development, including maintenance, technical debt, and the importance of code quality and knowledge sharing.

13 Feb 2026

Engineering Culture by InfoQ - Beyond Code: How Engineers Need to Evolve in the AI Era

The podcast delves into software engineering topics such as systems thinking, generative AI, code quality, and organizational culture.

13 Feb 2026

Tech League - #12 DevOps and SecOps

This podcast explores the evolution of DevOps, highlighting its shift from siloed teams to a culture of shared responsibility, accountability, and continuous improvement, resulting in faster problem resolution and more reliable systems.

12 Feb 2026

Latent Space - Owning the AI Pareto Frontier Jeff Dean

The discussion highlights the need to balance the development of highly capable AI models with efficient and cost-effective alternatives, emphasizing strategies for optimization and deployment.

12 Feb 2026

The Pragmatic Engineer - The programming language after Kotlin with the creator of Kotlin

Kotlin, a language designed to improve on Java, has evolved from an IDE plugin to a full-featured programming language with significant traction, particularly after being endorsed by Google.

12 Feb 2026

Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman - The Rise of The Claw with OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger

The podcast covers updates to TXTextControl's platform independence, OpenClaw's development challenges, and broader topics in AI, software development, and technological innovation.

12 Feb 2026

No Priors - AI, Technology, Startups - Rivians Roadmap to AI Architecture and Autonomy with Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe

Autonomous driving technology is evolving towards standardization by 2030, driven by advancements in onboard computing and data analytics, and is shifting towards more complex neural network systems.

12 Feb 2026

Software Engineering Daily - Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development with Steve Yegge

Experts discuss how AI is transforming software development, highlighting challenges and implications of using AI for coding, design, and workflow automation, including changes to job roles, project management, and dynamics of human-AI collaboration.

12 Feb 2026

Giant Robots - 602: Understanding the Impact with Jason Stadther

Truecar's "Motivated Buyers" project uses machine learning to analyze data and boost lead conversion rates, but faces challenges with AI definition, bias, and the importance of human oversight in AI-assisted tech.

12 Feb 2026

Latent Space - Beyond AlphaFold: How Boltz is Open-Sourcing the Future of Drug Discovery

Machine learning-based methods have revolutionized protein structure prediction and interaction modeling, with significant advancements in single-chain and multi-chain predictions, and efforts underway to replicate and improve these capabilities.

12 Feb 2026

Software Engineering Radio - Subhajit Paul on ERP Automation and AI

This podcast explores the functionality and evolution of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, including AI's role in streamlining operations and making predictive analytics possible.

11 Feb 2026

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source - Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Agentic coding is transforming software development with AI-driven tools that quickly generate code, but also require careful verification and oversight.

11 Feb 2026

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats - 978: Should A New Coder Use AI?

The podcast covers various software development topics, including AI-enhanced coding, web development techniques, and career growth strategies.

11 Feb 2026

Developer Tea - Why Getting Paid Stole Your Drive and How to Get Into the Flow Again (Career Growth Accelerator)

This podcast explores how fostering intrinsic motivation and flow leads to increased productivity and long-term career growth.

11 Feb 2026

Podcasts by InfoQ - The Craft of Software Architecture in the Age of AI Tools

Software engineering has entered a new golden age of large-scale systems, but AI's influence while improving efficiency, cannot replace human creativity and decision-making, and requires oversight and accountability.

11 Feb 2026

The Cloudcast - What do we wish we knew about the next 3 years of AI?

The podcast delves into the financial and strategic challenges of developing AI, exploring costs, competition, and future implications on regulation, employment, and expertise.

11 Feb 2026

The Cloudcast - What we wish we knew about the next 3 years of AI?

This episode of the podcast examines the next three years of AI development, its economic and competitive impacts, regulatory challenges, and potential social and professional disruptions.

10 Feb 2026

MLOps.community - Software Engineering in the Age of Coding Agents: Testing, Evals, and Shipping Safely at Scale

Software engineers must adopt new approaches to validation and reliability as AI tools become increasingly integrated with traditional engineering, requiring systematic prompt management and careful balancing of AI guidance to prevent over-reliance.

10 Feb 2026

Goto tech - Handling AI-Generated Code: Challenges & Best Practices Roman Zhukov & Damian Brady

AI-generated code is revolutionizing developer workflows, but raises new challenges around security, responsibility, and transparency that require careful human supervision.

10 Feb 2026

Inspect and Adapt - #64 Design by Contract

Design by Contract is discussed as a method for establishing clear agreements between software components to enhance correctness and reliability.

10 Feb 2026

Startups For the Rest of Us - Episode 819 | QSBS, Exit Multiples, How to Learn Marketing, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

Key strategies for startups seeking a major exit emphasize prioritizing growth over profitability, structuring for maximum valuation, and leveraging the right marketing approaches to optimize valuation multiples.

10 Feb 2026

Software Engineering Daily - Python 3.14 with ukasz Langa

The podcast delves into recent changes in Python release management, highlighting advancements in threading performance, concurrency, and data sharing strategies.

10 Feb 2026

Dev Interrupted - Multi-agent orchestration in Slack | Saleforce's Kurtis Kemple

Slack is evolving into a workplace platform that enhances AI collaboration and productivity, using tools to manage context, organize conversations, and integrate AI-driven tasks.

9 Feb 2026

Code with Jason - 309 - How I Built SaturnCI (Starring JP Camara)

The podcast explores various topics, including a programming newsletter, tech experiences, and reflections on speaking at events, along with discussions on using a CI platform and plans for a Ruby concurrency book.

9 Feb 2026

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source - Vouch for an open source web of trust (News)

Recent tech developments are reviewed, including the challenges of using AI for tech projects, the rise of trust management tools, and the limitations of relying on AI for code generation.

9 Feb 2026

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats - 977: We built a CSS Challenge platform

A real-time coding battle platform called "Mad CSS March" is being developed, featuring a comparison tool and live updates, with a tournament scheduled to start in early March.

9 Feb 2026

Podcasts by InfoQ - Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

A podcast discusses Valky, an open-source alternative to Redis, highlighting its key features and capabilities as a drop-in replacement.

9 Feb 2026

ShopTalk - 701: Digital Archives, OpenClaw Security Concerns, and @Property Declarations

The episode covers digital asset management, legacy planning, design system implementation, CSS limitations, and web development tools, with a focus on emerging tech like AI.

13 Feb 2026

AI-Driven Marketer - Build a Second Brain You Actually Own

The podcast discusses the rapidly evolving AI industry, its challenges, and opportunities, recommending data management strategies and coding skills to prepare professionals for the future.

13 Feb 2026

Dan Kennedy's Magnetic Marketing Podcast - Direct Mail Isn't Dead: How Agora Makes It Work In Today's World

Direct mail is presented as a effective and scalable marketing strategy, with success stories and case studies highlighting its adaptability and long-term effectiveness.

12 Feb 2026

Think Media Podcast - 487: YouTube Is Demonetizing Channels (What You Need to Know)

YouTube is implementing stricter demonetization policies targeting low-effort, AI-generated content, urging creators to produce original work and use AI as a support tool.

10 Feb 2026

The Amy Porterfield Show - I Had A $100K Month And Still Lost Money

Entrepreneurs with six-figure revenue but struggling profitability issues can use strategies such as financial tracking, simplifying offerings, and smart hiring to make informed decisions and improve profitability.

9 Feb 2026

Avenue9 AI Marketing - The Soulful Future of AI with David Espindola

The podcast discusses the limitations and potential misuse of AI, emphasizing the need for human oversight and clear boundaries in human-AI interactions to maintain efficiency and preserve unique human skills.

9 Feb 2026

Think Media Podcast - 486: How He Turned Boring Content Into $10k/month on YouTube

Effective YouTube creators focus on efficiency, clarity, and visual appeal to build their audience and achieve growth, monetization, and long-term success.

9 Feb 2026

Think Media Podcast - 486: How This Doctor Hit 1 Million Subs Teaching Boring Content!

A YouTube creator shares lessons learned from overcoming common mistakes, achieving a $10,000 monthly income in 18 months, and now repurposing content to focus on sustainable growth.

9 Feb 2026

Copywriters Podcast - The One-Sentence Attention-Magnet Story

Modern marketing grapples with rising ad costs and fragmented attention, but "micro-stories"ultra-short, persuasive narratives (1520 words) rooted in traditional storytelling frameworksoffer a solution by boosting engagement through concise, credibility-driven messaging, while balancing AI's role as both a tool and challenge in creating results-focused, compliant content.

15 Feb 2026

Lenny's Podcast: Product, Career, Growth - Sequoia CEO coach: Why its never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one | Brian Halligan (co-founder, HubSpot)

The podcast examines the intense challenges and demands of being a startup CEO, including scaling in a competitive market, hiring and managing a team, and adapting to a constantly changing landscape.

12 Feb 2026

Lenny's Podcast: Product, Career, Growth - Engineers are becoming sorcerers | The future of software development with OpenAIs Sherwin Wu

AI is increasingly integrated into engineering processes at OpenAI, automating tasks and altering the role of engineers from coding to managing AI agents, but also presenting new challenges and opportunities for transformation in the industry.

12 Feb 2026

Product Driven - Navigating Entrepreneurship: Insights from Matt Haycox

An entrepreneur's transition to the tech sector and development of SaaS products, including an AI-powered SEO tool, is detailed, highlighting innovation, profitability, and lessons learned.

11 Feb 2026

Product Thinking - Episode 262: Organizing Product Teams Around Value

Product thinking prioritizes outcomes over solutions, fostering a culture of rapid learning and alignment with long-term vision through data-driven strategies and customer-centric team structures.

9 Feb 2026

Changing Minds Owen Fitzpatrick - 12 Big Ideas that will Transform Your Thinking (Big Ideas 1)

Influential books on psychology, decision-making, and human behavior are explored to provide insights for improving self-awareness, leadership, and personal growth.

9 Feb 2026

Open Source Security - Digital Sovereignty and Nextcloud with Frank Karlitschek

The Nextcloud podcast explores its evolution as an open-source collaboration platform that promotes digital sovereignty, offering users self-hosted data and software, avoiding vendor lock-in and empowering data portability and transparency.

13 Feb 2026

The Quality Beat - BFSI Testing: When a bug isn't just a bug

Testing in the BFSI sector is critical for preventing financial loss, regulatory breaches, and damage to public trust due to its high-stakes environment.

12 Feb 2026

The EvilTester Show - Agentic AI Software Testing and Development with Dragan Spiridonov

Agentic AI is transforming software development with autonomous agents that observe, collect data, reason, and perform actions to achieve goals, enhancing task success rates and switching focus from manual code inspection to output validation and quality assurance.

12 Feb 2026

Software Testing Unleashed - Facing Impostor Syndrome as a Software Tester - Linda Van De Vooren

A software tester discusses overcoming imposter syndrome, leveraging unique perspective and removing self-doubt through self-awareness and honest feedback to achieve success.

11 Feb 2026

BrowserStack Talks - Testing Playbook 2026: Coaching, Communication, and Quality w/Vernon Richard, Phrase

The podcast explores the value of empathy, curiosity, and active listening in fostering effective communication and respect in software development teams.

11 Feb 2026

Quality Talks - Quality As A System: How Systemic Thinking can Transform Quality - with Philippa Jennings

Systems thinking in software development prioritizes a holistic approach to quality that involves early collaboration among teams and considers interconnected factors to enhance teamwork and sustainable outcomes.

9 Feb 2026

How To Test This? - How to Test Microservices Jay Kishore Duvvuri

The podcast explores effective testing strategies for microservices environments, highlighting automation benefits and introducing modern tools like Playwright.