On this episode: Eitan Worcel, CEO and cofounder of Mobb, a company that uses AI to automate security vulnerability remediation, talks about how AI can help reduce security backlogs and free up developers’ time, what security risks emerge with GenAI, and why we still need a human in the loop.

SPONSORED BY SHELL On this sponsored episode of the podcast, Ben and Ryan chat with Maya Sellon, inclusive design and digital accessibility principal at Shell, about how she’s scaling accessibility and inclusive design practice across an organization the size of Shell. They talk about how knowing the accessibility issues is half the battle, how people are the key to scale, and what video games teach us about inclusive design.

The home team chats with William Falcon, an AI researcher and creator of PyTorch Lightning, about developing tooling for the AI ecosystem, open-source contributions, what happens when widely hyped technology needs to scale, and why he’s bullish on experienced developers using AI but not so bullish on new devs doing the same.

On this home team episode: Massachusetts makes a welcome shift toward skills-based hiring, AI-generated content robs us of our appetite for mac and cheese, and large-scale crypto mining operations account for more than 2% of the US’s electricity generation. Plus: A PDF quite a bit bigger than Germany.

On today’s home team episode: a new study confirms that AI isn’t putting us out of business, why tech layoffs have been good for share prices, and the programming students learning to code with Copilot.

Ben and Ryan check in about complex images (an maybe even interactive games) encoded in living cells, the latest trends in prompt engineering, and the benefits of gaming to your education.

SPONSORED BY INTUIT In today’s episode of the podcast, sponsored by Intuit, Ben and Ryan talk with Shivang Shah, Chief Architect at Intuit Mailchimp, and Merrin Kurian, Principal Engineer and AI Platform Architect at Intuit. They discuss generative AI at Intuit, GenOS (the generative AI operating system that they built), and how GenAI can scale without sacrificing privacy.

The home team convenes to discuss AI deepfakes, the legal implications of generating an AI version of a dead comedian or a famous singer-songwriter, whether leaderboard rankings reflect reality, and the relationship between agile development and burnout.

The home team chats about machine learning and its applications beyond the hot topic of GenAI, what it means for models to unlearn data, the future of open source, and new frontiers in game development.

Ben and Ryan talk about the hacker who exposed a security vulnerability in AI-powered software, security risks of smart devices, symbolic deduction engines in AI, and the programming language that features time travel.

Ben and Ryan are joined by Ryan’s former colleague and current backend engineer at Spotify, Omar Delarosa, to talk about time-traveling programming languages, a keyboard that turns an iPhone into a Blackberry, and what it’s like working on everyone’s personal DJ.

The home team discusses a new alternative to smartphones, how AI will impact scientific research and journalism, another dispiriting round of layoffs in tech, and building a computer with Legos.

Ben and Ryan chat about how the human body can act as a resonance chamber for remote car keys, the potential for GenAI to revolutionize game development by creating an infinite array of dynamic game worlds, and advancements in brain-computer interfaces.

The home team is back with a conversation about the 13-year-old who beat Tetris by breaking it; stories from the Mathematics Stack Exchange; and the robot butler that will do your dishes, fold your laundry, and water your plants. Happy New Year!

On today's episode, Ben and Ryan review the highlights of 2023, explore what made the biggest impact on developers, and chat about what they look forward to in the world of software and technology in 2024.

Kian Katanforoosh is the CEO and cofounder of Workera and co-created the Stanford Deep Learning class (CS230) with Prof. Andrew Ng. In this episode he talks about how companies can better measure the skill sets of their employees and how AI will change the half-life of useful skills.

For our final episode of the year we chat with Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann about the way AI is reshaping software development and the trends he's excited about for 2024.

On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Eduardo Mota, Sr. Cloud Data Architect at DoiT, about the security threats that GenAI opens up. While there’s a lot of dangers out there, it’s not all doom and gloom; they also talk about how to mitigate these threats.

R&D expenses and software development suddenly got a lot more expensive, leading to surprise layoffs. Plus, what defines shovelware, game developers look towards unionization, and the right way to kill your process.

Ben and Ryan discuss the golden age of digital piracy, the Sisyphean task of keeping kids off the internet, and seasonal depression in AI.

On this episode of the podcast, Ben and Ryan talk with Robert Ross, the CEO and co-founder of FireHydrant. They chat about the problem with alerting and incident management today, how holiday code freezes change incident management, and how Robert accidentally became a CEO.

The home team talks about Google’s new AI model, Gemini; the problems with regulating technology that evolves as quickly as AI; how governments can spy on their citizens via push notification; and more.

Ben talks with James Evans, cofounder and CEO of CommandBar, an AI-powered user assistance platform, about the software usability challenges CommandBar wants to address, the evolution of the company’s natural language search bar, and the future of dynamic interfaces and universal agents.

Ben and Ryan discuss how LLMs are changing the industry and practice of software engineering, a notorious Crash Bandicoot bug, and communication via series of tubes.

Ben, Ryan, and Eira convene to discuss return-to-office mandates, what’s surprising about employee attrition in 2023, and how technology can preserve digital records of cultural heritage sites before they’re lost for good.