Still Burning Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/still-burning Honest conversations about fear, uncertainty, and what it means to build things when the ground keeps shifting. Season One is sponsored by WorkOS and Augment Code. Kent Beck 57777aa0-d33a-5d8e-b274-46a3e67da37f yes Alyssa Eidam Kent Beck en Wed, 06 May 2026 07:00:07 +0000 Wed, 06 May 2026 07:01:53 +0000 http://www.stillburningpodcast.com https://img.transistorcdn.com/VZo6j06FXvFIZPUqoUQrcMC3ocpVNU-65xkkHhtafHM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zZGQ4/ZjRkNmEzMTUzYjcz/ZWU2ODk5ZThiMGM4/ZWUwZS5qcGc.jpg Still Burning http://www.stillburningpodcast.com episodic Kent Beck Honest conversations about fear, uncertainty, and what it means to build things when the ground keeps shifting. Season One is sponsored by WorkOS and Augment Code. Honest conversations about fear, uncertainty, and what it means to build things when the ground keeps shifting. Kent Beck sponsorships@kentbeck.com No Yes Did We Do This to Ourselves? Did We Do This to Ourselves? full 1f0b97cc-69e9-4b9d-b407-42b0ed791a48 https://share.transistor.fm/s/208da674 Angie Jones spent years as the "geek whisperer" — translating technical possibility into human progress. Then she led one of the most ambitious AI adoption programs in the industry, and the rug got pulled out. Now at the Agentic AI Foundation, she's working to make sure the standards powering the next era of software are built in the open, by everyone. Kent and Angie dig into the impossible bargain AI has handed engineers, what it really means to hire junior developers right now, and what scares her most about where we're all headed.

This season of Still Burning is sponsored by WorkOS and Augment Code.

]]> Angie Jones spent years as the "geek whisperer" — translating technical possibility into human progress. Then she led one of the most ambitious AI adoption programs in the industry, and the rug got pulled out. Now at the Agentic AI Foundation, she's working to make sure the standards powering the next era of software are built in the open, by everyone. Kent and Angie dig into the impossible bargain AI has handed engineers, what it really means to hire junior developers right now, and what scares her most about where we're all headed.

This season of Still Burning is sponsored by WorkOS and Augment Code.

]]> Wed, 06 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Kent Beck Kent Beck 2462 Angie Jones spent years as the "geek whisperer" — translating technical possibility into human progress. Then she led one of the most ambitious AI adoption programs in the industry, and the rug got pulled out. Now at the Agentic AI Foundation, she's working to make sure the standards powering the next era of software are built in the open, by everyone. Kent and Angie dig into the impossible bargain AI has handed engineers, what it really means to hire junior developers right now, and what scares her most about where we're all headed.

This season of Still Burning is sponsored by WorkOS and Augment Code.

]]> technology, augmented development, llm, ai-native orgs, genies, junior developers No Alyssa Eidam Kent Beck Angie Jones Find the North Star Find the North Star full substack:post:194991339 https://share.transistor.fm/s/dc5e8220 Amelia Wattenberger didn’t want to be a developer — both her parents were, and from the outside it looked boring. Then she accidentally built a website, and everything changed. In this conversation, she and Kent talk about why play matters more right now than productivity, what we actually lose when every project has a KPI attached, and why the most important skill in augmented development might just be knowing when to step back.

This season of Still Burning is brought to you in partnership with WorkOS and Augment Code.


]]> Amelia Wattenberger didn’t want to be a developer — both her parents were, and from the outside it looked boring. Then she accidentally built a website, and everything changed. In this conversation, she and Kent talk about why play matters more right now than productivity, what we actually lose when every project has a KPI attached, and why the most important skill in augmented development might just be knowing when to step back.

This season of Still Burning is brought to you in partnership with WorkOS and Augment Code.


]]> Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:05:00 +0000 Kent Beck Kent Beck 2948 Amelia Wattenberger didn’t want to be a developer — both her parents were, and from the outside it looked boring. Then she accidentally built a website, and everything changed. In this conversation, she and Kent talk about why play matters more right now than productivity, what we actually lose when every project has a KPI attached, and why the most important skill in augmented development might just be knowing when to step back.

This season of Still Burning is brought to you in partnership with WorkOS and Augment Code.


]]> augmented development, llm, technology, ai, kent beck, No Alyssa Eidam Kent Beck Amelia Wattenberger Run Out to Meet It Run Out to Meet It full substack:post:193499338 https://share.transistor.fm/s/398e4760 Charity Majors spent a year telling engineers they needed to learn to code to stay relevant. Then, in about three months, that advice became obsolete. In this conversation, she talks about why engineers who built careers on beautiful, readable code are struggling more than anyone else, why junior developers might have a hidden advantage right now, and what it means that nobody has a headstart anymore. Everybody’s ignorance has been reset to 100.

This season of Still Burning is brought to you in partnership with WorkOS and Augment Code.


]]> Charity Majors spent a year telling engineers they needed to learn to code to stay relevant. Then, in about three months, that advice became obsolete. In this conversation, she talks about why engineers who built careers on beautiful, readable code are struggling more than anyone else, why junior developers might have a hidden advantage right now, and what it means that nobody has a headstart anymore. Everybody’s ignorance has been reset to 100.

This season of Still Burning is brought to you in partnership with WorkOS and Augment Code.


]]> Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:30:00 +0000 Kent Beck and Charity Majors Kent Beck and Charity Majors 3089 Charity Majors spent a year telling engineers they needed to learn to code to stay relevant. Then, in about three months, that advice became obsolete. In this conversation, she talks about why engineers who built careers on beautiful, readable code are struggling more than anyone else, why junior developers might have a hidden advantage right now, and what it means that nobody has a headstart anymore. Everybody’s ignorance has been reset to 100.

This season of Still Burning is brought to you in partnership with WorkOS and Augment Code.


]]> augmented development, llm, technology, ai, kent beck, Yes Alyssa Eidam Kent Beck Charity Majors Nobody Knows Nobody Knows full substack:post:192009562 https://share.transistor.fm/s/32f34c78 Kent Beck kicks off Still Burning with a fireside manifest for geeks navigating a world that's shifted under their feet. Old skills are losing leverage, and nobody has the answers — not even the people who've been doing this for 30 years. So what do you do? You try things. You experiment cheaply. You bless and release what no longer matters. This one's for the geeks who still care and are still doing something about it.


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]]> Kent Beck kicks off Still Burning with a fireside manifest for geeks navigating a world that's shifted under their feet. Old skills are losing leverage, and nobody has the answers — not even the people who've been doing this for 30 years. So what do you do? You try things. You experiment cheaply. You bless and release what no longer matters. This one's for the geeks who still care and are still doing something about it.


This season is brought to you in partnership with WorkOS and Augment Code.


]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:15:00 -0100 Kent Beck Kent Beck 2633 Kent Beck kicks off Still Burning with a fireside manifest for geeks navigating a world that's shifted under their feet. Old skills are losing leverage, and nobody has the answers — not even the people who've been doing this for 30 years. So what do you do? You try things. You experiment cheaply. You bless and release what no longer matters. This one's for the geeks who still care and are still doing something about it.


This season is brought to you in partnership with WorkOS and Augment Code.


]]> technology, augmented development, exploristan, shifting-landscape, llm, genie No Alyssa Eidam Kent Beck