Working Code

Has a year of talking to LLMs changed the way we talk to people? Great question, and you're absolutely right! And when the models write all the code, what's left for us? This week the hosts answer more listener questions. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. Mentioned in this episode: T3 Code — an app for running coding agents. Proxmox — splits a physical machine into virtual machines and containers. Tailscale — private network access to your machines without opening ports. Jellyfin — self-hosted media server. Pi-hole — network-wide ad blocker. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/274-bot-manners-and-good-taste-listener-questions/

What would you do if your manager asked you to make the audit trail editable? Why would Carol rather be evil? And would you still want to be a software engineer in five years, or is it finally time to buy the ice cream truck? This week the hosts answer listener questions on ethical lines, career pivots, and the future of software engineering. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. Mentioned in this episode: starry-night - the syntax highlighter behind Ben's new blog API. DEF CON - the hacking conference behind the red-teaming and social-engineering discussion. 271: Slop Is the New Clean - the earlier discussion of Uncle Bob and Matt Pocock's interview that Ben revisits. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/273-ethical-lines-and-career-crossroads-listener-questions/

LLMs have read everything, but they haven't spent fifteen years at the company learning which rules actually matter. Can a model ever bring a career's worth of experience to a decision, or is human wisdom overrated to begin with? And now that every answer starts with "let me ask Claude", are we really more productive than ever, or have we all just hired a ghostwriter? This week we discuss the abdication of opinion. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. Mentioned in this episode: Matt Pocock's skills — grill-me and Wayfinder. cron-job.org — the cron host Adam landed on. openblack — the open-source Black & White engine Tim is vibe-coding on. The Trevor Project — where Adam's thirty dollars from Infisical went. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/272-let-me-prompt-that-for-you/

Uncle Bob wrote the book on clean code, and the whole argument rests on one number: you read code ten times for every time you write it, so you'd better make it readable. His agents write it now, and he doesn't read a line. This week we discuss who clean code is for now that machines are the ones reading it. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. Mentioned in this episode: Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI — the Matt Pocock interview the whole episode is a reaction to. Yes, he's in a bathrobe. Infisical — where Adam moved his secrets after a long-running agent read his .env and cheerfully told him so. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/271-slop-is-the-new-clean/

We're back after a week off and we have some things to get off our chest. Carol's agent doesn't understand auth, Ben explores the nature of performative coding, Adam agreed that meetings are for decisions, then spent two hours writing an email to prove it, and Tim's AI is better than yours. This week we have a grab bag of hot takes and hot takes on hot takes. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. Mentioned in this episode: Taffy — Adam's CFML REST framework, the counterexample of a public repo whose product is the API, not the source Subway Takes — the 100% agree / 100% disagree format the table falls into mid-meeting-takes Adam's dotfiles blog post — the git bare repo trick for tracking a gitignored personal CLAUDE.md, promised on air With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/270-hot-takes-on-hot-takes/