Robin Berjon, Amy Lai, and Facundo Olano talk about leaked GPT prompts, Firefox's declining market share, defining the profession of technologists, and the weirdest bug ever. They also discuss a debugging issue with Chrome, the importance of software fulfilling its purpose, and an upcoming interview about the programming language Hair.

Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market, writ large. How is hiring? Has AI really changed the game? What about that OpenAI fiasco? We also talk in-depth about Gergely’s self-published book, The Software Engineer’s Guidebook, which has been four years in the making. Leave us a commentChangelog++ members get a bonus 19 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage. Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn 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 Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:Gergely Orosz – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow Notes: The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter The Software Engineer’s Guidebook Anthropic Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Solomon Hykes discusses all things Dagger, Tammer Saleh and James McShane explore going beyond cloud native with SuperOrbital, and Steve Francis and Spencer Smith talk about the state of Talos Linux and their work at Sidero Labs. Topics include the frustration of live-coding, dreams and wishes for Dagger, diversity at KubeCon, and the value of conferences and hallway tracks.

Tension and future of Jamstack, avoiding bad data visualization practices, new admin tool for monitoring performance, long term refactors theory, benefits of libraries over services

Emil Sjölander from Figma talks about bringing Dev Mode to Figma, a new workspace designed to bridge the gap between developers and designers. They discuss the evolution of design tools, Figma's investment in developer collaboration, the process of choosing and using open source packages, and future plans for code generation in Figma. They also explore the role of design systems and the benefits of using Dev Mode in design systems for faster product development.

OpenAI's recent events, TL Draw generating code from drawings, HTML First principles, the future of coding, early radio exposure and AI familiarity, four approaches to optimization in coding.

In this podcast, the hosts discuss the philosophy of building software and the challenges of determining uniqueness and dependency management. They also explore the decision-making process for authentication in web applications and the pitfalls of scope creep. Additionally, they delve into the process of buying software dependencies and touch on dependency analysis criteria. The chapter also highlights the appeal of syndicating content and introduces Neon, a managed and serverless Postgres provider. The speakers share their experiences with social media addiction, finding their voice as an author, and the importance of owning your own content. The host encourages collaboration and diverse perspectives in decision-making.

Ben Cohen, Swift Team Manager at Apple, discusses various topics including Swift in native apps, server side development, Swift on Linux and Windows, and bringing Swift to new platforms. The potential reach and popularity of Swift is also explored.

sshx lets you share your terminal with anyone on a multiplayer infinite canvas, Herbert Lui writes three things about your competitors, Anton Medvedev’s fx is a terminal JSON viewer & processor, Danny Castonguay shares advice on attending large conferences & Jeremy Pinto’s experimental RAGTheDocs project is working toward an exciting reality. View the newsletterLeave us a commentChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get $100 towards your error monitoring with Sentry! Use the code changelog. Featuring:Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

The speakers discuss topics like truthfulness and online interactions, childhood dreams and aspirations, wired keyboards versus wireless ones, a customizable spinning knob for keyboards, addressing security concerns in open source dependencies with Sockit, and favorite movies and recommendations.