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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

Krishna Sai is the Chief Technology Officer at @solarwinds. He joins @seanfalconer to discuss observability in the age of AI, designing agentic systems for mission critical environments, AI assisted programming, and humans working with autonomous agents. bit.ly/4aTtoBH

Jackson Sippe is a specialist in systems and network privacy and security. In this episode he joins @GregorVand to discuss how China’s Great Firewall works, censorship detection methods, and the future of the open internet. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/02/19/hac…

Gideon Mendels is the co-founder and CEO of @Cometml. He joins @kbal11 to discuss agent development in software engineering and ML, why evals are key for AI teams, prompt optimization, and improving agents in production. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/02/17/opt…

Steve Yegge is a legendary software engineer, writer, and industry veteran. He joins @kbal11 for a wide-reaching discussion about AI coding, multi agent coordination, task graphs, and the future of software work. @Steve_Yegge softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/02/12/gas…

Łukasz Langa is the CPython Developer in Residence at the @ThePSF. He joins @seanfalconer to discuss the 3.14 release, free threading, type improvements, Python’s role in AI, and maintaining backward compatibility. @llanga softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/02/10/pyt…

Adam Miskiewicz is a Principal Software Engineer at @Airbnb where he works on Viaduct. He joins @GregorVand to discuss Viaduct’s origins, scaling GraphQL, open-sourcing the platform, and the future of backend systems in an AI world. @skevy softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/02/05/air…

In this episode, @GregorVand and @seanfalconer cover @Starlink free in-flight internet, @Tesla deprecating Autopilot, @Apple using @Google Gemini for Siri, the @Meta and @ManusAI deal, AI hardware competition, layoffs, and highlights from Hacker News. bit.ly/4aa0tIY

Here's our conversation with @thsottiaux and @edbayes who helped build Codex at @OpenAI. They spoke to @kbal11 about models and harnesses, multi-agent futures, model specialization, latency and performance considerations, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/29/ope…

Fred Roma is the SVP of Product and Engineering at @MongoDB. He joins @kbal11 to talk about AI application development, vector search and reranking, schema evolution in the LLM era, the Voyage AI acquisition, and how data platforms must evolve. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/27/pro…

Darcy Clarke and Ruy Adorno are longtime npm CLI maintainers and Node.js contributors. They join @JoshuaKGoldberg to discuss vlt, a new package manager and registry designed to improve performance, security, and developer experience. @darcy @ruyadorno softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/22/nex…

Andreas Rossberg is a programming languages researcher and former V8 team member at @Google. He joins @kbal11 to discuss WebAssembly’s history, key design milestones, WASM 1.0 to 3.0, and what’s next. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/20/web…

Michael Soyfer is an attorney at the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm defending individual rights. He joins @kbal11 to discuss Flock Safety cameras, state data collection, and how citizens push back. @IJ softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/15/ame…

Catherine McGarvey is SVP of Developer Experience at @CapitalOne. She joins @seanfalconer to talk about developer enablement at scale, measuring productivity, agility in regulated environments, AI in enterprise development, and much more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/13/dev…