Steve Jobs in Exile reveals the hidden story behind NeXT and its role in Apple’s comeback. Geoffrey Cain and Dan'l Lewin join Matt Merrill to discuss Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Apple’s future.

Alon Schindel is the VP of AI and Threat Research at Wiz. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss instant exploits, AI security, vulnerability disclosure, the growing strain on open source maintainers, and mo...

David Burns is Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack and a longtime leader in browser testing. He joins Joshua Goldberg to discuss Selenium, WebDriver, open source, and the impact...

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist. He joins Joshua Goldberg to discuss the dynamics between AI, work, and power.

Hammad Bashir is the CTO of Chroma. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss AI retrieval, context rot, agentic search, small models, and the future of AI data infrastructure.

Brandon Purcell is the Director of Product Management at Tiger Data. He joins Kevin Ball to discuss scaling time-series workloads on Postgres, hypertables, Hypercore, and agent-based workflows.

Andrew Barba and Shar Dara of Vercel join Kevin Ball to discuss how cloud-native infrastructure can scale agent workloads, and the future of agent building.

Sailesh Krishnamurthy is a VP of Engineering at Google. He joins Matt Merrill to explore how databases are evolving for AI, from structured and unstructured data to search, agent-generated queries, sc...

Joe Hellerstein is a researcher at AWS and a pioneer in distributed systems. He joins Sean Falconer to discuss Hydro, a Rust framework that brings database ideas to distributed programming, making sys...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack a wild summer of tech M&A, China’s proxy economy, and the surge in open weight models.

Jörg Schad is the VP of Engineering at Pinecone. He joins Kevin Ball to discuss moving beyond RAG with precomputed context, context artifacts, semantic layers, and AI retrieval.

John Coleman is a legislative counsel at FIRE. In this episode he joins Kevin Ball to discuss age verification, online anonymity, privacy risks, free speech, surveillance, and what governments can req...

Daniel Rosenwasser is the Principal Product Manager of TypeScript at Microsoft. He joins Josh Goldberg to discuss TypeScript 7, the new API and IPC boundary, and AI’s impact on type checking.

Emily Xue is the Head of Enterprise AI at Scale AI. She joins Kevin Ball to discuss the gap between AI spending and value, enterprise AI challenges, data foundations, and what successful companies do ...

Gordon M. Goldstein is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He joins Kevin Ball to discuss AI enabled weapons, autonomous warfare, human control, and the new global security l...

Tim Jurka is a VP of Engineering at LinkedIn. He joins Matt Merrill to discuss how LLMs are reshaping recommendation systems, inference costs, and content quality.

Anurag Goel is the founder and CEO of Render. He joins Sean Falconer to discuss rebuilding the cloud for AI agents, infrastructure guardrails, Kubernetes, and AI driven application deployment.

In this episode, Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer cover the Kimi moment, runaway AI, open weight models, Tokenmaxxing, AI costs, and highlights from Hacker News.

Zach Lloyd is the co-founder and CEO of Warp. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss the terminal as an agentic interface, Warp, Oz, enterprise AI agents, and the future of developer workflows.

Matt Moore is a co-founder and CTO of Chainguard. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss AI powered software supply chain threats, CI/CD attacks, software inventories, and machine speed patching.

Mark Cavage is the President and COO of Docker. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss Docker Sandboxes, micro VMs, coding agent security, trusted access, and the future of agent infrastructure.

Jeffrey Paine is the co-founder and partner at Golden Gate Ventures, joins Gregor Vand to discuss Southeast Asia's startup ecosystem, globally ambitious founders, Singapore's tech rise, and startup ad...

AI agents have shown remarkable potential to function as persistent digital assistants that are capable of monitoring data, managing communications, and taking action autonomously over long periods. O...

AI agents have become capable of reasoning across large amounts of data, calling tools, and taking sequences of actions autonomously. These qualities make them well suited to some of the most persiste...

AI agents have transformed how software gets written, but the operational side of running software in production has not yet experienced a similar revolution. The same teams responsible for keeping sy...

Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup method and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, which transformed how a generation of founders and engineers think about building ...

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tec...

Advanced software systems have long been more complex than any single engineer can fully understand. Observability is the established solution to this problem, but with AI agents now generating code, ...

Building great software always involves technical problem solving, but the best software goes beyond function. It feels fluid, coherent, and genuinely fun to use. This quality lives at the intersectio...

Yacht Club Games is the studio behind the acclaimed Shovel Knight franchise. Their latest release is Mina the Hollower, which is a top-down action RPG inspired by classic Zelda and Castlevania titles....

Predictive modeling is a core element in modern systems, and powers capabilities such as fraud detection, loan approvals, and recommendation systems. These systems typically operate on structured, rel...

Modern web development requires an ever-growing collection of tools including formatters, linters, bundlers, and plugins. Each tool typically has its own configuration, dependencies, and performance c...

Most of the cryptography securing the internet today rests on mathematical problems that classical computers cannot solve in any reasonable timeframe. That assumption is now being tested. Recent advan...

Multiplayer games are among the hardest software systems to build, requiring developers to synchronize state across unreliable networks while maintaining fairness, performance, and a responsive player...

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...

The web has quietly become one of the most capable platforms for game development. Advances in WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU have given developers tools that rival native desktop performance, while g...

Software engineering has developed powerful tools for observability, data management, and continuous testing, but hardware engineering has largely not kept pace. The feedback loops, tooling, and infra...

Autonomous drone delivery has long been the stuff of science fiction, but ongoing advances have moved the space from experimental to operational. Zipline is one of the leading companies in this space,...

Europe’s startup ecosystem is maturing rapidly, with companies like Revolut, Lovable, and Legora demonstrating that world-class technology businesses can be built and scaled on the continent. While th...

React Native is an open source framework developed by Meta that allows engineers to build mobile applications for both iOS and Android using a single JavaScript codebase. The framework bridges the gap...

Formal methods are a branch of mathematics and computer science focused on proving the correctness of systems, and they have long promised a more rigorous foundation for software. However, their compl...

Open source software underpins nearly every modern application, including frameworks powering the most popular websites, to the libraries securing financial backend systems. However, while open source...

Vector search has risen to become a foundational tool in modern search and retrieval systems, including the RAG pipelines that power many AI applications. However, the demands on retrieval systems are...

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...

AI coding tools have dramatically accelerated the pace of development, and the bottleneck in the software development lifecycle has shifted to code validation and testing. However, the conventional to...

Artificial intelligence is transforming warfare faster than the legal and ethical frameworks designed to govern it. Militaries around the world are deploying AI-powered decision support systems to ide...

Open-weight models are AI systems whose trained parameters are publicly released, which allows developers to run, fine-tune, and deploy them independently rather than accessing them only through a hos...

AI coding tools have gone from novelty to core infrastructure in under three years. Today, many devs use AI daily, a substantial share of new code is AI-generated, and expectations for automation are ...

AI agents are increasingly capable of reasoning and performing autonomous work over long periods. However, as agents take on more complex, longer-horizon tasks, keeping them supplied with the right in...

AI agents are evolving from individual productivity tools into distributed systems components inside enterprises. The next frontier is coming into focus, and it involves large-scale ecosystems of coll...