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Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, joins the show to discuss their explosive growth, the limits of AI coding tools, and why engineering judgment still…
6 hrs ago
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Gergely Orosz
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1:20:05
State of the software engineering job market in 2026
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on software engineering jobs, the AI engineering boom, whether AI engineering is…
May 26
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Gergely Orosz
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Jessica Salmon
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The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE
Negative feedback greets Google’s redesigned AI IDE, why Google’s product ecosystem is so chaotic, Meta cuts 10% of staff as it hits record revenue and…
May 21
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Gergely Orosz
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Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
Alice Ryhl from Google’s Android Rust team explains why developers love Rust, and what makes the language so powerful for building reliable software.
May 20
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Gergely Orosz
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1:04:59
AI’s impact on software engineers in 2026: key trends, Part 2
Tradeoffs of AI tooling, why adopting AI at company-level is hard, what’s changed in two years, and more. The third and final part of a series analyzing…
May 19
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again
Also: a look into rising tech job losses, self-reporting 100% AI usage at big companies, vibe coding & agentic engineering merging, and more
May 14
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Gergely Orosz
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TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg
Anders Hejlsberg reflects on building Turbo Pascal, C#, and TypeScript, and shares what AI may change about the future of software engineering.
May 13
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Gergely Orosz
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1:15:09
Revisiting “No Silver Bullets” in the age of AI
Does the noted “No Silver Bullets” paper by the author of a classic engineering book still hold up, 40 years later? Is AI the long-sought single silver…
May 12
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse: Did capacity shortages turn Anthropic hostile to devs?
Also: Amazon finally allows engineers to use Claude Code and Codex, Meta forcefully assigns engineers to data labelling work ahead of layoffs, more…
May 7
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Gergely Orosz
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Cloud & Doing the Right Thing
How the cloud changes the way we build applications, and why engineers’ ethical choices matter more than ever. Excerpt from the book, ‘Designing…
May 5
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Gergely Orosz
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April 2026
The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?
Also: Anthropic’s speed run to break devs’ goodwill, big price increases from GitHub Copilot, Mitchell Hashimoto on the “building block economy,” and…
Apr 30
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Gergely Orosz
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Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating
Mario Zechner, creator of Pi, joins Armin Ronacher to explore AI coding’s limits, arguing that human judgment still matters most in an agent-driven…
Apr 29
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Gergely Orosz
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