Podcast Episodes

How to Prepare for a Tech Layoff

Episode 518

Tech layoffs can happen with little warning, even when your company is doing well. In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss the warning signs that layo…

11 hours ago

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AI’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Intelligence Anymore

Episode 517

AI models are already remarkably capable, but their intelligence doesn’t matter much if they’re too expensive, limited, or confusing to use. In this …

3 days, 4 hours ago

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AI Basics: Learn These Tips First

Episode 516

AI is easy to start using, but getting good at it takes practice. In this episode, Matt and Mike break down the AI basics everyone should learn first…

1 week ago

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Is AI Coding Making Technical Debt Worse?

Episode 515

Is AI coding making technical debt worse, or could it help us finally clean it up? In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike debate how tighter …

1 week, 3 days ago

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My Favorite Developer and Productivity Apps Right Now

Episode 514

Every once in a while, a new app actually sticks and changes how you work. In this episode, Mike shares the developer and productivity apps that have…

2 weeks ago

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I Let AI Help Plan My Vacation... Here’s How It Went

Episode 513

Can AI actually plan a good vacation? Matt recently used ChatGPT and Gemini to help plan a trip to the UK, from sightseeing and transportation to fit…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

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Don't Just Vibe Code, Learn While You Code

Episode 512

AI coding tools can generate huge amounts of functional code in seconds, but does that mean developers no longer need to learn how to code? In this e…

3 weeks ago

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Does AGI Actually Matter to You?

Episode 511

GPT-6 Astra is here, bringing another huge jump in AI capabilities - and once again raising the question: are we approaching AGI?

But defining artifi…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

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AI Agent Skills Explained: What They Are and Which Ones to Use

Episode 510

Most of us repeatedly teach our AI coding agents the same lessons: ask questions before coding, write a specification, break the work into tickets, t…

4 weeks ago

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AI Lets Me Game More - and Work Better

Episode 509

AI agents can handle tasks independently for minutes at a time - but what should you do while you wait? Start more work, run additional agents, or fi…

1 month ago

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