Coder Radio

580: Error Lake

July 24th, 2024  |  1 hr 5 mins

ai safety, amd, bsod, chip manufacturing, coder radio, cpu crashes, crowdstrike, developers, development podcast, driver error, employee agreements, european commission, government regulation, instability, intel, kernel panic, llama, meta, microcode error, microsoft, nondisclosure agreements, open-source ai, openai, security software, water scarcity, whistleblowers

Our thoughts on the CrowdStrike outage and why Intel is in the hot seat with developers.

577: Holy Order of the Admins

July 2nd, 2024  |  47 mins 50 secs

advanced features, ai, alice ai, apple intelligence, aspen institute, bugs, character.ai, chatgpt, coder radio, computing resources, developer, developers, development podcast, docker, eq, events, fountain, github issue, google, indeed, iq, jar-jar desktop, lary summers, macos, meta, migration, mitigations, monthly fees, no-li brewhouse, obj-c, oneapi, open-source, oses, perforce, piper, regression testing, repository operations, research partnerships, retail demos, rosetta, rust, smtp, software development job postings, source control, spokane meetup, st. louis fed, sycl, system76, tdd, terminal, testgen-llm, testing, unit test improvement, user stories, vision pro, xai

Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests, and the crazy deals new AI companies are getting themselves into to access hardware.

567: The year of Small Models

April 24th, 2024  |  42 mins 53 secs

ai model, apple vision pro, ar, business, chatbots, coder radio, developers, development podcast, google, llama 3, meta, meta horizon os, microsoft, open platform, phi-3, protest, small ai model, vr, workplace

Llama 3 and Phi-3-mini are up and running on phones, Raspberry Pis, and we give them a go. Plus Google kills the vibe, and Meta opens up Horizon OS.

565: The Great Llama

April 10th, 2024  |  50 mins 11 secs

coder radio, developers, development podcast, gen z, google axion, google cloud next 2024, google vids, google workspace, llma3, meta, mike rowe, online jobs for teens, open-source, trade jobs, work-from-home stem jobs, workforce challenges

Why does Meta give away Llma for free? What's in it for them?

Plus, our thoughts on the data showing the trades are starting to see a boom, and new coding jobs are declining.

561: No CUDA for You!

March 13th, 2024  |  23 mins 50 secs

algebraic data types, brad neuberg, chinese gpu makers, coder radio, cuda, developers, development podcast, eula, immutable data, java, jeff bezos, linux, market share, meta, monopoly, nvidia, pengwin, record classes, rust, sealed interfaces, translation layers, zluda, zuck

NVIDIA locks CUDA down further, and we ponder what it might take to break their stranglehold on the market, Zuck's brilliant move that put an egg on his face, and we take a minute to appreciate new developments with Java.

516: There is No Moat

May 3rd, 2023  |  1 hr 6 secs

ad revenue, alphabet, amazon, bing, chatgpt, cloud adoption, coder radio, dangers of ai, development podcast, digital ads, fraudulent applications, geoffrey hinton, google, google leaked file, h1-b visa, layoffs, llama, llms, meta, neural networks, openai, responsible approach to ai, sernau, uscis, visa requests, we have no moat

Why open source might be the real AI winner long-term, and Mike gets the ultimate "I told you so."

510: Edge of Disaster

March 22nd, 2023  |  49 mins 25 secs

.net, ai, amazon, andy jassy, bank failure, bing, ceo, chatbot, co-creator of unix, coder radio, delphi, development podcast, edge, in-person, ios, ken thompson, ken thompson switches to linux, layoffs, linux, macos, mark zuckerberg, meta, microsoft, objective-c, perform, remote work, remotely, svb

Microsoft's moonshot is turning into a crapshoot.

498: The Birds and the Elephants

December 28th, 2022  |  47 mins 41 secs

coder radio, cosmic, development podcast, google maps, iced, iphone supply chain break down, linux foundation, meta, microsoft, overture maps, peter zeihan, rust, system76, tomtom

Our take on why several tech companies just teamed up to take on Google Maps, and then we react to the global analyst who says we won't have any new iPhones until 2028. We don't talk about Elon; if we did, it would be chaptered. But we definitely did not.

492: The Troll Wizard

November 16th, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins

.net 7, .net conf, aegis, amazon lay off, authenticator, bitwarden, coder radio, development podcast, ftx, gpl two-factor, maui, memory-safe programming, meta, microsoft, safe, sbf, tim cook, vc, very deliberate, yubikey

Microsoft lets its geek flag fly, our observations on .NET 7, and the recent upset caused by the Troll Wizard, but we can't understand who will pay the toll.

490: Final Boss Battle

November 2nd, 2022  |  54 mins 6 secs

app store, apple, coder radio, coder review, development podcast, earnings, elon musk, engineer, engineers, gambling ads, gamification, gate keeping, github, javascript, licensed, licensing, meta, telegram ceo, tesla, twitter, uniform

We slip into full boss mode after digging into some long-term tech trends impacting developers.