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Join Overcommitted for insightful conversations with women in tech, software engineers, and programming experts focused on advancing software engineering careers. Explore topics such as software ethics, system reliability, infrastructure resilience, programming best practices, and agentic AI development. Our hosts share career insights and tech mentorship to boost developer productivity and code quality for passionate programmers and software engineers alike.

  1. 1d ago

    Building Terminal Graph, a Spatial Development Environment, with Caidan Williams

    Caidan Williams put your terminals, browsers, editors, and AI agents on one infinite canvas. He joins Erika and Brittany to talk about Terminal Graph, the spatial development environment for macOS he built for himself first, and the self-taught path that took him from Minecraft mods at 13 to partner at a Seattle dev studio. We get into the dataflow model that sets Terminal Graph apart, like piping a git diff straight into Claude Code or grepping a dev server's logs into a browser node. Caidan explains Blueprints, his approach to sharing a whole team workflow as a single file, and what it's like to run a product inside a holacracy with no bosses and no venture money. Then he tells his career story. No college degree. A gap year spent applying to around 500 companies. Computer vision on dental and MRI images. Burnout, a layoff, and a cross-country move to Seattle with one duffel bag. His honest takeaway is that persistence, not raw talent, is what got him here. If you build your own tools, wire agents into your workflow, or you're finding a non-traditional way into engineering, this one is for you. Links Terminal Graph: https://terminalgraph.com/ Caidan Williams: https://caidan.dev/ Tools mentioned LazyGit: https://lazygit.dev/ Neovim: https://neovim.io/ Hosts Overcommitted: ⁠⁠https://overcommitted.dev⁠ ⁠ Erika Eggemeyer: ⁠⁠https://github.com/eggyhead Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com/ Follow Overcommitted so you don't miss next week's episode, and share it with an engineer who'd like it.

    Building Terminal Graph, a Spatial Development Environment, with Caidan Williams

  2. Jul 14

    What VCs Want from Tech Talent | Engineering Careers with Melanie Nabar

    What do investors actually look for in software engineers and tech founders? Melanie Nabar pulls back the curtain on what VCs see when evaluating engineering talent, sharing insider insights on career growth, technical credibility, and the skills that matter most when funding is on the line. Perfect for engineers ready to level up their career strategy. Links Melanie Nabar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniejordannabar/ Volition Capital: https://www.volitioncapital.com/ Hosts Overcommitted: ⁠https://overcommitted.dev ⁠Bethany Janos: ⁠https://www.trustyduck.dev/⁠ ⁠Erika Eggemeyer: ⁠https://github.com/eggyhead

    What VCs Want from Tech Talent | Engineering Careers with Melanie Nabar

  3. Jul 7

    Safety-Critical Software | System Reliability for Live Events with Lars Olson

    Summary What happens when a software bug stops a concert—or endangers a performer flying above the stage? System reliability takes on new meaning in live event tech. This week, Brittany and Erika talk with Lars Olson, full stack engineer at TAIT, about building safety-critical systems that power the world's biggest tours and theme parks. Lars shares how React and Rust meet real-world consequences, why error boundaries matter more than you think, and what production safety teaches us about code quality and engineering culture. Links My Hometown Recipes - ⁠https://myhometownrecipes.com/⁠ Erik Lars Olson - LinkedIn - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eriklarsolson/⁠ Bluesky - ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/eriklars.bsky.social⁠ X - ⁠https://x.com/energyblazer⁠  Hosts Overcommitted: ⁠https://overcommitted.dev⁠Brittany Ellich: ⁠https://brittanyellich.com⁠Erika "Eggyhead" Eggemeyer: ⁠https://github.com/eggyhead⁠

    Safety-Critical Software | System Reliability for Live Events with Lars Olson

  4. Jun 30

    Keeping Skills Sharp in the AI Age | Developer Productivity Essentials

    As AI code intelligence tools reshape daily programming work, developer productivity and career growth depend less on speed and more on judgment. In this episode, we explore what skills actually matter when AI writes code—and why engineers need a new mindset about staying sharp. From code quality ownership to learning tactics, discover the practical skills that keep your value rising in an AI-native engineering world. Links: Math books: https://www.bravernewmath.com/ Crystal Bepis: https://crystalbepis.com/ GitHub Copilot App: https://github.com/features/ai/github-app Hosts: Overcommitted: ⁠https://overcommitted.dev ⁠Bethany Janos: ⁠https://www.trustyduck.dev/⁠ Brittany Ellich: ⁠https://brittanyellich.com ⁠Erika Eggemeyer: ⁠https://github.com/eggyhead

  5. Jun 23

    Software Engineering in Production With Cameron Etezadi

    What happens when coding becomes nearly free - but everything else in the software delivery process doesn't? Cameron Etezadi, CTO at LaunchDarkly, joins Erika, Brittany, and Bethany to talk about the gap between code that compiles and code that actually works in production. They cover vibe coding pitfalls, the release-observe-iterate loop, how AI is shifting engineers toward frontline manager behaviors, and why speed without control is a liability - not an asset. Cameron also shares how LaunchDarkly changed their intern interview process to reflect the AI era, what EU regulations mean for human accountability in AI-generated code, and why the classic two-pizza team is giving way to something much smaller. Cameron Etezadi is the CTO at LaunchDarkly and brings experience scaling engineering organizations at Google, HashiCorp, and SAP. He's also a licensed flight instructor with ratings in fixed-wing, seaplane, helicopter, and gyroplane - and has logged over 400 skydives. Show notes: Cameron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronetezadiLaunchDarkly: https://launchdarkly.comLaunchDarkly leadership page: https://launchdarkly.com/leadership/Rainier Flight Service bio: https://www.rainierflightservice.com/rainier-flight-staff/cameron-etezadi

  6. Jun 16

    Coding Interviews in the AI Era | Beyond LeetCode for Career Growth

    Summary Brittany's first weeks at Bluesky are reframing everything she thought about coding interviews. Career growth in tech still hinges on algorithm problems, but AI, remote work, and async development have fundamentally changed what actually signals engineering ability. Why do companies cling to LeetCode when software engineers now solve problems in decentralized, AI-augmented teams? We dig into what hiring should measure, why job-hunting feels unsettled, and how women engineers navigate visibility and advancement in the interview process. Links How GitHub Engineers Learn New Codebases blog post: https://github.blog/developer-skills/application-development/how-github-engineers-learn-new-codebases/ Diataxis: https://diataxis.fr Hosts Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://www.trustyduck.dev/Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.comErika Eggemeyer: https://github.com/eggyhead

  7. Jun 9

    Why AI Coding Agents Keep Guessing | Context Gap & Code Intelligence with Dennis Pilarinos

    Summary Dennis Pilarinos has spent nearly two decades building developer tools at Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Buddybuild (acquired by Apple). Now CEO of Unblocked, he's tackling the critical problem holding back agentic AI development: context intelligence. Why do AI coding agents keep guessing? Because they lack the organizational and business context behind the code. In this episode, the Overcommitted hosts dig into how developers and AI agents can truly understand the "why" behind codebases, not just the "what"—and why this matters for code quality, productivity, and shipping reliable tools. Links Dennis' email: dennis@getunblocked.comUnblocked: https://dub.sh/IeI82Vx Dennis on X: https://x.com/dennispilarinosDennis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennispi/ Hosts Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.comErika Eggemeyer: https://github.com/eggyhead

    Why AI Coding Agents Keep Guessing | Context Gap & Code Intelligence with Dennis Pilarinos

  8. Jun 2

    Agentic AI Development | Shipping Real Tools with Sterling Chin

    Summary What does it actually look like to hand 90% of your workday over to an AI agent you built yourself? Sterling Chin, founding DevRel at Inngest and creator of Marvin, an open-source AI chief of staff with nearly 1,000 GitHub stars, has been doing exactly that for months. In this episode, Sterling joins Brittany to talk through how Marvin works, why he built it, and what he's learned about the real friction points in AI adoption that most people don't talk about. Sterling came into tech through a coding bootcamp after studying elementary education at BYU, landed at Postman where he led the R&D labs team, went viral on LinkedIn for posts about their AI assistant PostBot, and accidentally became a DevRel engineer because of it. Now at Inngest, he's the founding DevRel hire, and still building in public constantly. Links Sterling's Website: https://sterlingchin.com/Sterling's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sterlingchin/ Sterling on GitHub: https://github.com/SterlingChinSterling on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sterlingchin.bsky.socialSterling on Twitter: https://x.com/SilverJaw82Marvin: https://github.com/SterlingChin/marvin-templateSterling on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SterlingChinSterling on Substack: https://sterlingchin.substack.com/Web Dev Challenge Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2sEoZG8EIw&list=PLz8Iz-Fnk_eTkZvSNWXW_TKZ2UwVirT2M&index=17Inngest: https://www.inngest.com/AI Crimes in Production: https://ai-crimes-in-production.com/ Hosts Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBrittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com

    Agentic AI Development | Shipping Real Tools with Sterling Chin
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