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February 6 · 1 hr 43 min · 99.2 MB
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Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?!
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Featuring:
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Istari: level the digital playing field
- AWS Re:invent keynote Blue Origin
- Frictionless book
- Jevons paradox
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- 0:00Let's talk!
- 0:38Sponsor: Tiger Data
- 3:12Animals & Friends
- 5:08Catching up
- 5:48Iterative reinvention
- 8:35Out of the browser
- 11:44What Amal is cookin'
- 15:38A moon vacuum
- 22:06The stack
- 28:27Sponsor: Namespace
- 30:04AI datacenters in space?
- 36:45V BIG vs v small
- 39:16The SDLC in 2026
- 43:25Accountable vs responsible
- 46:22Polymaths
- 51:27Things change
- 52:45A tough time
- 54:47Code is easy, products are hard
- 56:53Sponsor: NordLayer
- 58:32Weird times
- 1:01:08Shape changes
- 1:06:11Jevons paradox
- 1:08:05On vibe coding
- 1:12:24The vibe coders arc
- 1:16:44Jerod's personal arc
- 1:17:57A brave new world
- 1:18:59AI browsers
- 1:20:50Keep your AI close...
- 1:21:47A different perspective
- 1:22:25Safety first
- 1:23:17Adam's verification idea
- 1:24:28On writing tests
- 1:25:25Test spies!
- 1:26:37More Istari tech
- 1:30:17The year of LinkedIn
- 1:31:44Let's blog!
- 1:36:06LinkedIn, smoking, flossing
- 1:37:09Bye, friends
- 1:41:49Next week on the pod (join ++!)