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Build, Buy, Or Wait
date 2026-04-28 reading time ~6 min It’s a weird exciting time in software engineering. LLMs advance. We get better at using them. Background agents hit critical mass in January 2026 with Stripe’s Minions, and Ramp’s background agents. Cursor launched computer use in their cloud agents and automations in February and March 2026. Anthropic has been pushing hooking Claude Code up to GitHub Actions for a while. At work we’ve been talking a lot about background agents. They are useful.
Software Engineering With LLMs
date 2026-02-02 reading time ~10 min LLMs and coding agents like Claude Code crank out code but have poor taste. They are irrepressibly-enthusiastic junior savants. Irrepressibly enthusiastic junior savants are super useful! However, when used carelessly you’re at the mercy of the model.
G 2 a Milly #13 🐢 Bought Lemonade, Want Tesla
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Patreon Preview – 426. The Road to Hell is Paved with Advertisements
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Tea & Tesla #3 ⚡🍵 New 'Standard' Model 3 & Y!!
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Shift Happens- Episode 18: AI, Ecosystems, and the Future of Partner Success
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Saturday Oct. 4 2025 Life And Technology With Charlie Brown podcast
Redefining AI is the 2024 New York Digital Award winning tech podcast! Discover a whole new take on Artificial Intelligence in joining host Lauren Hawker Zafer, a top voice in Artificial Intelligence on LinkedIn, for insightful chats that unravel the fascinating world of tech innovation, use case exploration and AI knowledge. Dive into candid discussions with accomplished industry experts and established academics. With each episode, you'll expand your grasp of cutting-edge technologies and ...
Small Business, Big Solutions: Putting the Intelligence in AI
Redefining AI is the 2024 New York Digital Award winning tech podcast! Discover a whole new take on Artificial Intelligence in joining host Lauren Hawker Zafer, a top voice in Artificial Intelligence on LinkedIn, for insightful chats that unravel the fascinating world of tech innovation, use case exploration and AI knowledge. Dive into candid discussions with accomplished industry experts and established academics. With each episode, you'll expand your grasp of cutting-edge technologies and ...
Will OpenAI's Sora 2 app kill social media?
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S6 E9: Talking employee experience, AI-powered collaboration, and future-proofing the workplace with Snorre Kjesbu
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Tech Talk with Jess Kelly
On The Ticket, you'll hear Intercom's Customer Support team in conversation with the customer service leaders, renowned customer experience thinkers, and influential authors who are shaping the field of customer support. Follow The Ticket to get the weekly episodes and sign up for our twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service.
Meet the Hosts
The duo created the Soft Skills Engineering podcast to help software developers level up their engineering skills beyond writing code. They are here to make you laugh and make you wise as they answer questions on the air every week. Got a question for Dave & Jamison? Ask a question Dave Smith Dave has 15 years of experience as a software developer. He served as director of engineering at HireVue where he was responsible for a team of 40 engineers. Dave currently works for Amazon on Alexa.
Episode 200: Crazy work work stories
Your browser doesn't support the audio element. Download đđđ Celebrating 200 episodes! đđđ In this special episode, Dave and Jamison share crazy work stories contributed by listeners to celebrate 200 episodes of Soft Skills Engineering Right out of graduate school I was in the process of interviewing and got through two phone interviews to get the final in-person interview at a location-based startup. The office was mostly sales but also had a small dev team.
How To Screw Something Up – Interpreted Dance
Screwing up hurts. A while ago I made a hire I was excited about. It turned out to be a really terrible fit for the team and company culture. It blew up in the team’s face leading to pain, failed projects, and an acrimonious departure. What should you do when something fails, especially something you’re responsible for?
Engineering Management Books – Interpreted Dance
I read a fair amount about engineering management or things tangentially related to it. I really, really want to get better, and reading is one way I try to do that. Here are a few things I’ve read along with some thoughts about each one. I linked to the books I liked. Books I Loved Radical Candor I’m a people-pleaser. I want to be nice and I want everyone to like me. It turns out “being too nice” is a common failure mode for managers.
030 JSJ Learning & Teaching JavaScript with Noel Rappin - Devchat.tv
NOEL: I’m trying to figure out where the chat is in this stupid Skype interface. JAMISON: Just imagine the worst place it could possibly be and that’s where it is. [This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by The Blue Box Group.
033 JSJ enyo.js - Devchat.tv
CHUCK: Is somebody clicking something in the background or tapping or..? JOE: I’m tap dancing. TIM: Clickety click, click, click! JAMISON: Ooh, yeah. JOE: Practicing my tap routine for the talent show. [This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.] [This episode is sponsored by Gaslight Software.
047 JSJ Specialized vs Monolithic with James Halliday and Tom Dale - Devchat.tv
JAMISON: You can curse but we will just edit it out and replace it with fart noises. TOM: I’ll be providing plenty of my own. [Laughter] JAMISON: Okay, good. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 47 of the JavaScript Jabber show.
062 JSJ Dojo with Dylan Schiemann - Devchat.tv
JAMISON: This is my voice. CHUCK: You keep it with you at all times, don’t you? JAMISON: I do. Unless I go to a rock concert or something. Then I leave it there. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 62 of the JavaScript Jabber Show.
040 JSJ Conferences - Devchat.tv
CHUCK: From the meat lockers of Domo. [This episode today is sponsored by Component One. Makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to episode 40 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames.
029 JSJ Bower.js with Alex MacCaw and Jacob Thornton - Devchat.tv
CHUCK: What are we talking about today, guys? ALEX: Package managers. JAMISON: Bower! CHUCK: Bower. JAMISON: It’s like a 5-year old pronouncing “browser”. ALEX: [Chuckles] I wanted to call it “browser”, but the name had been taken. [This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then to wijmo.com and check the out.] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by The Blue Box Group.
035 JSJ node-webkit - Devchat.tv
AJ: Let’s talk about boring stuff. What did you eat for breakfast? TIM: I had donuts. AJ: That sounds nutritious and delicious. [This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.] [This episode is sponsored by Gaslight Software. They are putting on a Mastering Backbone training in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center, December 3rd through 5th of this year.
045 JSJ jQuery - Devchat.tv
MERRICK: Do you want to see my face? [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 45 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal. AJ: Yo! Yo! Yo! Coming at you live from the screencastosphere of Provo, Utah.
MERRICK: Tim, is there anything that you don’t follow up with, “I actually wrote that a few years ago?” [Laughter] TIM: Yeah. AJ: I was wondering the same thing. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 56 of the JavaScript Jabber Show.
038 JSJ Jasmine with Justin Searls - Devchat.tv
JAMISON: Holy cow! JOE: That was not annoying. CHUCK: What’s not annoying? MERRICK: He is punching a bag of Fritos? JOE: Yeah. [Laughter] CHUCK: Well, I was closing it up so they don’t get stale as fast. JOE: You’re very thorough. Those are going to be the least stale… MERRICK: Do you have like a Frito resealer or something? [Laughter] [Shrill sound] CHUCK: Okay, sealed. [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo.
050 JSJ QUnit with Jörn Zaefferer - Devchat.tv
JOE: I’m really glad that I didn’t know you when Star Wars first came out….Dude! Vader’s Luke’s father. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 50 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance.
051 JSJ Finding a Job - Devchat.tv
[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 51 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal. AJ: Yo! Yo! Yo! Chuck, did you realize that this is like our anniversary? CHUCK: Our anniversary was in January actually.
054 JSJ JavaScript Parsing, ASTs, and Language Grammar w/ David Herman and Ariya Hidayat - Devchat.tv
JAMISON: I am Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux, Linix. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 54 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Tim Caswell. TIM: Hello. CHUCK: Jamison Dance. JAMISON: Hi guys.
077 JSJ Monocle with Alex MacCaw - Devchat.tv
ALEX: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] [This podcast is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of WebStorm. Whether you’re working with Node.js or building the frontend of your web application, WebStorm is the tool for you.
053 JSJ Software Team Dynamics - Devchat.tv
CHUCK: So, team dynamics this week? JOE: Sorry, is that our discussion or is that what we decided to call ourselves? [Laughter] CHUCK: It’s our discussion topic this week. AJ: We are Team Dynamics. JOE: Because if we’re going with names, I would like to submit the Wolverines. CHUCK: The Wolverines? I think it’s taken by a University around here. AJ: Yeah, and my high school back in Virginia, and that dude from New Zealand who plays in X-Men. CHUCK: That dude? AJ: Yeah, that dude, Hugh Jackman.
070 JSJ Book Club: JavaScript Allongé with Reginald Braithwaite - Devchat.tv
MERRICK: Turns out my habit is Joe coming over to my desk and saying, [singing] “Da-na-na-na, jabber time!” [Laughter] AJ: Nice. REG: That behavior is always acceptable if you are dressed for the part. [Laughter] CHUCK: Since this is pure audio, you don’t even have to be dressed. JOE: I have a pair of parachute pants. MERRICK: I actually record most of this show while I’m in the bathtub.[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group.
031 JSJ history.js - Devchat.tv
BENJAMIN: Anything important, I hear from my wife. So, I could finally have that thing where Facebook doesn’t infiltrate my mind with cat pictures anymore. [This episode is presented to you by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to episode 31 of the JavaScript Jabber show.
073 JSJ React with Pete Hunt and Jordan Walke - Devchat.tv
JAMISON: Joe is Merrick’s personal assistant. CHUCK: [Laughter] MERRICK: No, we’re just in this little room and he had, he was like, “Yeah” JOE: Want me to freshen up your coffee, sir? [Chuckles] JAMISON: Feed me some tacos, Joe. [Laughter] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo.
MERRICK: Classy guy. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] JAMISON: Hello friends. Welcome to JavaScript Jabber. This is Episode number 43. Today, we have Joe Eames. JOE: Howdy! JAMISON: Merrick Christensen. MERRICK: Hey guys! JAMISON: And Christian Johansen. And also me, Jamison Dance.
066 JSJ Transitioning to JavaScript - Devchat.tv
CHUCK: Yeah, I can pretend I’m getting better at JavaScript. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] [This podcast is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of WebStorm. Whether you’re working with Node.js or building the frontend of your web application, WebStorm is the tool for you.
034 JSJ Ember.js - Devchat.tv
JAMISON: And I’m looking sexy. [This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.] [This episode is sponsored by Gaslight Software. They are putting on a Mastering Backbone training in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center, December 3rd through 5th of this year. This three day intensive course will forever change the way you develop the front-end of your web applications.
044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman - Devchat.tv
CHUCK: The most effective way to hack is quickly. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 44 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance. JAMISON: Hello. CHUCK: AJ O’Neal.
028 JSJ Greenfield vs Brownfield Projects - Devchat.tv
JOE: Listen baby, it won’t get weird. JAMISON: [Chuckles] AJ: That sounds… weird. JAMISON: [Chuckles] Too Late. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Harvest. I use Harvest to track time, track subcontractor’s time and invoice clients. Their time tracking is really simple and easy to use. Invoicing includes a ‘pay now’ function by credit card and PayPal. And you can sign up at getharvest.com.
032 JSJ Angular.js - Devchat.tv
[This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net] JAMISON: Hi everybody and welcome to episode 32 of the JavaScript Jabber podcast. I’m not your host Charles Max Wood, I’m Jamison Dance. Chuck is at a conference this week. So, he is not here. We have with us Joe Eames.
049 JSJ MooTools with Valerio Proietti and Arian Stolwijk - Devchat.tv
MERRICK: Yeah, call me Mer-rock, I’m cool with that. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey, everybody and welcome to Episode 49 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames. JOE: Howdy. CHUCK: We have Merrick Christensen. MERRICK: Hey, guys.
064 JSJ Ember Tools with Ryan Florence - Devchat.tv
When people ask which episodes of JavaScript Jabber to listen to first, I send them my picks and then check the numbers. These are the most downloaded episodes of JavaScript Jabber.
039 JSJ Sweet.js with Tim Disney - Devchat.tv
JAMISON: Oh, my goodness! You can like, put a beard on them and it follows their face! JOE: Isn’t that awesome? [Crosstalk] JAMISON: How do I get rid of it? Actually, it was really distracting. I didn’t know you guys would see that. [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group.
061 JSJ Functional Reactive Programming with Juha Paananen and Joe Fiorini - Devchat.tv
MERRICK: How come nobody acknowledges when I talk? What about that? JAMISON: That’s a deeper problem than a microphone. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 61 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal.
042 JSJ CSS and CSS Superset Languages - Devchat.tv
MERRICK: You have more technical problems than any other nerd I know. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 42 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames. MERRICK: He’s out to a phone call, terrible timing.
052 JSJ Node & NPM with Isaac Schlueter - Devchat.tv
CHUCK: You all ready? JAMISON: Super ready. AJ: So ready. JOE: I was born ready. MERRICK: I was molded by ready. [Laughter] CHUCK: Alright. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 52 of the JavaScript Jabber Show.
037 JSJ Promises with Domenic Denicola and Kris Kowal - Devchat.tv
JOE: I can’t imagine your baby face with a beard, Jamison. JAMISON: I never thought I had a baby face. AJ: It was always a man face to me. JOE: Everybody who is 15 years younger than me has a baby face. [This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.] [This show is sponsored by Gaslight Software.
055 JSJ Web Developer Skills - Devchat.tv
[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] JAMISON: Hey guys and welcome to JavaScript Jabber. I’m your guest host today, Jamison Dance. Chuck is at Mount West Ruby Conference today and we have a bunch of panelists today. The first one is AJ O’Neal.
060 JSJ Development Environments - Devchat.tv
CHUCK: Are you un-indisposed? MERRICK: Oh, yeah. I’ve been un-indisposed for years now.[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 60 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal.
059 JSJ jQuery Mobile with Todd Parker - Devchat.tv
[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 59 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames. JOE: Hey everybody. CHUCK: Jamison Dance. JAMISON: Hello. CHUCK: Merrick Christensen. MERRICK: Hey guys.
063 JSJ Burnout - Devchat.tv
[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK: Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 63 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance. JAMISON: Hello friends. CHUCK: Joe Eames. JOE: Hello there. CHUCK: Merrick Christensen. MERRICK: Hey.
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