Steve Jobs in Exile
The popular story of Steve Jobs is that he co-founded Apple, was pushed out, wandered through a failed venture called NeXT, then returned to...
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20 of 147 episodesSecurity in the Age of Instant Exploits
In the world of software security, there was historically a comfortable lag between the moment a vulnerability became public and the moment...
The State of Browser Testing
Automated browser testing is a foundational technology that many web developers rely on. Modern tooling lets a single test drive Chrome, Fir...
Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist, and a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation....
Chroma and Agentic Retrieval
Data retrieval is a fundamental challenge in AI systems, and the approaches for solving it are still evolving. Vector search was an early an...
Scaling Time-Series Workloads on Postgres
Many real-world processes produce data as a continuous stream rather than as isolated records. Sensor readings, financial markets, and appli...
Scaling Agent Workloads at Vercel
Most AI agent setups today are built around a single session, where one user interacts with one agent at a time. However, that model breaks...
Inside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI Era
Historically, databases were responsible for storing data and returning exact results in response to queries. However, AI is now bending tha...
A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems
A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems Building software that runs across many machines is notoriously difficult. Developers have...
SED News: The NVIDIA-Hugging Face Deal, China’s Proxy Economy, the Open Weight Surge
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shapi...
Moving Beyond RAG with Precomputed Context
Retrieval has become one of the central problems in building useful AI systems. The standard approach to grounding a model in one’s ow...
The Death of Online Anonymity
Age verification is reshaping how people access the internet. An ever-growing patchwork of laws can now require government IDs, facial age e...
TypeScript 7 and What Comes Next
TypeScript is a programming language that builds on JavaScript by adding a system of types. Those types let developers describe the shape of...
The Gap Between AI Spending and AI Value
It is widely reported that a gap has emerged between enterprise spending on AI and the durable value captured from that spend. Individual em...
AI and the New Global Security Landscape
The conversation about AI often focuses on software, automation, and the race between attackers and defenders in code. However, some of the...
How LLMs Are Reshaping Recommendation Systems
News feeds and recommendation systems have long relied on deep learning architectures that score each candidate item independently. As LLMs...
Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code
For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production c...
SED News: The Kimi Moment, Runaway AI, and Tokenmaxxing
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shapi...
The Terminal as an Agentic Interface
The terminal has been a constant in software development for decades. It has remained largely unchanged while everything around it transform...
AI-Powered Threats to the Software Supply Chain
Open source software underpins virtually every modern application. That ubiquity is a superpower for developers, but it is also an expanding...