Expanding Beyond

Monica Giambitto & Urban Hafner

Monica and Urban discuss their work life as developers and development managers.

  1. 12 juni

    Episode 63: I am the mother of the agents

    We finally come back to the mic to talk about what everyone is talking about: LLMs at work. Urban has stopped handwriting code, Monica is delegating debugging to Claude between meetings, and we both wonder out loud whether our processes, our hiring, and honestly our jobs are quietly being rewritten while we ride the wave. Mentioned Destroying the Machines, with Brian Merchant The engineering management memory crisis Quotable moments [10:00] "How can I trust you if you're not able to commit to the fact that, sorry, I don't know about this." — Monica [18:24] "Who is going to review 20,000 lines of code in a language they're not expert of? Looks good to me territory." — Urban [23:55] "Nobody knows. Remember that they're all making stuff up." — Monica [35:32] "You are all going to become engineering managers... what you're going to have at your disposal is a certain amount of agents that you can spin up and tell them to orchestrate between each other." — Monica Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it. Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online Github: @nirnaeth Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai Bluesky: @urbanhafner.bsky.social Github: @ujh Blog: urbanhafner.com The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

    48 min

  2. 2025-07-21

    Episode 62: The one where we talk about AI

    We finally have the in depth discussion about LLMs, how we use them, and what we think they might evolve into. We also touch on starting to pay more and more for stuff. Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it. Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online Github: @nirnaeth Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai Bluesky: @urbanhafner.bsky.social Github: @ujh Blog: urbanhafner.com The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

    47 min

  3. 2025-02-24

    Episode 61: Keep your database close

    It's side project time! Urban talks about moving a project from Heroku to fly.io and Monica starts volunteering her time to stay motivated. Fountain Pen Companion FPC Github repository [fly.io](fly.io) LiteFS Pgvector Vostel Freetown Christiania Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it. Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online Github: @nirnaeth Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai Bluesky: @urbanhafner.bsky.social Github: @ujh Blog: urbanhafner.com The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

    41 min

  4. 2024-12-18

    Episode 60: Everyone is sick

    Urban gets his AWS certificate and we discuss certifications in general and what they are good for. Especially in a B2B world. We also talk about project management and how no one seems to be in charge in a lot of places, as well as LLM generated code as yet another level of abstraction. Roles and Responsibilities retro Trillions by Robin Wigglesworth Dreamweaver AI Won't Fix the Fundamental Flaw of Programming Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it. Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online Github: @nirnaeth Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai Bluesky: @urbanhafner.bsky.social Github: @ujh Blog: urbanhafner.com The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

    50 min

  5. 2024-11-07

    Episode 59: Asking why

    In this episode we discuss meeting in person, thinking about architecture, and most importantly finding out the WHY for things. Fundamentals of Software Architecture How to think like an architect Architectural Katas Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it. Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online Github: @nirnaeth Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai Github: @ujh Blog: urbanhafner.com The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

    46 min

  6. 2024-10-09

    Episode 58: We use a spreadsheet for running retros

    In this episode we discuss LLMs, writing blog posts, running retros (in spreadsheets!), Shape Up and other processes. We end by asking YOU (the listener) to get back to us with what process you are using and if it works for you or not. Using a LLM to fight spam Obie Fernandez: Pioneering AI in Ruby on Rails Development Retromat Avoiding Waste retro Shape Up™ Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it. Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online Github: @nirnaeth Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai Github: @ujh Blog: urbanhafner.com The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

    51 min

  7. 2024-09-19

    Episode 57: Software adulting

    In this episode we talk about certifications and how they are somehow similar to hiring, cheating during interviews, and the pitfalls of employee surveys. Goodhart’s law Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it. Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online Github: @nirnaeth Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai Github: @ujh Blog: urbanhafner.com The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

    38 min

  8. 2024-08-19

    Episode 56: Switching jobs

    It's been a hot minute since the last episode and a lot has happened. Urban and Monica discuss their new jobs, getting fired, and of course LLMs! https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/blog/10-new-pen-and-ink-suggestion-widget-now-with-ai https://cursor.sh/ Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it. Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online Github: @nirnaeth Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai Github: @ujh Blog: urbanhafner.com The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

    48 min
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Monica and Urban discuss their work life as developers and development managers.

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  • Skapad av
    Monica Giambitto & Urban Hafner
  • Aktiva år
    2020 - 2026
  • Avsnitt
    63
  • Åldersgräns
    Vuxet innehåll
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Monica Giambitto, Urban Hafner
  • Programmets webbplats
    Expanding Beyond