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Anthropic and the Model Context Protocol with David Soria Parra

The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is a new open standard that connects AI assistants to arbitrary data sources and tools, such as codebases, APIs, and content repositories. Instead of building bespo...

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Grand Theft Auto III on the Dreamcast with Falco Girgis and Stef Kornilios Mitsis Poiitidis

Grand Theft Auto III is a 2001 an open-world action-adventure game developed by Rockstar Games and it had a profound impact on both gaming and popular culture. Its success cemented video games as a do...

May 08, 2025

Polypane with Kilian Valkhof

Polypane is a specialized web development browser that simplifies creating and testing modern websites. A key feature is that it provides multiple screen sizes at once, with synchronized scrolling and...

May 06, 2025

LiveKit and OpenAI with Russ d’Sa

LiveKit is a platform that provides developers with tools to build real-time audio and video applications at scale. It offers an open-source WebRTC stack for creation of live, interactive experiences...

May 01, 2025

SED News: CoreWeave IPO, Anthropic’s MCP, and Microsoft Turns 50

Welcome to the pilot episode of SED News, a new podcast series from Software Engineering Daily. Join hosts Gregor Van and Sean Falconer as they break down the week’s most important stories in software...

Apr 29, 2025

Vibe Coding at Heroku with Vish Abrams

AI tools are transforming how developers write code, and although it’s difficult to pinpoint how much code is now AI-generated code, estimates suggest it’s between 20% and 40%, and this figure is pois...

Apr 24, 2025

Agentic AI at Glean with Eddie Zhou

Glean is a workplace search and knowledge discovery company that helps organizations find and access information across various internal tools and data sources. Their platform uses AI to provide perso...

Apr 22, 2025

Turing Award Special: A Conversation with Martin Hellman

Martin Hellman is an American cryptographer known for co-inventing public-key cryptography with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle in the 1970s. Their groundbreaking Diffie-Hellman key exchange method...

Apr 17, 2025

Prometheus and Open-Source Observability with Eric Schabell

Modern cloud-native systems are highly dynamic and distributed, which makes it difficult to monitor cloud infrastructure using traditional tools designed for static environments. This has motivated th...

Apr 15, 2025

Turing Award Special: A Conversation with David Patterson

David A. Patterson is a pioneering computer scientist known for his contributions to computer architecture, particularly as a co-developer of Reduced Instruction Set Computing, or RISC, which revoluti...

Apr 10, 2025

Uber’s On-Call Copilot with Paarth Chothani and Eduards Sidorovics

At Uber, there are many platform teams supporting engineers across the company, and maintaining robust on-call operations is crucial to keeping services functioning smoothly. The prospect of enhancing...

Apr 08, 2025

Turing Award Special: A Conversation with John Hennessy

John Hennessy is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and academic known for his significant contributions to computer architecture. He co-developed the RISC architecture, which revolutionized modern c...

Apr 03, 2025

Sourcegraph and the Frontier of AI in Software Engineering with Beyang Liu

Sourcegraph is a powerful code search and intelligence tool that helps developers navigate and understand large codebases efficiently. It provides advanced search functionality across multiple reposit...

Apr 01, 2025

Turing Award Special: A Conversation with Jeffrey Ullman

Jeffrey Ullman is a renowned computer scientist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to database systems, compilers, and algorithms. He co-aut...

Mar 27, 2025

Knowledge Graphs as Agentic Memory with Daniel Chalef

Contextual memory in AI is a major challenge because current models struggle to retain and recall relevant information over time. While humans can build long-term semantic relationships, AI systems of...

Mar 25, 2025