Beyond The Build

Uma Abu and Ope Osunkoya

Beyond The Build is a podcast about the real, unfiltered experiences of being a software engineer. Hosted by two seasoned engineers, Uma and Ope, we dive into the highs, the lows, and everything in between—from career growth and technical challenges to work-life balance and industry insights. Whether you're an aspiring developer or a seasoned pro, join us as we explore the parts of tech that don’t get talked about enough. Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/)  Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast)  TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)

  1. 4 days ago

    Meta Was Tracking Employee Keystrokes to Build Their Replacements | LWIT

    Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 This week on Last Week in Tech: a $100M fintech disaster that tricked millions of Americans, Polymarket's fake gambling website exposed by college influencers, and why China's new open-weight AI model is spooking Silicon Valley. Plus, your smart TV might be selling your IP address without you knowing. What to expect in this episode: Ope and Uma break down the Synapse bankruptcy where $100M vanished from fintech accounts, the hidden residential proxy scandal running through smart TVs, Claude's new government ID requirement, and the escalating AI arms race between the US and China. If you're a software engineer trying to make sense of where tech is heading, this is your weekly must-watch. 📌 Timestamps: 01:14 — Welcome to Last Week in Tech 01:40 — The $100M Fintech Scam: What Happened to Synapse & Yotta 11:47 — Smart TVs Are Selling Your IP Address (Residential Proxies) 18:26 — Polymarket's Fake Gambling Website Exposed 23:46 — GLM 5.2: China's Open-Weight AI Challenges US Dominance 27:28 — The Identity Verification Trap: AI, Privacy, and Global Regulations 32:56 — Flock Cameras & The Mass Surveillance Ecosystem 39:28 — Meta Tracked Employee Keystrokes to Train Internal AI 41:59 — OpenAI Codex Record & Replay Feature 43:38 — Why "The Optimal Amount of Slop Is Nonzero" in Software 45:48 — Inside OpenAI's Delayed IPO 48:18 — Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Massive AI Distillation Attack 51:38 — Web Dev Update: HTTP Introduces the New "QUERY" Method 52:37 — Outro & Upcoming Live Show Announcements Connect with us:  🎙️ Beyond The Build Podcast — real, unfiltered conversations about being a software engineer. New episodes every week.  Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast) TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast) 💬 Drop a comment: Which story hit hardest for you this week; the Synapse scam, the smart TV proxies, or Claude asking for your ID?

    54 min

  2. 21 Jun

    LWIT: A Singel Web Page Can Hijack Your AI Agent

    Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Articles AI Agent Hijack: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/06/18/autojack-single-page-rce-host-running-ai-agent/ Skills Over MCP: https://aaif.io/blog/skills-over-mcp/ Slow down and Sit With It: https://yaoyue.org/blog/2026-slowdown/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast) TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)

    37 min

  3. 15 Jun

    LWIT: The US Government Ordered Anthropic To Take Down Fable

    Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast) TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)

    59 min

  4. 9 Jun

    LWIT: AI Is Creating a Generation of Bad Engineers

    Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Beyond The Basics With Claude Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuY2ChJIx48 Google Is Paying SpaceX To Use Its GPU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417490 Opus 4.8: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8 AWS Agentic Football Worldcup: https://aws-experience.com/emea/smb/e/45d3b/aws-agentic-football-cup  Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast) TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)

    55 min

  5. 25 May

    LWIT: AI Is Creating a New Class of Elite Engineers

    Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Articles Learn Harness Engineering https://walkinglabs.github.io/learn-harness-engineering/en/  Meta Engineering Draft: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/inside-metas-ai-draft-zuckerberg-134000308.html Forward-Deployed Engineer https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/anthropic-and-openai-are-both-launching-joint-ventures-for-enterprise-ai-services/ Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast) TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)

    59 min

  6. 18 May

    LWIT: Software Engineering May No Longer Be A Lifetime Career

    Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Articles AWS Overheating: https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/aws-outage-explained-may-2026-data-center-overheating OpenAI buying tools: https://medium.com/@krupeshraut/openai-and-anthropic-are-buying-the-tools-every-developer-uses-heres-why-you-should-care-e52006bc4707 Software Engineering May No Longer Be A Lifetime Career: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/ Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast) TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)

    52 min

  7. 12 May

    LWIT: MAANG Companies Now Let You Use AI in Interviews.

    Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast) TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)

    47 min

  8. 4 May

    LWIT: An AI Agent Deleted a Company’s Database in 9 Seconds

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we break down one of the wildest stories in tech right now — an AI agent wiping out an entire production database in seconds — and what that says about the systems we’re building. But that’s just the beginning. We also dive into the bigger shift happening across the industry: the decline of junior developer roles, the rise of AI-assisted engineering, and why the way we build software is fundamentally changing. From debugging with AI to companies restructuring how teams work, this isn’t just a trend — it’s a real shift in how engineers are expected to operate. If you’re a software engineer (or trying to break into the field), this is something you need to understand now, not later. Let us know in the comments — are we moving too fast with AI, or is this the natural evolution of engineering? Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast) TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)

    54 min
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Beyond The Build is a podcast about the real, unfiltered experiences of being a software engineer. Hosted by two seasoned engineers, Uma and Ope, we dive into the highs, the lows, and everything in between—from career growth and technical challenges to work-life balance and industry insights. Whether you're an aspiring developer or a seasoned pro, join us as we explore the parts of tech that don’t get talked about enough. Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/)  Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast)  TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)

Information

  • Creator
    Uma Abu and Ope Osunkoya
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Beyond The Build
  • Show Website
    Beyond The Build

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