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Kris Brandow

Fallthrough

Artisanal Software Engineering

Published
November 12, 2025
Duration
1h 8m
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Last updated
Aug 16, 2026

Discusses Software engineering has an identity problem. Some software engineers want to be craftspeople and ar…

Summary

Software engineering has an identity problem. Some software engineers want to be craftspeople and artisans, while others want to be more like the traditional engineers, while others just want to write some code. In this episode, Kris and Matt talk about the state of software engineering today and the areas that they think could use improvement.For this we…

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Software engineering has an identity problem. Some software engineers want to be craftspeople and artisans, while others want to be more like the traditional engineers, while others just want to write some code. In this episode, Kris and Matt talk about the state of software engineering today and the areas that they think could use improvement.For this week's episode of break, we're pulling one out of the archives! Sometimes we record an episode and don't ship it for quite a while, and this one