How this ex-Googler accidentally founded a database company
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
Why Robots Need A Different Map (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
DX Expert: What The Best Engineers Solve After The Code Review Bottleneck
How do you prove AI is shipping more features? Amos Haviv leads the Developer Workflow teams at Booking.com, supporting 4000 engineers operating 8000 repos.Everybody is burning through their AI budget...
29 Heinä 1h 22min
AWS Veteran: The New Software Development Life Cycle
"I need to stop using Opus. This doesn't work." That was Heitor Lessa's conclusion after a refactor cost him 200 million tokens, and it forced him to rebuild the entire agent workflow now available fo...
22 Heinä 1h 53min
