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Storytime with Steve Yegge (Interview)

Jul 20, 2023

01:43:07

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

How to Setup a Developer First APM Tool

5min

The Rise and Fall of AWS

2min

The Virtues of Text Protocols

2min

The Future of Hacking

2min

The Disparate Reactions to GitHub Co-Pilot

5min

The World's Most Ever Seen Fitness Function

3min

The Yang and the Yang

2min

Jeff Bezos's Survival Keychain

2min

10.

How to Make People Frozen

5min

11.

How to Be a Better Closer at Amazon

2min

12.

The Importance of Storytelling in Amazon

4min

13.

How to Deal With an Emergency at Amazon

3min

14.

The Struggle to Be as Effective as Bill and Jeff Gates

2min

15.

How to Be a Successful Leader

2min

16.

The Role of Sociopaths in Success

3min

17.

Google's Threat to Innovate

2min

18.

The Threat to the Monopoly on Ads

3min

19.

Google's Future

3min

20.

The Importance of Product Market Fit

2min

21.

Apple Needs to Do Something With Siri

2min

22.

Google's Cultural Significance

2min

23.

The Importance of AI in Search Engines

4min

24.

How to Bake in Opt-in Relevance

2min

25.

The Importance of Having a Purpose

2min

26.

The Importance of Struggles

2min

27.

The Power of Source Graph

5min

28.

Cody: The Worst Possible Implementation

6min

29.

The Future Is Here, but Not Equally Distributed

3min

30.

The Elephant in the Room

2min

31.

The Rise and Fall of Grab

4min

32.

The Leader Dilemma

4min

33.

How to Be an AI Guy

1min

34.

How to Inject AI Into Your Product

5min

35.

The Days of Docker

2min

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!

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