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S1E63 Why AI Coding Agents Keep Guessing | Context Gap & Code Intelligence with Dennis Pilarinos
SummaryDennis Pilarinos has spent nearly two decades building developer tools at Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Buddybuild (acquired by Apple). Now CEO of Unblocked, he's tackling the critical problem…
S1E62 Agentic AI Development | Shipping Real Tools with Sterling Chin
SummaryWhat does it actually look like to hand 90% of your workday over to an AI agent you built yourself?Sterling Chin, founding DevRel at Inngest and creator of Marvin, an open-source AI chief of…
S1E61 AI Code Quality: The New Software Engineering Bottleneck
AI is generating more code than ever, but most engineers aren't verifying it. Sonar Staff AI Researcher Joe Tyler shares breakthrough findings from his LLM Leaderboard research on code quality, the…
S1E60 Design Engineering, Interviews & Job Search | Career Growth with Adam Argyle
SummarySoftware engineering career moves don't have to be a lottery. In this episode, Adam Argyle breaks down why the technical interview process is fundamentally broken, how design engineering…
S1E59 Building the Decentralized Social Web: From Collective Social to OpenSocial
Brittany shares her journey building Collective Social - a Goodreads-style app for all kinds of media built entirely on the AT Protocol - and how it led her to create OpenSocial, a service that lets…
S1E58 There are no shortcuts | Craft & career growth with Salma Alam-Naylor
SummaryIn this episode, Erika talks with Salma Alam-Naylor about software engineering craft, programming best practices, and why the long game beats shortcuts. As AI coding tools proliferate and…
S1E57 Build Real Tools, Skip LeetCode: Systems Programming for Career Growth with John Crickett
Tech careers don't need to mean grinding LeetCode. In episode 57, John Crickett — 30+ year engineer, Coding Challenges creator (90K+ subscribers) — makes the case that programmer productivity…
S1E56 Run Toward Something - Career Growth, Mentorship & Work-Life Balance with Dave Schwantes
SummaryCareer growth through mentorship and work-life balance with Dave Schwantes, Senior Software Engineer at GitHub. Brittany and Dave explore why running toward meaningful work beats running from…
S1E55 Building Your Own Tech Career Path - Bootcamp, Teaching & Big Platforms with Sabrina Goldfarb
SummarySabrina Goldfarb rejected the tech career playbook. No CS degree, bootcamp instead, teaching before big platforms. Now an engineer on GitHub's Copilot team and instructor at Frontend Masters,…
S1E54 Building Bulletproof Systems: Warren Parad on Software Engineering for High Availability
SummaryIn this episode of the Overcommitted Podcast, hosts Bethany and Erika sit down with Warren Parad, CTO and co-founder of Authress, a user authorization API built for reliability. Warren shares…
S1E53 Scaling Search Engineering at DoorDash: From Monoliths to Custom Search Engines with Satish Saley
SummaryIn this episode of Overcommitted, Satish Saley, a senior software engineer with extensive experience on DoorDash's search platform team, discusses scaling search systems at a hyper-growth…
S1E52 Overcommitted After One Year: Insights on Software Projects, Growth, and What's Next
SummaryIn this special one-year anniversary episode of Overcommitted, Brittany, Erika, and Bethany reflect on their journey from a small accountability group to a thriving weekly podcast and…
S1E51 AI as a Power Up, Not Autopilot: Craig Dennis on Boosting Productivity and Software Development Education
SummaryIn this episode, we dive deep into software development education and programmer productivity with Craig Dennis, developer educator at Cloudflare and creator of AI Avenue. Craig shares his…
S1E50 Making Long Bets: How GitHub Next Shapes the Future of Software Engineering with Idan Gazit
SummaryThis week on Overcommitted, Erika and Brittany welcome Idan Gazit, head of GitHub Next — a senior-heavy innovation team making strategic "long bets" on the future of software engineering and…
S1E49 Using AI Agents in Software Development 2026: Current Uses and Future Possibilities
SummaryIn this special in-person episode recorded at the GitHub office, Brittany and Bethany dive into the evolving role of AI agents in software development and programming as of early 2026. They…
S1E48 How Staff Engineers Impact Software Projects and Programmer Productivity with Sean Goedecke
SummarySean Goedecke, a staff engineer on GitHub's Copilot team and a prominent voice in software development, shares his unique frameworks for software engineering and improving programmer…
S1E47 From Score to Source Code: Non-Traditional Careers, Rust, and Embracing What You Don't Know Yet
What do composing music and fixing bugs have in common? More than you'd think.In this episode of Overcommitted, hosts Erika and Bethany sit down with Marco Herrera Rendon, Senior Engineer at Comcast…
S1E46 Interactive Computer Science Education: Sam Rose on Visual Learning & Developer Teaching
Summary:In this episode of the Overcommitted Podcast, host Bethany and co-host Brittany Ellich dive into software engineering education with Sam Rose, a developer educator at Ngrok. Sam shares his…
S1E45 Sustainability in Software Development: Robby Russell on Tech Debt and Engineering Culture
SummaryIn this episode of the Overcommitted Podcast, hosts Brittany, Bethany, and Erika dive deep into the realities of software development with guest Robby Russell. They explore the critical…
S1E44 AI, Burnout, and the Myth of the 10x Developer: Addressing Burnout in Software Engineering
SummaryIn this insightful episode of the Overcommitted Podcast, hosts Erika, Bethany, and Brittany tackle the critical issue of burnout in software projects and software engineering, especially amid…
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