Working Code

In this week's episode, the crew discuss the relevance and significance of open-source software in the age of AI. The open source community offers domain expertise, rigorous testing, responsive bug fixing, and community support. But when AI can generate code with proficiency, how does the value calculus change when deciding to install a new package, generate code with an AI, or simply do it yourself?

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With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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To be a good producer you have to be a good consumer. In this week's podcast, the whole team is back to delve into the concept of 'skin in the game' in product development and how consuming your own product, known as “dogfooding”, and empathizing with users can influence the development process.

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In this week's episode, Adam and Ben discuss the notion of “If I'm still telling you what to do in six months, then something went wrong”, a take heard in a recent episode of Lenny's Podcast.

How can a company orientate itself to encourage autonomy throughout the career of an engineer? What are reasonable expectations of a junior engineer? These questions and more are discussed in today's episode.

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With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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In this week's episode, Adam and Tim delve into Gemini CLI, a command line interface tool for AI by Google, test-driving it on real code to find its capabilities and limitations.

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In this week's episode, the full crew is back to talk about practical replatforming. In past episodes we've discussed replatforming in a more abstract sense, but Adam has much to share about ongoing real-world replatforming at AlumniQ. When the rubber meets the road, certain realities and complexities, which may not be obvious, may affect decision-making and replatforming strategy.

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With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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In this week's episode, the team gets into it with special guest Dan Wilson, an AI & tech consultant that has recently created free and paid courses on using AI in daily workflows. They also dig into the ins and outs of creating Udemy courses and their viability in the tech space.

Dan's courses:

• Master ChatGPT: Build AI Assistants That Know Your Business (FREE)
• Generative AI for Developers: How To Use AI In Your Workday (Use code quackquack for a special discount)

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With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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In this week's episode, the team dives into a potluck of topics including the effective usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) by feeding their ego, the excitement of implementing feature flags in development cycles, and further developments and opportunities with Adam's side hustle app "Jump Run" the journey of building a side hustle with 'Jump Run'.

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In this week's episode, the crew is back to discuss and question quickly shifting values in the world and their implications for developers. Will AI erode the importance of code craftsmanship? When old values are quickly discarded, what does that say about the legitimacy of the new values? Is human coding obsolescence the elephant in the room?

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With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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In this week's episode, Adam puts the spotlight on Svelte, and takes us on a deep dive of Svelte features, latest developments and some of his own applications of Svelte in recent projects.

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In this week's episode, the team discusses Ben's new job in a radically different domain, the common difficulties when joining a new team with a new 'language', and the unique challenges of working at a manufacturing focused business as opposed to a start-up style tech business.

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With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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