Episodes

  • Episode 305: DHH, Hinton & Jensen
    Sep 25 2026

    In this episode, Conor mentions of few podcasts that might be of interest while on paternity leave.

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    Socials

    • ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
    • Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio

    Show Notes

    Date Recorded: 2026-09-24
    Date Released: 2026-09-25

    • ADSP Episode 302: From PyTorch to GPU MODE with Mark Saroufim
    • ADSP Episode 271: Mastermind Algorithms
    • POD GOD
    • DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast
    • Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far | The Ezra Klein Show
    • AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
    • Big Technology Podcast
    • Hard Fork Podcast
    • Machine Gods Podcast

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    11 mins
  • Episode 304: The Agentic Era & Books with Mark Saroufim
    Sep 18 2026

    In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about autoresearch, productionizing AI-generated GPU kernels, GPU MODE, books, video games and more!

    • Link to Episode 304 on Website
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    Socials

    • ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
    • Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
    • Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky

    About the Guest:

    Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.

    Show Notes

    Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
    Date Released: 2026-09-18

    • Core Automation
    • GPU MODE
    • PyTorch
    • ADSP Episode 294: Histocache
    • CUB Library
    • QR GPU MODE Problem
    • Modal
    • GPU MODE Lecture 108: One Layer Deeper competition
    • onelayerdeeper.ai
    • The Peterman Pod
    • Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On What Grew His Career And Building at Anthropic (Peterman Pod)
    • Permutation City by Greg Egan
    • A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
    • Mark's Bookshelf
    • Mark's Top 10 Books
    • Journey to the Ants
    • Visual Group Theory
    • The Theory of Fun
    • Working with Legacy Code
    • The Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
    • Game Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Finance
    • NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem
    • laplace-torch

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    38 mins
  • Episode 303: Open Models, GPU Kernels & autoresearch with Mark Saroufim
    Sep 11 2026

    In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about open vs closed models, numerical correctness, AI-generated GPU kernels, autoresearch and more!

    • Link to Episode 303 on Website
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    Socials

    • ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
    • Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
    • Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky

    About the Guest:

    Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.

    Show Notes

    Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
    Date Released: 2026-09-11

    • Core Automation
    • GPU MODE
    • PyTorch
    • QR GPU MODE Problem
    • NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem
    • laplace-torch

    Intro Song Info

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    35 mins
  • Episode 302: From PyTorch to GPU MODE with Mark Saroufim
    Sep 4 2026

    In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Mark Saroufim about his path from AI theory and Microsoft to Graphcore and PyTorch, what he learned from open source, building the GPU MODE community, and his work automating AI systems research at Core Automation.

    • Link to Episode 302 on Website
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    Socials

    • ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
    • Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
    • Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky

    About the Guest:

    Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.

    Show Notes

    Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
    Date Released: 2026-09-04

    • Core Automation
    • GPU MODE
    • Graphcore
    • The Robot Overlord Manual
    • Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
    • PyTorch

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    26 mins
  • Episode 301: My Existential Crisis, AI Fluency & the Death of Conferences?
    Aug 28 2026

    In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about the future of technical communities, AI fluency, Conor's existential crisis, Auto Research Academy and more!

    • Link to Episode 301 on Website
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    Socials

    • ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
    • Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
    • Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky

    Show Notes

    Date Recorded: 2026-08-12
    Date Released: 2026-08-28

    • GOSIM Conferences
    • Modal
    • EURO PYTHON
    • GPU MODE

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    44 mins
  • Episode 300: Sean Parent "I'm not writing code anymore."
    Aug 21 2026

    In this episode, Conor and Bryce celebrate the 300th episode fo ADSP by catching up with Sean Parent!

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    Socials

    • ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
    • Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
    • Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky

    About the Guest:

    Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe Photoshop. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

    Show Notes

    Date Recorded: 2026-08-19
    Date Released: 2026-08-21

    • POD GOD
    • CppCast
    • cpp.chat
    • Sean Parent - Papers and Presentations
    • ADSP Episode 299: Do We Need Humans in the Loop?
    • NVIDIA CCCL
    • cel-rs
    • Stepanov Papers
    • Bob Tarjan
    • Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm
    • Soylent Green is people!
    • Claude Code
    • The Last Emperor - A Gentleman
    • Jonathon Blow on the Quality of Software (Software is in Decline)
    • Lean Programming Language
    • Dafny Programming Language
    • Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg
    • autoresearch

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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Episode 299: Do We Need Humans in the Loop?
    Aug 14 2026

    In this episode, Conor and Bryce discuss the role of humans in the loop with AI and code review in the age of AI.

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    Socials

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    • Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
    • Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky

    Show Notes

    Date Recorded: 2026-08-12
    Date Released: 2026-08-14

    • Red-tailed Hawk
    • Broad-winged Hawk

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    36 mins
  • Episode 298: Design of APIs, UIs & Algorithms
    Aug 7 2026

    In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about the design of APIs, UIs & algorithms!

    • Link to Episode 298 on Website
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    Socials

    • ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
    • Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
    • Ben Deane: Twitter | BlueSky

    Show Notes

    Date Recorded: 2026-07-22
    Date Released: 2026-08-07

    • C++Now 2018: Ben Deane “Easy to Use, Hard to Misuse: Declarative Style in C++”
    • NDC Toronto UI talk
    • The Design of Everyday Things
    • About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
    • User Interface Design For Programmers
    • Just My Type
    • The Elements of Typographic Style

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    22 mins