The crew chat about our current toolset for building things as software engineers. Tips and tricks for staying on track and building things with our teams!

Links

• Jaeger
• Visual Studio Live Share
• ⁠Overcommitted on Bluesky⁠

Hosts

• ⁠Overcommitted.dev⁠
• Bethany Janos: ⁠https://github.com/bethanyj28⁠
• Brittany Ellich: ⁠https://brittanyellich.com⁠
• Eggyhead: ⁠https://github.com/eggyhead⁠

The crew gets philosophical about the ethics of building Artificial Intelligence systems. Are software engineers going to be replaced? Is it ethical to build AI systems?

Links

• ⁠Superintelligence
• Blog: Less Wrong
• Zizian cult
• Thinking in Systems
• Dwarkesh Patel pod
• ChatGPT Medical Diagnosis Study
• MCP Server Claude Desktop Tutorial
• MCP Podcast
• ⁠Overcommitted on Bluesky⁠

Hosts

• ⁠Overcommitted.dev⁠

• Brittany Ellich: ⁠https://brittanyellich.com⁠
• Eggyhead: ⁠https://github.com/eggyhead⁠
• Jonathan Tamsut: ⁠https://jtamsut.substack.com⁠

The crew chat about our experience using AI right now as software engineers (which is subject to change even by the time this episode airs). Including an overview of our current thoughts on the AI landscape, what tools we use for which tasks, and our thoughts on what we are excited about for the future!

Links

• The S in MCP Stands for Security
• Book: The Scaling Era
• Overcommitted on Bluesky

Hosts

• Overcommitted.dev
• Bethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28
• Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com
• Eggyhead: https://github.com/eggyhead
• Jonathan Tamsut: https://jtamsut.substack.com

In this episode, the group chats about a recent GitHub Blog post from Brittany about How GitHub engineers onboard to a new codebase, including how they prefer to get up to speed on a new team.

Links:

• https://github.blog/developer-skills/application-development/how-github-engineers-learn-new-codebases/

Hosts:

• Bethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28
• Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com
• Eggyhead: https://github.com/eggyhead
• Jonathan Tamsut: https://jtamsut.substack.com/

On this episode the crew of GitHub engineers reviews their goals for the first quarter and discusses their plans for the second quarter of 2025.

Links mentioned

• 12 week year

• Atomic habits

• Habit kit

• Obsidian template

• Godel Escher Bock

• Thinking in Systems

• Partiful

Find the hosts

• Bethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28
• Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com
• Jonathan Tamsut: https://jtamsut.substack.com

On this episode the crew gets personal talking about imposter syndrome.

Links mentioned

• https://howwefeel.org/
• https://www.everywoman.com/my-development/quiz-there-are-5-kinds-imposter-syndrome-which-one-yours/

Find the hosts

• Bethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28
• Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com/
• Eggyhead: https://github.com/eggyhead
• Jonathan Tamsut: https://jtamsut.substack.com/