Podcast · 195 episodes
Software Engineering Daily
by Software Engineering Daily · English
Technical interviews about software topics.
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Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and PowerCory Doctorow discusses his book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, arguing that AI’s workplace impact depends on whether it’s used as a “centaur” (human-in-control) or a “reverse centaur”…29 Sep 2026 · 1 h
Chroma and Agentic RetrievalAgentic retrieval and AI data infrastructure—how ChromaDB, Sync, and the Context1 retrieval sub-agent address retrieval at scale, context-window degradation (“context rot”), and cost/latency limits…24 Sep 2026 · 52 min
Scaling Time-Series Workloads on PostgresHow Tiger Data’s TimescaleDB extension for PostgreSQL scales time-series workloads (continuous inserts, range queries, long retention) without splitting into separate systems, plus related features…22 Sep 2026 · 48 min
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Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and PowerCory Doctorow discusses his book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, arguing that AI’s workplace impact depends on whether it’s used as a “centaur” (human-in-control) or a “reverse centaur”…29 Sep 2026 · 1 h · 20 chapters
Chroma and Agentic RetrievalAgentic retrieval and AI data infrastructure—how ChromaDB, Sync, and the Context1 retrieval sub-agent address retrieval at scale, context-window degradation (“context rot”), and cost/latency limits…24 Sep 2026 · 52 min · 19 chapters
Scaling Time-Series Workloads on PostgresHow Tiger Data’s TimescaleDB extension for PostgreSQL scales time-series workloads (continuous inserts, range queries, long retention) without splitting into separate systems, plus related features…22 Sep 2026 · 48 min · 20 chapters
Scaling Agent Workloads at VercelHow Vercel’s open-source Eve framework enables cloud-native, horizontally scalable AI agents for business workloads (thousands of concurrent, isolated, durable sessions), plus declarative agent…17 Sep 2026 · 51 min · 21 chapters
Inside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI EraHow Google’s database infrastructure is evolving for the AI era, where apps expect both structured and unstructured data, “search-like” relevance/ranking instead of only exact matches, and agentic…15 Sep 2026 · 1 h 18 min · 28 chapters
A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed SystemsJoe Hellerstein (AWS) argues distributed programming is unnecessarily hard compared to declarative database queries, and explains how the CALM theorem and monotonicity can avoid CAP-style tradeoffs.10 Sep 2026 · 51 min · 23 chapters
SED News: The NVIDIA-Hugging Face Deal, China’s Proxy Economy, the Open Weight SurgeTech and AI M&A/raises plus an in-depth look at China’s “proxy economy” enabling cheap access to frontier models, and how that fuels the open-weight model surge (distillation from proxy logs).8 Sep 2026 · 52 min · 19 chapters
Moving Beyond RAG with Precomputed ContextThe episode argues that standard Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is limited by irrelevant/duplicative lookups, repeated work per query, and inconsistent answers.3 Sep 2026 · 56 min · 20 chapters
The Death of Online AnonymityThe episode argues that “age assurance”/age verification laws are expanding into a “pay-per-plays” internet by requiring government IDs, facial age estimation, or behavioral inference across app…1 Sep 2026 · 53 min · 19 chapters
TypeScript 7 and What Comes NextTypeScript 7 “what comes next,” focusing on TypeScript’s relationship to JavaScript/TC39, developer-tooling philosophy, the TypeScript 7 compiler rewrite in Go for major speedups, and upcoming 7.1…27 Aug 2026 · 57 min · 22 chapters
The Gap Between AI Spending and AI ValueThe episode explains why enterprise AI spending often fails to produce durable business value, even when individuals adopt coding assistants.25 Aug 2026 · 55 min · 22 chapters
AI and the New Global Security LandscapeAI’s impact on global security beyond software—credible risks of AI-enabled chemical/biological weapons, AI-driven cyber zero-days, and movement toward autonomous battlefield decision-making that…20 Aug 2026 · 1 h 13 min · 29 chapters
How LLMs Are Reshaping Recommendation SystemsHow LinkedIn rebuilt its newsfeed using LLM-style sequence modeling (predicting what a user wants next like next-token prediction), plus LLM retrieval and natural-language “policies” to steer content…18 Aug 2026 · 48 min · 24 chapters
Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent CodeHow cloud platforms should evolve for AI-generated code and AI agents that deploy/debug infrastructure directly; why Kubernetes-based setups lead teams to rebuild internal tooling; and how Render…13 Aug 2026 · 50 min · 22 chapters
SED News: The Kimi Moment, Runaway AI, and Tokenmaxxing“Runaway AI” incidents, token-maxxing cost overruns, and the “Kimi moment” (Moonshot AI’s open-weight Kimi models) plus Hacker News picks on token-saving agents and refactoring.11 Aug 2026 · 48 min · 25 chapters
The Terminal as an Agentic InterfaceHow Warp is evolving from a Rust terminal into an “agentic development environment,” and how Warp’s Oz cloud infrastructure addresses enterprise governance, auditability, and cost controls for AI…6 Aug 2026 · 52 min · 23 chapters
AI-Powered Threats to the Software Supply ChainAI-powered threats to the software supply chain; why open source and CI/CD are major attack surfaces; how ChainGuard secures artifacts and build pipelines; SBOM/regulatory implications (EU Cyber…4 Aug 2026 · 57 min · 19 chapters
Docker and Sandboxing AI AgentsDocker Sandboxes (SBX) for AI coding agents—isolating agents in micro-VM “sandboxes” to control filesystem, network, and credentials, addressing security threats from agents that can mutate…30 Jul 2026 · 51 min · 22 chapters
The Startup Scene in Southeast AsiaHow Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem evolved from consumer/fintech copycats to globally ambitious, more technical, AI- and deep-tech–driven founders; Singapore’s role as a launchpad/convenience…28 Jul 2026 · 44 min · 19 chapters
NanoClaw and the Rise of Personal AI AgentsThe episode explains how NanoClaw enables long-running “personal AI agents” while addressing security problems seen in earlier systems like OpenClaw.21 Jul 2026 · 1 h 4 min · 30 chapters
Agentic DevOps at AWSAgentic DevOps at AWS—how AI agents reason over incident/build data, use tools, and move from alarm to root cause; how AWS dogfoods internally; determinism/safety in probabilistic agents; MCP…16 Jul 2026 · 52 min · 25 chapters
AURA and Open-Source Agents for Production OperationsMesmo’s open-source Aura declarative agent framework for SRE/platform engineering production operations, focusing on context engineering, multi-agent orchestration, memory, human-in-the-loop…14 Jul 2026 · 53 min · 18 chapters
Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go BadEric Ries argues that “corruption” in companies is the gradual betrayal of the customers and engineers who made the company great, and that founders can design organizations to resist it.9 Jul 2026 · 52 min · 18 chapters
SED News: Restricted Models, IDE Wars, and the DeepMind MafiaHow restricted “frontier” AI models, UK vs US AI control, and “IDE wars” are reshaping developer ecosystems; plus three Hacker News-style tech stories.7 Jul 2026 · 54 min · 27 chapters