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Organizational Context for AI Coding Agents with Dennis Pilarinos - Software Engineering Daily AI agents have taken on a growing share of software development work, so much so that the hardest problems are shifting away from code generation towards something new, context. The challenge is now c...

Dennis Pilarinos is the Founder and CEO of Unblocked. He joins @kball.llc to discuss context engineering, sources of truth, permissioned AI systems, shifting bottlenecks, and being a software engineer in an agentic world.

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SED News: OpenClaw Goes Viral, Mistral’s Compute Play, and the Agent Arms Race - Software Engineering Daily SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover @openclaw-x.bsky.social's rise, OpenAI exploring ads in ChatGPT, Alibaba's agent commerce push, Mistral acquiring Koyeb, AI competition, agentic engineering, and highlights from Hacker News.

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Amazon’s IDE for Spec-Driven Development with David Yanacek - Software Engineering Daily AI-assisted coding tools have made it easier than ever to spin up prototypes, but turning those prototypes into reliable, production-grade systems remains a major challenge. Large language models are ...

David Yanacek is a Senior Principal Engineer and a lead advisor on the Agentic AI team at @awscloud. he joins @kball.llc to discuss Kiro, Bedrock AgentCore, spec driven development, frontier agents, and the future of agentic software development.

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Engineering AI Systems for Autonomy and Resilience with Krishna Sai - Software Engineering Daily Enterprise IT systems have grown into sprawling, highly distributed environments spanning cloud infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and increasingly AI-driven workloads. Observability tools ...

Krishna Sai is the Chief Technology Officer at @solarwindsinc.bsky.social. He joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss observability in the age of AI, designing agentic systems for mission critical environments, AI assisted programming, and humans working with autonomous agents.

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Inside China’s Great Firewall with Jackson Sippe - Software Engineering Daily China’s Great Firewall is often spoken about but is rarely understood. It is one of the most sophisticated and opaque censorship systems on the planet, and it shapes how over a billion people interact...

Jackson Sippe is a specialist in systems and network privacy and security. In this episode he joins Gregor Vand to discuss how China’s Great Firewall works, censorship detection methods, and the future of the open internet.

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Optimizing Agent Behavior in Production with Gideon Mendels - Software Engineering Daily LLM -powered systems continue to move steadily into production, but this process is presenting teams with challenges that traditional software practices don’t commonly encounter. Models and agents are...

Gideon Mendels is the co-founder and CEO of Comet. He joins @kball.llc to discuss agent development in software engineering and ML, why evals are key for AI teams, prompt optimization, and improving agents in production.

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Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development with Steve Yegge - Software Engineering Daily AI-assisted programming has moved far beyond autocomplete. Large language models are now capable of editing entire codebases, coordinating long-running tasks, and collaborating across multiple systems...

Steve Yegge is a legendary software engineer, writer, and industry veteran. He joins @kball.llc for a wide-reaching discussion about AI coding, multi agent coordination, task graphs, and the future of software work.

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Python 3.14 with Łukasz Langa - Software Engineering Daily Python 3.14 is here and continues Python’s evolution toward greater performance, scalability, and usability. The new release formally supports free-threaded, no-GIL mode, introduces template string li...

Łukasz Langa is the CPython Developer in Residence at the Python Software Foundation. He joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss the 3.14 release, free threading, type improvements, Python’s role in AI, and maintaining backward compatibility.

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Airbnb’s Open-Source GraphQL Framework with Adam Miskiewicz - Software Engineering Daily Engineering teams often build microservices as their systems grow, but over time this can lead to a fragmented ecosystem with scattered data access patterns, duplicated business logic, and an uneven d...

Adam Miskiewicz is a Principal Software Engineer at Airbnb where he works on Viaduct. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss Viaduct’s origins, scaling GraphQL, open-sourcing the platform, and the future of backend systems in an AI world.

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SED News: Apple Bets on Gemini, Google’s AI Advantage, and the Talent Arms Race - Software Engineering Daily SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover Starlink free in-flight internet, Tesla deprecating Autopilot, Apple using Google Gemini for Siri, the Meta and Manus deal, AI hardware competition, layoffs, and highlights from Hacker News.

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OpenAI and Codex with Thibault Sottiaux and Ed Bayes - Software Engineering Daily AI coding agents are rapidly reshaping how software is built, reviewed, and maintained. As large language model capabilities continue to increase, the bottleneck in software development is shifting aw...

Here's our conversation with Thibault Sottiaux and Ed Bayes who helped build Codex at OpenAI. They spoke to @kball.llc about models and harnesses, multi-agent futures, model specialization, latency and performance considerations, and more.

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Production-Grade AI Systems with Fred Roma - Software Engineering Daily Engineering teams around the world are building AI-focused applications or integrating AI features into existing products. The AI development ecosystem is maturing, which is accelerating how quickly t...

Fred Roma is the SVP of Product and Engineering at @mongodb.bsky.social. He joins @kball.llc to talk about AI application development, vector search and reranking, schema evolution in the LLM era, the Voyage AI acquisition, and how data platforms must evolve.

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Next-Gen JavaScript Package Management with Ruy Adorno and Darcy Clarke - Software Engineering Daily Package management sits at the foundation of modern software development, quietly powering nearly every software project in the world. Tools like npm and Yarn have long been the core of the JavaScript...

Darcy Clarke and Ruy Adorno are longtime npm CLI maintainers and Node.js contributors. They join @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss vlt, a new package manager and registry designed to improve performance, security, and developer experience.

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WebAssembly 3.0 with Andreas Rossberg - Software Engineering Daily WebAssembly, or WASM, has grown from a low-level compilation target for C and C++ into one of the most influential technologies in modern computing. It now powers browser applications, edge compute pl...

Andreas Rossberg is a programming languages researcher and former V8 team member at Google. He joins @kball.llc to discuss WebAssembly’s history, key design milestones, WASM 1.0 to 3.0, and what’s next.

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America Under Surveillance with Michael Soyfer - Software Engineering Daily Surveillance technology is advancing faster than the laws meant to govern it. Across the United States, police departments are deploying automated license plate readers, facial recognition tools, and ...

Michael Soyfer is an attorney at the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm defending individual rights. He joins @kball.llc to discuss Flock Safety cameras, state data collection, and how citizens push back.

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Developer Experience at Capital One with Catherine McGarvey - Software Engineering Daily Modern software development is evolving rapidly. New tools, processes, and AI-powered systems are reshaping how teams collaborate and how engineers find satisfaction in their craft. At the same time, ...

Catherine McGarvey is SVP of Developer Experience at Capital One. She joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about developer enablement at scale, measuring productivity, agility in regulated environments, AI in enterprise development, and much more.

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Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily Modern software development is more complex than ever. Teams work across different operating systems, chip architectures, and cloud environments, each with its own dependency quirks and version mismat...

Michael Stahnke is the VP of Engineering at @flox.dev. He joins @kball.llc to talk about Flox, building on top of Nix, software security, and much more.

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VS Code and Agentic Development with Kai Maetzel - Software Engineering Daily Visual Studio Code has become one of the most influential tools in modern software development. The open-source code editor has evolved into a platform used by millions of developers around the world,...

Kai Maetzel is the Engineering Manager leading the VS Code team at @microsoft.com. He joins @kball.llc to discuss the origins of VS Code, how AI reshaped its design philosophy, the rise of agentic programming, and the future of development.

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Blender and Godot in Game Development with Simon Thommes - Software Engineering Daily Blender Studio is the creative arm of the Blender Foundation and it’s dedicated to producing films, games, and other projects that showcase the full potential of Blender. The studio functions as both ...

Simon Thommes is a Lead Technical Artist at @studio.blender.org. He joins the podcast with Joe Nash to talk about how to build games using Blender and @godotengine.org.

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Node.js in 2026 with Rafael Gonzaga - Software Engineering Daily JavaScript has grown far beyond the browser. It now powers millions of backend systems, APIs, and cloud services through Node.js, which is one of the most widely deployed runtimes on the planet. Keepi...

Rafael Gonzaga is a Principal Open Source Engineer at @nodesource.bsky.social. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss @nodejs.org performance, benchmarking, balancing speed and stability, and contributing to a major open source project.

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Building Games at Zachtronics with Zach Barth - Software Engineering Daily Zachtronics is a legendary independent game studio known for creating intricate, engineering-focused puzzle games that merge logic, creativity, and code. The studio was founded by Zach Barth in 2011, ...

Zach Barth is the founder of Zachtronics and creator of iconic engineering style games like SpaceChem, Infinifactory, TIS-100, and Shenzhen I/O. He joins Joe Nash to talk about the games he makes.

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Rivals of Aether with Dan Fornace - Software Engineering Daily Rivals of Aether and Rivals of Aether II are indie fighting games that combine fast-paced platform combat with elemental-themed characters. The game takes inspiration from Super Smash Bros. and emphas...

Dan Fornace is a game director and designer at Aether Game Studios, the developer of @rivals2.com. He joins the show with Joe Nash to talk about developing platform fighting games.

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Aviation Cybersecurity with Serge Christiaans - Software Engineering Daily Aviation cybersecurity is becoming an urgent priority as modern aircraft increasingly rely on complex digital systems for navigation, communication, and engine performance. These systems were once iso...

Serge Christiaans is a former Dutch Air Force pilot. He joins Gregor Vand to talk about aviation and cybersecurity, the aircraft as a digital attack surface, hybrid warfare, and the urgent need for aviation cyber resilience.

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Blocking Software Supply Chain Attacks with Feross Aboukhadijeh - Software Engineering Daily Modern software relies heavily on open source dependencies, often pulling in thousands of packages maintained by developers all over the world. This accelerates innovation but also creates serious sup...

Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of @socket.dev. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about his career, open source supply chain attacks, practical security lessons, the expanding attack surface in software development, and more.

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Pydantic AI with Samuel Colvin - Software Engineering Daily Python’s popularity in data science and backend engineering has made it the default language for building AI infrastructure. However, with the rapid growth of AI applications, developers are increasin...

Samuel Colvin is the creator of @pydantic.dev and Pydantic AI. He joins Gregor Vand to talk about Pydantic origin, type safe AI applications, Pydantic AI’s evolution, LogFire observability, and the future of sustainable open-source AI tooling.

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SED News: Bezos Returns to Building, AI’s Reality Check, and Europe’s Cloud Ambitions - Software Engineering Daily SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover Jeff Bezos's return with Project Prometheus, the debate on AI investment sustainability, Europe’s cloud push, Nordic startup growth, tech tipping points, and standout Hacker News threads.

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Game Development on the PICO-8 with Johan Peitz - Software Engineering Daily PICO-8 is a software-based gaming console for making, sharing, and playing small games with a retro aesthetic. It emulates the look and feel of 8-bit consoles, providing limited color palettes, screen...

Johan Peitz is a games industry veteran and developer extraordinaire, having created dozens of games across many platforms. He's an expert in PICO 8 development, and he joins Joe Nash to talk about creating games for the console.

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Running Doom in TypeScript with Dimitri Mitropoulos - Software Engineering Daily Doom has seemingly been ported to every electronic device imaginable, including picture frames, lamps, and coffee machines. The meme of “it runs Doom” has become so widespread that it spawned the r/it...

Dimitri Mitropoulos recently ported Doom to TypeScript, a monumental, year-long effort. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk all about the project.

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Drone Warfare in Ukraine with Simon Shuster - Software Engineering Daily Simon Shuster is a journalist who has reported on Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years, most of that time as a staff correspondent for TIME Magazine. He was born in Moscow, and he and his family came ...

Simon Shuster is a staff correspondent for TIME and he’s covered Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years . He joins @kball.llc to discuss drone warfare, AI-assisted targeting, gamified combat, and how drones are reshaping global security.

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Radix UI with Chance Strickland - Software Engineering Daily Radix UI is an open-source library of React components. Its “headless” primitives handle the complex logic and accessibility concerns—like dialogs, dropdowns, and tabs—while leaving styling completely...

Chance Strickland is a software engineer at @workos.bsky.social and a maintainer of @radix-ui.com. He joins @nicknisi.com to discuss Radix, its primitives, its connection with shadcn/ui, the evolution of web primitives, and more.

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