CZM Rewind: The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown
Better Offline26 Nov 2025

CZM Rewind: The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Carl Brown, a veteran software developer and host of The Internet of Bugs, to talk about the realities of software development, what coding LLMs can actually do, and how the media gets it wrong about software engineering at large.

Original Air Date: 6.4.25

https://www.youtube.com/@InternetOfBugs

New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' - https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx
Report: AI coding assistants aren’t a panacea - https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/report-ai-coding-assistants-arent-a-panacea/

Internet of Bugs Videos to watch:
Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork lie exposed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmgmwEtoWE&t=3s
AI Has Us Between a Rock and a Hard Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJGNqnq-aCA
Software Engineers REAL problem with "AI" and Jobs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQmN6xSorus&list=PLv0sYKRNTN6QhoxJdyTZTV6NauoZlDp99
AGILE & Scrum Failures stuck us with "AI" hype like Devin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C1Rxa9DMfI&t=1s

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