Vibes Driven Development
Mike and Erik discuss Hillel Wayne's 3-part blog piece titled “Are We Really Engineers?” Erik tries to convince Mike that we can throw caution to the wind and design software based on vibes alone. Sen...
28 Aug 202354min
How Not to Hire Software Engineers
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 interviewing for software positions? They'll try to fi...
21 Aug 202357min
Can Software Be Built On An Assembly Line?
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 book The Perfectionists, Mike and Erik discuss if the...
14 Aug 20231h
The Open Source Software Renaissance Is Going to End Someday
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 virtuous incubation space for more ideas and innovation....
1 Aug 202351min
And Gravity Drowned Too: the software skeptics take on chatGPT
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 expectations for it are valid or misplaced. The pair als...
24 Juli 202340min
