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Banking on a serverless world
Kathleen Vignos, VP of Software Engineering at Capital One, sits down with Ryan to explore shifting to 100% serverless architecture in enterprise, deploying talent for better customer experience, and fostering AI innovation and tech advancements in a regulated banking environment.
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If an attacker can edit your mobile code, how do you defend your app?
Ryan is joined by Jan Seredynski, Mobile Security Researcher and Pentester at Guardsquare, to talk about how you protect your app when the attackers control the code and the device it runs on.
In a deterministic simulation, you can debug with time travel
Will Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Antithesis, joins Ryan and Stack Overflow senior director of engineering Ben Matthews on the podcast to discuss deterministic simulation testing, the pitfalls of chaos testing in an AI-driven world, and how testing can help developers deal with technical debt.
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Integrating AI agents: Navigating challenges, ensuring security, and driving adoption
Positioned at the intersection of automation, decision intelligence, and data orchestration, AI agents are quickly emerging as essential tools for aligning business outcomes with technical workflows.
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Interesting questions
Why did my EV charge outlet overheat and burn the wires?
The short (ahem) answer is they torqued their nut monkey tight, not gorilla tight.
Frustration with machine learning and deep learning research
“‘It didn’t work’ is not the end—the end is knowing why it didn’t work.”
In MTG, why aren't mono-color decks optimal?
Hue will save you when you face the rainbow?
To which "lady-mathematician" is Weil referring?
The gentleman mathematician would do well to remember Mayme I. Logsdon.
Links from around the web
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
The money men are betting on bossware overseas.
When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision
It took some clever code to implement computer vision on kBs of memory.
Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'
The reports of our productivity gains have been greatly exaggerated.
My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Spice and counter spice: this take says AI is automating all the boring stuff possible.
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