Podcast archive
Conversations for a human-led future.
Long-form conversations with the people building, questioning and shaping technology—and the earlier archive that led us here.
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1:04:34Building with JRuby
Troy Mallory on bringing an electrical engineer’s perspective to software, JRuby and the unexpected paths that shape a technical career.
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How to Stay Human in the Age of AI
Tāne Hunter on adapting to AI without losing judgement, curiosity or humanity — and why people, not machines, still decide what matters.
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The Ruby Runtime Built for Scale, Parallelism and Enterprise
JRuby co-creator Charles Nutter on the JVM, true parallelism, open-source stewardship and expanding what Ruby developers can build.
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Rails, AI and the Future of the Ruby Community
Evil Martians CEO Irina Nazarova on Rails discoverability, AI-assisted development, open source and where the community goes next.
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1:02:44Episode 05 · Carmine Paolino
Why Rails Is Built for the AI Era
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1:25:47Episode 06 · Scott Phillips
Securing the Internet for a Quantum Future
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1:06:52Episode 07 · Scott Stafford
What Humans Still Do Better Than AI
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1:28:05Episode 08 · Jeremy Smith
Why Ruby on Rails Matters More in the Age of AI
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1:07:43Episode 09 · Javier Cervantes
Ruby Users Forum
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1:18:17Episode 10 · Brandon Weaver