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49:56

Security in the Age of Instant Exploits

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/10/06

In the world of software security, there was historically a comfortable lag between the moment a vulnerability became public and the moment attackers could exploit it. This lag was often measured in months, but AI models can now read a vulnerability report and generate a working exploit almost instantly. They can scan the entire internet for exposed secrets at a scale no human team could match, and surface complex flaws that traditional tools missed for years. However, the same capabilities are

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52:29

The State of Browser Testing

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/10/01

Automated browser testing is a foundational technology that many web developers rely on. Modern tooling lets a single test drive Chrome, Firefox, and Safari the same way, a triumph of software engineering built on years of standardization work. That standardization emerged from the interplay between open source projects, browser vendors, and standards bodies like the W3C.David Burns is a longtime Selenium and WebDriver contributor, a veteran of Mozilla, and is currently the Head of Developer

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59:48

Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/09/29

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist, and a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the author of dozens of books, including the nonfiction Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It and the novel Picks and Shovels. His work spans tech policy books like The Internet Con and Chokepoint Capitalism, the solarpunk novels Walkaway and The Lost Cause, and the bestselling YA Little Brother series. He holds

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50:31

A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/09/10

A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed SystemsBuilding software that runs across many machines is notoriously difficult. Developers have to grapple with problems such as race conditions, partial failures, and message ordering. Notably, one category of distributed software has largely escaped these burdens. A distributed database can spread a single query across thousands of machines, handling the coordination, failure recovery, and ordering internally. This raises a natural question of why

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47:51

How LLMs Are Reshaping Recommendation Systems

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/08/18

News feeds and recommendation systems have long relied on deep learning architectures that score each candidate item independently. As LLMs have matured, they have opened up a fundamentally different approach, where a system can reason about content the way it reasons about language. However, that power comes with a fresh set of engineering challenges around cost, scale, and evaluation.LinkedIn recently rebuilt its news feed to treat content recommendation as a sequence modeling problem. The

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49:57

Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/08/13

For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production code is generated by LLMs with little human review. Because that code is not fully trusted, it increasingly runs in isolated, sandboxed environments. Meanwhile, AI agents are starting to operate infrastructure directly, by spinning services up and tearing them down on their own. Together these shifts raise the question of whether the cloud needs to be rebuilt

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1:02:56

Biome and the Future of JavaScript Tooling

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/06/18

Modern web development requires an ever-growing collection of tools including formatters, linters, bundlers, and plugins. Each tool typically has its own configuration, dependencies, and performance cost. As applications grow more complex, the overhead of maintaining this toolchain becomes a real burden. Biome is an open source toolchain for web projects that brings formatting and lintingThe post Biome and the Future of JavaScript Tooling appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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46:18

Preparing for Q-Day

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/06/16

Most of the cryptography securing the internet today rests on mathematical problems that classical computers cannot solve in any reasonable timeframe. That assumption is now being tested. Recent advances in quantum computing have dramatically compressed timelines, and many in the industry have set a target of full post-quantum security by 2029, meaning a complete migrationThe post Preparing for Q-Day appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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48:37

SED News: Apple’s AI Problem, The Real Business Model...

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/06/09

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they cover Apple‘s uncertain path beyond the iPhone. They also discuss Google‘s agentic pivot at Google I/O, a surge in DuckDuckGoThe post SED News: Apple’s AI Problem, The Real Business Model of AI, and Token Cost Reckoning appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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50:31

The Hardware Bottleneck AI Can’t Fix

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/06/02

Software engineering has developed powerful tools for observability, data management, and continuous testing, but hardware engineering has largely not kept pace. The feedback loops, tooling, and infrastructure that software engineers take for granted simply do not exist in most hardware programs. Nominal is a data platform built to help hardware organizations move at the sameThe post The Hardware Bottleneck AI Can’t Fix appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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50:14

Open-Weight AI Models

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/04/28

Open-weight models are AI systems whose trained parameters are publicly released, which allows developers to run, fine-tune, and deploy them independently rather than accessing them only through a hosted API. While closed-weight models from companies like OpenAI or Anthropic are delivered as managed services, open-weight models give organizations direct control over how the models areThe post Open-Weight AI Models appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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59:03

Hype and Reality of the AI Coding Shift

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/04/23

AI coding tools have gone from novelty to core infrastructure in under three years. Today, many devs use AI daily, a substantial share of new code is AI-generated, and expectations for automation are rapidly increasing. Sonar is a company specializing in analysis of code quality and security, and they recently released a new survey –The post Hype and Reality of the AI Coding Shift appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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46:18

New Relic and Agentic DevOps with Nic Benders

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/04/14

Observability emerged from the need to understand complex software systems, and involves tracking metrics, logs, and traces so engineers can detect and diagnose problems before they affect users. However, modern applications often encompass hundreds of services, containers, and dependencies, generating more observability data than dashboards and alerts alone can effectively surface. New Relic is aThe post New Relic and Agentic DevOps with Nic Benders appeared first on Software Engineering

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54:52

Mobile App Security with Ryan Lloyd

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/04/09

Mobile apps have become a primary interface for critical services, including banking, payments, and healthcare. Unlike web applications, much of the logic and intellectual property in a mobile app lives directly on the user’s device, which is an environment the developer doesn’t control. That makes mobile apps uniquely exposed to reverse engineering, runtime manipulation, andThe post Mobile App Security with Ryan Lloyd appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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1:06:06

FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/04/07

The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, gives developers a common way to expose tools, data, and capabilities to large language models, and it has quickly become an important standard in agentic AI. FastMCP is an open source project stewarded by the team at Prefect, which is an orchestration platform for AI and data workflows. TheThe post FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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56:42

SED News: OpenCode, AI Code vs. Shipped Code, and the...

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/04/02

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they cover the resurgence of ARM and CPUs as serious compute infrastructure for running local AI agents, a supply chain attackThe post SED News: OpenCode, AI Code vs. Shipped Code, and the LiteLLM Breach appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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57:30

Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with...

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/03/26

Modern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communicate across clusters, and traditional networking assumptions break down. Linux networking was designed decades ago around static IPs and linear rule processing, which makes it increasingly difficult to achieve scale in Kubernetes environments. At the same time,The post Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill Mulligan appeared first on

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1:06:33

Games That Push Back with Bennett Foddy

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/03/24

Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer known for creating wholly distinctive games such as QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and the recently released Baby Steps. He’s also a former professor at the NYU Game Center, where he taught game design alongside developing his own experimental work. In this episode, Bennett joins JoeThe post Games That Push Back with Bennett Foddy appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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50:35

Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/03/19

Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, linting, and build systems can either create friction and endless debate, or quietly remove entire classes of problems from a team’s workflow. Over the past decade, the JavaScript ecosystem has wrestled withThe post Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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37:57

DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan...

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/03/12

Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex and costly. Developers typically have to manage vector databases, chunking strategies, embedding models, and indexing infrastructure. Designing effective RAG systems is also a moving target, as techniques and best practices evolve in stepThe post DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev appeared first on Software

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