AI and Software
AI coding
AI coding tools, developer productivity, vibe coding
- Episodes
- 59
- Share
- 5.6%
- Shows
- 55
- Net sentiment
- +0.63
Up from 4.9% of episodes in the weeks before; net sentiment was +0.69.
Bullish 27Mixed 13Neutral 18Bearish 1
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Bullish 27
- Sam credits AI agents with letting a non-developer build and ship real apps, calling the shift empowering.How a Non-Developer Builds and Ships Laravel Apps with AI Agents · The Laravel Podcast · Sep 29
- Coding agents are rapidly changing engineering work and driving strong token usage growth and enterprise adoption.Factory CEO on why AGI is already here · Sources with Alex Heath · Sep 29
- Vibe coding lets founders build products in weeks that once took months or years and large budgets.Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338 · This Week in Startups · Sep 28
- Claude Code mods and natural-language builders make AI coding tools more powerful and customizable.Anthropic Mods for Claude Code: Too Much Power? · Stacked Podcast · Oct 3
- Speakers describe agentic coding as hugely productive, with Rhys reshaping his whole workflow around it."The Senior Engineer Death Spiral" - Ep 06 · The Next Token · Sep 28
- Peter says AI tools let him produce high-quality database code far faster, amplifying expert engineers' output.Distributed databases with Peter Mattis · The Pragmatic Engineer · Sep 30
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- Claude Code has become the default way engineers code, with rapidly rising productivity and adoption.Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic · Latent Space · Sep 29
- Claude Code is now the default way engineers code, with rapid productivity and skill gains.Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic · Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Sep 29
- Engineers and designers ship code via coding agents, lowering barriers to building and speeding delivery.How to Use AI to Survive (and Even Enjoy) Meetings | Sam Stephenson · Behind the Craft · Oct 4
- AI now writes most competitive GPU kernel solutions, showing strong automation gains for developers.Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · Latent Space · Oct 2
- He says AI now writes software better than most engineers, so people direct AI rather than code themselves.OpenAI Co-Founder: Start Building With AI Before You Feel Ready | Greg Brockman · Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth · Oct 2
- Coding agents and multi-model CLIs are described as delivering large developer productivity gains.Chandra Chivukula, VP Engineering, Microsoft, On Microsoft Teams as an Agentic Platform · Microsoft Teams Insider · Sep 29
- Hosts find Claude Code and Codex more efficient and usable, with steering and token limits improving.Which AI Agent Do You Trust? OpenAI Dots, Grokbot, Instinct | Claude Code vs Codex | EP33 · God Mode Podcast: AI News, Vibe Coding, Indie Hacking & Startups · Oct 4
- Codex writes most of the speaker's code, and faster models make building more creative and accessible.OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux · Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Oct 4
- AI coding tools have made development much faster and cheaper for the speaker's team.Lightning in x402 and Agent Payments | Ben Carman SLP779 · Stephan Livera Podcast · Oct 3
- Hosts describe AI coding tools as highly capable, letting non-experts build apps and tools cheaply.Is This the Best AI Model Right Now? · Last Humans in the Loop · Sep 30
- Agents building and testing software in Codex, including self-testing, is presented as a major productivity gain.Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week · Latent Space · Sep 30
- Codex primitives and the host's coding tests show strong developer productivity gains.OpenAI Dev Day 2026: The releases that actually matter · How I AI · Sep 30
- Codex and coding tools let people build far more, raising productivity and output.How Sam Altman Uses Dots to Take Back His Time · AI & I · Sep 30
- Codex expansion into desktop, cloud and enterprise workflows is framed as broadening developer productivity.OpenAI DevDay | Sam Altman, Alexander Embiricos, Andrew Ambrosino, Peter Steinberger, Tibo Sottiaux, Kath Korevec, Casey Neistat · TBPN · Sep 29
- Coding agents consume huge token volumes and show the fastest enterprise adoption and productivity gains.1031: Tokenomics: Why Your Agentic AI Bill Is Exploding (and How to Fix It), with Tyler Cox and Ish Shah · Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn · Sep 29
- Bending Spoons writes most code with AI and cites large efficiency and speed gains from it.This EU Firm Made Billions Buying Up Forgotten Tech · Prof G Markets · Oct 4
- AI tools let Zillow ship 37-40% more code with improved quality and faster prototyping.Zillow CTO on How AI Changes Home Buying · Tech Disruptors · Oct 1
- Coding is largely automated now, with Cisco expecting most products written with AI by next year.How AI Is Changing Innovation: Why Speed Alone Isn’t a Strategy · HBR IdeaCast · Oct 1
- Coding underpins agent capability and engineer productivity, justifying premium inference spend.The Right Chip for the Right Workload: How Inference Speed Shapes the AI Agent Era · Disambiguation · Sep 30
- Agentic coding tools are dramatically boosting engineering productivity and changing hiring needs.Gaming Chip Pioneer Raja Koduri on China's AI Cost Advantage and Moving Beyond the GPU · TechSurge: Deep Tech Podcast · Sep 29
- Hosts see AI coding tools dramatically lowering software creation costs and enabling many more builders.Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344 · This Week in Startups · Sep 30
Mixed 13
- Speakers praise agents for fast shipping but warn of complexity growth, unreviewed changes and runaway costs.OpenAI Loses Control · Will AI Snap That with Thanos and Rollins · Oct 2
- Speakers debate LLM-based code scanners, their non-determinism, and layering models to reduce false positives.Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Has the Best Infrastructure of Them All? · CISO Series Podcast · Sep 29
- Code generation is exploding, but enterprises struggle to ship it safely through governance and review bottlenecks.CloudBees just committed to an AI-first pivot. Here's why it matters for enterprise DevOps teams · The New Stack Podcast · Sep 30
- AI coding tools speed prototyping and migration, but production-grade software still requires senior engineering.Rewind 15 – RAMmageddon Part 3: Why Software Is Now the Only Answer · RAMmageddon – DigitalWasteland · Oct 2
- LLMs show promise writing RTL and small design blocks but hallucinate and lack the intuition needed for verification.Adventures in Chip Design · Supply Chained · Sep 29
- Coding agents are fast but weak at architecture, and they mainly speed up existing software rather than improving it.AI Can Write Code. Why Isn’t Software Better? · The a16z Show · Sep 28
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- Vibe coding boosts productivity, but debugging AI-generated code creates a significant quality tax.The Rise of Autonomous Digital Workers · Chat GPT Podcast · Oct 4
- AI lowers barriers to backtesting but can become a cheerleader and needs specific prompts.343: How He Automated His Way to 3,500 Trades a Year w/ Dave Mabe · Trading Nut | Trader Interviews - Forex, Futures, Stocks · Sep 30
- AI tools speed development and lower barriers, but gamers and developers are wary of job loss and stigma.Shuhei Yoshida on the future of gaming · The Vergecast · Sep 28
- Says AI writes code fast but much of it is low quality, drawn from poor open-source code.Fiverr · BIG IDEAS BY NEW ECONOMIES · Oct 1
- AI coding boosts productivity when used well but produces buggy code needing testing.Tech Titans: How Can a Chatbot Steal a Model's Secrets? with Steve Orrin, Federal CTO at Intel · Modern CTO · Sep 28
- Describing apps in plain language lets every department build software, raising productivity gains alongside sprawl risk.Microsoft Gave The Agent A Badge · YPO Technology Network AI Brief · Sep 28
- Vibe-coded apps leak data through Supabase, so security audits are needed despite the productivity gains.Pentagon Supply Chain Risk Ban Upheld · The AI Engineer Podcast · Sep 29
Neutral 18
- Speaker describes building the game with AI coding and spec-driven development, a productivity story without investing angle.How Lenin Alevski Built a Cybersecurity Survival Game in a Week and Got 12,000 Players · Breaking Through in Cybersecurity Marketing · Sep 30
- Discussion focuses on how agents write code, token costs and tooling for agent-generated code, without a clear investment view.Constraints that make developers faster · The Stack Overflow Podcast · Oct 2
- Discussion centers on how AI coding tools change developer skills and workflows, without a clear investment lean.Lead with empathy and listen without defense - product sense with Mark Techson · Become an Epic Product Engineer · Sep 30
- Host describes using AI tools and Python to build business tools, a factual account with no investing angle.Money for the Rest of Us Update and Survey · Money for the Rest of Us · Sep 30
- Discussion centers on how AI coding agents change engineering workflows and throughput, described factually.AI Turning Product Managers Into Bottlenecks for PMs to Adapt and Scale Faster with Chris Geoghegan · The Dark Arts of Software Engineering Team Optimization · Oct 2
- Hosts compare coding assistants, token limits and model choices for development work.E24 Practical Local LLMs: Hardware, Tools, and Trade-offs · Embedded AI Podcast · Oct 2
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- Discussion focuses on AI-generated GPU kernels and developer tooling without a clear investment angle.Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Oct 2
- Hosts compare Codex and Claude workflows for organizing coding projects and managing context.(Preview) All About Agents: Dots Arrive, Google and Apple Questions, Muse Follow-Ups, Super Intelligence, and the Mandate of Heaven · Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Oct 2
- Coding agents are used heavily in development, but output quality depends strongly on the skill of the developer.Why AI Makes Games Worse—and How to Make Them Better · The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica · Oct 1
- Discussed as enabling bespoke system generation and faster debugging, factually.Beyond Academic Proof: Scaling Provable Correctness in Production · The BugBash Podcast · Oct 1
- Coding agents like Codex and Claude Code drive heavy token consumption and cost concerns.Ep 872: AI Cost Control 101: Why Your Chatbot Bill Is Becoming a Board-Level Problem (Start Here Series Vol 31) · Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast · Sep 29
- Discussed as Codex-generated landing pages and design handoffs feeding into the agent workflow.OpenAI Dots vs. Grok Bot vs. Muse for Business: Who Wins? Plus Best Use Cases · Leveling Up with Eric Siu · Oct 1
- Discussed as evidence that AI adoption spreads fast, with most coders now using it daily.#244: How Alibaba.com Is Building the Future of Agent-to-Agent Commerce · The Artificial Intelligence Show · Oct 1
- Debate over whether people still need to learn to code when AI writes code and prompts matter.Every Muse User Gets 2 CPUs and 8GB in Meta's Cloud. Your Phone Already Has That · Semi Doped · Oct 1
- Codex and Claude Code workflows are compared as tools for building agent systems, without a clear investment lean.OpenAI DevDay: New AI Tools, Subscription Changes and What They Mean for Your Business · Authority Hacker Podcast – AI & Automation for Small biz & Marketers · Sep 30
- Discussed as a personal productivity tool used to build side projects with iterative prompting.How AI changes cybersecurity's balance of power · The Deep View: Conversations · Sep 30
- Mentions developer tool subscriptions and credit usage as an example of variable spend.Why AI Agent Costs Spike 10x Day to Day | Vinay Seshadri · MTS · Sep 28
- Hosts describe using Claude Code artifacts and sub-agent workflows in their own daily development.373: Raiders of the Lost Claude Artifact · The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP · Sep 30
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Companies named
- OpenAI 17
- Anthropic 17
- Microsoft 3
- Cursor2
- TypeSafe1
- GuardSquare1
Shows that covered it most
- Latent Space3
- This Week in Startups2
- Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast2
- Modern CTO1
- MTS1
- The a16z Show1
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