All Episodes

Being Right Isn't Enough: How Engineers Should Communicate (E. 53)

The most efficient way to develop products (E.52)

Ben’s Take on 4 Years of Databricks Career Knowledge in 8 Tips (E.51)

50 Episodes Later, Here’s What We Got Wrong (E. 50)

Don’t Write a Tech Book for the Money (E. 49)

4 Years of Databricks Career Knowledge in 8 Tips (E.48)

Why AI isn’t Valuable (E.47)

How to Find Meaning in your Career (E.46)

The Value of Intuition (E.45)

Superintelligence: AGI and ASI (E.44)

Principles of Evals: The Future of GenAI Evaluation (E.43)

AI FDE at Databricks (E.42)

AI for Coparenting: How AI can Deescalate Coparenting (E.41)

How to Prevent Doomsday: Guardrails, Alignment, and Education (E.40)

Research Spikes: Starting Simple to Drive Success (E.39)

Controlling the Chaos: Creating Reliable LLM-Based Applications (E.38)

Builders vs. Posers: How to Provide Real Value (E. 37)

Automating Execution: What skills still matter? (E. 36)

AI in the Legal Industry: What Jobs are Safe (E. 35)

Evaluating AI: Best Practices for Stable AI (E. 34)

Scaling Systems: How to Avoid Catastrophe (E. 33)

Philosophy of Stupid Work: How to Enjoy it (E. 32)

Career Strategies: Emergent vs. Deliberate (E. 31)

Personal Finance: Advice from Dr. Adam Link (E. 30)

Agentic Systems: Architectures at Microsoft (E. 29)

Knowledge Transfer: How to Help Others (E. 28)

Diverse Hiring for AI Skills (E.27)

Systematic Creativity: TRIZ, Knowledge Graphs and AI-Driven Innovation (E.26)

Inside the Codebase: Reviews, Testing and the Hidden Mechanics of Good Software (E.25)

Beyond Intelligence: GPT-5, Explainability and the Ethics of AI Reasoning (E.24)

The Cost of Complexity: Why Simplicity Wins in Software Development (E.23)

Competence, Trust and Ethical Client Engagement: Applying Military Strategies to Consulting (E.22)

Knowledge Sharing, Culture and the Future of Cloud + AI (E.21)

Solution Accelerators: Balancing Production Software and Durability in AI Development (E.20)

Data Annotation to Auto-Optimization: How Agents and Human Oversight Shape AI's Future (E.19)

Automating Intelligence: Data Collection, Human Feedback and the Future of Context-Augmented Agents (E.18)

Problem Solving Under Pressure: Lessons in Fundamentals, Failure, and Finding the Fix (E.17)

Beyond Benchmarks: How GPT-5 and OSS Are Redefining AI Evaluation (E.16)

Libraries, Law and LLMs: How Unconventional Paths Are Shaping the Future of AI (E.15)

GenAI, Agency and Infrastructure: What’s Actually Holding Back the AI Frontier (E.14)

From Career Pivots to AI Innovation: Lessons in Building Better Systems (E.13)

How AI Assistants Are Changing Coding (E.12)

LATAM Engineers vs. Offshore Norms: Gino Ferrand on Hiring Right (E.11)

10 - Case Study: AI Video Recommender

9 - AI Career Leveling

8 - Microservices with Mark Fussell

7 - What are the best AI Software Packages

6 - When Should You Bail

5 - How to Lead Engineers with Ben Johnson

4 - How to Transfer Projects

3 - How to be a Tech Lead (TL)

2 - How to Make Knowledge Useful

1 - How to Scope and Build