Episodes

  • #define: props to astronomer (Friends)

    #define: props to astronomer (Friends)
    Jul 25 2025
    Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. This time we're joined by three Changelog++ members, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick everyone else into thinking that they do.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Interview)

    Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Interview)
    Jul 23 2025
    Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical challenges of doing so, the implementation details of Multigres (Vitess for Postgres). We also discuss the state of Postgres at scale.
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (News)

    Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (News)
    Jul 21 2025
    Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it's rude to show AI output to people.
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    7 mins
  • Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends)

    Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends)
    Jul 18 2025
    Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he's actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn't more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.
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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Pivoting to Retool (Interview)

    Pivoting to Retool (Interview)
    Jul 17 2025
    David Hsu from Retool joins Adam to discuss how he built Retool. From the pivot in YC, to building the most widely used internal tools platform, to now being the platform for AI agents in the enterprise—on this episode we cover David journey from YC to building agents for the enterprise.
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • An app can be a home-cooked meal (News)

    An app can be a home-cooked meal (News)
    Jul 14 2025
    Researchers in Japan achieve a world record in data transmission speeds, Robin Sloan explains how an app can be a home-cooked meal, Windsurf founders Varun Mohan & Douglas Chen are headed to Google, new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says it's too late for the incumbent, Anton Zaides says stop forcing AI tools on your engineers, and Adrien Friggeri visualized his ten-year running streak.
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    9 mins
  • Measuring the actual impact of AI coding (Friends)

    Measuring the actual impact of AI coding (Friends)
    Jul 11 2025
    Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are actually making developers. Teaser: the productivity increase isn't as high as we expected. We also discuss Jevons paradox, AI agents as extensions of humans, which tools are winning in the enterprise, how development budgets are changing, and more.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Lightspeed search built for devs (Interview)

    Lightspeed search built for devs (Interview)
    Jul 10 2025
    We talk with Don MacKinnon, Co-founder and CTO of Searchcraft—a lightspeed search engine built in Rust. We dig into the future of search, how it blends vector embeddings with classic ranking, and what it takes to build developer-friendly, production-grade search from the ground up.
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    1 hr and 39 mins