In this follow-up to episode #306, “How soon until AI takes my job?”, the gang of (grumpy?) veteran software engineers candidly chat about how their day to day is changing in the midst of improving AI tooling & hype.
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Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | It's Go Time! | 00:45 |
| 2 | 00:45 | Sponsor: Coder.com | 03:14 |
| 3 | 04:00 | Meet the guests | 14:04 |
| 4 | 18:04 | SSI | 07:18 |
| 5 | 25:21 | A good use for AI | 06:54 |
| 6 | 32:16 | Sponsor: Fly.io | 03:06 |
| 7 | 35:22 | Copilot is getting better | 03:48 |
| 8 | 39:10 | What if AI worked? | 06:22 |
| 9 | 45:32 | AI verification | 11:46 |
| 10 | 57:18 | Oracle | 01:37 |
| 11 | 58:55 | Sponsor: JetBrains | 03:18 |
| 12 | 1:02:13 | The AI is racist? | 05:28 |
| 13 | 1:07:41 | Unpopular Opinions! | 00:34 |
| 14 | 1:08:14 | Sharon's unpop | 00:55 |
| 15 | 1:09:09 | Kent's unpop | 01:25 |
| 16 | 1:10:34 | Steve's unpop | 03:10 |
| 17 | 1:13:45 | Johnny's unpop | 03:12 |
| 18 | 1:16:57 | Outro | 01:20 |