SED Information is a month-to-month podcast from Software program Engineering Each day the place hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the most important tales shaping software program engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech business.
On this episode, they cowl Starlink’s speedy rollout of free, high-speed in-flight web, Tesla’s transfer to deprecate Autopilot in favor of full self-driving, and Apple’s reported determination to energy Siri with Google’s Gemini fashions. Additionally they focus on Meta’s $2B acquisition of Manus, Waymo’s rising pains as autonomous autos scale, and the aggressive shockwaves triggered by Google’s advances in customized AI {hardware}.
Gregor and Sean then dive deep into the state of the tech job market, analyzing OpenAI’s determination to remove vesting cliffs, the escalating conflict for elite AI expertise, and what latest layoffs actually say about the way forward for software program engineering. They discover how AI coding instruments are reshaping the steadiness between junior and senior engineers, why fundamentals nonetheless matter, and what builders ought to concentrate on heading into 2026.
Lastly, they spotlight standout threads from Hacker Information, together with Doom operating on wi-fi earbuds, the enduring attraction of wildly over-engineered facet initiatives, and why hacking for enjoyable nonetheless issues in an age of industrial-scale AI.
Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, having beforehand been a CTO throughout cybersecurity, cyber insurance coverage and common software program engineering corporations. He’s based mostly in Singapore and may be discovered through his profile at vand.hk or on LinkedIn.
Sean’s been an instructional, startup founder, and Googler. He has printed works protecting a variety of subjects from AI to quantum computing. At present, Sean is an AI Entrepreneur in Residence at Confluent the place he works on AI technique and thought management. You’ll be able to join with Sean on LinkedIn.
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