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Fitz Nowlan is the VP of AI and Architecture at @SmartBear. He joins @kbal11 to discuss BearQ, multi agent QA, web testing challenges, and how AI is reshaping software quality. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/05/05/sma…

Yuval Shany is a law professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a research fellow at the Oxford Ethics in AI Institute. He joins Matt Merrill to discuss autonomous weapons systems, AI in warfare, and accountability gaps. @yuvalshany1 softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/30/the…

Benny Chen is the co-founder of @FireworksAI_HQ. He joins @GregorVand to discuss open weight AI models, inference infrastructure, reinforcement fine tuning, and why open models are becoming competitive. @the_bunny_chen softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/28/ope…

In this episode we cover the 2026 State of Code Developer Survey from @SonarSource. @cdgrams and @kapmani join Matt Merrill to review how developers currently view AI, trust in AI generated code, and a lot more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/23/hyp…

Simba Khadder leads AI strategy at @Redisinc. He joins @kbal11 to discuss context engines, agentic AI, memory systems, and how engineering teams adapt as AI development accelerates. @simba_khadder softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/21/unl…

Eric Broda is a veteran of the software industry, and the co-author of the new O’Reilly book, Agentic Mesh: The GenAI-Powered Autonomous Agent Ecosystem. He joins @seanfalconer to discuss Agentic Mesh, distributed systems, and more. @ericmbroda softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/16/age…

Nic Benders is the Chief Technology Strategist at @newrelic. He joins @leeatchison to discuss the frontier of AI driven observability and observing AI systems. @nicbenders softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/14/new…

Ryan Lloyd is the Chief Product Officer at @Guardsquare. In this episode, he joins @GregorVand to discuss mobile security, reverse engineering tools, compiler based obfuscation, runtime protections, app vulnerabilities, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/09/mob…

Jeremiah Lowin is the founder and CEO of @PrefectIO, and Adam Azzam is the VP of Product. They join @GregorVand to discuss @fastmcp, its origin story, core framework pillars, and FastMCP 3.0 architecture. @jlowin @AAAzzam softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/07/fas…

In this episode, @GregorVand and @seanfalconer cover ARM's resurgence for local AI agents, the @Lite_LLM supply chain attack, @opencode, @AnthropicAI vs @OpenAI on the Pentagon deal, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/02/sed…

John Baldwin has spent more than 25 years working on FreeBSD as a developer, contributor, and consultant. He joins @GregorVand to discuss @freebsd's origins, its governance, and maintaining a 30 year old codebase. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/31/fre…

Bill Mulligan is a maintainer in the Cilium ecosystem and a member of the team at @isovalent. He joins @GregorVand to discuss eBPF, Cilium’s rise in Kubernetes networking, and programmable kernels in cloud native infrastructure. @breakawaybilly softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/26/cil…

Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer behind games like QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and Baby Steps. He joins Joe Nash to discuss game design and why his games stand out. @bfod softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/24/gam…

James Long is the creator of @PrettierCode and was formerly at @mozilla and @stripe. He joins @JoshuaKGoldberg to discuss Prettier’s origins, formatter design, open source maintenance, and the evolution of JavaScript tooling. @jlongster softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/19/pre…

Sam Eng is an indie developer and the creator of @skatestorygame which is one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2025. He joins Joe Nash to discuss developing Skate Story, its distinct style, and its fluid skate mechanics. @bysameng softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/17/ska…

Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev work on the File Search Tool RAG system at @GoogleDeepMind. They join @seanfalconer to discuss RAG engineering, managed RAG in Gemini, retrieval quality, multimodal retrieval, and more. @solovyev_i softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/12/dee…

Akshay Agrawal is the creator of the next-gen Python notebook @marimo_io. He joins @kbal11 to discuss Python notebooks, the limits of traditional notebooks, bridging research and production, and AI assisted development. @akshaykagrawal softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/10/rei…

Dennis Pilarinos is the Founder and CEO of @get_unblocked. He joins @kbal11 to discuss context engineering, sources of truth, permissioned AI systems, shifting bottlenecks, and being a software engineer in an agentic world. @dennispilarinos softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/05/org…

In this episode, @GregorVand and @seanfalconer cover @openclaw's rise, @OpenAI exploring ads in @ChatGPTapp, @alibaba_cloud's agent commerce push, @MistralAI acquiring @gokoyeb, AI competition, agentic engineering, and highlights from Hacker News. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/03/sed…

David Yanacek is a Senior Principal Engineer and a lead advisor on the Agentic AI team at @awscloud. He joins @kbal11 to discuss @kirodotdev, Bedrock AgentCore, spec driven development, frontier agents, and the future of agentic software development. @dyanacek bit.ly/4kRGSCg