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Brian Kernighan: Inside Bell Labs, The Best Programmer, Why C Won
Episode 72
Brian Kernighan is a former Bell Labs member of technical staff, co-author of the original C book, and the one who popularized “Hello World.” We talk…
20 hours ago
The Story Behind Creating DNS | Paul Mockapetris
Episode 71
This interview is with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the internet's Domain Name System (DNS). I talked to him about the story behind building it a…
1 week ago
Scott Aaronson: The Mathocalypse, Will Intelligence Matter Anymore?
Episode 70
Scott Aaronson is one of the world's leading quantum computing researchers and spent two years at OpenAI working on AI safety.
We talked about why he…
2 weeks ago
Neetcode: Google vs Amazon, Programming Interviews, Quitting Big Tech
Neetcode is the most well-known coding interview prep creator with over 1M+ subs on YouTube. I interviewed him about the latest on coding interviews,…
3 weeks ago
Amazon VP: Questions On Corporate Politics But They Get Increasingly Darker | Ethan Evans
In this episode, I asked Ethan Evans (ex-Amazon VP) questions about common situations in corporate politics but they get increasingly darker.
• My erg…
4 weeks ago
OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9): The Psychology Behind Tech Career Peaks | Philip Su
Philip Su grew quickly to a Distinguished Engineer at Facebook and OpenAI. We talked about the psychology behind peaking in a tech career and the pre…
1 month ago
Casey Muratori: Surprises In Computer History And Where Bad Code Comes From
Casey Muratori is a video game developer and programming creator also known for his talks about the history of software and computing. We talked abou…
1 month, 1 week ago
How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar
Thariq Shihipar is an engineer on Anthropic’s Claude Code team I asked him how Anthropic makes the most out of the models for engineering and how the…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky
Martin Odersky is the creator of Scala and I interviewed him to compare different languages designs (Rust vs Zig vs Python vs Scala) and how AI will …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sergey Levine: Current State of Humanoid Robotics, China & Future Predictions
Sergey Levine is one of the world's top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence. We talked about where humanoid robotics is toda…
2 months ago