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Nobel Prize Winner: AI’s Impact On Drug Discovery And Biology | Venki Ramakrishnan

“The experimental part [of drug discovery] is always going to be the bottleneck.”

Nov 9 • Ryan Peterman

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

In the year 2000, Joel Spolsky (founder of Stack Overflow) wrote a famous article titled “Things You Should Never Do, Part I.” In it, he talks about how…

Nov 2 • Ryan Peterman

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October 2026

Brian Kernighan: Inside Bell Labs, The Best Programmer, Why C Won

Brian Kernighan is the former Bell Labs technical staff member, co-author of the original C book, and the guy behind “Hello World.” We talked about what…

Oct 26 • Ryan Peterman

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The Story Behind Creating DNS | Paul Mockapetris

This interview is with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS).

Oct 19 • Ryan Peterman

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Scott Aaronson: The Mathocalypse & Does Intelligence Matter Anymore?

Scott Aaronson is one of the world’s leading quantum computing researchers and spent two years at OpenAI working on AI safety.

Oct 12 • Ryan Peterman

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Neetcode: Google vs Amazon, Programming Interviews, Quitting Big Tech

Neetcode is the most well-known coding interview prep creator with over 1M+ subs on YouTube.

Oct 5 • Ryan Peterman

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September 2026

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

In this episode, I asked Ethan Evans (ex-Amazon VP) question about common situations in corporate politics but they get increasingly dark.

Sep 28 • Ryan Peterman

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

Philip Su grew quickly to a Distinguished Engineer at Facebook and OpenAI. We discussed the psychology of peaking in your career.

Sep 21 • Ryan Peterman

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Update on Quitting My Job

How it went

Sep 18 • Ryan Peterman

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

In this episode, my goal was to record a conversation that was completely free of any “AI doom” content.

Sep 14 • Ryan Peterman

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

When I talk with my friends who work at Anthropic it always surprises me how far ahead they are in adopting AI within their processes and workflows.

Sep 7 • Ryan Peterman

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August 2026

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

There are so many choices every programming language creator makes while navigating engineering tradeoffs in building one.

Aug 31 • Ryan Peterman

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