Dead Code: Fear-driven Everything

freeCodeCamp: Which Devs Are Screwed?

Quincy Larson [https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/author/quincy/] over at freeCodeCamp [https://www.freecodecamp.org] had me on their podcast to discuss how the rapidly changing software industry is impacting junior developers and what they can do about it. I don't normally spend time talking about this stuff, because I started programming in the 90s and can't claim to know anything about what it's like to just be starting now. I've also always discouraged people from getting into software development unless they're super passionate about it, which has been out of step with the "learn to code" hype train that gathered steam over the last fifteen years only to run into a brick wall recently. His audience is way larger and composed of quite different people than those who follow my stuff, so I strongly recommend you read every last YouTube comment [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP931079TMw]. Some pretty crazy shit, if I'm being honest. Makes me glad I don't have 11 million subscribers. Appearing on: freeCodeCamp Podcast [https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast/] Published on: 2026-03-17 Original URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/there-are-2-kinds-of-devs-one-of-them-is-screwed-justin-searls-interview-podcast-210/ [https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/there-are-2-kinds-of-devs-one-of-them-is-screwed-justin-searls-interview-podcast-210/] Comments? Questions? Suggestion of a podcast I should guest on? podcast@searls.co [podcast@searls.co]

The Ruby AI Podcast: The TLDR of AI Dev

Joe Leo [https://www.defmethod.com/] and Valentino Stoll [https://blog.codenamev.com/] sat with me to talk about why I quit speaking and an exciting year of iteration on AI development workflows. Appearing on: The Ruby AI Podcast [https://www.therubyaipodcast.com] Published on: 2025-10-25 Original URL: https://www.therubyaipodcast.com/2388930/episodes/18044989-the-tldr-of-ai-dev-real-workflows-with-justin-searls [https://www.therubyaipodcast.com/2388930/episodes/18044989-the-tldr-of-ai-dev-real-workflows-with-justin-searls] Comments? Questions? Suggestion of a podcast I should guest on? podcast@searls.co [podcast@searls.co]

Dead Code: Fear-driven Everything

Jared Norman [https://jardo.dev/blog?topic=all] interviewed me after he wrote about the order in which programmers [https://jardo.dev/order-driven-development] choose to write their code and I offered this response [https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-07-29-upside-down-development/]. In this episode, we touch on this before launching into a more expansive discussion on why the agile movement fizzled out and what we can reclaim from a developer workflow perspective now that we're experiencing our first major market upheaval since then with the rise of coding agents. Appearing on: Dead Code [https://shows.acast.com/dead-code] Published on: 2025-09-09 Original URL: https://shows.acast.com/dead-code/episodes/fear-driven-everything-with-justin-searls [https://shows.acast.com/dead-code/episodes/fear-driven-everything-with-justin-searls] Comments? Questions? Suggestion of a podcast I should guest on? podcast@searls.co [podcast@searls.co]

Changelog: Saltiness about frostiness

Jerod and I sat down after WWDC to rifle through Apple's various announcements and dish our takes. As usual, we found a lot to like and (IMNSHO) did a better job than other commentators in ignoring the idle chatter on social media that tends to dominate WWDC discourse in favor of the more meaningful changes the keynote heralds. You can find it on YouTube [https://youtu.be/AJprbRYvgLA]: Appearing on: The Changelog [https://changelog.com/podcast] Recorded on: 2025-06-13 Original URL: https://changelog.com/friends/97 [https://changelog.com/friends/97] Comments? Questions? Suggestion of a podcast I should guest on? podcast@searls.co [podcast@searls.co]

Changelog: My Siri Theory

Had a blast, as usual, joining my Changelog friends for a vigorous discussion of Apple's Intelligence struggles and the tumultuous state of the software industry. It's also on YouTube [https://youtu.be/CDy8-cf8aVU]: Appearing on: The Changelog [https://changelog.com/podcast] Recorded on: 2025-03-18 Original URL: https://changelog.com/friends/85 [https://changelog.com/friends/85] Comments? Questions? Suggestion of a podcast I should guest on? podcast@searls.co [podcast@searls.co]