How Amp Ships 50 Times a Day With AI Agents
Amp ships to production around 50 times a day with AI agents, but the change that makes their team ship faster isn't AI at all. Dario Hamidi, AI engineer at Amp, makes the case that pull requests are ...
23 Syys 43min
How Top Engineers Still Get Hired When Most Get Ghosted
How do top engineers still get hired in 2026 when most applicants get ghosted, 120,000 people have been laid off this year, and hiring managers say they can't find talent? A recruiter, a hiring lead, ...
16 Syys 33min
Why an Ex-Googler Bet Everything on an Open-Source Database
Jordan Tigani helped create Google BigQuery, then got fired as Chief Product Officer on a Friday morning. He planned to hack on DuckDB to learn Rust. Investors offered to fund it before he'd decided t...
9 Syys 40min
How the Best Engineers Build a World Model (Google Earth Creator & Niantic Spatial CTO)
Niantic Spatial CTO Brian McClendon on how the best engineers solve problems most give up on — from a 4D model of the world to shipping research in months. He built Google Earth and ran Google Maps fo...
2 Syys 37min
How New Staff Engineers Build Judgment Without Years of Experience
How do new staff engineers build judgment without the years of experience that used to come with the role? Mallika Rao, engineering leader in big tech, explains why the data-structures-and-algorithms ...
26 Elo 49min
Amazon AI Lead: What Differentiates The Best AI Coding Models
How does Amazon build its agentic AI? Michael Giannangeli, Head of Product for Amazon Nova and Agentic AI, breaks down evals, RL gyms, and model routing. He also explains why the bottleneck in softwar...
19 Elo 41min
Wes Bos: How Developers Stand Out When AI Writes the Code
AI is changing what developers build, but code alone is no longer enough to prove what you can do. Wes Bos explains why engineers need to solve problems beyond syntax, how agent workflows are reshapin...
12 Elo 24min
Career Advice Every Software Engineer Needs Right Now
Answering engineer questions on AI pressure, career growth, product thinking and impact. Including the production incident I'm glad happened, and the mindset I refuse to accept when things break.In th...
5 Elo 55min
