What the Dev?

In this episode, Jenna interviews Maya Palfreyman, product marketing director at Quickbase, who leads the company's research on gray work. They discuss: * What gray work is and what sort of tasks qualify  * How it affects software developers * The impact of unaccounted gray work in planning cycles

In this episode, Dave interviews Jack Pertschuk, principal engineer for Algorithms and Platform at Pinecone. They discuss: * What semantic search is and where it falls short * The difference between sparse and dense vectors * How search technology powers AI

In this episode, Jenna interviews Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, about MCP and how it handles authorization.  They discuss: * Where MCP gets it right and where more work is needed * Issues with traditional auth in agentic workflows * Designing auth flows for agents vs humans

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Tammuz Dubnov, founder and CTO of AutonomyAI, a company that makes AI agents for software development.  They discuss: * What vibe coding is * The risks associated with it * Where it can be used and where it should be avoided

In this episode, Jenna welcomes back Simon Ritter, CTO of Azul, to talk about the history and evolution of Java, which is celebrating its 30 year anniversary this year. They discuss:  * The software development landscape at the time Java was created * Key moments in Java's history * What has made it such a resilient and long-lasting language