Steve and Ken were presenting Jeff with these really complicated mathematical functions of many many terms weighted terms right that are going to be this is how their team's performance is tracked. He put them into a state of complete paralysis have you ever seen when you draw a line in front of a chicken oh my gosh yes yeah and like it thinks it's a snake and it just freezes right so they both froze deer in the headlights because Jeff asked he asked something that nobody had ever heard of before. They looked at me like they were drowning and I had thrown them away okay, let me see the exact same thing right right.
This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it’s storytime!
Leave us a comment
Changelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!
Sponsors:
- Sentry – Code-level APM built for developers! Stay ahead of latency issues and trace every slow transaction to a poor-performing API call or database query. Sentry is the only developer-first application monitoring platform that shows you what’s slow, down to the line of code. Use the code
CHANGELOGMEDIA
and get the team plan FREE for six (6) months.
- Drata – Put security and compliance on autopilot. Build trust with your customers and scale securely with Drata, the smartest way to achieve continuous framework compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
Show Notes:
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!