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…
3 months, 1 week 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…
3 months, 3 weeks 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…
3 months, 4 weeks 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.…
4 months, 1 week 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 …
4 months, 2 weeks 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 …
4 months, 3 weeks 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. …
4 months, 4 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, …
5 months 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 …
5 months, 1 week 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…
5 months, 2 weeks ago