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Friday 15 May
Thursday 14 May
Cloud Commitments Without the Lock-In with Archera's Aran Khanna
Scott talks with Aran Khanna, co-founder and CEO of Archera, about a new category of cloud financial tooling: "Insured Commitments." Instead of locking into 1- or 3-year reserved i…
original ↗Open Source Sustainability
Open source software underpins nearly every modern application, including frameworks powering the most popular websites, to the libraries securing financial backend systems. Howeve…
original ↗U.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the World
U.S. Congressman Don Beyer returns to Practical AI for another far-reaching conversation with Chris about many of the most important AI challenges facing America and the world. Ble…
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What is harness engineering?
'Harness engineering' is one of the most significant terms to emerge in software engineering in 2026. Broadly referring to the work done to control unpredictable AI agents and codi…
Wednesday 13 May
Automation at the speed of Swamp (Friends)
This week I'm talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We disc…
original ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg
Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – Everything you need t…
original ↗1004: TanHacked
Scott and Wes break down the “Mini Shai-Hulud” supply chain attack that compromised TanStack and other popular npm packages through a clever GitHub Actions cache poisoning exploit;…
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Kubernetes at Uber with Lucy Sweet
Guest is Lucy Sweet, a Staff Software engineer at Uber and the lead for the Kubernetes Node Lifecycle Working Group. Imagine trying to move millions of compute cores and thousands …
How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic area
Jon Hyman, co-founder and CTO of Braze, joins Stack Overflow CPTO Jody Bailey on Leaders of Code to share how he's led the company's engineering organization over nearly 15 years o…
original ↗SN 1078: DigiCert does it right - Hugging Face Under Fire
DigiCert's latest security mishap triggered not just a scramble behind the scenes, but a cascading crisis that briefly wiped trust from millions of Windows systems. Find out how a …
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Tuesday 12 May
Vespa AI and Surpassing the Limits of Vector Search
Vector search has risen to become a foundational tool in modern search and retrieval systems, including the RAG pipelines that power many AI applications. However, the demands on r…
original ↗Connecting the dots for accurate AI
At HumanX, Ryan is joined by Philip Rathle, CTO at Neo4j to discuss what knowledge context means for AI agents, how limitations like stale training data make the model-only approac…
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Monday 11 May
#548: Event Sourcing Design Pattern
What if your database worked more like Git? Every change captured as an immutable event you can replay, instead of a single mutating row that quietly forgets its own history. That'…
original ↗1003: Skills Skills Skills
Scott and Wes chat all things agent skills for web developers, sharing their favorites for everything from CSS animations and HTML generation to logo extraction, marketing copy, an…
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Saturday 9 May
Friday 8 May
Declarative Charts in Python & Discerning Iterators vs Iterables
What if you could build charts in Python by describing what your data means, instead of scripting every visual detail? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with anothe…
original ↗AI giveth and AI taketh CPU
Recorded on the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by AMD CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s silicon strategy for AI borne of their long history of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing,…
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Thursday 7 May
How IBM Z Is Modernizing Mainframes with Skyla Loomis
Scott talks with Skyla Loomis, General Manager of IBM Z Software, about the ongoing relevance of mainframes in 2026. They discuss the enduring power of mainframes, how generative A…
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GKE Turns 10 Hackathon, with Amie Wei
Amie Wei is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and was the winner of last year's GKE Turns 10 Hackathon. It was Amie's first time entering a hackathon and she ended up bringing …
SED News: Anthropic’s Mythos, Supply Chain Hacks, and the AI Spending Surge
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…
original ↗The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026
In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down one of the biggest questions in AI today: do open vs. closed models still matter? From the rise of physical AI and edge de…
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Wednesday 6 May
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#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpe…
#547: Parallel Python at Anyscale with Ray
When OpenAI trained GPT-3, they didn't roll their own orchestration layer. They used Ray, an open source Python framework born out of the same Berkeley research lab lineage that ga…
original ↗1002: The Real Pricing of LLMs
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about LLM usage-based pricing, security risks from malicious code in interviews, staying current in a fast-mo…
original ↗SN 1077: A Browser AI API? - End of Bug Bounties?
Google is sneaking a massive 4.7GB AI model into Chrome, and Mozilla is fighting back as the future of browsers threatens to turn into an AI arms race. Find out what's really happe…
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Tuesday 5 May
SmartBear and Multi-Agent QA
AI coding tools have dramatically accelerated the pace of development, and the bottleneck in the software development lifecycle has shifted to code validation and testing. However,…
original ↗174: Pacific Rim
For six years, Sophos fought a secret cyber war against a state-backed hacking group targeting its firewalls. This forced Sophos to drastically change tactics to properly secure th…
original ↗What (un)exactly do you mean by semantic search?
Ryan welcomes Bryan O’Grady, Head of Field Research and Solutions Architecture at Qdrant, to discuss the differences between traditional text search engines powered by Lucene and m…
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