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Storytime with Steve Yegge (Interview)
Jul 20, 2023 · 1 hr 43 min · 99.2 MB
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This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it’s storytime!
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Featuring:
- Steve Yegge – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Steve Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant
- steve-yegge-platform-rant-follow-up.md
- Steve Yegge joins as Head of Engineering (or, “Why I left retirement to join Sourcegraph”)
- All You Need Is Cody
- Cody is Cheating
- A good day with Jeff
- Steve Yegge on Wikipedia
- Why I left Google to join Grab
- Cody AI
- Yin and Yang on Wikipedia
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courses.cs.washington.edusteve-yegge-platform-rant-follow-up.md
gist.github.comAll You Need Is Cody
about.sourcegraph.comCody is Cheating
about.sourcegraph.comA good day with Jeff
steve-yegge.medium.comSteve Yegge on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.orgWhy I left Google to join Grab
steve-yegge.medium.comCody AI
sourcegraph.comYin and Yang on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.orgPRs welcome!
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 0:59Sponsor: Sentry
- 4:44Start the show!
- 7:49Did Jeff have the vision of AWS?
- 10:14SOAP was cool?
- 16:30Scope: A story I've never told
- 22:58Yin and Yang
- 24:14Jeff freezes people
- 28:23Sponsor: Drata
- 30:06Thinking on your feet
- 31:05Be like water? (no)
- 31:42Steve is 'the closer'
- 35:38Book causes eviction!!
- 42:54Sociopathic leaders
- 47:18Since you've been gone (from Google)
- 52:16Where is Google going?
- 58:57Will Apple call it AI?
- 1:00:10Did you Google that?
- 1:02:57Here's how Google wins
- 1:05:48Bake in 'opt-in relevance'
- 1:06:38From retirement to Sourcegraph
- 1:09:27Humans need struggle
- 1:11:19Why Sourcegraph?
- 1:15:00Where is Cody going?
- 1:23:45Steve made Jeff Bezos giggle
- 1:25:44Grab was fun
- 1:27:54Cody is cheating
- 1:32:34How to be inevitable
- 1:35:36A second prescription
- 1:41:00Up next!