
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
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Apr 12, 2025 · 1 hr 39 min · 96.1 MB
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Richard Moot joins us to discuss Changelog helping Square launch a developer pod and the excitement around MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. What might it foretell about the future of human/robot relations?
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Featuring:
- Richard Moot – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Square Developer Podcast
- Rhea Lana on Scaling a Pop-Up Business to 120 Franchises
- The Bottom Line
- Square Developer on YouTube
- Fireside Chat with Jack Dorsey & Adam Stacoviak
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- 0:00Let's talk!
- 0:41Sponsor: Heroku
- 3:25OSCON & Friends
- 5:00Years in the making
- 5:46What held them back
- 9:47The Square/Block relationship
- 11:35Naming the pod
- 19:04Inspirational content
- 25:49Content strategies
- 28:00Sponsor: Retool
- 30:42Learning to host well
- 34:43Happy pod parents
- 35:27Adam can't say the URL
- 37:26The determining factor
- 40:01Podcasting advice
- 43:52Getting real
- 48:26Intro to MCP
- 53:27What MCP servers look like
- 56:42Sponsor: Augment Code
- 1:00:07The open API era
- 1:04:09High stakes
- 1:07:02An AGI hypothesis
- 1:08:28What's the next race?
- 1:09:45OpenAI vs the world
- 1:17:31You have to be there
- 1:20:37Where's the tollbooth
- 1:23:32If you take ChatGPT away...
- 1:25:30The highway analogy
- 1:26:44The horse and buggy analogy
- 1:28:46Ejection seats
- 1:33:10Small army of personal agents
- 1:33:53Galaxy brain meme
- 1:35:08Time to pull the plug
- 1:35:29Bye, friends
- 1:37:09Coming up next