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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 2d

Bringing back Matt was fun!
I didn't even get to share all his stories. He had some wild ones about HFT that I ended up cutting it.

High-frequency trading is such an interesting world. Just insane efforts to get nano seconds faster

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 2d

New Podcast Episode: @matt.godbolt.org is back after 5 years!

And he's sharing stories about breaking through layers.

Sometimes your “disk write” is a network hop in a trench coat, and your “fast path” hides a page fault.

Godbolt's rule will help.

corecursive.com/godbolt-rule...

Godbolt's Rule - CoRecursive Podcast

What do you do when your code breaks and the only fix is to dig into the runtime below?Matt Godbolt lives for that. Tile-based renderers, color-coded scanlines, zero-copy NICs—each story is a clue tha...

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Oct 2

What if buggy software could destroy your reputation, your business and even your freedom?

New podcast episode is the story of how some code ruined hundreds of lives.

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Risk Rolls Downhill - CoRecursive Podcast

What if a software bug drained your savings, ruined your reputation, and nobody believed it wasn’t your fault?Scott Darlington took over a village post office, hoping to give his family a steady life....

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Oct 2

New Podcast episode tomorrow.

It's about using software to commit accounting fraud ... sort of.

And it has surprisingly good music in it.

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Leftover woman @rosactrl.bsky.social · Sep 26

I got reminded on Mastodon that @adamgordonbell.bsky.social talked about it! I’ll have to listen it again!

briffa_sep98_e.pro - CoRecursive Podcast

Can a single line of code change the way we see science, policy, and trust?In this episode we explore the

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Sep 23

PR reviews piling up or is that just me?

youtu.be/vaj5piINhxQ

6 Tips to Slash Lead Time (DORA Metric)

YouTube video by PulumiTV

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Sep 18

Lets give a coding agent access to my cloud account and say "Deploy this app to AWS"

What could go wrong?

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Windsurf AWS Guide: From Zero to Cloud Hero with Pulumi MCP

YouTube video by PulumiTV

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Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social · Sep 6

@adamgordonbell.bsky.social's Corecursive: Coding Stories is one of my favorite podcasts. He's a great storyteller--really amazing sometimes--and I find it delightful when the story ends up turning on detailed technical facts or practices. corecursive.com

CoRecursive - CoRecursive Podcast

Welcome to CoRecursive. A Podcast where each episode someone shares the fascinating story behind a piece of software being built. Adam Gordon Bell is the host.

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks for sharing! yeah, I might need to update some of those graphics and descriptions.

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gordon-bailey.bsky.social @gordon-bailey.bsky.social · Sep 3

@adamgordonbell.bsky.social I just wanted to say that your podcast is really excellent, regardless of release consistency. Even when an episode description doesn’t grab me, I always listen because your episodes are so consistently interesting and engaging.

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Sep 4

❤️

Hugh @elliotclyde.bsky.social · Sep 4

@adamgordonbell.bsky.social don’t sweat it taking time with your podcast episodes. Corecursive is a great podcast. Take some time for yourself and push that release date out. Hardcore history has a cadence which completely breaks the rules (months and months) and it’s still an unbeatable podcast.

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks! The schedule keeps me honest but it's a challenge at time.

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks! I appreciate it.

Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Aug 15

yeah, the devaluating of skills is hard.

A lot of things i know becoming priced in millions of tokens per dollar.

Btu I do think certain skills are still valuable and maybe increasing in value. Especially as it seems like the curve of LLM progress is flattening.

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · Aug 12

Nice audio essay with a good perspective on how to think about software engineering in the current moment

Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Aug 6

New Podcast episode about learning, economics and brain eating in the age of coding agents.

corecursive.com/red-queen-co...

Coding in the Red-Queen Era - CoRecursive Podcast

What do we risk when we let AI do the heavy lifting in our coding? Are we giving up the thinking that makes us good at what we do? And as expectations keep rising to match productivy gains, is all thi...

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Leftover woman @rosactrl.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m pessimistic, I don’t agree with the conclusion, as I don’t think, all things considered, we can make many choices, but I really liked this episode, as the analysis aligns with my own. I didn’t know the feature factory term, I’ve never worked at one, and yet that’s one of my biggest fears

Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Aug 6

New Podcast episode about learning, economics and brain eating in the age of coding agents.

corecursive.com/red-queen-co...

Coding in the Red-Queen Era - CoRecursive Podcast

What do we risk when we let AI do the heavy lifting in our coding? Are we giving up the thinking that makes us good at what we do? And as expectations keep rising to match productivy gains, is all thi...

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Aug 14

And a whole world exists that can't live without debuggers and an alternate world that never sees the need for one.

I predict many more years of everyone talking past each other.

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thanks for listening!

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Aug 7

Nodding my head at a quote, and then seeing its from me. 😀

Kendall Morgan @kendallmorgan.com · Aug 6

“Mastery matters as well, but it’s not just pure mastery. What matters for a successful career is mastering rare and valuable skills.”

Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Aug 6

New Podcast episode about learning, economics and brain eating in the age of coding agents.

corecursive.com/red-queen-co...

Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Aug 6

New Podcast episode about learning, economics and brain eating in the age of coding agents.

corecursive.com/red-queen-co...

Coding in the Red-Queen Era - CoRecursive Podcast

What do we risk when we let AI do the heavy lifting in our coding? Are we giving up the thinking that makes us good at what we do? And as expectations keep rising to match productivy gains, is all thi...

corecursive.com

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is my biggest fear with AI.

That it's helping me so much but also it's eating my brain.

There's this magical topaz earring, and it's locked away in a museum vault to keep everyone safe from it.

If you put this earring in your ear, it whispers to you, "You'd be better off taking me out." But if you ignore that advice, that's when things get interesting, because whenever you wear the earring and you have a choice to make, it whispers in your ear, telling you exactly what to do, and it's always the best decision every time.

If you're stuck choosing between two jobs, the earring just tells you which one to take, and it's never wrong. Over time, people found that the earring was always right, and so it makes the wearer's life better in every possible way. And the more you wear it, the more you get used to it.

And the earring doesn't just stop at big choices. It chimes in about breakfast, what to say to your friends, and how to give a speech. And even, you know, when and how to move your arm. It's always there, working to give you exactly the advice that you need.

Except then, when you die after an abnormally happy and successful life, you, the earring wearer, are found to have no prefrontal cortex left. You have long since let your brain atrophy away as the earring makes every decision for you. You have long since become its puppet. You got everything you wanted, and you made the decisions that gave you the most happiness.

But were you still you?

That's why the earring stays locked up and out of reach to keep us all safe.

Sound familiar?

The earring is what life looks like if you relinquish everything to AI.

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Jul 16

That one is lots of fun!

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alliterateant.bsky.social @alliterateant.bsky.social · Jul 12

Good time to tell everyone about one of my favorite programming podcast epidose (and in general) from @adamgordonbell.bsky.social about LISP in space which was fascinating

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Jul 10

the average middle 6 figure comp tech influencer mind cannot conceive of an engineering requirements process that high expectations and carries material consequences for sloppy and inadequate engineering

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Jul 5

Agreed, it's clearly designed to be anxiety packed. The show is usually "loud quiet loud" like a nirvana song, and that episode is "loud Loud LOOOUD"

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · Jul 5

That Christmas episode is ... Wow

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