Kris Brandow

He Who Controls the Source

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Discusses This week we've got Kris and Jamie! They open with the Shai-Hulud worm chewing through the npm suppl…

May 16, 2026

Forging Ahead

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Discusses agents.

May 9, 2026

Regression to the Mean

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Discusses ai.

May 2, 2026

No Country for Old Maintainers

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Discusses anthropic.

Apr 25, 2026

Supply Chain Reaction

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Discusses llm, ai-regulation.

Apr 18, 2026

Another Spectre In The Shell

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Discusses anthropic.

Apr 11, 2026

Snake Oil Has an Expiration Date

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Discusses anthropic.

Apr 4, 2026

Who's Afraid of Superintelligence?

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Discusses ai.

Mar 29, 2026

The Joy of Building

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Discusses llm.

Mar 21, 2026

The Least Contentious Proposal in the History of Go

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Discusses Dylan's back this week joining Kris and Matt to tackle Go's UUID proposal (#62026). What Dylan think…

Mar 14, 2026

Deprecate the Error Interface

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Discusses Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, they're picking up where Bryan Cantrill's …

Mar 7, 2026

Package Hell

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Discusses Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, we're digging into Go codebase structure, …

Feb 28, 2026

Is Go Simple Anymore?

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Discusses Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, they're talking about Go. They cover the r…

Feb 21, 2026

Lava Layers

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Discusses agents, ai-regulation.

Feb 14, 2026

The Vibes-Based Legal System

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Discusses llm.

Feb 7, 2026

The AI Factory Floor

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Discusses anthropic.

Jan 31, 2026

New Year, New Nuance

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Discusses anthropic.

Jan 10, 2026

Stack Trace 2025

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Discusses We decided to do our own wrap up for the year. We've called it Stack Trace, and we pulled a bunch of…

Dec 31, 2025

Worse Is Better

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Discusses There's a famous joke essay called Worse Is Better, which compares the New Jersey and the MIT ideolo…

Dec 25, 2025

Why Is Tech So Mid?

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Discusses In the tech industry, we talk about how exceptional and innovative we are. But are we really? In thi…

Dec 20, 2025

Project Management 2 Shell

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Discusses Another Cloudflare outage. A CVSS 10.0 React RCE vulnerability. We've been dealing with quite a lot …

Dec 12, 2025

Ghostting Is Better Than Shelling

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Discusses We've had Mitchell Hashimoto on a couple episodes, and each time we've discussed his vision for libg…

Dec 5, 2025

Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet

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Discusses This cannot keep happening. Another day, another outage. On this week's episode Kris and Matt talk a…

Nov 25, 2025

The AI Marketing Problem

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Discusses ai.

Nov 20, 2025

Artisanal Software Engineering

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

Nov 12, 2025

The Fault In Our Clouds

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Discusses First it was GCP in June. Then it was AWS in October. Then it was Azure a week later. It seems that …

Nov 4, 2025

JJ and How to Evolve an Open Source Ecosystem

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Discusses Jujutsu is a new version control system that's gaining in popularity. Its swappable backends allow u…

Oct 28, 2025

The Failure of Open Source Leadership

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Discusses Open source project leaders have faced heavy challenges over the last decade and a half. It seems ev…

Oct 7, 2025

PHP Was Never Dead

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Discusses This week we've got a grab bag episode! Kris and Matt discuss a variety of topics, including a Gophe…

Sep 30, 2025