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60:04

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 State of Code Developer Survey. The survey provides a deep examination of how developers are using AI in real production environments, and where the real-world

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49:04

Unlocking the Data Layer for Agentic AI with Simba...

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2026/04/21

AI agents are increasingly capable of reasoning and performing autonomous work over long periods. However, as agents take on more complex, longer-horizon tasks, keeping them supplied with the right information becomes the core engineering challenge. The industry is moving away from pre-loading context upfront toward a model where agents dynamically navigate and retrieve the data they need, when they need it. Redis is approaching context management using a context engine, which is an architecture

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49:23

Agentic Mesh with Eric Broda

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2026/04/16

AI agents are evolving from individual productivity tools into distributed systems components inside enterprises. The next frontier is coming into focus, and it involves large-scale ecosystems of collaborating agents embedded directly into business processes. However, multi-agent architectures introduce serious challenges around orchestration, state management, trust, governance, and observability. Eric Broda is a veteran of the software industry, and he’s the co-author of the new O’Reilly book,

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48:18

New Relic and Agentic DevOps with Nic Benders

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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 a leading observability platform, with a history that spans the full arc of modern software

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54:52

Mobile App Security with Ryan Lloyd09

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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, and fraud.As more critical functionality shifts to mobile, the need to harden apps against sophisticated attackers continues

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67:03

FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin

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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. The FastMCP project builds on MCP to provide high-level, ergonomic abstractions for Python developers to rapidly build and deploy MCP servers and applications. Jeremiah

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58:42

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

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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 attack on LiteLLM that exposed API credentials across thousands of developer environments, and the arrival of OpenCode as a fully open source alternative

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63:50

FreeBSD with John Baldwin

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2026/03/31

FreeBSD is one of the longest-running and most influential open-source operating systems in the world. It was born from the Berkeley Software Distribution in the early 1990s, it has powered everything from high-performance networking infrastructure to game consoles and content delivery networks. Over three decades, it has evolved through major architectural shifts, from symmetric multiprocessing and kernel scalability to modern storage systems and predictable release engineering. John Baldwin has

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59:29

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

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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, modifying the Linux kernel to keep up with these demands is slow, risky, and impractical for

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68:33

Games That Push Back with Bennett Foddy

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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 Joe Nash to discuss his systems-driven approach to game design, why frustration and difficulty are often misunderstood, how streaming and speedrunning have reshaped

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51:07

Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long

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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 with both extremes as it scaled rapidly and accumulated complexity.Prettier emerged as a response to the surprisingly human problem of engineers

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58:07

Skate Story with Sam Eng

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2026/03/17

Skateboarding games have long balanced technical precision with a sense of flow and expression, but Skate Story takes the genre in a radically different direction. It has a distinct vaporwave vibe and blends fluid skate mechanics with exploration, puzzles, and an existential narrative about freedom, pain, and obsession. The game was created by indie developer Sam Eng, who previously released Zarvot for the Nintendo Switch. Skate Story launched to critical acclaim and was widely regarded as one of

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40:57

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

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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 step with rapidly advancing language models.Google DeepMind recently released the File Search Tool, a

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49:04

Reinventing the Python Notebook with Akshay Agrawal

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2026/03/10

Interactive notebooks were popularized by the Jupyter project and have since become a core tool for data science, research, and data exploration. However, traditional, imperative notebooks often break down as projects grow more complex. Hidden state, non-reproducible execution, poor version control ergonomics, and difficulty reusing notebook code in real software systems make it hard to move from exploration to production. At the same time, sharing results often requires collaborators to recreate

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49:21

Organizational Context for AI Coding Agents with...

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2026/03/05

AI agents have taken on a growing share of software development work, so much so that the hardest problems are shifting away from code generation towards something new, context. The challenge is now contextualizing why systems work the way they do, how architectural decisions were made, and the sources of truth that exist outside of the code base. As teams adopt agentic tools, gaps or inconsistencies in context have emerged as a primary reason why software fails to meet production

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57:27

SED News: OpenClaw Goes Viral, Mistral’s Compute...

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2026/03/03

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 viral rise of OpenClaw and its founder’s move to OpenAI, OpenAI’s exploration of ads inside ChatGPT, and Alibaba’s push into agent-powered commerce during Lunar New Year. They also discuss Mistral’s acquisition of Koyeb to deepen its compute stack, the growing

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59:00

Amazon’s IDE for Spec-Driven Development with David...

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/02/26

AI-assisted coding tools have made it easier than ever to spin up prototypes, but turning those prototypes into reliable, production-grade systems remains a major challenge. Large language models are non-deterministic, prone to drift, and often lose track of intent over long development sessions.Kiro is an AI-powered IDE that's built around a spec-driven development workflow. It's focused on helping developers capture intent up front, translate it into concrete requirements and designs, and

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53:14

Engineering AI Systems for Autonomy and Resilience...

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2026/02/24

Enterprise IT systems have grown into sprawling, highly distributed environments spanning cloud infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and increasingly AI-driven workloads. Observability tools have made it easier to collect metrics, logs, and traces, but understanding why systems fail and responding quickly remains a persistent challenge. As complexity continues to rise, the industry is looking beyond dashboards and alerts toward agentic AI systems that can reason about operational data,

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58:40

Inside China’s Great Firewall with Jackson Sippe

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2026/02/19

China's Great Firewall is often spoken about but is rarely understood. It is one of the most sophisticated and opaque censorship systems on the planet, and it shapes how over a billion people interact with the global internet, influences the design of privacy and proxy tools worldwide, and continues to evolve in ways that challenge researchers, developers, and policymakers alike.Jackson Sippe is a PhD researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder whose work focuses on uncovering how

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52:25

Optimizing Agent Behavior in Production with Gideon...

Software Engineering Daily ·

2026/02/17

LLM -powered systems continue to move steadily into production, but this process is presenting teams with challenges that traditional software practices don't commonly encounter. Models and agents are non-deterministic systems, which makes it difficult to test changes, reason about failures, and confidently ship updates. This has created the need for new evaluation tooling designed specifically around the properties of LLMs.Comet is a platform with Roots and MLOps, to the rapidly evolving world

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