The Merge (by CodeRabbit)
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The Merge by CodeRabbit is a podcast that brings you deep conversations with legendary developers who've shaped the tools we use every day. We explore how artificial intelligence is transforming software development while celebrating the creators and tools that built our foundation. Each episode features intimate discussions about building developer tools, maintaining open source projects, and navigating the evolution of technology.
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- What should you learn? | Kunal Kushwaha · 1 h 16 min · Episode 21Which skills will matter most for software engineers as AI takes on more of the coding? Kunal Kushwaha joins The Merge to discuss how developers can stay relevant, what beginners…
- Jev Explained: Intelligence infused 'If-Statements' for Your Code | Allie form TypeSafe AI · 31 min · Episode 20What is Jev AI, and how do you actually use it? TypeSafe's Allie Laabs explains how Jev works as a "smart if statement" for your code, how to find Jev-shaped problems in your…
- Your Tests Pass. Can Your AI Agent Finish the Job? | Francesco Bonacci, Cua · 42 min · Episode 19AI agents can click, type, and operate software—but how do you know they actually finished the job? Cua co-founder and CEO Francesco Bonacci joins The Merge to discuss…
- The Last Software Engineer: What AI Can’t Replace | Kent C. Dodds · 1 h 16 min · Episode 18AI coding is changing software engineering—but when agents can implement the code, what remains uniquely valuable? Kent C. Dodds joins Hendrik Krack on The Merge to discuss open…
- All the alpha is in the remaining 20% · 39 min · Episode 17How does a hackathon project become infrastructure for more than 2,000 open-source repositories and reach 1.4 million monthly npm downloads? In this episode of The Merge, Hendrik…
- We still don't understand LLMs today. · 30 min · Episode 16How do LLMs actually work—and why do they remain black boxes? In this episode of Merge, Shriyash “Yash” Upadhyay, co-founder of Martian, joins CodeRabbit to explore LLM…
- The Last Skill Software Engineers Need to Survive the AI Era · 15 min · Episode 15Is coding dead? As autonomous AI agents get better at generating code, the actual implementation of software is becoming incredibly cheap. But what is the last skill that keeps…
- How Founders Actually Engineer Product-Market-Fit · 1 h 42 min · Episode 14In this episode of The Merge, we sit down with Michael Grinich, founder and CEO of WorkOS. Checkout Coderabbit: https://coderabbit.link/themerge Michael shares one of the best…
- Fixing "AI Slop": Managing Agents Like Stressed MIT Interns w/ Jesse Vincent, creator of Superpowers · 1 h 18 min · Episode 13What happens when you treat an AI agent like a brilliant, chaotic, sleep-deprived MIT intern instead of a perfect computer program? You actually get elite code. In this episode…
- DX is Dead: Max Stoiber on Why Software Engineering is Shifting to "Taste" · 10 min · Episode 12In this episode of The Merge, recorded live at the CodeRabbit office, we sit down with Max Stoiber to tackle a massive paradigm shift shaking the industry: Why DX (Developer…
- Why Tanner Linsley Won’t Take VC Money for TanStack · 1 h 8 min · Episode 11Tanner Linsley, creator of TanStack, joins The Merge to talk about what it really takes to keep open source free, independent, and sustainable. TanStack is used by millions of…
- Google worries about OS models: Kunal Kushwaha on Why Open Source is Killing Proprietary AI · 26 min · Episode 10In this episode of The Merge, we sit down with Kunal Kushwaha at Scale Con in Pasadena. Kunal is a GitHub Star and the EMEA Lead for Developer Relations at Cast AI, an…
- Why NVIDIA is Betting on Open Source and Ultra-Fast Inference · 56 min · Episode 9Chris Alexios joins Hendrik at our CodeRabbit Office in San Francisco to pull back the curtain on NVIDIA’s latest model family, Nemotron-3 (Nano, Super, and Ultra). They dive…
- Claude OPUS 4.7 - Anthropic drops a new Model - David Loker (VP of AI at CodeRabbit) · 21 min · Episode 8
- Most Founders Don't Understand Open Source | Ivan Burazin (CEO, Daytona) · 45 min · Episode 7Most Founders Don't Understand Open Source | Ivan Dzido (Daytona) "Most people actually don't understand what they are signing off to...". In this episode of The Merge, we sit…
- TypeScript BEATS Python when building AI Agents (Mastra's YC Journey) · 47 min · Episode 6Is the era of Python-only AI over? Mastra CTO Abhi Aiyer breaks down why 1.2 million developers are shifting to TypeScript to build production-ready AI agents, the brutal…
- DID GOOGLE JUST WIN THE AI RACE? · 21 min · Episode 5Is the "Benchmark Chasing" era over? With the release of Gemini 3.1 Pro and the specialized Deep Think mode, Google isn't just releasing a faster model—they are introducing a…
- From Psychologist to 12k Stars on Github: The Career Pivot You Need to Hear About! · 48 min · Episode 4🎙️ The Merge Episode #2: From Psychology to 12,000 Stars with Herrington Darkhome In this episode of The Merge, Hendrik sits down with Herrington Darkhome, the creator of…
- GPT-5.3-Codex vs. Claude Opus 4.6 Comparison: Performance, Benchmarks & Agentic Coding Workflows · 17 min · Episode 3THE MERGE - AI NEWSROOM GPT-5.3-Codex vs. Claude Opus 4.6: Benchmarks and Best Agentic Workflows OpenAI and Anthropic just changed the game for February 2026. But as these models…
- After 2025: What’s Next for AI Coding in 2026 - The Merge (by CodeRabbit) - Episode1 · 34 min · Episode 22025 was chaos in the best way: DeepSeek cracked open the model monopoly and proved world-class open weights don't need infinite budgets. Vibe coding went mainstream - prompt…
