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devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development

A podcast about developer tools and the people who make them. Join us as we embark on a journey to explore modern developer tooling and interview the people who make it possible. We love talking to the creators front-end frameworks (React, Solid, Svelte, Vue, Angular, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), Languages (Unison, Elixor, Rust, Zig), web tech (WASM, Web Containers, WebGPU, WebGL), database providers (Turso, Planetscale, Supabase, EdgeDB), and platforms (SST, AWS, Vercel, Netlify, Fly.io).

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 181 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development

“There's actually nothing in Traces data that companies don't already have, all the way from your Slack history to any of these other things. If someone is SSHing into a production box they shouldn't be, that data can already be acquired through the MDM tools and all of the other ways that companies are monitoring people's behavior on their devices. But Traces as a product is a workflow tool, a tool for learning, a tool for teams.” — Tarun Sachdeva, devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Tarun Sachdeva · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“Everybody's accusing everybody else of slop right now. But I don't think you'd accuse them of slop if you saw their month-long chat with AI that probed the depths of mathematics.” — Andrew Lisowski, devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Andrew Lisowski · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“If the volume of PRs increases, then the amount of time that we spend on any given PR needs to decrease. And in order to maintain the quality of review without just saying 'forget it, let's just hit accept', we need better tools to get to an understanding of what is happening in this PR faster… The process of development is a session, but the process of review is also a session with an agent, where an agent can help you understand what is happening inside a PR and help you probe and ask questions. A code review is another form of conversation.” — Tarun Sachdeva, devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Tarun Sachdeva · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“If they one-shotted an entire feature, I'm naturally going to be skeptical. Sometimes I'm skeptical and then surprised positively that it did a great job. Sometimes you use a very long session to solve something that seems like it should be a one-shot, and it maybe tells you something about why your code base is hard to reason about. Your agents are having trouble reasoning around your code base in some way.” — Tarun Sachdeva, devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Tarun Sachdeva · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I think engineering and software is the ultimate form of leverage. To only focus on the cost associated with a task is probably not the best form of engineering management, at least at this level of fidelity. I often find myself looking at the cost associated with a task and then just not looking at it, because it's kind of unfair. Sometimes those dollars are spent in learning.” — Tarun Sachdeva, devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Tarun Sachdeva · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“Every single time they use these agents, this is not just a log of your computer's activity. This is decision data. This is your decisions, your team's decisions. And that level of fidelity into those decisions should benefit the teams whose data it is, not just the model providers that are providing the models.” — Tarun Sachdeva, devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Tarun Sachdeva · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“When we started working through agents, the one thing that we kind of lost visibility into was what happened between you and the code. Before, there was no distance. It was just you and your editor, and you would put it on GitHub and collaborate there. There was this whole in-between thing, a back and forth of you and the agent, that was just no longer being captured.” — Tarun Sachdeva, devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Tarun Sachdeva · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“The bottleneck is on review because, hey, we cannot just YOLO to prod. I think that is the result of one, distrust in the tools. People don't trust that code written by the models is better than code written by people, which is very questionable in late 2026… I don't think I write better code than a model if given the right instructions.” — Boris Tane, devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Boris Tane · 19 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The fundamental problem with alerts is that you need to know what the problem is before you can set an alert for it… I swapped models today and one of the models doesn't support images… There is no way on earth I would have set an alert for, you know, if user puts image, alert me.” — Boris Tane, devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
Boris Tane · 19 Oct 2026 Listen →

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