M Maintainable

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Maintainable

Do you feel like you're hitting a wall with your existing software projects? Are you curious to hear how other people are navigating this? You're not alone. On the Maintainable Software Podcast, Robby speaks with seasoned practitioners who have overcome the technical and cultural problems often associated with software development. Our guests will share stories in each episode and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability.

Website ↗ Last published 27 October 2026 236 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Maintainable

“Organizations are set up to deal with biscuit tins. They're not set up to deal with biscuits.” — Mark Stringer, Maintainable
Mark Stringer · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you have people who aren't technical and they say, well, we need this for Christmas… They don't think that they're saying, could you just do a really kind of slipshod job? … They sort of think they're saying something like, could you just type really fast? The quality will still be the same, but you just have entered it much quicker.” — Mark Stringer, Maintainable
Mark Stringer · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Now when AI is changing the tests and adding new tests, I completely lost track of it. Like we started a new code base. On a few weeks, we had 200 tests. Now I think a couple of months in, we have 800 tests. I don't trust it at all.” — Gabriela Moreira, Maintainable
Gabriela Moreira · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“With humans, we were carrying this big history of regression tests and they were valuable. … If there is a regression test, AI will go and update that in a heartbeat. It won't even think twice.” — Gabriela Moreira, Maintainable
Gabriela Moreira · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We don't allow pull requests for issues that are older than a week. So if an issue is older than a week, it means that implementation is not the blocker. If I could solve that by putting an agent at it, then I would have solved it already.” — José Valim, Maintainable
José Valim · 29 Sep 2026 Listen →
“Like all the problems I've had with any of the agents or Anything I've written is where I asked it to make really difficult judgment calls.…And every time I've done that, it's failed horribly. It just does not make the right call.” — john athayde, Maintainable
john athayde · 8 Sep 2026 Listen →
“…I feel like there's been a lot of like, hey, look what I've done type of conversations happening within teams, not a lot of look what we did.” — robby russell, Maintainable
robby russell · 1 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Maintainable is hosted by robby russell .

Recent Episodes

  1. 27 Oct 2026

    Mark Stringer: Software Costs More Than We Want to Admit

    With Mark Stringer

  2. 13 Oct 2026

    Gabriela Moreira: When 800 Tests Aren’t Enough

    With Gabriela Moreira

  3. 6 Oct 2026

    Matija Šošić: Abstractions Aren’t Going Anywhere

    With Matija Šošić

  4. 29 Sep 2026

    José Valim: Designing a Language You Can Maintain for Decades

    With José Valim

  5. 8 Sep 2026

    John Athayde: Maintaining the User Side of Software

    With john athayde

  6. 1 Sep 2026

    Kristin Isaac: The Customer Doesn’t Care About Your Technical Debt

    With kristin isaac

  7. 18 Aug 2026

    David Hayes: Boring Software, Clear Incentives, and Better Checklists

    With david hayes

  8. 4 Aug 2026

    Diana Pfeil: Building Confidence in Probabilistic Systems

    With diana pfeil

  9. 16 Jun 2026

    Chris Coyier: The Long Game of Maintaining CodePen

    With Chris Coyier

  10. 5 May 2026

    Sally Lait: Confidence Is the Real Metric

    With Sally Lait

  11. 14 Apr 2026

    Rein Henrichs: The Real Work of Maintenance Happens Before You Touch the Code

    With rein henrichs

  12. 31 Mar 2026

    Russ Olsen: The Hidden Cost of Forgetting Why the Code Looks Like That

    With russ olsen

Guests

Brittany Martin (2 episodes), Jemma Issroff (2 episodes), Luke Redpath , Zee Spencer , Roopak Venkatakrishnan , Casey Watts , Aaron Blohowiak , Kevin Stewart , Jonathan Abourbih , Jutta Eckstein , Erica Tafavoti , Abby Bangser , and 102 more.