SED Information is a month-to-month podcast from Software program Engineering Day by day the place hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the largest tales shaping software program engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech trade.
On this episode, they cowl Starlink’s fast 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 talk about Meta’s $2B acquisition of Manus, Waymo’s rising pains as autonomous automobiles 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 warfare for elite AI expertise, and what current layoffs actually say about the way forward for software program engineering. They discover how AI coding instruments are reshaping the stability between junior and senior engineers, why fundamentals nonetheless matter, and what builders ought to give attention to heading into 2026.
Lastly, they spotlight standout threads from Hacker Information, together with Doom working on wi-fi earbuds, the enduring enchantment of wildly over-engineered aspect 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 basic software program engineering firms. He’s primarily based in Singapore and may be discovered by way of his profile at vand.hk or on LinkedIn.
Sean’s been an educational, startup founder, and Googler. He has printed works protecting a variety of matters 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 may join with Sean on LinkedIn.
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