Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPractice Isn't Enough for Senior Engineers - Adaptation Is a Key Skill in an AI-First Industry
Episode 1299
If you're a software engineer right now, you likely feel like your world is changing overnight. We are writing half or less the amount of code that w…
14 hours ago
Senior Skills to Maintain Employment Through the AI Wave
Episode 1298
If you've heard that your job in the agentic coding era is to "become a manager of agents," you may have noticed something doesn't quite fit. Most of…
1 week, 3 days ago
You're Wrong All the Time, But All You Need Are Better Explanations
Episode 1297
What happens when you discover that a book that fundamentally changed how you think is built on a shaky foundation? In today's episode, I share my ow…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
AI-Proofing Your Skillset - High-Meaning, High-Specifity Vocabulary is the Path to Growth
Episode 1296
Why I'm Not "Picking a Fight" on AI: A listener asked if I'm intentionally stoking a flame war by treating agentic coding as a foregone conclusion.…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Building Real Skills During the AI Boom - No, Not That Kind of Skill
Episode 1295
The Coding-Is-My-Value Trap: For years, we've treated the ability to write code as the flagship skill of software engineering. It's concrete, it's …
1 month ago
Chaos Doesn't Have to Win - Maintaining Order in the Midst of AI Change
Episode 1294
If you're an engineering leader right now, everything around you feels like it's changing at once — new tools, new processes, new expectations. It's …
1 month, 1 week ago
Mourning the Loss of Coding, Senior Tooling Mindset, and Shaping Your Environment
Episode 1293
Your tool set isn't just a collection of utilities — it's the environment you live in every day, and it's shaping you whether you realize it or not. …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Useful Illusions and Exploiting Heuristics
Episode 1292
When Good Thinking Becomes Overthinking: Discover why the pursuit of perfect analysis often undermines good decision-making. Loading every caveat, …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Decision Making is Your New Core Skill, So it's Critical to Avoid These Two Traps of Collaborative Decision-Making
Episode 1291
The Bottleneck Is Moving: Borrowing from traditional manufacturing theory, the coding step used to define your team's total throughput. AI tooling …
2 months ago
What's Brewing, Edition 1 - What Jonathan is Learning, Using, and Thinking
Episode 1290
The Power of Physical Checklists: Inspired by aviation, Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto, and Daniel Kahneman's Noise, I've been experimentin…
2 months ago