Working Code
by Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham
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275: The Feelings Episode
275: The Feelings Episode
About this podcast
Working Code is a technology podcast unlike all others. Instead of diving deep into specific technologies to learn them better, or focusing on soft-skills, this one is like hanging out together at the water cooler or in the hallway at a technical conference. Working Code celebrates the triumphs and fails of working as a developer, and aims to make your career in coding more enjoyable.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 277 episodes
- 275: The Feelings Episode · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 275How are we doing? No, really. The world moves fast, and keeping up doesn't leave much time to check in. This week, Adam and Ben settle in for a little podcast therapy. Follow…
- 274: Bot Manners and Good Taste - Listener Questions · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 274Has a year of talking to LLMs changed the way we talk to people? Great question, and you're absolutely right! And when the models write all the code, what's left for us? This…
- 273: Ethical Lines and Career Crossroads - Listener Questions · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 273What would you do if your manager asked you to make the audit trail editable? Why would Carol rather be evil? And would you still want to be a software engineer in five years, or…
- 272: Let Me Prompt That For You · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 272LLMs have read everything, but they haven't spent fifteen years at the company learning which rules actually matter. Can a model ever bring a career's worth of experience to a…
- 271: Slop Is the New Clean · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 271Uncle Bob wrote the book on clean code, and the whole argument rests on one number: you read code ten times for every time you write it, so you'd better make it readable. His…
- 270: Hot Takes on Hot Takes · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 270We're back after a week off and we have some things to get off our chest. Carol's agent doesn't understand auth, Ben explores the nature of performative coding, Adam agreed that…
- 269: The AI Anxiety Draft · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 269Worrying about AI is the easy part. Everyone already has a list. The interesting part is what lands on it, what doesn't, and why. From military use, to an AI slop takeover, to…
- 268: Nobody Wants to Meet Up Anymore · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 268Nobody went to conferences for the talks. You went for the hallway, and for a roomful of people who'd made the same odd career bet you had. We didn't know how good we had it…
- 267: Prove You Are Human · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 267Tim is trying to hire remote developers, but the interviews have started to feel like one long CAPTCHA. Before he can decide who's right for the job, he has to figure out whether…
- 266: Strugglemaxing · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 266They say history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes, and apparently so do show topics. A year on from our episode on the value of friction, the crew are back to discuss value of…
- 265: Knowing When to Stop · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 265Eighteen weeks ago Adam handed his decade-old ORM layer to an AI agent. This week he kills the whole refactor — and the feeling that comes isn't regret, it's relief. Somewhere in…
- 264: Look Busy, Claude's Working · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 264The promise was that AI would take the grunt work off your plate and leave you the good stuff. This week is the part no one advertised: you got into this to make things — but…
- 263: Intimacy with the Code · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 263Getting unstuck has gotten so cheap that Ben can't remember the last time he actually learned something at work — and the struggle he's skipping was where knowing the code, and…
- 262: Zen and the Art of AI-Driven Maintenance · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 262This week is the quiet worry underneath all the productivity gains: that every time you hand the boring work to a machine, you're handing over a little of the curiosity that made…
- 261: The Ben Turing Test · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 261Adam trained an AI on twenty years of Ben's blog, then asked Ben to pick his own words out of a lineup of forgeries. This week the hosts play a game of Ben or Bot, and you can…
- 260: Reinventing the Wiki · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 260What's the point of a personal wiki when AI agents have already read the entire internet? This week is about patterns for co-maintaining a personal wiki with an AI agent, and…
- 259: Walling Off Your Mental Garden · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 259This week is a philosophical conversation about what you let into your head — the podcasts, the influencers, the political figures, the friends — and the difference between a…
- 258: On the AI of It All · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 258Adam wrote a blog post this week about why AI keeps making him feel worse. This week is an honest conversation about the hypocrite's bind: needing to use the thing you recognize…
- 257: We Solved Everything · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 257"We have solved all of the world's problems." Observability past the point where more logs stop helping, continuous deployment when the customer is the federal government and the…
- 256: The Productivity Trap: How Optimizing Everything Broke Us · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 256It's 11:30 PM and you're still prompting. The code is better than anything you'd have shipped a year ago. The output is prolific, the roadmap is moving, the tooling is…
