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.
1009: 54% AI-Generated and Climbing — State of AIScott and Wes react to the freshly released State of AI 2026 survey, covering everything from skyrocketing AI adoption and the rise of coding agents to the pain points, j…
#550: AI Contributions and Maintainer Load in Open SourceYou wake up, brew the coffee, open GitHub, and there it is. Another pull request on your open source project. Thirteen thousand lines added. No issue filed first. No disc…
- #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: h…
Improving Python Through PEPs and ProtocolsHave you ever been confused by the naming of modules you're importing from a package? Is there a standard way to organize and name your Python virtual environments? …
The find out stage of AI is just supply chain and password protectionIn this two-for-one special recorded at HumanX, Ryan is joined by Dataiku’s Florian Douetteau to chat about the governance, orchestration, and data requirements for serio…
Autonomous Drone Delivery at ScaleAutonomous drone delivery has long been the stuff of science fiction, but ongoing advances have moved the space from experimental to operational. Zipline is one of the le…
Rebooting Enterprise AI with MCP and KubernetesWhat happens when AI agents start acting less like chatbots and more like coworkers? In this episode, Dan and Chris sit down with Craig McLuckie, CEO of Stacklok to explo…
- What is spec-driven development?
Semantic diffusion, combined with the pace of technology change, makes talking about AI-adjacent practices and techniques incredibly diffficult. There are few better exam…
Building OpenCode with Dax RaadBrought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – Everything …
- Kubernetes 1.36, with Ryota Sawada
Ryota Sawada is software engineer at Numtide and the release lead of Kubernetes 1.36 code name Haru. He has over a decade of experience mainly in the finance industry inc…
1008: Diffs, Trees, and VS Code 2.0Scott and Wes sit down with Alex Sexton and Amadeus De Marzi from Pierre Computer to dig into the gnarly performance challenges behind building blazing-fast code review t…
SN 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment - Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever?Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues this isn't a crisis…
The European Startup SceneEurope’s startup ecosystem is maturing rapidly, with companies like Revolut, Lovable, and Legora demonstrating that world-class technology businesses can be built and sca…
Do you have what it takes to run AI in production?From the floor of HumanX, Ryan Donovan is joined by Peter Salanki, CTO and co-founder of CoreWeave, to chat about what it really takes to run AI in production; the growin…
#549: Great DocsYour documentation has two audiences now - humans reading the rendered HTML, and AI agents trying to make sense of your library. Rich Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit …
1007: 8 Tech Choices to Lock In Before AgentmaxxingWes and Scott talk about the foundational decisions that make AI-assisted coding actually work—database schemas, validation, routing, CSS structure, and more. They explor…
Managing Polars Schema Issues & Profiling GitHub UsersHow can you avoid schema problems in your Polars data pipeline when adding new columns? How can you quickly examine a GitHub user's profile to decide how much to inv…
Breaking your AI storage bottlenecksRecorded at HumanX, Ryan sits down with Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founders and co-CEOs of MinIO, to chat about eliminating the storage bottlenecks that l…
React Native at ScaleReact Native is an open source framework developed by Meta that allows engineers to build mobile applications for both iOS and Android using a single JavaScript codebase.…
Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with youOpen Source AI is entering a new era, one shaped by self-improving AI Agents, recursive learning systems, and rapidly evolving AI Tools that blur the line between softwar…
Why Rust is different, with Alice RyhlBrought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Sentry – applicatio…
1006: Can AI Make Good Design?Wes and Scott talk about whether AI can actually create good design, or if it just remixes the same patterns over and over. They dig into AI-generated UX, design systems,…
Pack your agentic stack in SlackSPONSORED BY SLACK BY SALESFORCERyan welcomes Jaime DeLanghe, chief product officer at Slack, to chat about how they’re preparing to integrate everybody’s agents in their…
SN 1079: Daybreak and Codename MDASH - Microsoft's Edge Password BlunderOpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to unleash next-gen AI that hunts for software vulnerabilities and hacks at scale. This episode explores how these advancements c…
Formal Methods as Agent GuardrailsFormal methods are a branch of mathematics and computer science focused on proving the correctness of systems, and they have long promised a more rigorous foundation for …
Your fridge could be a threat to national securityOn the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by Adam Meyers, Senior VP of Counter Adversary Operations at Crowdstrike, for a deep dive on their latest Global Threat Report that…
1005: Programatic and Skill based Video Creation with RemotionScott and Wes are joined by Jonny Burger, creator of Remotion, to talk about the explosion of programmatic video, going from 125k to 800k installs per day, and how AI and…
MCP on Code Mode (Interview)This week I'm talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we d…
Agentic Architecture: Why Files Aren't Always EnoughWhat are the limitations of using a file-based agent workflow? Why do massive context windows tend to collapse? This week on the show, Mikiko Bazeley from MongoDB joins u…
Observability and human intuition in an AI worldIn this two for one episode recorded at HumanX, Ryan is first joined by Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb, to discuss how AI compresses the software development lifecycle, …