Podcasts
Eighteen shows worth your commute — engineering, security, AI, and the people behind them. Audio streams from each show's own feed; every episode links home.
Inside an AI-Run CompanyAI agents are moving from demos to real workplaces, but what actually happens when they run a company? In this episode, journalist Evan Ratliff, host of Shell Game, joins…
- #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka are machine learning researchers, engineers, and educators. Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and …
Natural born SaaS killers (Friends)We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, an…
Testing Python Code for Scalability & What's New in pandas 3.0How do you create automated tests to check your code for degraded performance as data sizes increase? What are the new features in pandas 3.0? Christopher Trudeau is back…
Kinder Code Reviews with AI? with Qodo's Nnenna NdukweCode reviews are one of the most powerful tools teams have for maintaining quality — but they're also one of the most emotionally charged parts of the development process…
Securing npm is table stakes (Interview)As the creator and long-time maintainer of ESLint, Nicholas Zakas is well-positioned to criticize GitHub's recent response to npm's insecurity. He found the response insu…
The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated co…
How is AI shaping democracy?As AI increasingly shapes geopolitics, elections, and civic life, its impact on democracy is becoming impossible to ignore. In this episode, Daniel and Chris are joined b…
Clawdbot triggers a run on Mac Minis (News)Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curl's bug bounty program, zerobrew takes so…
#753: Amazon Bedrock Mantle and Developing at the Speed of AIIn this episode, Simon speaks with Joe Magerramov (VP & Distinguished Engineer) to explore the transformative impact of AI-assisted coding on software development workflo…
The state of homelab tech (2026) (Friends)Techno Tim joins Adam to dive deep into the state of homelab'ing in 2026. Hardware is scarce and expensive due to the AI gold rush, but software has never been better. Fr…
#535: PyView: Real-time Python Web AppsBuilding on the web is like working with the perfect clay. It’s malleable and can become almost anything. But too often, frameworks try to hide the web’s best parts away …
Continuing to Improve the Learning Experience at Real PythonIf you haven't visited the Real Python website lately, then it's time to check out a great batch of updates on realpython.com! Dan Bader returns to the show thi…
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)Damien Tanner (founder of Pusher, now building Layercode) is back for a reunion 17 years in the making. Damien officially returns to The Changelog to discuss the seismic …
Run your AI Agent in a Sandbox, with Docker President Mark CavageSandboxing is having a moment. As agents move from chat windows into terminals, repos, and production-adjacent workflows, the question is no longer “What can AI generate?…
- Exploring AI agent platforms
If AI agents really are the future of how work will be done — in software engineering and beyond — the platforms on which they are built, run and maintained will be cruci…
How AWS S3 is builtBrought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated co…
Controlling AI Models from the InsideAs generative AI moves into production, traditional guardrails and input/output filters can prove too slow, too expensive, and/or too limited. In this episode, Alizishaan…
169: MoDLegion of Doom, step aside. There’s a new elite hacker group in town, and they’re calling themselves Masters of Deception (MoD). With tactics that are grittier and more s…
Agent psychosis: are we going insane? (News)Armin Ronacher thinks AI agent psychosis might be driving us insane, Dan Abramov explains how AT Protocol is a social filesystem, RepoBar keeps your GitHub work in view w…
#752: Modernizing SAP with AWSDiscover how customer are leveraging AWS to modernize SAP systems. Tushar Srivastava (Principal Account Manager) talks about the role SAP plays in an enterprise, the mode…
Kaizen! Let it crash (Friends)Gerhard is back for Kaizen 22! We're diving deep into those pesky out-of-memory errors, analyzing our new Pipedream instance status checker, and trying to figure out why …
Considering Fast and Slow in Python ProgrammingHow often have you heard about the speed of Python? What's actually being measured, where are the bottlenecks---development time or run time---and which matters more…
Where is AI taking us? - with The Pragmatic Programmer Gergely OroszAI is moving faster than our collective ability to metabolize it. Between copilots, agents, vibe coding, and the ever-shifting definition of “senior engineer,” developers…
The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Friends)Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft's GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open sour…
- #489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle
Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author of a new book titled Junglekeeper, and is someone who has dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Thank you…
#534: diskcache: Your secret Python perf weaponYour cloud SSD is sitting there, bored, and it would like a job. Today we’re putting it to work with DiskCache, a simple, practical cache built on SQLite that can speed t…
Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug (News)Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner belie…
#751: Werner Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2026 and Beyond...For the past 6 years, Werner has published his annual tech predictions, where he’s covered everything from sports and simulation, to smart energy innovation and quantum t…
2025 was the year of agents, what's coming in 2026?In this start-of-year FC episode, Chris and Daniel break down what really mattered in AI in 2025, and what to expect in 2026. They explore the rise of AI agents, the prac…