Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNavigating AI opportunities at MYOB
How should businesses go about actually navigating AI? It's one thing to strategize and generate new ideas, but what needs to be done to put it into practice in a way that's effective and commerciall…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Caring about documentation in the LLM era (w/ Heidi Waterhouse)
In an age of vibe coding and LLMs, do we really need to care about documentation? Do we need to spend time and energy producing it — time when we could just be shipping code? Of course we do; particu…
Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Why the tech industry needs Expert Generalists (w/ Martin Fowler)
The technology industry has embraced specialisms — not just in different fields or job roles, like web development or security, but even in terms of particular platforms or stacks. But are we losing …
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
The three new fallacies of distributed computing
Back in 1994, Peter Deutsch and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems identified what they described as the "eight fallacies of distributed computing" — flawed assumptions that often get made when teams…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
MCP and SRE: Why the future of IT operations is agent-driven
What if your AI agents could think more like IT operations staff — and less like tools?
In this episode, we catch up with Zichuan Xiong, to explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a powerful new w…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Unpacking Google I/O 2025
Google I/O 2025 took place in May. It's always a great opportunity to find out how Google is trying to shape the industry agenda, but this year the predominance of Gemini meant the event was a chance…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Accelerating mainframe modernization using generative AI
Mainframe modernization is hard: there's a huge amount of complexity that needs to be understood before it can be effectively addressed. Generative AI, however, can be a particularly powerful tool fo…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
Exploring the fundamentals of software engineering
You might think you know software engineering, but what are the really fundamental elements? What are the concepts, ideas and practices that are completely essential? What makes software engineering …
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Themes in Technology Radar Vol.32
Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol.32 was published at the start of April 2025. Featuring 105 blips, it offered a timely snapshot of what's interesting and important in the industry. Through the proce…
Published on 8 months ago
We need to talk about vibe coding
The term 'vibe coding' — which first appeared in a post on X by Andrej Karpathy in early February 2025 — has set the software development world abuzz: everyone seems to have their own take on what it…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago