

A Junior, A Senior and I
Pablo Curell
I invite two people to get different perspectives on tech subjects:
-Continuous Learning,
- Testing,
- Practices,
- AI,
- Team Work,
- Software Teaming
-Continuous Learning,
- Testing,
- Practices,
- AI,
- Team Work,
- Software Teaming
Episodes
Mentioned books

Aug 19, 2025 • 1h 7min
20 - on LLMs with George and Sami
George and Sami joined me to discuss LLMs a few days ago.What started innocently, ended with deep philosophical questions posed by Sami.How do they use LLMs?Should we use them?What questions arise with them?---Find Sami at: - https://samibirnbaum.com/- https://www.linkedin.com/in/samibirnbaum/Find George at: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-kosmopoulos---references:- https://thoughtbot.com/blog/ai-led-or-human-led-coding-you-decide- https://www.anthropic.com/learn- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_3.0- https://fchollet.substack.com/p/how-i-think-about-llm-prompt-engineering- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

Aug 14, 2025 • 43min
19 - On metrics with Rachel and Thierry
A few days ago, Rachel and Thierry joined me for a discussion around software metrics.What metrics are worth having?What are the dangers of metrics?Where are metrics useful?---Find Thierry at: https://thinkinglabs.io/ and http://be.linkedin.com/in/tdpauwFind Rachel at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-grey-b69319/ and https://bsky.app/profile/greyoctagon.bsky.social

Aug 4, 2025 • 49min
18- On starting a new role
A few days ago, Martin and Kostas joined me to discuss what they take into account when starting a new role.How to win over your new colleagues quickly?What are good first tasks to tackle?----Find martin at: https://www.joyouscoding.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinvanakenFind Kostas at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksofianopoulos

Jul 17, 2025 • 37min
17 - on Marketing and Tech
A few days ago, Chloé and Manon joined me to discuss the relationship between Marketing and Tech. I learned a lot about how marketing works, and how we can better collaborate within our two roles! ---- Find Chloé at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-bailly/Find Manon at:https://www.linkedin.com/in/manonforestier/

Jul 4, 2025 • 47min
16- on DDD
Not too long ago, Javier and George joined me to discuss DDD.What in it is useful?When is it useful?What does it solve?Should you use it?---Find Javier on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javier-venegasFind George on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-kosmopoulosWebsite:http://gkosmo.eu

Jun 16, 2025 • 1h 12min
15 - on Software Teaming
I had the privilege of hosting Woody and Philipe (from NodalView) to talk about software teaming.How can a team work together on a problem?How to organize ourselves so that everyone needed is in the room?These questions and more answered in the episode!---Find Woody on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/woodyzuillFind Philippe on:https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippevaneerdenbrugghe

Jun 6, 2025 • 50min
14 - On Legacy Code
A few days ago Stan and Remy joined me to talk about working in legacy code.What is legacy code?How to work with legacy code? Is legacy code inherently bad code?Join us as they answer these questions and more!---Find Remy on: - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhannequin/- Mastodon https://ruby.social/@rhannequin- BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/rhannequin.bsky.socialFind Stan on: - LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/boyet

Mar 4, 2025 • 41min
13 - on Building a Community
Building a community takes time and effort, especially in tech. In this episode Amanda and Pilou share with us their strategies, tips and day to day's in building and steering two very different types of communities, the 'Ruby on Rails' community and a community centered around Advent of Code and having fun solving the daily exercises.The passion they feel for these communities really shone through and it was amazing to see the effort required.If you are part of a community or trying to build one, you definitely need to listenAmanda is the executive director of the Rails FoundationPilou is Co Founder of ShipOnRails, they have a chat already available: https://ai.shiponrails.com/

Feb 23, 2025 • 52min
12- on Team Efficiency
"Focus on outcomes, not output" 🚀
Join Stan, Thierry and I as we discuss what makes a team efficient and what practices will help raise the efficiency of any team.
If you are part of a software team, this episode is definitely worth listening!
You can find Thierry at: https://thinkinglabs.io/
You can find Stan at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyet

Feb 14, 2025 • 54min
11- On tests and RSpec
Steven and Philippe joined me to dive deep into testing and RSpec. We covered best practices, common pitfalls, and shared some real-world insights that every developer can relate to.
If you're into writing better tests (or just want to hear some passionate devs chat about it), this one's for you!
You can find Steven here: www.stevenrbaker.com - https://fosstodon.org/@srbaker - https://x.com/srbaker
You can find Philippe here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippevaneerdenbrugghe - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nodalview/