Podcast Episodes

How Not to Hire Software Engineers

Season 1 Episode 4

Mike and Erik talk about the worst interview questions you can ask software engineers and then ponder the interview process: why's it so terrible int…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Can Software Be Built On An Assembly Line?

Season 1 Episode 3

Inspired by an New York Times article on turning the production of Hollywood writing content into an assembly line, and also by Simon Winchester’s bo…

2 years, 11 months ago

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The Open Source Software Renaissance Is Going to End Someday

Season 1 Episode 2

The revolution in open source software over the last 30 years is akin to the Italian Renaissance: ideas spread like wildfire and this creates a virtu…

2 years, 11 months ago

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And Gravity Drowned Too: the software skeptics take on chatGPT

Season 1 Episode 1

Mike Mull brings up some of the skepticism he's encountered recently around chatGPT. Erik and Mike discuss the hype around LLMs and whether the expec…

3 years ago

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