#201 The "AI is going to replace devs" hype is over – 22-year developer veteran Jason Lengstorf
Today Quincy Larson interviews Jason Lengstorf. He's a college dropout who taught himself programming while building websites for his emo band. 22 years later he's worked as a developer at IBM, Netlif...
12 Joulu 20251h 8min
#200 How to build your own learning path using Open Source with Kunal Kushwaha
Today Quincy Larson interviews Kunal Kushwaha. He's a software engineer and prolific computer science teacher on YouTube. He failed the JEE, the Indian Engineering Entrance Exam, TWICE. But he perseve...
5 Joulu 20251h 8min
#199 Tips from a serial career changer with GitHub's Andrea Griffiths
Today Quincy Larson interviews Andrea Griffiths, who taught herself programming using freeCodeCamp while working in construction. She moved to the US from Colombia when she was 17, and within 6 months...
28 Marras 20251h 14min
#198 When NOT to use AI in your hackathon project with MLH winners Cindy Cui and Alison Co
Today Quincy Larson interviews Alison Co and Cindy Cui, two university students who won the NW Hacks hackathon with their tool that helps people who are losing their vision learn to read Braille. He m...
21 Marras 20251h 3min
#197 Harvard CS50 prof David J. Malan on why you should take your time learning programming
Dr. David J. Malan teaches computer science at Harvard. Over the past decade, millions of people have taken his CS50 course both in person and online. He joins us to talk about: 1. Why he still recomm...
14 Marras 20251h 17min
#196 Applying into the void with recruiter admin Abbey Perini
Abbey Perini taught herself programming at age 27 while working as an admin at an engineering recruitment agency. She has worked extensively with large legacy codebases and taught best practices to de...
7 Marras 20251h 8min
#195 He Turned Down a FAANG Dev Job to Keep Working Remotely with Patrick Hartley
Patrick Hartley is a self-taught developer with nearly a decade of software engineering experience. When he was 21 he had to dropped out of college to provide for his family. He taught himself program...
31 Loka 202550min
#194 First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson
Eric Carlson is a self-taught software engineer at Cisco. In his early 20s, he worked his way up to manager at the busiest Dominos Pizza in Canada. He eventually went to college and studied liberal ar...
24 Loka 20251h 10min
