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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Neetcode is the most well-known coding interview prep creator with over 1M+ subs on YouTube. I interviewed him about the latest on coding interviews, his career at Amazon vs Google, and what it was like quitting big tech to do his own thing.

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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 · 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 · 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

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 03/03/2025

Every engineer will eventually decide to become a people manager or stay an individual contributor (IC). Neither path is objectively better than the other. I compiled all my notes from senior managers and ICs I chatted with when considering the switch myself. Some takeaways:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If you agree that 10x engineers exist (they do, trust me) we'll soon see them become 100x or even 1000x engineers AI assisted tooling will give them more leverage which is a multiplier for their exceptional judgement

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Configure some upper bound of max # of iterations. If you ever hit that, you rehash everything with new hash functions and repeat the insertion procedure. Found this interesting idea while reading how they applied it in TikTok's Monolith paper:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Core concept: maintain two hash functions. When inserting, if no collision -> you're done If collision -> you evict the old element and set the new one. Then you run the old element through the other hash function. You repeat this until no collision To prevent infinite loop:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Meetings have their purpose, but they vary a lot in how useful they are. As you add attendees, typically the cost goes up and the average usefulness goes down. Giant meetings with 20+ people zoned out are painful:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Why I hate wasting engineering time in meetings:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

1. Switched to Python - It's easier to read and solutions are much shorter in this language. For instance, "Two Sum" in Python is only 8 lines of code while it's 15 lines in C++. This helped me get the code out faster:

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Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It's bittersweet that one day (probably this year) cleaning up code will no longer be necessary It's so satisfying deleting dead code and fixing things Imagine, though, a fully-typed, null-safe codebase with no dead code, using all the latest patterns with up-to-date comments

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