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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't think you'll find another conversation like this on the internet I asked Ethan Evans (ex-Amazon VP) questions about common situations in corporate politics but they get increasingly darker:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

His biggest career regret is only going to become more common for software engineers now. “I wasn’t as inquisitive as I could have been about what the actual underlying particularly technical cause was.”

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Philip Su grew quickly to a Distinguished Engineer at Facebook and OpenAI. We talked about the psychology behind peaking in a tech career and the pressure at the highest levels.

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How he tells if you're smart or not Mike Stonebraker (Turing Award Winner): “It's very easy. You can rapidly surface whether they're smart or not. What was your master's thesis? What did you do? How did it exactly work?…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why he's never accepted offers to work in big tech Mike Stonebraker (Turing Award Winner): “Gives you a boss, and that gives you company rules. It limits your ability to publish, limits your ability to go talk at conferences.…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For the first time in my career, I made a decision that didn’t make sense on paper I quit my job at Meta and spent 6 months of my savings to work on my passion projects. Here's how it went: www.developing.dev/p/update-on...

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Update on Quitting My Job

How it went

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Asking MIT professor Leetcode questions Ryan Williams (Complexity Theorist): “Yeah, you actually can do better than N squared. And this is not at all obvious.…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Differences between CPU, GPU and TPU David Patterson (Turing Award): “The CPU, they have these general purpose cores that each core is very similar to what the instruction sets used to be like 20 years before that.…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

$200 max Claude and $200 pro Codex subscriptions both run out around halfway through the week for me The recent computer use improvements have drastically improved the surface area of useful work they can do Considering getting a 3rd subscription...

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My keyboard Kickstarter update below after using the first sample off the assembly line for the last 2 weeks It's surreal having something go from idea to physical product, thank you for your support 🙏 Also, notes on how we'll polish it and next steps: read.compose.llc/p/first-sam...

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First sample fresh off the assembly line

Impressions and next steps

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Top 3 programming languages to learn in 2026 Roberto Ierusalimschy: “Haskell, I think, is an incredible language.…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The greatest mathmetician of all time Judea Pearl (Turing Award): “I thought that Descartes was the greatest mathematician ever lived. I couldn't get over the idea that you can do in algebra all the geometric constructions that we labeled on it.…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My goal was to record a conversation completely free of "AI doomer" takes as a timeline cleanser. For this episode, I interviewed Casey Muratori who is a video game developer and programming creator also known for his talks about the history of computing:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Will AI replace junior software engineers? Anders Hejlsberg (Creator of Typescript): “Well, if it does, then how do we ever get senior software engineers? I don't think so.…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Asking Codex computer use to prompt Claude to continue after limit reset so I can sleep

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Top robotics paper he recommends Sergey Levine (World's Top Robotics Researcher): “The original ACT paper or the ALOHA paper. The idea was that, hey, if you set up the right kind of low-cost robot setup without really any particularly fancy tricks, you could easily collect…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Blew through both my Claude Max 20x and ChatGPT Pro 20x weekly limits in ~2 days using Fable 5.1 + GPT6. Some observations: 1. Claude Max 20x ran out noticably faster for me than ChatGPT Pro 20x using Fable 5.1 and GPT6 respectively

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Should people still learn to code if coding is largely solved? Thariq Shihipar (Engineer on Anthropic’s Claude Code team): I think being technical is really important. Knowing how do computers work? How do languages work?…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thariq Shihipar is an engineer on Anthropic’s Claude Code team I asked him how Anthropic makes the most out of the models for engineering and how the industry will change soon. In this episode: • Internal best practices in leveraging the models • What percent of Anthropic's work is fully autonomous

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Boston Dynamics had these really impressive demonstrations, and then I don't really hear about them much anymore.…

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Kickstarter milestone: First functional trial production unit arrived! Still lots of testing and polishing before mass production run Excited for this step towards making the product come to life. Full written update coming soon on read.compose.llc/

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What does a FAANG intern project look like these days? When I worked at Instagram, intern projects were detailed task by task showing exactly where to make the changes The latest models could one shot these specs that used to take ~2 months for an onboarding intern

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bought the 256GB mac mini m5 for $499 when I quit my job at Meta to be frugal. It was honestly a great machine with just a few limitations Feeling lucky that I can upgrade my tools now that the podcast has some sponsors 🙏

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This meme used to be relatable but it feels off now LLMs have completely changed the cost/benefit math on automation, it's trivial for routine tasks Aside from editing where taste matters, my podcast is run in large part by a bunch of scripts/tools

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Why Rust is overused right now Martin Odersky (Creator of Scala): "Right now, rust is actually overused because a lot of people push Rust for things higher up in the stack Where a garbage collector is fine...

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Top robotics paper you should read if you want to understand the field Sergey Levine (Top Robotics Researcher): The original ACT paper or the ALOHA paper. The idea was that...

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Martin Odersky is the creator of Scala and I interviewed him to compare different languages designs (Rust vs Zig vs Python vs Scala) and how AI will impact programming languages. In this episode: • Comparing Rust, Zig, Python, and Scala designs • Why its hard to write a compiler

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ex-Amazon VP on the psychology behind firing at Amazon: Full conversation is on my YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts, you can search up Ethan Evan's name

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Leslie Lamport on why writing improves your thinking: Full conversation is on my YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts, you can search up Leslie's name

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Leslie Lamport on working with Dijkstra: Full conversation is on my YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts, you can search up Leslie's name

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sergey Levine is one of the world's top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence. We talked about where humanoid robotics is today, thoughts on the Chinese robotics ecosystem, and his predictions for future timelines:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Barbara Liskov (Turing Award) on why Dijkstra's famous letter "go-to considered harmful was so controversial:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Barbara Liskov (Turing Award) on the importance of encapsulation:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Will AI write +90% of all code this year? Anders Hejlsberg (Creator of Typescript, C#): "For certain classes of apps that might be like all of I coded apps are writing 100% of the code. And there's an awful lot of that being written...

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bjarne Stroustrup (Creator of C++): On why AI-generated code isn't ready yet Clip is from around 6 months ago (really illustrates how fast things have changed)

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Bjarne (Creator of C++) on the quote: "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off"

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“Should you learn how to code in 2026?” It’s even more important now to know how to control a computer. The leverage from computing is going up exponentially What matters to learn is changing though, e.g. syntax and implementation details are less important

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Anders Hejlsberg is the creator of TypeScript and C#, and I asked him about how the TypeScript compiler got 10x faster through a rewrite in Go and his thoughts on how AI has impacted software engineering. In this episode: • Why they didn't use LLMs for the migration

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Dijkstra to John Backus: "it is my pleasure to inform you that - although "quite sure" - you were very wrong

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Leonardo de Moura is the creator of Lean and the Z3 theorem prover. I talked with him about how Lean works and why LLMs plus Lean will fundamentally change how we write software and do math.

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Back in the day, 90% of the pain in hackathons was setting up the dev environment and hooking things up Claude & Codex make it so much easier now, wonder what hackathons are like these days You can build ~10x more in 1 day than before (especially true for early prototyping)

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Broke 10k subs on YouTube 🎉🎉 Thanks for all the support! It's been a lot of fun making these podcast videos and trying to improve the quality for the community If you have any suggestions for future guests or the podcast in general I'm always open to feedback!

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Interview with the Distinguished eng (IC9) ex-Meta, ex-OpenAI is ready! One of my favorite conversations so far, super excited to share with you all Such interesting advice and stories about Zuck/John Carmack. Will drop the episode here tomorrow morning, follow if interested

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New ergo office chair experiment, trying to find something better for my posture than the Herman Miller Aeron chair

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Just interviewed an Principal Eng (IC8) from Meta, another one in the editing pipeline. We discussed: • his promos at Meta from IC6 -> IC8 • his notetaking system • IC8 impact working 40 hours a week If interested, follow and I'll post about it here when it's ready

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Just interviewed a Distinguished eng (IC9) ex-Meta, ex-OpenAI for the pod. One of my favorite conversations so far, super excited to share with you all Such interesting advice and stories about Zuck/John Carmack. Will polish it up and launch it in a bit

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Little known fact that I'm building a hardware side project. Was thinking through the Trump tariffs with my cofounder We don't really have any other options aside from China. They do it faster and cheaper (even with the increased cost from tariffs)

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Did a talk at UCLA about "industry secrets I wish I knew before graduating college" for UPE & ACM clubs If you're curious what we talked about, drop a reply and I'll share the recording link when it's ready:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Biggest reason software engineers fail to get to Staff, through examples: 1. Give updates no one cares about 2. Present in meetings and everyone tunes out 3. Share opportunities that don't resonate The fix for this problem:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Why keeping a "work diary" is helpful for software engineers: Writing down what you do, useful commands/info, and ongoing investigations expands your memory. This is critical in software engineering since there's so much to remember. Here are a 4 use cases for this diary:

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