Best Golang Podcasts (2025)

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Artisanal Software Engineering 1:08:32

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Software engineering has an identity problem. Some software engineers want to be craftspeople and artisans, while others want to be more like the traditional engineers, while others just want to write some code. In this episode, Kris and Matt talk about the state of software engineering today and the areas that they think could use improvement. For…

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067: LLM/AI as agents in your Go system with Markus Wüstenberg 1:09:26

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This week I try to keep an open mind and we talk LLMs and AI with Markus Wüstenberg. Markus is a friend of the show and I noticed he was using a lot of LLM lately, I basically learn a lot by doing these podcast interviews, so I was interested to hear about what Markus is using LLM and AI in the systems he ships and also how does he uses AI as a sof…

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Can Claude Code fix your subtle bugs? 🐞 33:13

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🐞 Go 1.25.4 and 1.24.10 are released The Geomys Standard of Care 🛡️ Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography 🫚 go podcast() episode 64: Podman, the root-less alternative to Docker ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad

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Go, Medicine, and Adaptability with Salah Mahmud 1:27:21

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In this episode of the Ardan Labs Podcast, Bill Kennedy talks with Salah Mahmud, a medical researcher specializing in epidemiology and medical statistics. Salah shares his journey from growing up in Libya under Gaddafi’s regime to conducting cutting-edge research in Canada on the connection between influenza and heart attacks. He discusses the chal…

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The Fault In Our Clouds 1:05:00

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First it was GCP in June. Then it was AWS in October. Then it was Azure a week later. It seems that our cloud providers are having outages far more often, and for far longer, than any of us would like. In this episode, Kris, Ian, and Matthew discuss the two most recent outages along with some of their thoughts on the current state of the industry a…

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066: Xp, CI, CD with Jon Barber 1:03:05

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Jon helped a lot of teams improve their software engineer processes. We talk about the importance of testing, having sane Ci and CD pipeline, pairing and a lot of other extreme programing concepts. Links: Tuple pair programming guide: The Mob Tool Pop — Screen sharing for remote teams If you'd like to support the show spread the words about it, joi…

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👻 Spooky integer printing and 🧛🏻 scary fast ring buffers 29:00

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New proposal: go vet check for using %q with integer types Blog: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds by Andrew Ayer JetBrains' language promise index Reddit: Why I built a ~39M op/s, zero-allocation ring buffer for file watching Blog: A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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065: We're in the 3rd age of SaaS 49:10

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My desire to run a sustainable software business started somewhere near 2003 in the Business of Software forum. I've built, sold, and acquired a dozen of products since that time, with I have to admit the majority of failures. I've seen three distincts era for software companies, we're definitably in the 3rd one, one that still has to be identified…

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JJ and How to Evolve an Open Source Ecosystem 58:06

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Jujutsu is a new version control system that's gaining in popularity. Its swappable backends allow users to continue using version control systems like Git without other users even noticing. Steve Klabnik aims to be a big part of it. Much like with Rust, he's getting involved early and making some big swings. In this episode, he joins Kris and Matt…

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Sponsored by Forge, live from San Francisco, it's Cup o' Go! 16:25

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Thanks to Forge for sponsoring this episode! Find Forge at https://withforge.com/. They are HIRING! Find Forge's jobs page here: https://in-the-forge.notion.site/hiring-roles DRAFT RELEASE NOTES — Go 1.26 Coding Challenge #100 - BitTorrent Client The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience, …

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Marketing, Innovation, and Averi AI with Zack Holland 1:28:35

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In this episode of the Ardan Labs Podcast, Bill Kennedy talks with Zack Holland, CEO & Founder of Averi AI, about his journey from early life in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest to building an AI-powered marketing platform. Zack shares lessons from early business ventures, the challenges of running startups, and the evolution of his entrepreneurial mind…

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064: Podman, the root-less alternative to Docker 31:46

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I retried Podman to replace a production service and did not wanted to re-installed Docker, mainly for security reasons. The fact that podman runs containers on the user-level and completely isolated from the system is a great alternative to the Docker deamon. I'm trying something new for this episode, I'll try and get audio clips from people to ad…

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DevOps: The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything 1:07:21

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In this episode, hosts Angelica Hill and Matthew Sanabria are joined by special guest Cory O'Daniel to dive deep into DevOps. They chat through some of the big questions shaping the industry: Is the "cloud promise" still holding up? What role does on-prem infrastructure play now? And perhaps most importantly, what does "DevOps" even mean today? We …

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An episode as short as the name of a unix command 21:46

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Go 1.25.3 and 1.24.9 released 🪲 Blog: How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler by Thea Heinen zsh support progress for sh 🇺🇸 Go meetup & live episode @ San Francisco 🌩️ Lightning round qjs, a CGO-Free, modern, secure JavaScript runtime for Go applications 📺 Kaizen, watch anime from the terminal ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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063: Common mistakes when testing with Jakub Jarosz 57:55

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Jakub is returning to the show, he's about to launch a book called "50 Go Testing Mistakes" and we talk about the most common mistakes Gophers are making when it testing. Having a trustable testing suite is known to be critical for long-live software system. I can testify having maintained a .NET codebase for 20 years without any tests, it sucks. L…

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Ghostty & The Shell 57:16

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Mitchell once again joins Matt and Kris to give us an update about Ghostty, a new library he's working on called libxev, and some of his thoughts around AI. We continue this discussion in this week's episode of Break! We get into some of the topics briefly mentioned during the main episode. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcastin…

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🍪 No more all-you-can-eat Cookies 30:29

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Security releases 🍪 Go 1.25.2 and 1.24.8 with 10 security fixes 🌐 golang.org/x/net v0.45.0 with 2 security fixes Meetups @ Conferences 🇺🇸 San Fransisco, CA, USA — Oct 23 @ Forge 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Israel — Dec 10 @ Cato Networks 🇺🇸 GoWest @ Lehi, Utah USA — Oct 24 🧦 New swag in the Cup o' Go store! Proposals 👷🏿‍♀️ Accepted: go fix to apply fixes from mod…

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062: Your Go linters don't know how to fix your code 20:29

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One university published attracted my attention, because it was on Go, it's titled: "Assessing Golang Static Analysis Tools on Real-World Issues". Do you find your static analysis and linters tools could be more helpful when reporting issues? I'm mixed feeling really, I think that they're pretty damn good. Tools can always improve for sure, not sur…

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Writing, Technology, and a Nomadic Lifestyle with Mike Elgan 2:05:57

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In this episode of the Ardan Labs Podcast, Bill Kennedy talks with Mike Elgan, technology editorialist, about his journey to becoming a professional writer. Mike reflects on the evolution of journalism, the digital publishing revolution of the 90s, and the role of communication in shaping society. He also shares insights from his nomadic lifestyle,…

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The Failure of Open Source Leadership 1:30:12

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🪿 Goose noose? 🤘 Excellent! 🎸 31:46

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Conference videos 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK FyneConf Proposals 💧 Accepted: add new goroutine leak profile as a GOEXPERIMENT Full discussion of this feature in Episode 127 🪿 Added to minutes: add GOOS=noos bare metal support 🫣 Added to minutes: Add bytes.Buffer.Peek 👍 Added to minutes: Add must.Do Blog posts ✈️ Go blog: Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 by Carlos Am…

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061: As a Gopher I'm excited about Gleam, maybe you'll too 35:33

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I finally gave Gleam a serious look and ho boy I'm excited. I've looked at Gleam a long time ago back when it started with the ML-like syntax. I've always been an Elm fan, I discovered functional programming with Elm. Near 2016-2017 I tried Elixir and Phoenix, and gave it a try multiple times following the years, but I'm not fully sure why it never…

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PHP Was Never Dead 1:14:36

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This week we've got a grab bag episode! Kris and Matt discuss a variety of topics, including a GopherCon debrief (featuring some RustConf comparisons!), why people can't be mad all the time, the need for better abstractions, and so much more! We continue this discussion in this week's episode of Break! We get into some of the topics briefly mention…

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💧 A leaky goroutine certainly does suck! 30:16

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Meetups and Conferences 🇺🇸 Go Meetup in San Francisco, Oct 23 @ Forge 🇺🇸 GoWest, Oct 24 @ Lehi, Utah USA 🇳🇬 GopherCon Africa, Oct 24 & 25 @ Lagos, Nigeria 🇷🇺 LetsGoConf followup post on Telegram Proposals ⚠️ Accepted: errors.AsType (As with type parameters) 💧 runtime/pprof,runtime: new goroutine leak profile New: direct reference to embedded fields…

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Cybersecurity, Beyond Identity, and Identity Defense with Jasson Casey 1:36:50

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In this episode of the Ardan Labs Podcast, Bill Kennedy talks with Jasson Casey, CEO and co-founder of Beyond Identity, about modern cybersecurity. Jasson shares his journey from early interests in technology and networking to leading startups and building products that address today’s security challenges. They explore the evolution of authenticati…

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060: 10x Developer, or 10x Distraction? A Reality Check on AI 28:18

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The message is everywhere: LLMs are here to make us 10x more productive and change software development forever. Venture capitalists are pouring billions into the vision, and big tech companies are pushing hard for us to adopt the tools. But as a software engineer who’s seen the demos and lived the reality, something feels profoundly wrong. This we…

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Defer Life Considered Harmful 1:18:09

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From AI winters to Tiny Go, Ron Evans has a long and storied career. In this episode he joins Angelica and Matt to discuss his journey, what past AI winters can tell us about our current AI moment, the importance of Tiny Go, and so much more. This week's episode has a Break aftershow! Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app!…

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🪖 Gab's Notes on this week's Go news and an interview with Matt Boyle of Ona and ByteSizeGo 1:01:28

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Thanks Gabriel Augendre for guest co-hosting this episode! Visit cupogo.dev for all the links. 🔬 A new experimental Go API for JSON 🧾 2025 Go Developer Survey 🥸 Test state, not interactions by Redowan 😴 Go team quiet week Sep 22–Sep 26 ⛓️‍💥 The Day the Linter Broke My Code Interview with Matt Boyle Find Matt on X Ona ByteSizeGo Functional options f…

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Building For The Future 1:36:21

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We've all experienced the dreaded rewrite. A system that was promised to last for years has grown so full of technical debt and cruft that we feel we need to throw it out and start over again. How can we avoid this? In this episode, Angelica and Matt are joined by Jon Sabados, where they discuss how to build software that can last long into the fut…

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👕 Clothe your naked gophers and returns, with this one weird episode THEY don't want you to know about! 40:53

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Go 1.25.1 and Go 1.24.7 are released 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe: Berlin 2025 videos online ⏱️ Blog: Testing Time (and other asynchronicities) by Damien Neil Video: Testing Time (and other asynchronous code) 👖 gofumpt v0.9.0 released Video: Go's Naked Returns: Be afraid! 🗳️ Blog: Building Bulletproof Leader Election in Kubernetes Operators: A Deep Dive by …

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Adaptability, Google, and MCP with Jonathan Amsterdam 1:32:21

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In this episode of the Ardan Labs Podcast, Bill Kennedy interviews Jonathan Amsterdam from the Go team at Google about his journey from academia and finance to software engineering, his work on Go and API design, and the importance of adaptability, community, and building impactful software. 00:00 Introduction 00:30 What is Jonathan Doing Today? 02…

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Bootstrapping A Podcast 1:57:18

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Ever wondered what it really takes to build a successful online presence? How about if you were doing it as a couple? In this episode, Angelica and Matt are joined by Sophie and Rory of the "Media Couple" podcast as they pull back the curtain on their current projects and share the unfiltered reality of being content creators, the tools and tech th…

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059: Is Go over with John Arundel 1:02:03

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Let's talk with a friend of the pod, John Arundel. We talk about state of thing a little regarding Go's maturity, a bit of AI, I personally am a bit fatigue of the noise and "agent". The podcast is returning slowly. , John has written a new Go book that's beginner-friendly, but goes deeper than you'd expect, he produce excellent learning and traini…

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What It Takes To Be A Content Creator 1:37:33

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Everyone can be a content creator. Whether it's posting long form content on YouTube, shorter content on TikTok, or photos on Instagram, content creation is accessible to all. In this episode, Angelica and Matt are joined by Benjamin Bryant to talk about what it takes to become a content creator. This episode contains extra chapters for supporters.…

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🇲🇽 Café con Go, 🇨🇦 GopherCon, eh?, or 🌉 Goroutines on the Golden Gate? 29:06

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This episode is sponsored by Boldly Go! Need fractional Gophering work? Visit boldlygo.tech. For everything Cup o' Go, incl. swag, Patreon, past episodes, and more, please visit our website. GopherCon 2026 location poll GopherCon India GOMAXPROCS Course: "Introducing Command Line Applications in Go" SQLite benchmarks ★ Support this podcast on Patre…

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Interviews, Soft Skills, and Career Growth with Kacie Bail 1:32:55

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In this conversation, career coach Kacie Bail discusses her work helping others navigate the job market. She emphasizes the growing importance of soft skills in job applications, the challenges of job rejections, and the need for empathy from interviewers. Kacie shares her journey from bioengineering to consulting, highlighting the significance of …

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How To Have A Great Conference Experience 52:07

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GopherCon is this week! Kris, Matt, Dylan, and Angelica are talking about conferences: their favorite experiences, how they approach them, and advice for first time conference attendees. For our supporters, the panel has an in-depth discussion of what would make for better conferences and where current conferences are failing. We've also have a new…

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🐐 The Greatest Episode of All Time 🐐 26:33

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🥩 Meatspace 🇺🇸 Going to GopherCon in NYC? Meet other Cup'o'Gophers there! 🇺🇸 Interested in a SF meetup? Fill out the poll 🇷🇺 Let's GoConf, Sept 12 @ Moscow, Russia GopherJS 1.19 with generics released Interview with Grant Nelson, Episode 53 Proposals Accepted: x/tools/go/analysis/structtag: stricter JSON tag checking Previous mention: Episode 117 N…

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The X/Tools Files 21:50

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Go 1.25 is released 🛠️ x/tools contains public packages that fail to build with Go 1.25.0 🧱 Building blocks for idiomatic Go pipelines by Anton Zhiyanov GopherCon USA, Aug 26-28 in New York 🌩️ Lightning Round outrig ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad

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What's New in Go 1.25? 1:10:30

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It's August, which means we've got a fresh new Go release! In this episode, Kris and Matt pick up the "What's New in Go?" series with an edition for the Go 1.25 release. We've also have a new episode of Break! Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show. This episode contains an extra U…

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DevRel, Community, and Storyblok with Facundo Giuliani 1:28:21

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In this episode of the Ardan Labs Podcast, host Bill Kennedy sits down with Facundo Giuliani, Solutions Engineering Team Manager at Storyblok, to trace his path from his early experiences with computers to leading a remote solutions engineering team. They explore headless CMS, the shift into developer relations, the balance of technical and soft sk…

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Big Data Energy 1:18:29

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In the years leading up to the current AI hype cycle we're currently all experiencing, there was another hype cycle: Big Data. In this episode, Kris is joined by Matt and Steve to discuss how the Big Data craze relates to the current Artificial Intelligence one, where Big Data ends and AI/ML begin, and so much more. We've also have a new episode of…

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The s in "golang" stands for security and an interview with George Adams from Microsoft 52:51

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Visit https://cupogo.dev/ for all things Cup o' Go! [security] Go 1.24.6 and Go 1.23.12 are released Microsoft build of Go Telemetry – Helping Us Build Better Tools Go Assembly Mutation Testing GitLab catches MongoDB Go module supply chain attack Break: Jonathan's streaming again on Twitch George Adams interview Microsoft devblogs ★ Support this po…

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Championing A Cause 1:12:37

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How do you make change happen effectively? In this episode, Matt is joined by Alex Sims to discuss championing a cause and making change happen within your organization. They discuss various strategies, including how to get started, different technical approaches, and how to deal with those who resist change. We've also have a new episode of Break!…

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🗳️ Surveys say... StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey results The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey Proposals 🆕 New: proposal: x/tools/go/analysis/structtag: stricter JSON tag checking Related discussion on Episode 117 Accepted: doc: mention "purego" build tag convention somewhere 🤡 Accepted: mime: expand on what is covered by builtinTypes Accepted: l…

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AI Agents, Tooling, and Limitations with Kenneth Stott 49:05

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In this episode Bill Kennedy and Kenneth Stott discuss the evolving role of AI in organizations, emphasizing the importance of human intelligence in leveraging AI tools effectively. They explore the challenges and opportunities presented by generative AI, the need for a structured data language within organizations, and the ethical considerations s…

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AI Booster? AI Doomer? You're Wrong Either Way 1:20:39

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It's a rarity in recent years to have a conversation and not have the topic of AI brought up. There are those who think we're on the cusp of AI super-intelligence, those who think AI will destroy the job market, and those who completely write the entire thing off. What these conversations lack is nuance. In this episode, Kris is joined by Matt and …

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🎣 Conference roundup, http3, DataDog and Turso do optimizations 27:05

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Jon's gone fishing, Shay's gone camping, so the community took the time to optimize all the things :) https://cupogo.dev/ for all the links and details! This show is supported by you, and there are many ways to support the show (directly and indirectly). Thanks for listening! Meetup roundup Jamie Tanna - Hands on dependency workshop @ Fatsoma Fyne …

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Versioning: We Did It To Ourselves 1:41:44

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Versioning! It's a topic that we all deal with on a daily basis, and yet it's a topic that many of us dread. Our ecosystems love semantic versioning, but many of us find it lacking for many of our use cases. In this episode, Kris and Matt are joined once again by Jamie and Steve to talk about versioning. The panel discusses what versioning is, when…

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Keebo, DevOps, and Team Dynamics with Mary Moore-Simmons 1:43:56

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In this episode, Mary Moore-Simmons, VP of Engineering at Keebo, shares her journey from early tech interests to leadership roles at SendGrid, GitHub, and Keebo. She discusses navigating career transitions, the value of mentorship, and her passion for building innovative developer tools and empowering teams. 00:00 Introduction 07:48 First Memory of…