The Roo Cast, the official podcast of Roo Code

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Welcome to The Roo Cast, the official podcast of Roo Code, your AI-powered development team inside VS Code. Whether you code solo, build startups, or contribute to open source, The Roo Cast brings you the latest insights, updates, and stories from the Roo Code community.

Episodes

  1. NOV 5

    OpenAI's Brian Fioca on GPT-5 vs Codex, Evals & The Responses API |The Roo Cast- Nov 6, 2025 Ep. 29

    In this episode of Roo Cast, host Hannes Rudolph is joined by RooCode's lead developer Matt and CEO Danny, along with special guest Brian Fiocca from OpenAI. Brian kicks things off by sharing his extensive background in the startup world (including YC and Rescue Time) and explains his current role on the Applied Startups team at OpenAI. He then reveals the surprising story of how he first discovered Roo Code: he was looking for open-source evaluation suites to test how models like GPT-Five perform inside different coding tools and found RooCode's eval harness.The conversation dives deep into a detailed comparison of GPT-5 and GPT-5 Codex, with Brian explaining the key architectural differences and why one is more adaptable while the other is hyper-optimized for a specific harness. The team then explores the new frontier of "Evals as a Service," discussing how to move beyond simple correctness benchmarks (like Sweebench) and create "performance review" style evals for agentic tasks. The discussion also covers the critical importance of the Responses API for preserving chain-of-thought, the future of context memory, and Brian's top recommendations for the RooCode codebase.Resources Mentioned: OpenAI: https://openai.com/ Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/ Zed (Editor): https://zed.dev/ Minimax: https://minimax.chat/ Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/ Vercel AI SDK: https://sdk.vercel.ai/ Slack: https://slack.com/ Linear: https://linear.app/

    59 min
  2. OCT 15

    Paige Bailey of Google DeepMind: New AI Demos & Dev Insights| Roo Code Podcast - Oct 16, 2025 Ep. 27

    In this episode of Office Hours, host Hannes Rudolph is joined by Roo Code's CTO Matt and CEO Danny, along with special guest Paige Bailey from the Google DeepMind team. Paige kicks things off with an exclusive look at some of Google's latest and most powerful AI developer products, straight from the source. She provides live, in-depth demonstrations of new capabilities, including the impressive text-to-video model Veo 3.1, and showcases the new Computer Use API by tasking a Gemini agent to navigate the web, find a specific product, and add it to a shopping cart in real-time.The conversation then shifts to the future of software development in an AI-driven world, exploring how generative tools are fundamentally changing workflows for engineers at Google, where over 50% of all production code is now AI-generated. Paige shares insights on the internal debate between model speed versus quality, the shift away from traditional product requirement documents (PRDs) toward rapid AI-assisted prototyping, and how new multimodal interfaces like the Gemini Live API are poised to redefine how developers interact with their tools. The episode wraps with a look at Google's own AI-powered code review process and a discussion on the legendary Google monorepo. Resources Mentioned:Google DeepMind: https://deepmind.google/Google AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/Google AI Studio Build: https://ai.google.dev/buildGoogle Gemma: https://ai.google.dev/gemmaGoogle's Veo Model & Blog Post: https://blog.google/technology/ai/veo-updates-flow/Gemini Computer Use API Docs: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/computer-useGemini Browser Extension: https://gemini.browserbase.com/GitHub PR with Gemini Code Assist Example: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/generative-ai/pull/2273

    1 hr

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Welcome to The Roo Cast, the official podcast of Roo Code, your AI-powered development team inside VS Code. Whether you code solo, build startups, or contribute to open source, The Roo Cast brings you the latest insights, updates, and stories from the Roo Code community.