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Programming

Observability and human intuition in an AI world

In this two-for-one episode recorded at HumanX, Ryan is first joined by Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb, to discuss how AI compresses the software development lifecycle, making observability about capturing the right telemetry. Then, Spiros Xanthos, founder and CEO of Resolve AI, shares with us how...

May 15, 2026 · 1 min read

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How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic area

Jon Hyman, co-founder and CTO of Braze, shares how he's led the company's engineering organization over nearly 15 years of growth — and how they transformed into an AI-first team in just a few months.

May 13, 2026 · 1 min read

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Connecting the dots for accurate AI

At HumanX, Ryan is joined by Philip Rathle, CTO at Neo4j to discuss what knowledge context means for AI agents, how limitations like stale training data make the model-only approach to agents a bad fit for enterprise environments, and how Graph RAG raises the bar for accuracy and reduces context...

May 12, 2026 · 1 min read

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AI giveth and AI taketh CPU

Recorded on the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by AMD CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s silicon strategy for AI borne of their long history of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing, how chipmakers are dealing the wide range of AI workloads from training to inference, and the paradox of agents both...

May 8, 2026 · 1 min read

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What (un)exactly do you mean by semantic search?

Ryan welcomes Brian O’Grady,  Head of Field Research and Solutions Architecture at Qdrant, to discuss the differences between traditional text search engines powered by Lucene and modern vector databases, when vector search’s exact-match needs work for things like logs and security analytics and...

May 5, 2026 · 1 min read

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Time is a construct but it can still break your software

Ryan welcomes  Jason Williams, senior software engineer at Bloomberg and  the creator of Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, to the show to dive into why date and time handling in JavaScript is so difficult and how the Temporal proposal aims to fix it.

May 1, 2026 · 1 min read

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Your LLM issues are really data issues

Ryan welcomes Harsha Chintalapani, co-founder and CTO at Collate and co-creator of Open Metadata, to the show to discuss why AI and LLMs struggle with real-time, structured production data.

Apr 28, 2026 · 1 min read

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Lights, camera, open source!

Ryan is joined on the show by Cult.Repo producers Emma Tracey and Josiah McGarvie to discuss making documentaries about open-source software and the people behind the major technologies that uphold the internet.

Apr 24, 2026 · 1 min read

Programming

How to get multiple agents to play nice at scale

Chase Roossin, group engineering manager, and Steven Kulesza, staff software engineer, from Intuit join the podcast to chat about what might be the hardest problem in engineering right now: getting multiple AI agents to work together in a complex system.

Apr 22, 2026 · 1 min read

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We still need developer communities

Ryan welcomes Mike Swift, co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking, to the show to chat about the never-ending need for software developer communities and entry points into programming; MLH’s recent acquisition of DEV and how they’re creating a place for shared knowledge, building, and...

Apr 21, 2026 · 1 min read

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No country left behind with sovereign AI

Ryan welcomes Stephen Watt, distinguished engineer and VP of Red Hat’s Office of the CTO, to chat about digital sovereignty and sovereign AI.

Apr 17, 2026 · 1 min read

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Who needs VCs when you have friends like these?

Ryan welcomes Runpod co-founder and CEO Zhen Lu to discuss circumventing VC money by going straight to your community for funding, how Zhen balances founder intuition with user feedback when the community is the one backing the project, and Runpod’s journey from basement servers to global...

Apr 14, 2026 · 1 min read

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The messy truth of your AI strategies

Ryan welcomes Hema Raghavan, co-founder and head of engineering at Kumo.ai, to dive into all the messy stuff that comes with implementing AI, from pipeline sprawl to shadow AI.

Apr 10, 2026 · 1 min read

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He designed C++ to solve your code problems

Ryan welcomes Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++ and professor at Columbia, to the show to dive into all things C++, from its history to where it's going today.

Apr 7, 2026 · 1 min read

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Seizing the means of messenger production

Ryan sits down with Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO of Tlon, to chat about calm computing and how humans can take back ownership of their data and digital world.

Apr 3, 2026 · 1 min read