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Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #102

Try harder. Ultrathink!

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2025-07-18T20:00:00Z

Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #650

Pivoting to Retool

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2025-07-17T21:00:00Z #startups +1
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David Hsu from Retool joins Adam to discuss how he built Retool. From the pivot in YC, to building the most widely used internal tools platform, to now being the platform for AI agents in the enterprise—on this episode we cover David journey from YC to building agents for the enterprise.

Changelog News Changelog News #152

An app can be a home-cooked meal

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2025-07-14T19:45:00Z 🎧 13,132

Researchers in Japan achieve a world record in data transmission speeds, Robin Sloan explains how an app can be a home-cooked meal, Windsurf founders Varun Mohan & Douglas Chen are headed to Google, new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says it’s too late for the incumbent, Anton Zaides says stop forcing AI tools on your engineers, and Adrien Friggeri visualized his ten-year running streak.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #101

Measuring the actual impact of AI coding

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2025-07-11T19:05:00Z 🎧 17,294

Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are actually making developers. Teaser: the productivity increase isn’t as high as we expected. We also discuss Jevons paradox, AI agents as extensions of humans, which tools are winning in the enterprise, how development budgets are changing, and more.

Changelog News Changelog News #151

Full-breadth developers for the win

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2025-07-07T20:00:00Z 🎧 21,921

Justin Searls describes the “full-breadth developer” and why they’ll win because AI, Cloudflare comes up with a way publishers can charge crawlers for access, Hugo Bowne-Anderson explains why building AI agents fails so often, the Job Worth Calculator tells you if your job is worth the grind, and Sam Lambert announces PlanetScale for Postgres.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #648

Agent, take the wheel

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2025-07-02T17:30:00Z 🎧 19,269

Thorsten Ball returned to Sourcegraph to work on Amp because he believes being able to talk to an alien intelligence that edits your code changes everything. On this episode, Thorsten joins us to discuss exactly how coding agents work, recent advancements in AI tooling, Amp’s uniqueness in a sea of competitors, the divide between believers and skeptics, and more.

Changelog News Changelog News #150

Coding agents have crossed a chasm

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2025-06-30T20:00:00Z 🎧 17,877

David Singleton says coding agents have crossed a chasm, Anton Zaides explains how SWEs should approach the “squeeze”, Mat Duggan has ideas for Kubernetes 2.0, Sean Goedecke does a nice job elucidating the coding agent commoditization, and one more good reason to write, even though it’s hard.

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