Aaron Bauer is a software engineer and one of Jane Street's few developer educators—a role that splits his time between writing code and teaching other people how to write it. Before joining the firm, he taught computer science at Carleton College, including four straight terms online during the pandemic. In this episode, Ron and Aaron discuss what it takes ... Show More
Oct 16
The Changing Craft of Programming with John Crepezzi
John Crepezzi has spent his career building tools for other programmers—at Tumblr, at Square, and then at GitHub, where he worked on the merge queue and the early versions of Codespaces. He came to Jane Street to build a code search engine for OCaml. A week into the job, ChatGPT ... Show More
1h 48m
Sep 2
Wrestling the world into rows with Eric Mannes
"Alternative data" is Wall Street's name for information that comes from non-traditional sources: satellite photos of parking lots, credit card panels, weather forecasts. Eric Mannes has spent over a decade at Jane Street, first as a commodities trader and now helping lead the fi ... Show More
1h 25m
Jun 2026
Building a data warehouse from scratch with Jacob Baskin
In university Jacob Baskin studied at the intersection of computer science and economics, thinking about systems that incentivize people to express their true preferences. He put those ideas into practice at Google, where he worked on ad serving, before joining Jane Street’s data ... Show More
1h 34m
Nov 2020
Managing the Risks of Machine Learning for Mid-Sized Enterprises - with Ivan Marin of Daitan
Today's guest is the great and brilliant Dr. Ivan Marin, Principal Data Scientist at the Daitan Group, one of America's fastest-growing software engineering firms. Dr. Marin earned his Ph.D. in Physics from EESC-USP. In this episode, he walks us through an exercise using the Mach ... Show More
33m 15s
Aug 2024
Reinventing AI Agents with Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Kanjun Qiu, CEO and Co-founder of Imbue, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss how AI agents are transforming code generation and software development. Discover the potential impact and challenges of creating autonomous AI systems that can write ... Show More
48m 37s
Mar 2025
Reaching industrial economies of scale (Changelog Interviews #632)
Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of "industrializing software development" using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innova ... Show More
1h 44m
<p><strong>Chandler Milne</strong>, Director of Learning Experience at <a href="https://BrainstormInc.com/dtpodcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brainstorm</a>, discusses how organizations can get the most out of their enterprise software with training programs that help emplo ... Show More
