AI and Software
AI coding
AI coding tools, developer productivity, vibe coding
- Episodes
- 52
- Share
- 4.9%
- Shows
- 48
- Net sentiment
- +0.69
Bullish 29Mixed 8Neutral 13Bearish 2
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Bullish 29
- Slack code channels speed up building and review, and partners report most production code now written through them.Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat · The Stack Overflow Podcast · Sep 23
- Factory-style agent workflows are shown as dramatically speeding up shipping and reducing human steering.How Warp ships 2,000 PRs a month with AI factories | Zach Lloyd (CEO, Warp) · How I AI · Sep 21
- Hosts argue vibe coding and AI tools let designers prototype and ship changes in minutes instead of days.Your Product Design Setup - How To Go From Idea To Live Prototype In Just a Few Clicks · Design Table Podcast · Sep 23
- Speakers argue AI coding tools make chaining APIs into working tools fast even for non-engineers.Scraping for GTM Engineering: 100+ APIs to Give Claude Code Data · In the Pit with Cody Schneider | Marketing | Growth | Startups · Sep 22
- Agentic AI coding is dramatically lowering barriers and accelerating AMD's software and GPU kernel development.Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm · The Stack Overflow Podcast · Sep 22
- Verifying AI-generated software is presented as a major opportunity as models write more code.How Formal Verification Stops AI Reward Hacking | Theorem · MTS · Sep 27
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- Claude Design is presented as a powerful no-code tool that makes professional design fast and cheap.I built my whole brand with Claude Design in 20 minutes (no designer) · Build With AI · Sep 25
- Agents now write nearly all Coinbase code, producing far more output per engineer and transforming productivity.Coinbase · BIG IDEAS BY NEW ECONOMIES · Sep 26
- Opus 5.5 handles long agentic coding tasks and reviews code well, aiding developer workflows.I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I'm back · How I AI · Sep 22
- Opus 5.5 is praised for agentic coding and efficiency, though some users still see errors and crashes.Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions · Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast · Sep 26
- Coding agents let non-engineers build products and automations, boosting PM productivity.How to Get a ‘Transformative’ AI Fluency Rating as a PM, with Wade Foster | CEO of Zapier · The Growth Podcast · Sep 24
- Opus 5.5 is praised for coding and agentic tool use, driving strong developer adoption.Opus 5.5: Claude Just Hit Back at ChatGPT · Authority Hacker Podcast – AI & Automation for Small biz & Marketers · Sep 24
- Vibe coding lets firms build custom internal tools much faster, cutting development time from weeks to hours.242: Designing for 100 Years… in 100 Seconds? · TRXL · Sep 24
- AI coding tools collapse build times and let technical founders ship paying products in weeks.SaaStr 879: Stripe's CRO of AI on The New AI GTM Playbook · The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors · Sep 23
- AI-first design flows are shown delivering large productivity and PPA gains for chip design workflows.Podcast EP368: An Overview of TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) event with Aveek Sarkar · SemiWiki.com · Sep 23
- Coding tools were the first to tip, and iterative building of internal tools is accelerating productivity.AI-Native Workplace: What Real AI Adoption Asks of You · AI News & Strategy Daily with Nate B. Jones · Sep 22
- AI helps engineers write detections and lowers the learning curve for new security analysts.Max Pollard - Why Hidden System Prompts Are Failing Security Teams · Simply Defensive · Sep 21
- AI lets product people prototype and ship faster, shifting teams toward judgment and customer work.What a CPBO Learned Building a Personal Fleet of AI Agents · Product Talk · Sep 21
- Coding agents are described as a major use case with large volume, and the speaker sees room for new agent architectures.Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI · Latent Space · Sep 21
- Airbnb credits GPT-6 Astra with faster shipping and fewer model cycles, boosting developer productivity.#118 - Microsoft Copilot Super App, GPT-6 Sol, Claude Opus 5.5, ChatGPT Ads, AI at UN SC & more · The AI Files · Sep 26
- Opus 5.5 is praised as a reliable, fast coding default that writes better web code.Opus 5.5 is your new workhorse! OpenAI ships GPT 6 Sol and Terra before DevDay and Meta goes all in on Muse! Your friday read is here · ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week · Sep 25
- Hosts call coding the largest AI value pool, backing Factory and enterprise coding agents.20VC: Meta's Muse Hits No. 1. ChatGPT Finally Has a Rival | Menlo Sounds the AI Bubble Alarm | Factory Triples Its Valuation to $5 Billion | Keith Rabois vs Airwallex: Who is Right? | Crusoe's $3.9 Billion Round. Is the Data Centre Trade Overheating? · 20VC · Sep 24
- Slack says most Anthropic code is now written through Slack channels, and vibe coding boosts collaborative productivity.Are AI agents changing the rules of business? · Take on Tomorrow · Sep 22
- Opus 5.5 is claimed to lead on agentic coding, and Sol is aimed at complex coding work.Anthropic Releases Opus 5.5, OpenAI Unveils New Models · The AI Engineer Podcast · Sep 22
- AI is speeding up product development lifecycles and bringing value to production faster than before.HFS GCC Videocast | How Mastercard scales AI and trust through its India GCC · HFS PODCASTS · Sep 21
- Opus 5.5 completes large code migrations faster and with fewer tokens and bugs.330 | 10,000 AI agents just did 4,000 years of thinking in 88 hours, and the labs can't predict 3 months out. New models: GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5, Grok 4.7 and More important AI news for the week ending Sept. 25, 2026 · Leveraging AI · Sep 26
- Graphify improves coding assistants' multi-file reasoning and reduces token use.Tech Talk — September 24, 2026 · Tech Talk · Sep 24
- Affirm reports a tenfold rise in AI-written code and falling per-PR costs from a dev productivity team.Jensen vs NYT, New Model Reactions, "You Can See Everything" Trailer, Saudi EVs | Cristiano Amon, Talia Goldberg, John & Louis Antonelli, Max Levchin, Sam Ross · TBPN · Sep 23
- Claude Code is used to generate criteria and build systems rapidly without hand-written code.Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse · The Daily AI Show · Sep 22
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- Vibe coding has its place but should not be used to build core systems like CRM or ERP.How Data, Adoption, and Agentic Tools Deliver Business Value — with HubSpot’s Angie O’Dowd · THRIVE, a Paychex Business Podcast · Sep 22
- Vibe coding cannot replace the design and architecture work that technology professionals provide.OpenAI is going to lose 90% of its revenue | Eli the Computer Guy · The Tech Report · Sep 21
Mixed 8
- AI coding speeds development but needs human review, tests and critical thinking to avoid costly mistakes.Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill · The Stack Overflow Podcast · Sep 25
- Coding agents make building fast, but speakers miss the joy and mastery of the process.From GeoCities to GPT: Brad Frost on Mythos, Mastery, and Musical Non-Sequiturs · Whiskey Web and Whatnot · Sep 24
- Engineers miss hands-on building; AI boosts output but rewrites and security incidents have risen.The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham · Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Sep 27
- Engineers use AI heavily, but productivity metrics like merge requests may overstate real gains.Zeta Global on Why AI Agents Need Context Before Autonomy · Tech Talks Daily · Sep 23
- AI writes much code, but few builders use it unchanged, so builds can create costly technical debt.Ep 866: Build, Buy, Partner, or Wait: The 4-Layer AI Stack Decision Framework for 2026 (Start Here Series, Vol 25) · Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast · Sep 21
- Coding agents raise output sharply, yet software quality and SaaS disruption have not followed as predicted.The Single Smartest Case Against AI Doom · Plain English with Derek Thompson · Sep 25
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- Mature teams see productivity gains, but many teams burn tokens without outcomes; incentives must change.Can AI Beat the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy? · ChinaTalk · Sep 22
- Agentic coding helps debugging but often introduces errors when configuring cluster infrastructure.Ep. 033 - ClusterMAX 3.0 Is Here! Neoclouds Ranked (Neoclouds, GPUs) | Sam Harshe, Pratt Bhatt, Jordan Nanos · SemiAnalysis Weekly · Sep 23
Neutral 13
- Demonstrates building a full web tool with a local coding agent, showing practical developer workflow.Episode 4: Getting Started with Local LLMs · Two Average Devs · Sep 26
- Discussed as changing developer work, shrinking hands-on coding to judgment and product decisions.Keep a friction log and read a sales book - product ownership with Joyce Er · Become an Epic Product Engineer · Sep 23
- Discussed how agents now handle implementation and prototyping, changing how design work gets done.Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton · The Pragmatic Engineer · Sep 23
- Engineers increasingly prompt rather than type, shifting work toward reading, reviewing and verifying generated code.Learning Goals and the Goals of Learning: Teaching in the Age of AI with Aaron Bauer · Signals and Threads · Sep 23
- Codex and Claude Code are discussed as coding-rooted harnesses that others are copying.Ep 869: AI SuperApps: Why Every Company is Racing to Create One and What They are (Start Here Series Vol 28) · Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast · Sep 24
- Covers non-developers adopting coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code to build marketing apps and dashboards.The future of the CMO role w/ Zapier's CMO & Chief AI Transformation Officer · Founder Brand with Finn Thormeier · Sep 22
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- Early-career staff build automation tools, described factually as a skills program.Reimagining Early Career Talent Development at ServiceNow · The Edge of Work · Sep 22
- Several tools and workflow essays for developers were covered, with the workflow advice presented factually rather than as a productivity verdict.The Stack — September 27, 2026 · The Stack · Sep 27
- Coding now done by prompting, with students encouraged to build projects using AI tools.Amjad Masad on Rethinking College for the AI Era · The a16z Show · Sep 23
- Discussed mainly as a security concern: malicious git configs can make coding agents run attacker code.Anthropic Hits the Brakes, 10% Extinction Odds, and $2.7T in AI Spend · ShipTalk: AI, DevOps & Software Delivery · Sep 23
- Notes engineers spend only a small share of their day writing code, so communication matters more.Building a Quality of Hire Algorithm with Zapier's Tracy St. Dic · Talk Talent To Me · Sep 23
- Brief discussion of Claude editing decks and applying changes across slides, a light tooling aspect.Claude Slides & Gemini: Gamechangers? · Next Slide Please · Sep 25
- Discussion of skills files and custom workflows touches on building repeatable AI instructions without a clear investing angle.e254 - Confessions of a Reluctant AI Presentation Designer · The Presentation Podcast · Sep 22
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