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The Developing Dev

Sharing learnings from the transparent career stories of technical people, written by an ex-software engineer @ Instagram

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 60 posts collected by Sputnik

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“It was about 136 billion tokens broken up in such a way that if you were to use the public pricing of those models at those times, it came out to approximately $120,000. This is not factoring any discounts… plus my time… about three weeks of my time spread out over three months plus the token costs. And it's only getting cheaper.” — Stephen Toub, The Developing Dev
Stephen Toub · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“The agents want to get to green, like that's their goal. And so if you let them, they will change the oracle, like they will change the tests at the same time as the code to make it pass.” — Stephen Toub, The Developing Dev
Stephen Toub · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I think our class that just graduated in the summer, spring of 2026 was a little over 200 computer science majors. The class that will graduate two years later is probably going to be less than half that.” — Brian Kernighan, The Developing Dev
Brian Kernighan · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I know plenty of people who … essentially everything they used to do, they have outsourced to something like a large language model. And I don't know what they're giving up by doing that. In one sense, they're getting a lot out of it. They're probably 10 times as productive as they used to be in terms of code to get some functionality. And at the same time, they're probably losing 10% of their brain cells or failing to exercise them properly. And I just don't know.” — Brian Kernighan, The Developing Dev
Brian Kernighan · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I've been using mostly Claude, but others as well to generate SQL because I'm not an SQL expert. … How do I know whether it gave me the right query? Because I'm not an SQL expert. And if we already knew the answer, we wouldn't need it. And so I'm wrestling with that. And my observation is 90% of the time it generates a perfectly fine query and 10% of the time it gives you a totally wrong answer. And I don't know which is which.” — Brian Kernighan, The Developing Dev
Brian Kernighan · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The IETF takes credit for DNS. Okay. Now, one of the problems with that is that the DNS spec came out in 1983, and the first meeting of the IETF was in 1986. So, how exactly do you explain it?” — Paul Mockapetris, The Developing Dev
Paul Mockapetris · 19 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The DNS may be a privacy risk, but your privacy gets violated in so much more effective ways by all of this web stuff. … Most people don't realize that when an ad gets populated on their web page, 150 or more organizations have been asked, do you want to serve this ad to this person? They don't identify the person, but they can identify up to 144 characteristics of the person. So I appreciate the people who have done some stuff about DNS privacy, but your privacy is long gone by the time you worry about this.” — Paul Mockapetris, The Developing Dev
Paul Mockapetris · 19 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Developing Dev is hosted by Ryan Peterman and Laurent Charignon .

Recent Episodes

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    Microsoft Distinguished Eng: Why And How To Port Your Entire Codebase to Rust | Stephen Toub

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  2. 26 Oct 2026

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  3. 19 Oct 2026

    The Story Behind Creating DNS | Paul Mockapetris

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  4. 12 Oct 2026

    Scott Aaronson: The Mathocalypse & Does Intelligence Matter Anymore?

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    Amazon VP: Questions On Corporate Politics But They Get Increasingly Darker | Ethan Evans

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  7. 21 Sep 2026

    OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9): The Psychology Behind Tech Career Peaks | Philip Su

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  8. 18 Sep 2026

    Update on Quitting My Job

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    Casey Muratori: Surprises In Computer History And Where Bad Code Comes From

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  10. 7 Sep 2026

    How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar

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  11. 31 Aug 2026

    Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky

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  12. 24 Aug 2026

    Sergey Levine: Current State of Humanoid Robotics, China & Future Predictions

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Guests

Paul Mockapetris , Roberto Ierusalimschy , Thariq Shihipar , Leonardo de Moura , Anders Hejlsberg , Sergey Levine , Martin Odersky , Stephen Toub , Ethan Evans , Philip Su , David Patterson , Scott Aaronson , and 5 more.