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How Amp Ships 50 Times a Day With AI Agents (opens the original)
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Amp ships to production around 50 times a day with AI agents, but the change that makes their team ship faster isn't AI at all. Dario Hamidi, AI engineer at Amp, makes the case that pull requests are holding your team back, and explains what replaces them. In this video, we cover: Why Amp works without pull requests or feature branches, and how to try it with your own team Agent permissions, approval fatigue, and building environments where you can trust agents Orbs: remote agent execution, para
How Top Engineers Still Get Hired When Most Get Ghosted (opens the original)
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How do top engineers still get hired in 2026 when most applicants get ghosted, 120,000 people have been laid off this year, and hiring managers say they can't find talent? A recruiter, a hiring lead, a career coach and an open source engineer explain why your resume is dead on arrival when every CV looks the same, and what actually gets you in the room instead. In this episode, we cover: Why 120,000 tech layoffs and 60,000 open engineering roles exist at the same time Why only 20% of LinkedIn me
Why an Ex-Googler Bet Everything on an Open-Source Database (opens the original)
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Jordan Tigani helped create Google BigQuery, then got fired as Chief Product Officer on a Friday morning. He planned to hack on DuckDB to learn Rust. Investors offered to fund it before he'd decided to start a company. That company became MotherDuck In this episode, we cover: The DuckDB Labs partnership: why MotherDuck gave the open-source creators a co-founder share instead of going open-core From alpha to paid product: 11 founders, 3 to 4 months to alpha, two years to something people would pa
How the Best Engineers Build a World Model (Google Earth Creator & Niantic Spatial CTO) (opens the original)
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Niantic Spatial CTO Brian McClendon on how the best engineers solve problems most give up on — from a 4D model of the world to shipping research in months. He built Google Earth and ran Google Maps for over a decade, and he's been there, done that. What he's building now is harder, and it's already live for customers. Along the way: who makes it on his team and who doesn't, and the one piece of advice he'd give every engineer using AI. In this video, we cover: - The 4D model of the world: visual
How New Staff Engineers Build Judgment Without Years of Experience (opens the original)
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How do new staff engineers build judgment without the years of experience that used to come with the role? Mallika Rao, engineering leader in big tech, explains why the data-structures-and-algorithms foundation everyone was trained on is no longer enough on its own, and where the complexity has actually shifted now that AI writes the implementation. In this video, we cover: Why "how does AI affect engineers" is the wrong question, and what to ask instead Rehearsing multiple futures: what judgmen
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