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Jerod Santo

Jerod hosts Changelog News, co-hosts The Changelog & takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.

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963 episodes

Changelog News Changelog News #152

An app can be a home-cooked meal

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2025-07-14T19:45:00Z

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 🎧 14,374

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 🎧 21,175

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 🎧 18,842

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 🎧 17,633

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #647

When vibe coding goes viral

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2025-06-27T14:00:00Z #ai +1 🎧 15,168

Chris Anderson joins the show. You may recognize Chris from the early days of CouchDB and Couchbase. Back when the world was just waking up to NoSQL, Chris was at the center of it all, shaping how developers think about data distribution and offline-first architecture.

These days, Chris is working on Vibes.diy and Fireproof — tools that make one-shot app generation not only possible, but shareable within minutes. We talk about the origins of CouchDB, the fork that led to Membase and Couchbase, and how that long journey led to this new paradigm: Vibe Coding.

Changelog News Changelog News #149

Stop uploading your data to Google

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2025-06-16T20:30:00Z 🎧 19,032

Lukas Mathis tells us to stop uploading our data to Google, Robert Vitonsky wants web devs to not guess his language using his IP, Tom from GameTorch reminds us that software talent is gold right now, Austin Parker from Honeycomb describes how LLMs are upending the observability industry, and Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, joins Supabase to lead their Multigres effort to bring Vitess to Postgres.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #645

The Roc programming language

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2025-06-11T16:30:00Z #fp +1 🎧 19,275

Jerod chats with Richard Feldman about Roc – his fast, friendly, functional language inspired by Richard’s love of Elm. Roc takes many of Elm’s ideas beyond the frontend and introduces some great ideas of its own. Get ready to learn about static dispatch, platforms vs applications, opportunistic mutation, purity inference, and a whole lot more.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #96

Adventures in babysitting coding agents

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2025-06-06T19:00:00Z 🎧 21,929

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #644

We're all Builders now

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2025-06-05T12:30:00Z #ai +1 🎧 18,573

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2025 with Amanda Silver, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division. Amanda leads product, design, user research, and engineering systems for some of the tools you use every day. We discuss the latest AI announcements from Microsoft at Build 2025, how AI is reshaping development tools, what’s next for VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub’s evolution, and even emerging editors like Windsurf that are forking the VS Code ecosystem.

Changelog News Changelog News #147

The 'developer replacement' hype cycle

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2025-06-02T20:00:00Z 🎧 19,329

We’re doing a live show in Denver this July, Danilo Alonso has seen the ‘developer replacement’ hype cycle many times, Dan Sinker says we’re in the Who Cares Era, Cap looks like a solid alternative to typical CAPTCHA solutions, Michael Flarup on the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI & Kan is an open source alternative to Trello.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #643

The Web Development Engine

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2025-05-30T16:00:00Z #design +2 🎧 18,492

We’re joined by Andreas Møller, Co-founder of Nordcraft — the team behind Nordcraft Engine, a powerful new platform designed to give web developers what gaming developers have had for years. Andreas shares what inspired them to build Nordcraft Engine, why they believe the web is overdue for a shift in how we approach designing and building for the web, ee explore how the platform works, how you can get started, and what’s next for Nordcraft.

Changelog News Changelog News #146

Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out

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2025-05-27T21:15:00Z 🎧 19,896

The San Fransisco Standard published some sobering news for new graduates, the Forge team decided to put an AI agent in your shell, Fernando Borretti says you can choose tools that make you happy, Jujutsu’s flexibility and safety changed Nathan Witmer’s approach to version control, Anil Dash is as excited about MCP as almost everyone else is & Alex Kladov shares two rules of thumb around pushing “ifs” up and “fors” down.

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