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.
Cloud Commitments Without the Lock-In with Archera's Aran KhannaScott 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 …
Open Source SustainabilityOpen source software underpins nearly every modern application, including frameworks powering the most popular websites, to the libraries securing financial backend syste…
U.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the WorldU.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 …
- 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 agent…
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 developmen…
TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders HejlsbergBrought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – Everything …
1004: TanHackedScott 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 poisonin…
- 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 …
How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic areaJon 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 …
SN 1078: DigiCert does it right - Hugging Face Under FireDigiCert'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 …
Vespa AI and Surpassing the Limits of Vector SearchVector 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 de…
Connecting the dots for accurate AIAt 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-on…
#548: Event Sourcing Design PatternWhat 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 hist…
1003: Skills Skills SkillsScott and Wes chat all things agent skills for web developers, sharing their favorites for everything from CSS animations and HTML generation to logo extraction, marketin…
- The Pre-Training Wall and the Treadmill After It
I've been confusing Don with frontier-lab links late at night for a bit. Ilya Sutskever told a NeurIPS audience that pre-training as we know it would unquestionably end. …
Declarative Charts in Python & Discerning Iterators vs IterablesWhat 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 w…
AI giveth and AI taketh CPURecorded 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 …
How IBM Z Is Modernizing Mainframes with Skyla LoomisScott 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 ge…
- 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…
SED News: Anthropic’s Mythos, Supply Chain Hacks, and the AI Spending SurgeSED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon V…
The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026In 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 a…
- #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-infa…
#547: Parallel Python at Anyscale with RayWhen 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 linea…
1002: The Real Pricing of LLMsIn 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…
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 re…
SmartBear and Multi-Agent QAAI coding tools have dramatically accelerated the pace of development, and the bottleneck in the software development lifecycle has shifted to code validation and testing…
174: Pacific RimFor 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…
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 Lu…
1001: Managing Deadlines + StressScott and Wes tackle the all-too-real stress of crunch time as a web developer—how to handle looming deadlines, avoid sloppy shortcuts, and stay methodical when everythin…
Agentic Data Science Pair Programming With marimo pairHow do you add agent skills to your data science workflow? How can a coding agent assist with data wrangling and research? This week on the show, Trevor Manz from marimo …