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Felix Geisendörfer & Michael Knyszek discuss the magic of Go execution traces, covering their usefulness for debugging slow requests and enhancing performance. They delve into the evolution of tracing in backend development, highlighting challenges and improvements. The podcast also explores the future of debugging latency using flight recording and tracing in Go, along with their unpopular opinions on technology choices and music listening preferences.

Discussions on teaching kids to code, challenges in AI adoption by non-technical individuals, and the balance between generative AI interfaces and search engines. Plus insights on AI communities, skill evolution, and the impact of AI on productivity.

The podcast explores the discovery of a backdoor in liblzma, a critical dependency of OpenSSH. It delves into supply chain cyber attacks, the involvement of maintainer Lassie Colin, and GitHub user Gia Tan. The narrative discusses trust-building in open-source projects and challenges faced by unpaid maintainers.

Adolfo Ochagavía, The undercover generalist, discusses the pros & cons of specializing in a tech or being a generalist. They explore balancing specialization & generalization in the tech industry, transitioning from a generalist to specialist, and the value of genuine content creation. Emphasis on technology choices, career growth, and bridging gaps between business needs and technology.

At the SoCal Linux Expo, attendees share their favorite open source projects and least favorite commands. The podcast highlights inclusivity and community-building, challenges in managing user seats, and the celebration of diversity in tech. Discussions range from coding languages to the importance of tech skills and diversity in the industry.

Devin, a groundbreaking AI engineer works 13% of the time on GitHub issues. Topics include Astro DB, JSR, Tailwind 4, and Angular merging with Whiz. A surprise mini-game, HeadLIES, adds fun to the episode.

Podcast features interviews by the hosts on Other People's Podcasts, exploring connectivity, deployment with NATs, and Cloudflare's innovations. It delves into the evolution and diversity of podcast shows, challenges in podcast production, and growth of Change Log. Conversations focus on coding, time management, community building in tech, and the importance of reliability in work.

A discussion on debugging techniques in production and development, with differing opinions on the use of debuggers. Emphasis on code understanding, effective logging practices, and optimizing systems through tools and metrics. Also touches on app organization based on color cues and muscle memory on mobile phones, and compares app usage and cultural perspectives on travel between US and UK.

The podcast delves into AI's impact on software developers, exploring AI tools' success rates and challenges, limitations of AI-generated solutions in solving complex problems, and the personalized coding tools emerging in the industry. It discusses the implications of AI on coding productivity and career paths, as well as the hurdles AI faces in supporting Elixir programming. Reflecting on technological changes, control, and community support in closed-source software.

Guests discuss Redis' re-licensing leading to Redict fork, importance of community-built software, DuckDB vs jq, developer's success despite limitations, and insights on the web developer job market challenges.