In this episode: Why developers need to upskill faster than ever, the relationship between stock prices and layoffs, how the job market for developers has changed, and the evolution of engineering roles post-GenAI.
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The half-life of developer skills is shrinking rapidly - Stack Overflow
AI isn't putting tech workers out of jobs, ... Show More
Yesterday
The logos, ethos, and pathos of your LLMs
Ryan is joined by Professor Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton University’s AI Lab, to dive into findings from his new book The Laws of Thought, which explores the history of the philosophy, mathematics, and logic that underlie artificial intelligence, and scientists' efforts t ... Show More
34m 3s
Feb 6
AI attention span so good it shouldn’t be legal
We have another two-for-one special this week, with two more interviews from the floor of re:Invent. First, Ryan welcomes Pathway CEO Zuzanna Stamirowska and CCO Victor Szczerba to dive into their development of Baby Dragon Hatchling, the first post-transformer frontier model, fr ... Show More
30m 4s
Feb 3
Generating text with diffusion (and ROI with LLMs)
Two guests for the price of one! This episode has two interviews recorded at AWS re:Invent back in December. In part 1, Ryan chats with the co-founder and CEO of Inception, Stefano Ermon, about diffusion language models and how their multiple token generation compares to traditio ... Show More
30m 52s
Jul 2025
Amazon, Google and Vibe Coding with Steve Yegge
Supported by Our Partners• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code.—Steve Yegge is known for his writing and “rants”, including th ... Show More
1h 33m
Sep 2025
Why Universities Are Failing — And What the Future of Tech Education Really Looks Like
Fadi Bizri is the Co-Founder of SE Factory, a leading coding bootcamp, and a driving force behind initiatives like HR Factory, which connects top local talent to global tech companies. Beyond building talent pipelines, he has also been a venture capitalist, accelerator founder, a ... Show More
45m 12s
Oct 2025
Google’s engineering culture
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Something interesting is happening with the latest generation of tech giants. Rather than building advanced experimentation tools themselves, companies like Anthropic, Figma, Noti ... Show More
2h 46m
Aug 2025
Engineering Leadership: Building Culture, Career Growth, and Ownership
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Thiago Ghisi about building engineering culture through leading by example, advancing careers by embracin ... Show More
32m 1s
Feb 2025
#282 Navigating the Challenges of Product Integrations with Gil Feig, Co-Founder and CTO of Merge
As the software landscape becomes more fragmented, the importance of product integrations continues to rise. For those working in data and engineering roles, this presents both challenges and opportunities. How do you efficiently manage and scale integrations across diverse syste ... Show More
27m 46s