Ben, Ryan, and Eira convene to discuss return-to-office mandates, what’s surprising about employee attrition in 2023, and how technology can preserve digital records of cultural heritage sites before they’re lost for good.
Anand Das, cofounder and CTO of Bito AI, joins Ben and Ryan for a conversation about the intersection of developer productivity and GenAI.
Rita Kozlov, Senior Director of Product at Cloudflare, joins Ben, Ryan, and veteran cohost Cassidy Williams for a conversation about Cloudflare’s new AI service, what her day-to-day is like, and the mind-blowing “physicality” of the internet.
Today’s guest is Joel Hellermark, founder and CEO of Sana, an AI-powered end-to-end learning platform. He talks with Ben and Ryan about a polymath Renaissance, what regulation might look like in the AI space, the intersection of AI and neuroscience, and why AI assistants aren’t turning into Terminators anytime soon.
Ben and Ryan talk to Rob Skillington, CTO and co-founder of Chronosphere. They talk about how build vs. buy is a false choice, lessons learned from building developer tooling at Uber, and why building developer tools needs more than technical skills.
This is part two of our conversation with Kubernetes project cofounder Craig McLuckie, whose new company helps developers build safer software by validating where code came from and that it’s been properly maintained.
Ben and Ryan chat with Craig McLuckie, co-founder of the Kubernetes project and cofounder/CEO of Stacklok, which helps developers and open-source communities build safer, more secure software.
Dylan Etkin, founder and CEO of Sleuth, joins Ryan to talk all things engineering efficiency, DORA metrics, continuous delivery, and how his psychology degree has proven useful in his work as an engineering manager and startup founder.
Ben talks with venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz about his path from Java engineer to Google product manager and finally to author and investor. They cover why lower data storage costs and improved database performance are driving a new wave of innovation, how LLMs learn by doing, and how companies (and investors) should respond to uncertain economic conditions.
Giamir Buoncristiani, tech lead for the Stacks design system at Stack Overflow, joins Ryan for a conversation about all things front end, including how he joined Stack with a mandate to modernize the front-end user interface and why Stack Overflow developers are such big fans of Svelte.
The home team chats with Alex Bovee, cofounder and CEO of identity access management company ConductorOne, about balancing security and productivity in developer workflows, why tech companies have shifted everything left, and the logic behind zero trust.
On today’s sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk with James Simmonds and Tristan Sheppard, both principal software engineers and engineering leads in the power trading department at Shell, about how a century-old company is working to evolve into a place where developers and engineers love to work.
On this episode Ryan and Stack Overflow Director of Brand Design David Longworth chat with Matt Biilmann, CEO and co-founder of Netlify, about composable architecture, how making it easier to code will create more developers, and why the future of the front end is portability.
We chat with Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel, about v0: a generative AI Vercel built that produces code for web components based on a user's text description of a UI or interface.
Ben welcomes back friend of the show Eliot Horowitz, cofounder and CTO of Viam, who’s also the cofounder and former CTO of MongoDB. They talk about the current status of robot assistants, why Viam is hardware-agnostic, and building robots to train cats (good luck with that).
Ben talks with Doug Seven, a director of software development at AWS and the GM for CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered coding companion, about his career building dev tools and how he hopes AI will give people more bandwidth for creative work.
The home team talks with Matt Martin, cofounder and CEO of Clockwise, which offers AI-powered time management and scheduling tools.
Ben and Ryan talk about the work that earned the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics and how it might make computers way faster. Plus: California’s efforts to transform how math is taught, Unity’s new fee structure, and the trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
Ben and Ryan settle in for a wide-ranging discussion about whether large language models know anything, whether language ability is unique to humans, and what the end of the Hollywood writers’ strike says about the future of AI-generated content.
Ben and Ryan talk with Lukas Fittl, founder and CEO of pganalyze, which provides in-depth Postgres database monitoring and optimization. They talk about why Lukas considers himself a founder-CEO by title but engineer by trade, what’s important to understand about SQL, and the role of AI in database optimization.
On this sponsored episode, Ben, Cassidy, and Ryan are joined by Luyang Zou, who is a creative coder, artist, architect, and Ambassador for today’s sponsor, Logitech. They chat about the amazing immersive spaces he creates with a keyboard and mouse, the process (and Processing), and the software and hardware he uses.
This is part two of our conversation with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, Clang, and LLVM and CEO/cofounder of Modular AI.
Chris Lattner helped create Swift, Clang, and LLVM. Now CEO and cofounder of Modular AI, he tells the home team how they built Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers that can be thousands of times faster than Python. This is part one of our conversation.