Episodes

  • 187: Agentic Coding

    187: Agentic Coding
    May 2 2026
    In this episode, Patrick and Jason cover Agentic Coding!
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • 186: Becoming a Manager

    186: Becoming a Manager
    Feb 3 2026
    Patrick and Jason discuss what it means to become a manager and how the role differs from individual engineering work. They cover hiring, coaching, performance management, team goals, and when moving into management is or is not the right choice.
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • 185: Workflow Orchestrators

    185: Workflow Orchestrators
    Nov 4 2025
    Patrick and Jason break down workflow orchestrators and why they matter for batch jobs, long-running tasks, and resumable distributed systems. They compare tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Ray, and Kubeflow while explaining the infrastructure patterns behind them.
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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • 184: Asynchronous Programming

    184: Asynchronous Programming
    Sep 23 2025
    Patrick and Jason explain asynchronous programming and how it differs from traditional multithreading and multiprocessing. They cover coroutines, blocking versus non-blocking operations, promises, callbacks, async/await, and the tradeoffs behind each approach.
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • 183: Landing a Software Job in 2025

    183: Landing a Software Job in 2025
    Jul 31 2025
    Patrick and Jason are joined by Mark Cunningham to discuss how software engineers can find strong job opportunities and perform well throughout the interview process. They cover sourcing strategies, reverse interviews, negotiation, hiring-manager expectations, and common mistakes candidates should avoid.
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • 182: AI Assisted Coding

    182: AI Assisted Coding
    Jun 30 2025
    Patrick and Jason discuss how AI-assisted coding tools can speed up development, answer questions about a codebase, and reduce boilerplate work. They compare common workflows and tools such as Copilot, Cursor, and command-line assistants while talking through where these systems help most.
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • 181: Memory Management

    181: Memory Management
    May 12 2025
    Patrick and Jason cover memory management from both the operating-system and language-runtime perspectives. They discuss heap management, virtual memory, garbage collection, ownership models, and practical techniques for diagnosing and reducing excessive memory use.
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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • 180: Reinforcement Learning

    180: Reinforcement Learning
    Mar 17 2025
    Patrick and Jason introduce reinforcement learning and place it alongside supervised and unsupervised learning. They cover Q-learning, SARSA, policy gradients, actor-critic methods, PPO, imitation learning, and why training and evaluating RL systems is so challenging.
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    1 hr and 52 mins