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EPISODE · Oct 14, 2026 · 15 MIN

The coding honeymoon is over

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A programmer says software's rock-star years are ending. Thunderbird previews an iPhone mail app, Gentoo asks projects to skip a Rust build tool, a startup prices agent sandboxes at thirty-seven cents, and Amazon runs ordinary web servers on Lambda. Were software engineers blue-collar? (HN discussion) Thunderbird for iOS (HN discussion) A plea not to use uv-build (HN discussion) Agent37 agent sandboxes (HN discussion) AWS Lambda Web Functions (HN discussion) Chapters: (00:00) Intro (00:39) 1. Were software engineers blue-collar? (01:53) 1. Were software engineers blue-collar?: HN comments (03:49) 2. Thunderbird for iOS (04:52) 2. Thunderbird for iOS: HN comments (06:08) 3. A plea not to use uv-build (07:36) 3. A plea not to use uv-build: HN comments (09:30) 4. Agent37 agent sandboxes (11:01) 4. Agent37 agent sandboxes: HN comments (12:30) 5. AWS Lambda Web Functions (13:41) 5. AWS Lambda Web Functions: HN comments (15:28) Wrap-up

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