How 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.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Compiling — an xkcd comic about waiting for code to compile.

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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Has 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 week the hosts answer more listener questions.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• T3 Code — an app for running coding agents.
• Proxmox — splits a physical machine into virtual machines and containers.
• Tailscale — private network access to your machines without opening ports.
• Jellyfin — self-hosted media server.
• Pi-hole — network-wide ad blocker.

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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What 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 is it finally time to buy the ice cream truck? This week the hosts answer listener questions on ethical lines, career pivots, and the future of software engineering.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• starry-night - the syntax highlighter behind Ben's new blog API.
• DEF CON - the hacking conference behind the red-teaming and social-engineering discussion.
• 271: Slop Is the New Clean - the earlier discussion of Uncle Bob and Matt Pocock's interview that Ben revisits.

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

Full show notes and transcript here.