Software Engineering Daily
SED News: The NVIDIA-Hugging Face Deal, China’s Proxy Economy, the Open Weight Surge
Gregor and Sean close out the summer with a busy season of tech M&A, from NVIDIA's reported $12.9 billion move for Hugging Face to Dynatrace's ...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 9:00 am
Moving Beyond RAG with Precomputed Context
Retrieval augmented generation grounds models in your own data, but it repeats the same lookups on every query and can return inconsistent answers....
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 9:00 am
The Death of Online Anonymity
Age verification is reshaping how people access the internet. An ever-growing patchwork of laws can now require government IDs, facial age estimati...
Posted on 1 September 2026 | 9:00 am
TypeScript 7 and What Comes Next
TypeScript builds on JavaScript with a system of types that catches mistakes before code runs and powers the editor tooling developers rely on dail...
Posted on 27 August 2026 | 9:00 am
The Gap Between AI Spending and AI Value
It is widely reported that a gap has emerged between enterprise spending on AI and the durable value captured from that spend. Individual employees...
Posted on 25 August 2026 | 9:00 am
AI and the New Global Security Landscape
Most AI security talk is about code. But some of the gravest risks lie elsewhere, where a mistake is measured in human lives. Gordon Goldstein of t...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 9:00 am
How to Modernize an Online Game That Millions Still Play
Modernizing a game that millions still play means treating shipped content and player habits as dependencies, not just code. Here's how to plan a m...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 12:05 pm
How LLMs Are Reshaping Recommendation Systems
News feeds and recommendation systems have long relied on deep learning architectures that score each candidate item independently. As LLMs have ma...
Posted on 18 August 2026 | 9:00 am
Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code
More production code is now written by AI and run by agents. Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render, joins Sean Falconer to discuss what that means...
Posted on 13 August 2026 | 9:00 am
SED News: The Kimi Moment, Runaway AI, and Tokenmaxxing
Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down a wave of "runaway AI" stories, the "Kimi moment" for open weight models, and why today's systems can bill...
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 9:00 am
The Terminal as an Agentic Interface
The terminal has stayed largely unchanged for decades, but AI agents may be turning it into the natural home for agentic development. Zach Lloyd of...
Posted on 6 August 2026 | 9:00 am
AI-Powered Threats to the Software Supply Chain
Open source powers nearly every modern application, but it is also an expanding attack surface. Chainguard's Matt Moore joins Gregor Vand to unpack...
Posted on 4 August 2026 | 9:00 am
Docker and Sandboxing AI Agents
AI coding agents need freedom to be useful, but that same freedom makes them dangerous to run. Mark Cavage is the President and COO of Docker, and ...
Posted on 30 July 2026 | 9:00 am
The Startup Scene in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia's startups are moving from regional players to globally ambitious companies. Jeffrey Paine of Golden Gate Ventures joins the podcast...
Posted on 28 July 2026 | 2:56 pm
NanoClaw and the Rise of Personal AI Agents
AI agents can now run autonomously for long stretches, but giving them broad access to credentials and services creates real security risk.
The pos...
Posted on 21 July 2026 | 9:00 am
Agentic DevOps at AWS
AI agents have become capable of reasoning across large amounts of data, calling tools, and taking sequences of actions autonomously. These qualiti...
Posted on 16 July 2026 | 9:00 am
AURA and Open-Source Agents for Production Operations
AI agents have transformed how software gets written, but the operational side of running software in production has not yet experienced a similar ...
Posted on 14 July 2026 | 9:00 am
Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go Bad
Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup method and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, which transformed how a gener...
Posted on 9 July 2026 | 9:00 am
SED News: Restricted Models, IDE Wars, and the DeepMind Mafia
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping soft...
Posted on 7 July 2026 | 9:00 am
Grafana’s Approach to AI-Native Observability
Advanced software systems have long been more complex than any single engineer can fully understand. Observability is the established solution to t...
Posted on 2 July 2026 | 9:00 am
Building Software That People Love
Building great software always involves technical problem solving, but the best software goes beyond function. It feels fluid, coherent, and genuin...
Posted on 30 June 2026 | 9:00 am
Mina the Hollower
Yacht Club Games is the studio behind the acclaimed Shovel Knight franchise. Their latest release is Mina the Hollower, which is a top-down action ...
Posted on 25 June 2026 | 9:00 am
Foundation Models for Structured Data
Predictive modeling is a core element in modern systems, and powers capabilities such as fraud detection, loan approvals, and recommendation system...
Posted on 23 June 2026 | 9:00 am
Biome and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
Modern web development requires an ever-growing collection of tools including formatters, linters, bundlers, and plugins. Each tool typically has i...
Posted on 18 June 2026 | 9:00 am
Preparing for Q-Day
Most of the cryptography securing the internet today rests on mathematical problems that classical computers cannot solve in any reasonable timefra...
Posted on 16 June 2026 | 9:00 am
Developing Multiplayer Games in Godot
Multiplayer games are among the hardest software systems to build, requiring developers to synchronize state across unreliable networks while maint...
Posted on 11 June 2026 | 9:00 am
SED News: Apple’s AI Problem, The Real Business Model of AI, and Token Cost Reckoning
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software...
Posted on 9 June 2026 | 9:00 am
Web Native Game Development
The web has quietly become one of the most capable platforms for game development. Advances in WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU have given developers...
Posted on 4 June 2026 | 9:00 am
The Hardware Bottleneck AI Can’t Fix
Software engineering has developed powerful tools for observability, data management, and continuous testing, but hardware engineering has largely ...
Posted on 2 June 2026 | 9:00 am
Autonomous Drone Delivery at Scale
Autonomous drone delivery has long been the stuff of science fiction, but ongoing advances have moved the space from experimental to operational. Z...
Posted on 28 May 2026 | 9:00 am
The European Startup Scene
Europe’s startup ecosystem is maturing rapidly, with companies like Revolut, Lovable, and Legora demonstrating that world-class technology business...
Posted on 26 May 2026 | 9:00 am
React Native at Scale
React Native is an open source framework developed by Meta that allows engineers to build mobile applications for both iOS and Android using a sing...
Posted on 21 May 2026 | 9:00 am
Formal Methods as Agent Guardrails
Formal methods are a branch of mathematics and computer science focused on proving the correctness of systems, and they have long promised a more r...
Posted on 19 May 2026 | 9:00 am
Open Source Sustainability
Open source software underpins nearly every modern application, including frameworks powering the most popular websites, to the libraries securing ...
Posted on 14 May 2026 | 9:00 am
Vespa AI and Surpassing the Limits of Vector Search
Vector search has risen to become a foundational tool in modern search and retrieval systems, including the RAG pipelines that power many AI applic...
Posted on 12 May 2026 | 9:00 am
SED News: Anthropic’s Mythos, Supply Chain Hacks, and the AI Spending Surge
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software...
Posted on 7 May 2026 | 9:00 am
SmartBear and Multi-Agent QA
AI coding tools have dramatically accelerated the pace of development, and the bottleneck in the software development lifecycle has shifted to code...
Posted on 5 May 2026 | 9:00 am
The Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems
Artificial intelligence is transforming warfare faster than the legal and ethical frameworks designed to govern it. Militaries around the world are...
Posted on 30 April 2026 | 9:00 am
Open-Weight AI Models
Open-weight models are AI systems whose trained parameters are publicly released, which allows developers to run, fine-tune, and deploy them indepe...
Posted on 28 April 2026 | 9:00 am
Hype and Reality of the AI Coding Shift
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 ...
Posted on 23 April 2026 | 9:00 am
Unlocking the Data Layer for Agentic AI with Simba Khadder
AI agents are increasingly capable of reasoning and performing autonomous work over long periods. However, as agents take on more complex, longer-h...
Posted on 21 April 2026 | 9:00 am
Agentic Mesh with Eric Broda
AI agents are evolving from individual productivity tools into distributed systems components inside enterprises. The next frontier is coming into ...
Posted on 16 April 2026 | 9:00 am
New Relic and Agentic DevOps with Nic Benders
Observability emerged from the need to understand complex software systems, and involves tracking metrics, logs, and traces so engineers can detect...
Posted on 14 April 2026 | 9:00 am
Mobile App Security with Ryan Lloyd
Mobile apps have become a primary interface for critical services, including banking, payments, and healthcare. Unlike web applications, much of th...
Posted on 9 April 2026 | 9:00 am
FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin
The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, gives developers a common way to expose tools, data, and capabilities to large language models, and it has quic...
Posted on 7 April 2026 | 9:00 am
SED News: OpenCode, AI Code vs. Shipped Code, and the LiteLLM Breach
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software...
Posted on 2 April 2026 | 9:00 am
FreeBSD with John Baldwin
FreeBSD is one of the longest-running and most influential open-source operating systems in the world. It was born from the Berkeley Software Distr...
Posted on 31 March 2026 | 9:00 am
Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill Mulligan
Modern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communic...
Posted on 26 March 2026 | 9:00 am
Games That Push Back with Bennett Foddy
Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer known for creating wholly distinctive games such as QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and the re...
Posted on 24 March 2026 | 9:00 am
Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long
Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting...
Posted on 19 March 2026 | 9:00 am