In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Sean Parent about AI and Cursor!

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About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe's Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-08-21
Date Released: 2025-09-26

• C++ Under the Sea
• Better code
• Adobe ASL Adam & Eve Architecture
• Adobe Software Technology Lab
• ASL Libraries
• Rust Programming Language

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Sean Parent about Rust and AI!

• Link to Episode 252 on Website
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About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe's Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-08-21
Date Released: 2025-09-19

• C++ Under the Sea
• Better code
• Adobe ASL Adam & Eve Architecture
• Adobe Software Technology Lab
• ASL Libraries
• Rust Programming Language

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce interview Sean Parent about his upcoming keynote at C++ Under the Sea!

• Link to Episode 251 on Website
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About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe's Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-08-21
Date Released: 2025-09-12

• C++ Under the Sea
• Are We There Yet? - The Future of C++ Software Development - Sean Parent - C++Now 2025
• A Possible Future of Software Development - Sean Parent - Google Tech Talk 2008
• Sean Parent Zurich C++ Meetup
• careers.adobe.com

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce interview Sean Parent about his thoughts on AI, its impact on the software industry and society, and more!

• Link to Episode 250 on Website
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About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe's Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-08-21
Date Released: 2025-09-05

• Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
• Tech Layoffs
• lume
• Wall-E
• Altered Carbon
• Terminator

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about some open source projects, podcast recommendations, our upcoming trip to Europe and much more!

• Link to Episode 249 on Website
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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-08-21
Date Released: 2025-08-29

• Astro Bot Video
• ADSP Episode 176: 🇺🇸 prior, deltas & Dinner with Phineas
• Thrust Github Search Vibing Project
• PaddlePaddle/Paddle Repo
• Uber AresDB Repo
• Latent Space Podcast
• Big Technology Podcast
• Cheeky Pint Podcast
• Dwarkesh Podcast
• Training Data Podcast
• ADSP Episode 39: How Steve Jobs Saved Sean Parent
• Roku Engineering Symposium
• Copenhagen C++ Meetup
• Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
• NDC Tech Town CUDA Python Workshop
• NDC Tech Town CUDA C++ Workshop

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about the philosophy of good software design, TV shows, movies and more!

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-08-05
Date Released: 2025-08-22

• MISRA C++
• Lightning Talk: Strategies for Developing Safety-Critical Software in C++ - Emily Durie-Johnson
• Skeuomorphism
• C++Now 2018: Ben Deane “Easy to Use, Hard to Misuse: Declarative Style in C++”

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about the philosophy of good software design, learning languages and more!

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-08-05
Date Released: 2025-08-15

• 非诚勿扰 (Fei Chang Wu Rao) TV Show
• STLab Videos (Adobe Training)
• Sean Parent Talks
• A9 Videos
• Software Engineering Languages - Titus Winters - CppNorth 2022
• C++: Engineers Wanted, Programmers not so Much - David Sankel - C++Now 2019

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In this episode, Conor gets Ben's thoughts on AI!

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-08-05
Date Released: 2025-08-08

• 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
• ADSP Episode 244: High on AI (Part 1) Discussion
• Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
• Software Unscript Episode 109: GPU Programming and Language Design with Chris Lattner
• Declarative Style Evolved - Declarative Structure - Ben Deane - C++Now 2025

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue part 2 of their chat about AI, how it's changing the way they work and more.

• Link to Episode 245 on Website
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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-07-01
Date Released: 2025-08-01

• AI Poll Results
• All of Conor's Vibe Coded Projects
• Cursor
• Claude 4
• C++Now 2019: Hana Dusíková “Compile Time Regular Expressions with A Deterministic Finite Automaton”
• GPU Mode

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about AI, how it's changing the way we work and more.

• Link to Episode 244 on Website
• Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub)

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• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter

Show Notes

Date Generated: 2025-07-01
Date Released: 2025-07-25

• AI Poll Results
• All of Conor's Vibe Coded Projects
• Cursor
• Claude 4
• Vittorio's Camomilla
• GPU Mode
• ADSP Episode 238: Recommended Podcast Discussions on AI & LLMs
• ADSP Episode 239: Claude-Poisoned Dev Sipping Rocket Fuel
• CoRecursive Episode 113: When AI Codes, What’s Left for me?
• My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts - Thomas Ptacek
• ThePrimeTime - How WE Use AI In Software Development

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