Why AI coding claims don't add up (News)

Why AI coding claims don't add up (News)

Author: Changelog Media September 8, 2025 Duration: 8:53
Mike Judge breaks down why he doesn't believe the AI coding claims add up, the folks behind Cactoide create an open source alternative to Meetup / Eventbrite, Ryan Farley tells the story of how RSS beat Microsoft, Dominik Szymański ditched Docker for Podman (and thinks you should too), and Stripe announces a new layer 1 blockchain called Tempo.

Each week, the team at Changelog Media sifts through the noise of the software world to bring you a thoughtful mix of news, analysis, and conversation. The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source is more than a weekly brief; it’s a long-form dialogue with the developers, maintainers, and thinkers who are shaping the future of technology. You’ll hear in-depth technical interviews that go beyond surface-level takes, exploring the real challenges and triumphs behind significant open source projects and industry trends. The discussion is grounded in the daily reality of building software, making the content immediately relevant whether you’re a seasoned engineer or deeply curious about the craft. This podcast operates with the belief that open source is more than code-it’s about the people and the communities that sustain it. By tuning in, you join a conversation that values depth over hot takes and substance over speed, all while keeping a pulse on the weekly developments that matter. It’s a consistent source for anyone who wants to understand not just what is changing in software development, but why it matters and how it all fits together.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Podcast Episodes
Kaizen! Mop-up job (Friends) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:47:36
It's our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pipely a deep speed tes…
Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:39
Ellie Huxtable's magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers' hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows…
The science behind developer flow states (News) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:47
Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back to it), a smart vacuum turned against an innocent hacker, Matz and the Ruby core team step up to steward RubyGems, Simon Willison t…
There will be bleeps (Friends) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:41:45
Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of…
Spec-driven development with Kiro (Interview) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:20
We're joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS's attempt at building an AI coding environment to take you from prototype to production. It does that by bringing structure to your agentic workflow with spec-…
The great software quality collapse (News) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:45
Denis Stetskov describes how we've "normalized catastrophe" in the software industry, Meta is officially handing React and React Native over to a foundation, The New Stack reports on GitHub's Azure migration priority, Mi…
A new direction for AI developer tooling (Friends) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:52
Elixir creator, José Valim, is throwing his hat into the coding agent ring with Tidewave –a coding agent for full-stack web development. Tidewave runs in the browser alongside your app, but it's also deeply integrated in…
Vite documentary companion pod (Interview) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:22
Our friends at Cult.Repo launch their epic Vite documentary on October 9th, 2025! To celebrate, Jerod sat down with Evan You to discuss Vite's adoption story, why he raised money to start VoidZero, how developer document…
The best coders should exit the feed (News) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:42
Abner Coimbre makes a compelling case why our biggest technical talent should abandon for-profit social platforms, Noah Brier creates a Claude Code and Obsidian starter kit, Bharath Natarajan documents the Vercel vs Clou…
npm under siege (what to do about it) (Friends) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:35:20
Over the past two months, we’ve seen some of the most serious supply chain attacks in npm history: phishing campaigns, maintainer account takeovers, and malware published to packages with billions of weekly downloads. Wh…