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Software's best weekly news brief, deep technical interviews & talk show.

  1. Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Interview)

    9 HR AGO

    Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Interview)

    Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical challenges of doing so, the implementation details of Multigres (Vitess for Postgres). We also discuss the state of Postgres at scale.

    1h 15m
  2. Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (News)

    2 DAYS AGO

    Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (News)

    Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it's rude to show AI output to people.

    7 min
  3. Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends)

    5 DAYS AGO

    Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends)

    Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he's actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn't more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.

    1h 32m
  4. Pivoting to Retool (Interview)

    6 DAYS AGO

    Pivoting to Retool (Interview)

    David Hsu from Retool joins Adam to discuss how he built Retool. From the pivot in YC, to building the most widely used internal tools platform, to now being the platform for AI agents in the enterprise—on this episode we cover David journey from YC to building agents for the enterprise.

    1h 22m
  5. An app can be a home-cooked meal (News)

    14 JUL

    An app can be a home-cooked meal (News)

    Researchers in Japan achieve a world record in data transmission speeds, Robin Sloan explains how an app can be a home-cooked meal, Windsurf founders Varun Mohan & Douglas Chen are headed to Google, new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says it's too late for the incumbent, Anton Zaides says stop forcing AI tools on your engineers, and Adrien Friggeri visualized his ten-year running streak.

    9 min
  6. Measuring the actual impact of AI coding (Friends)

    11 JUL

    Measuring the actual impact of AI coding (Friends)

    Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are actually making developers. Teaser: the productivity increase isn't as high as we expected. We also discuss Jevons paradox, AI agents as extensions of humans, which tools are winning in the enterprise, how development budgets are changing, and more.

    1h 4m
  7. Lightspeed search built for devs (Interview)

    10 JUL

    Lightspeed search built for devs (Interview)

    We talk with Don MacKinnon, Co-founder and CTO of Searchcraft—a lightspeed search engine built in Rust. We dig into the future of search, how it blends vector embeddings with classic ranking, and what it takes to build developer-friendly, production-grade search from the ground up.

    1h 39m
  8. Full-breadth developers for the win (News)

    7 JUL

    Full-breadth developers for the win (News)

    Justin Searls describes the "full-breadth developer" and why they'll win because AI, Cloudflare comes up with a way publishers can charge crawlers for access, Hugo Bowne-Anderson explains why building AI agents fails so often, the Job Worth Calculator tells you if your job is worth the grind, and Sam Lambert announces PlanetScale for Postgres.

    9 min
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