273: Ethical Lines and Career Crossroads - Listener Questions
What would you do if your manager asked you to make the audit trail editable? Why would Carol rather be evil? And would you still want to be...
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272: Let Me Prompt That For You
LLMs have read everything, but they haven't spent fifteen years at the company learning which rules actually matter. Can a model ever bring...
271: Slop Is the New Clean
Uncle Bob wrote the book on clean code, and the whole argument rests on one number: you read code ten times for every time you write it, so...
270: Hot Takes on Hot Takes
We're back after a week off and we have some things to get off our chest. Carol's agent doesn't understand auth, Ben explores the nature of...
269: The AI Anxiety Draft
Worrying about AI is the easy part. Everyone already has a list. The interesting part is what lands on it, what doesn't, and why. From milit...
268: Nobody Wants to Meet Up Anymore
Nobody went to conferences for the talks. You went for the hallway, and for a roomful of people who'd made the same odd career bet you had....
267: Prove You Are Human
Tim is trying to hire remote developers, but the interviews have started to feel like one long CAPTCHA. Before he can decide who's right for...
266: Strugglemaxing
They say history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes, and apparently so do show topics. A year on from our episode on the value of friction, th...
265: Knowing When to Stop
Eighteen weeks ago Adam handed his decade-old ORM layer to an AI agent. This week he kills the whole refactor — and the feeling that comes i...
264: Look Busy, Claude's Working
The promise was that AI would take the grunt work off your plate and leave you the good stuff. This week is the part no one advertised: you...
263: Intimacy with the Code
Getting unstuck has gotten so cheap that Ben can't remember the last time he actually learned something at work — and the struggle he's skip...
262: Zen and the Art of AI-Driven Maintenance
This week is the quiet worry underneath all the productivity gains: that every time you hand the boring work to a machine, you're handing ov...
261: The Ben Turing Test
Adam trained an AI on twenty years of Ben's blog, then asked Ben to pick his own words out of a lineup of forgeries. This week the hosts pla...
260: Reinventing the Wiki
What's the point of a personal wiki when AI agents have already read the entire internet? This week is about patterns for co-maintaining a p...
259: Walling Off Your Mental Garden
This week is a philosophical conversation about what you let into your head — the podcasts, the influencers, the political figures, the frie...
258: On the AI of It All
Adam wrote a blog post this week about why AI keeps making him feel worse. This week is an honest conversation about the hypocrite's bind: n...
257: We Solved Everything
"We have solved all of the world's problems." Observability past the point where more logs stop helping, continuous deployment when the cust...
256: The Productivity Trap: How Optimizing Everything Broke Us
It's 11:30 PM and you're still prompting. The code is better than anything you'd have shipped a year ago. The output is prolific, the roadma...
255: AI in the Streets
You spend all day steering AI through code. Then you step outside and it's steering everything else. AI is listening to therapy sessions and...
254: Claudependent
The productivity gains are real. So is the nagging feeling that something else might be happening. The crew use AI every day, and this week...