ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

Conor Hoekstra, Bryce Adelstein Lelbach & Ben Deane

A programming podcast hosted by three software engineers (two at a time) that focuses on algorithms, data structures, programming languages, latest news in tech and more. The podcast was initially inspired by Magic Read Along.

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Yesterday · 21 min
Episode 308: Rule of N with Jason Turner
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat with Jason Turner about his Rule of N talk. Link to Episode 308 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter BlueSky About the Guest: Jason is host of the YouTube channel C++ Weekly, co-host of the podcast CppCast, author of C++ Best Practices, and author of the first casual puzzle books designed to teach C++ fundamentals while having fun! Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-10-07 Date Released: 2026-10-16 CppCast Podcast List of All Jason's Talks Rules for Special Member Functions The rule of three/five/zero C++ std::ignore Spaceship operator warren recondite sesquipedalian Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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October 9 · 25 min
Episode 307: C++ Conferences & Meetups with Jason Turner
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about Jason Turner's about C++ conferences, meetups and more! Link to Episode 307 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter BlueSky About the Guest: Jason is host of the YouTube channel C++ Weekly, co-host of the podcast CppCast, author of C++ Best Practices, and author of the first casual puzzle books designed to teach C++ fundamentals while having fun! Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-10-07 Date Released: 2026-10-09 CppCast Podcast cpp.chat Podcast Denver C++ Meetup Stockholm C++ Meetup NDC Toronto Lambda World C++ Online NDC Copenhagen C++ On Sea C++ Now CppCon C++ Under the Sea List of All Jason's Talks Safety In Numbers Talk Rule of N Talk Keynote: I Fixed Move Semantics - Jason Turner @cppweekly Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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October 2 · 31 min
Episode 306: Will Bryce Switch to Linux (Omarchy)?!
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about Omarchy, Linux vs Windows and more! Link to Episode 306 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-09-30 Date Released: 2026-10-02 Omarchy Enter the Matrix • Conor Hoekstra • YOW! 2025 Enter the Matrix Deck Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far The Ezra Klein Show DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux Lex Fridman Podcast Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote - DHH ADSP Episode 302: From PyTorch to GPU MODE with Mark Saroufim POD GOD AI-FI Book Rankings Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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September 25 · 11 min
Episode 305: DHH, Hinton & Jensen
In this episode, Conor mentions of few podcasts that might be of interest while on paternity leave. Link to Episode 305 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-09-24 Date Released: 2026-09-25 ADSP Episode 302: From PyTorch to GPU MODE with Mark Saroufim ADSP Episode 271: Mastermind Algorithms POD GOD DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far | The Ezra Klein Show AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried Big Technology Podcast Hard Fork Podcast Machine Gods Podcast Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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September 18 · 38 min
Episode 304: The Agentic Era & Books with Mark Saroufim
In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about autoresearch, productionizing AI-generated GPU kernels, GPU MODE, books, video games and more! Link to Episode 304 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky About the Guest: Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE. Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-20 Date Released: 2026-09-18 Core Automation GPU MODE PyTorch ADSP Episode 294: Histocache CUB Library QR GPU MODE Problem Modal GPU MODE Lecture 108: One Layer Deeper competition onelayerdeeper.ai The Peterman Pod Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On What Grew His Career And Building at Anthropic (Peterman Pod) Permutation City by Greg Egan A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Mark's Bookshelf Mark's Top 10 Books Journey to the Ants Visual Group Theory The Theory of Fun Working with Legacy Code The Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics Game Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Finance NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem laplace-torch Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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September 11 · 34 min
Episode 303: Open Models, GPU Kernels & autoresearch with Mark Saroufim
In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about open vs closed models, numerical correctness, AI-generated GPU kernels, autoresearch and more! Link to Episode 303 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky About the Guest: Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE. Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-20 Date Released: 2026-09-11 Core Automation GPU MODE PyTorch QR GPU MODE Problem NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem laplace-torch Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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September 4 · 25 min
Episode 302: From PyTorch to GPU MODE with Mark Saroufim
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Mark Saroufim about his path from AI theory and Microsoft to Graphcore and PyTorch, what he learned from open source, building the GPU MODE community, and his work automating AI systems research at Core Automation. Link to Episode 302 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky About the Guest: Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE. Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-20 Date Released: 2026-09-04 Core Automation GPU MODE Graphcore The Robot Overlord Manual Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation PyTorch Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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August 28 · 44 min
Episode 301: My Existential Crisis, AI Fluency & the Death of Conferences?
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about the future of technical communities, AI fluency, Conor's existential crisis, Auto Research Academy and more! Link to Episode 301 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-08-12 Date Released: 2026-08-28 GOSIM Conferences Modal EURO PYTHON GPU MODE Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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August 21 · 1 hr 34 min
Episode 300: Sean Parent "I'm not writing code anymore."
In this episode, Conor and Bryce celebrate the 300th episode fo ADSP by catching up with Sean Parent! Link to Episode 300 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky About the Guest: Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe Photoshop. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC. Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-08-19 Date Released: 2026-08-21 POD GOD CppCast cpp.chat Sean Parent - Papers and Presentations ADSP Episode 299: Do We Need Humans in the Loop? NVIDIA CCCL cel-rs Stepanov Papers Bob Tarjan Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm Soylent Green is people! Claude Code The Last Emperor - A Gentleman Jonathon Blow on the Quality of Software (Software is in Decline) Lean Programming Language Dafny Programming Language Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg autoresearch Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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August 14 · 36 min
Episode 299: Do We Need Humans in the Loop?
In this episode, Conor and Bryce discuss the role of humans in the loop with AI and code review in the age of AI. Link to Episode 299 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-08-12 Date Released: 2026-08-14 Red-tailed Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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August 7 · 22 min
Episode 298: Design of APIs, UIs & Algorithms
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about the design of APIs, UIs & algorithms! Link to Episode 298 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter | BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-22 Date Released: 2026-08-07 C++Now 2018: Ben Deane “Easy to Use, Hard to Misuse: Declarative Style in C++” NDC Toronto UI talk The Design of Everyday Things About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design User Interface Design For Programmers Just My Type The Elements of Typographic Style Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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July 31 · 43 min
Episode 297: Networking, FPS vs RTS, State of Game Industry and the Obra Dinn
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about networking in FPS vs RTS video games, the state of the video game industry and more! Link to Episode 297 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter | BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-22 Date Released: 2026-07-31 Real-time strategy (RTS) First-person shooter (FPS) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Return of the Obra Dinn Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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July 24 · 27 min
Episode 296: Working in the Video Game Industry
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about video games, working in the video game industry and more! Link to Episode 296 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter | BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-22 Date Released: 2026-07-24 videogamedunkey CppCast The Witness The Witness - A Great Game That You Shouldn't Play Jonathan Blow on Bad Video Game Criticism Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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July 17 · 51 min
Episode 295: CityStrides vs Graph Algorithms vs GPT 5.6 Sol
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about CityStrides, graph algorithms, GPT 5.6 Solver, and more! Link to Episode 295 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-13 Date Released: 2026-07-17 ADSP Episode 149: CityStrides.com, Graph Algorithms and More! Carlo de Lorenzi: Toronto runner with terminal brain cancer runs every street in the city Carlo's fundraiser for Community Music Schools of Toronto Foundation CityStrides.com Open Street Maps city-strides-hacking GitHub Repo Hamiltonian Path Eulerian Path Episode 220: Graph Algorithms & 7 Bridges of Königsberg NVIDIA cuopt Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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July 10 · 34 min
Episode 294: Histocache
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about histogram algorithms, histocache and more! Link to Episode 294 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-09 Date Released: 2026-07-10 Bryce's Tweet Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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July 3 · 48 min
Episode 293: APL or Assembly
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about AI vs abstractions, the language of LLMs and more! Link to Episode 293 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-07-02 Date Released: 2026-07-03 The Daily - Why Everyone Cares About This World Cup ADSP Episode 237: Thrust with Jared Hoberock Which programming languages are most token-efficient? cp.RawKernel CuPy JAX Triton NVIDIA CUDA Tile cuTile Python GPU Mode AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried VALERIAN and the City of a Thousand Planets Trailer # 2 (2017) Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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June 26 · 34 min
Episode 292: GPU MODE, PLs, Post AGI, Wingspan & Lawn Care
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about GPU MODE, programming languages, post AGI, Wingspan, lawn care and more! Link to Episode 292 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-06-10 Date Released: 2026-06-26 creduce autoresearch GPU Mode Parrot NVIDIA CUDA Tile cuTile Python Triton Jeri Ellsworth CppCast Episode 218: Commodore 64 and Tilt Five AR (with Jeri Ellsworth) Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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June 19 · 33 min
Episode 291: autoresearch with Opus 4.8 & GPT 5.5
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat autoresearch, the top LLM models, how to get the most out of them and more! Link to Episode 291 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-06-10 Date Released: 2026-06-19 autoresearch Oxide and Friends GPU Mode Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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June 12 · 21 min
Episode 290: AI Thoughts & The Best Thing You Can Do for Your Career
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat and continue their conversation about AI, its impact and what it means for the future. Link to Episode 290 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter | BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-05-27 Date Released: 2026-06-12 ADSP Episode 246: Not High on AI? ADSP Episode 289: Ben's Updated AI Thoughts Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Life update: Zig, AI, unemployment, and more Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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June 5 · 23 min
Episode 289: Ben's Updated AI Thoughts
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat and Ben gives his updated thoughts about AI. Link to Episode 289 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio Ben Deane: Twitter | BlueSky Show Notes Date Recorded: 2026-05-27 Date Released: 2026-06-05 ADSP Episode 246: Not High on AI? Intro Song Info Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8
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