Development
Building software: programming, developer tools, APIs, deployment and DevOps, and building with AI (agents, MCP servers, RAG, AI coding tools). An extra channel alongside an episode's main one, so AI engineering episodes sit in both.
#1784: Context1: The Retrieval Coprocessor
Chroma's new 20B model acts as a specialized "scout" for your LLM, replacing slow, static RAG with multi-step, agentic search.
#1782: Jenkins, GitHub, or Tekton? Picking Your 2025 CI/CD Engine
Jenkins is still the COBOL of DevOps, but the "one size fits all" model is dead. Here’s how to pick your pipeline.
#1781: Writing Tests Before Code Is Insane (Until You Try It)
Why testing feels like a tax, how it actually speeds you up, and the simple three-step method to start today.
#1779: AI Memory Is a Mess: Files, Vectors, or Cloud?
Why your AI forgets your instructions and what the battle over portable memory means for the future of agents.
#1778: Audio Is the New "Read Later" Graveyard
Why listening to AI conversations beats reading dense PDFs, and how serverless GPUs make it cheap.
#1777: Claude Called My Prompt "Rambling" and I'm Not Okay
When an AI coding tool critiques your prompt's literary quality, it raises a massive technical question about engineered personality.
#1774: The Internal Heat Shield: Telling Hard Truths in DevRel
DevRel isn't just swag and conferences—it's the critical feedback loop keeping developers loyal in an AI-driven world.
#1773: AI's "Hacky" Command-Line Fixes Are a Security Nightmare
Giving AI agents terminal access speeds up fixes but creates invisible security holes and configuration drift.
#1771: Why Your Docker Images Depend on a 1990s Crypto War
PGP or GPG? We break down the alphabet soup of signing Docker images and AI models, and why it matters for supply chain security.
#1767: From Eyeballs to Tokens: The Web's Agentic Shift
The web's new primary user isn't human—it's AI. See how JavaScript evolved to serve autonomous agents.
#1766: Why AI Now Builds Your Frontend Stack
AI code generators are creating a monoculture, pushing Astro and Vite as the default tools for 2026's web development.
#1765: The Agentic Internet: A Clean Web for Machines
We explore the tools building a parallel, machine-readable web—from SearXNG to Tavily.
#1764: Your Repo as a Knowledge Base
How to give AI agents instant memory of your entire project—without cloud costs or complex infrastructure.
#1763: Backend Grunt Work Is Dead. What Now?
AI agents now write 80% of boilerplate code, but the real backend engineering challenges remain.
#1762: Testing AI Truthfulness: Beyond Vibes
Stop trusting confident AI. We explore the formal science of testing LLMs for hallucinations and knowledge cutoffs.
#1758: The Internet's Physical Bread Delivery System
Netflix doesn't stream from California to Jerusalem. It uses local boxes in your city. Here's how the internet physically moves data to you.
#1754: From Ollama to Agentic CLIs: The Rise of the AI Harness
Explore the evolution from local LLMs to modern agentic CLIs, focusing on the "harness" that gives models context, tools, and autonomy.
#1753: AI Makes Coding Harder, Not Easier
Claude Code writes the syntax, but you need more technical knowledge than ever to guide it.
#1752: Whisper Small Beats Whisper Large in Speed & Accuracy
A 4GPU benchmark on Ubuntu shows the 1.5B parameter Whisper Large is slower and less accurate than the tiny Whisper Small.
#1737: Nous Research: The Decentralized AI Lab Beating Giants
Meet Nous Research, the decentralized collective outperforming billion-dollar labs with open-source AI and the self-improving Hermes-Agent framework.