Unlocking the Data Layer for Agentic AI with Simba Khadder - Software Engineering Daily AI agents are increasingly capable of reasoning and performing autonomous work over long periods. However, as agents take on more complex, longer-horizon tasks, keeping them supplied with the right in...

Simba Khadder leads AI strategy at @redis.io. He joins @kball.llc to discuss context engines, agentic AI, memory systems, and how engineering teams adapt as AI development accelerates.

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Agentic Mesh with Eric Broda - Software Engineering Daily AI agents are evolving from individual productivity tools into distributed systems components inside enterprises. The next frontier is coming into focus, and it involves large-scale ecosystems of coll...

Eric Broda is a veteran of the software industry, and the co-author of the new O’Reilly book, Agentic Mesh: The GenAI-Powered Autonomous Agent Ecosystem. He joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss Agentic Mesh, distributed systems, and more.

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New Relic and Agentic DevOps with Nic Benders - Software Engineering Daily Observability emerged from the need to understand complex software systems, and involves tracking metrics, logs, and traces so engineers can detect and diagnose problems before they affect users. Howe...

Nic Benders is the Chief Technology Strategist at New Relic. He joins Lee Atchison to discuss the frontier of AI driven observability and observing AI systems.

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Mobile App Security with Ryan Lloyd - Software Engineering Daily Mobile apps have become a primary interface for critical services, including banking, payments, and healthcare. Unlike web applications, much of the logic and intellectual property in a mobile app lives directly on the user’s device, which is an environment the developer doesn’t control. That makes mobile apps uniquely exposed to reverse engineering, runtime manipulation, and

Ryan Lloyd is the Chief Product Officer at @guardsquare.com. In this episode, he joins Gregor Vand to discuss mobile security, reverse engineering tools, compiler based obfuscation, runtime protections, app vulnerabilities, and more.

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FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin - Software Engineering Daily The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, gives developers a common way to expose tools, data, and capabilities to large language models, and it has quickly become an important standard in agentic AI. FastM...

Jeremiah Lowin is the founder and CEO of @prefect.io, and Adam Azzam is the VP of Product. They join Gregor Vand to discuss fastmcp, its origin story, core framework pillars, and FastMCP 3.0 architecture.

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SED News: OpenCode, AI Code vs. Shipped Code, and the LiteLLM Breach - Software Engineering Daily SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover ARM's resurgence for local AI agents, the @Lite_LLM supply chain attack, @opencode.bsky.social, @anthropic.com vs OpenAI on the Pentagon deal, and more.

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FreeBSD with John Baldwin - Software Engineering Daily FreeBSD is one of the longest-running and most influential open-source operating systems in the world. It was born from the Berkeley Software Distribution in the early 1990s, it has powered everything...

John Baldwin has spent more than 25 years working on FreeBSD as a developer, contributor, and consultant. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss FreeBSD's origins, its governance, and maintaining a 30 year old codebase.

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Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill Mulligan - Software Engineering Daily Modern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communicate across clusters, and traditional networking assum...

Bill Mulligan is a maintainer in the Cilium ecosystem and a member of the team at @isovalent.bsky.social. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss eBPF, Cilium’s rise in Kubernetes networking, and programmable kernels in cloud native infrastructure.

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Games That Push Back with Bennett Foddy - Software Engineering Daily Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer known for creating wholly distinctive games such as QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and the recently released Baby Steps. He’s also a former profes...

Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer behind games like QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and Baby Steps. He joins Joe Nash to discuss game design and why his games stand out.

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Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long - Software Engineering Daily Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, linting, and build systems can either create fricti...

James Long is the creator of Prettier Code and was formerly at Mozilla and Stripe. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss Prettier’s origins, formatter design, open source maintenance, and the evolution of JavaScript tooling.

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Skate Story with Sam Eng - Software Engineering Daily Skateboarding games have long balanced technical precision with a sense of flow and expression, but Skate Story takes the genre in a radically different direction. It has a distinct vaporwave vibe and...

Sam Eng is an indie developer and the creator of @skatestory.com which is one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2025. He joins Joe Nash to discuss developing Skate Story, its distinct style, and its fluid skate mechanics.

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DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev - Software Engineering Daily Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex and costly. Developers typically have to...

Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev work on the File Search Tool RAG system at Google DeepMind. They join @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss RAG engineering, managed RAG in Gemini, retrieval quality, multimodal retrieval, and more.

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Reinventing the Python Notebook with Akshay Agrawal - Software Engineering Daily Interactive notebooks were popularized by the Jupyter project and have since become a core tool for data science, research, and data exploration. However, traditional, imperative notebooks often break...

Akshay Agrawal is the creator of the next-gen Python notebook @marimo.io. He joins @kball.llc to discuss Python notebooks, the limits of traditional notebooks, bridging research and production, and AI assisted development.

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Organizational Context for AI Coding Agents with Dennis Pilarinos - Software Engineering Daily AI agents have taken on a growing share of software development work, so much so that the hardest problems are shifting away from code generation towards something new, context. The challenge is now c...

Dennis Pilarinos is the Founder and CEO of Unblocked. He joins @kball.llc to discuss context engineering, sources of truth, permissioned AI systems, shifting bottlenecks, and being a software engineer in an agentic world.

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SED News: OpenClaw Goes Viral, Mistral’s Compute Play, and the Agent Arms Race - Software Engineering Daily SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover @openclaw-x.bsky.social's rise, OpenAI exploring ads in ChatGPT, Alibaba's agent commerce push, Mistral acquiring Koyeb, AI competition, agentic engineering, and highlights from Hacker News.

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Amazon’s IDE for Spec-Driven Development with David Yanacek - Software Engineering Daily AI-assisted coding tools have made it easier than ever to spin up prototypes, but turning those prototypes into reliable, production-grade systems remains a major challenge. Large language models are ...

David Yanacek is a Senior Principal Engineer and a lead advisor on the Agentic AI team at @awscloud. he joins @kball.llc to discuss Kiro, Bedrock AgentCore, spec driven development, frontier agents, and the future of agentic software development.

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Engineering AI Systems for Autonomy and Resilience with Krishna Sai - Software Engineering Daily Enterprise IT systems have grown into sprawling, highly distributed environments spanning cloud infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and increasingly AI-driven workloads. Observability tools ...

Krishna Sai is the Chief Technology Officer at @solarwindsinc.bsky.social. He joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss observability in the age of AI, designing agentic systems for mission critical environments, AI assisted programming, and humans working with autonomous agents.

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Inside China’s Great Firewall with Jackson Sippe - Software Engineering Daily China’s Great Firewall is often spoken about but is rarely understood. It is one of the most sophisticated and opaque censorship systems on the planet, and it shapes how over a billion people interact...

Jackson Sippe is a specialist in systems and network privacy and security. In this episode he joins Gregor Vand to discuss how China’s Great Firewall works, censorship detection methods, and the future of the open internet.

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Optimizing Agent Behavior in Production with Gideon Mendels - Software Engineering Daily LLM -powered systems continue to move steadily into production, but this process is presenting teams with challenges that traditional software practices don’t commonly encounter. Models and agents are...

Gideon Mendels is the co-founder and CEO of Comet. He joins @kball.llc to discuss agent development in software engineering and ML, why evals are key for AI teams, prompt optimization, and improving agents in production.

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Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development with Steve Yegge - Software Engineering Daily AI-assisted programming has moved far beyond autocomplete. Large language models are now capable of editing entire codebases, coordinating long-running tasks, and collaborating across multiple systems...

Steve Yegge is a legendary software engineer, writer, and industry veteran. He joins @kball.llc for a wide-reaching discussion about AI coding, multi agent coordination, task graphs, and the future of software work.

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Python 3.14 with Łukasz Langa - Software Engineering Daily Python 3.14 is here and continues Python’s evolution toward greater performance, scalability, and usability. The new release formally supports free-threaded, no-GIL mode, introduces template string li...

Łukasz Langa is the CPython Developer in Residence at the Python Software Foundation. He joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss the 3.14 release, free threading, type improvements, Python’s role in AI, and maintaining backward compatibility.

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Airbnb’s Open-Source GraphQL Framework with Adam Miskiewicz - Software Engineering Daily Engineering teams often build microservices as their systems grow, but over time this can lead to a fragmented ecosystem with scattered data access patterns, duplicated business logic, and an uneven d...

Adam Miskiewicz is a Principal Software Engineer at Airbnb where he works on Viaduct. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss Viaduct’s origins, scaling GraphQL, open-sourcing the platform, and the future of backend systems in an AI world.

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SED News: Apple Bets on Gemini, Google’s AI Advantage, and the Talent Arms Race - Software Engineering Daily SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover Starlink free in-flight internet, Tesla deprecating Autopilot, Apple using Google Gemini for Siri, the Meta and Manus deal, AI hardware competition, layoffs, and highlights from Hacker News.

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OpenAI and Codex with Thibault Sottiaux and Ed Bayes - Software Engineering Daily AI coding agents are rapidly reshaping how software is built, reviewed, and maintained. As large language model capabilities continue to increase, the bottleneck in software development is shifting aw...

Here's our conversation with Thibault Sottiaux and Ed Bayes who helped build Codex at OpenAI. They spoke to @kball.llc about models and harnesses, multi-agent futures, model specialization, latency and performance considerations, and more.

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Production-Grade AI Systems with Fred Roma - Software Engineering Daily Engineering teams around the world are building AI-focused applications or integrating AI features into existing products. The AI development ecosystem is maturing, which is accelerating how quickly t...

Fred Roma is the SVP of Product and Engineering at @mongodb.bsky.social. He joins @kball.llc to talk about AI application development, vector search and reranking, schema evolution in the LLM era, the Voyage AI acquisition, and how data platforms must evolve.

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Next-Gen JavaScript Package Management with Ruy Adorno and Darcy Clarke - Software Engineering Daily Package management sits at the foundation of modern software development, quietly powering nearly every software project in the world. Tools like npm and Yarn have long been the core of the JavaScript...

Darcy Clarke and Ruy Adorno are longtime npm CLI maintainers and Node.js contributors. They join @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss vlt, a new package manager and registry designed to improve performance, security, and developer experience.

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WebAssembly 3.0 with Andreas Rossberg - Software Engineering Daily WebAssembly, or WASM, has grown from a low-level compilation target for C and C++ into one of the most influential technologies in modern computing. It now powers browser applications, edge compute pl...

Andreas Rossberg is a programming languages researcher and former V8 team member at Google. He joins @kball.llc to discuss WebAssembly’s history, key design milestones, WASM 1.0 to 3.0, and what’s next.

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America Under Surveillance with Michael Soyfer - Software Engineering Daily Surveillance technology is advancing faster than the laws meant to govern it. Across the United States, police departments are deploying automated license plate readers, facial recognition tools, and ...

Michael Soyfer is an attorney at the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm defending individual rights. He joins @kball.llc to discuss Flock Safety cameras, state data collection, and how citizens push back.

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Developer Experience at Capital One with Catherine McGarvey - Software Engineering Daily Modern software development is evolving rapidly. New tools, processes, and AI-powered systems are reshaping how teams collaborate and how engineers find satisfaction in their craft. At the same time, ...

Catherine McGarvey is SVP of Developer Experience at Capital One. She joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about developer enablement at scale, measuring productivity, agility in regulated environments, AI in enterprise development, and much more.

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Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily Modern software development is more complex than ever. Teams work across different operating systems, chip architectures, and cloud environments, each with its own dependency quirks and version mismat...

Michael Stahnke is the VP of Engineering at @flox.dev. He joins @kball.llc to talk about Flox, building on top of Nix, software security, and much more.

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