Changelog & Friends – Episode #96

Adventures in babysitting coding agents

with Steve Yegge, co-author of Vibe Coding

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The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software devs should approach coding agents, and what it all means for society.

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Chapters

1 00:00 Let's talk! 00:38
2 00:38 Sponsor: Retool 01:59
3 02:37 Hot takes & Friends 07:00
4 09:36 Babysitting AIs 06:51
5 16:27 All coding will change 03:34
6 20:02 Multi-agent is the key 04:24
7 24:26 The dopamine hit 02:22
8 26:48 The death of the junior eng? 03:25
9 30:13 Sponsor: Heroku 03:03
10 33:16 It's starting in enterprises 06:04
11 39:19 The new gig economy 01:27
12 40:46 A fitting analogy 02:51
13 43:37 Afraid to go beyond 07:00
14 50:37 Getting over the hump 03:29
15 54:06 Worth waiting? 03:41
16 57:47 Sponsor: Outshift by Cisco 01:03
17 58:51 Getting tactical 03:10
18 1:02:01 Talk to the plan 08:13
19 1:10:14 Who wrote this? 05:17
20 1:15:31 So expensive! 04:33
21 1:20:04 Giving them tools 02:08
22 1:22:12 Hitting the household 03:02
23 1:25:13 Dumbness as a feature 00:36
24 1:25:50 Memory matters 01:41
25 1:27:31 Societal impact 02:02
26 1:29:33 Being a kid today 00:56
27 1:30:29 What's the point? 01:27
28 1:31:57 Bye, friends 00:47
29 1:32:43 Next week on the pod 01:14

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