Episodes

  • All your packages are belong to us (Interview)

    All your packages are belong to us (Interview)
    Nov 13 2026
    AI agents can write the code, choose the packages, and run the install. Who's checking what they just invited onto your machine? This week I'm joined by Ahmad Nassri, CTO of Socket and former CTO of npm. We get into the trust built into a package install, the new ways attackers are using agents, and what it takes to keep building without handing over the keys or your wallet.
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    2 hrs and 20 mins
  • We now have Kerr’s Law (Interview)

    We now have Kerr’s Law (Interview)
    Nov 4 2026
    Dave Kerr created hacker laws, and now he finds himself reviewing agent-written code for them. Back on the show after six years, Dave names what he sees limiting teams today: keeping everyone’s mental model in sync with what’s actually been built. Adam declares it Kerr’s Law on the spot. We get into why Dave’s team treats code review as a deliberate slowdown, how Shellwright lets agents bring evidence to a pull request, and what living with bipolar disorder has taught Dave about noticing when the excitement of these tools stops being healthy.
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    2 hrs and 27 mins
  • The future is Postgres (Interview)

    The future is Postgres (Interview)
    Oct 28 2026
    Craig Kerstiens returns to talk about the ever-expanding world of Postgres: a deliberately boring core, a thriving extension ecosystem, and pg_lake bringing DuckDB and Iceberg into the mix. We dig into the pain of ETL, what Craig is watching in Postgres 19, the impact of AI on open source maintainers, and why the database still has plenty of room to grow.
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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • Building what's next (Interview)

    Building what's next (Interview)
    Oct 22 2026
    This week I'm talking with Zeno Rocha, CEO of Resend, about scaling "boring" email to 3 million users, the secret Go rewrite behind it, and building for agents. We cover pricing.md, MCP, spam gangs, and why Resend keeps what's next for email.
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    2 hrs
  • From zero to NanoClaw (Interview)

    From zero to NanoClaw (Interview)
    Oct 9 2026
    Gavriel Cohen, creator of NanoClaw and co-founder of NanoCo, joins Adam to explain how a 40-hour weekend project became a viral open source hit and the foundation of an enterprise AI company. Gavriel describes the security concerns that led him to build a small, container-isolated alternative to OpenClaw, why he released it under the MIT license, and why the project's community and credibility are more valuable than keeping its code private. They explore the shift from writing code to architecting the environments in which agents work, NanoClaw's "skills over features" approach, the approval and governance layers required inside large companies, and a future where every worker manages agents without surrendering human judgment. They close with the technical simplicity behind NanoClaw, containers, TypeScript, SQLite, and a two-database design, and Adam's case for durable Agent Flow artifacts that keep organizational context from disappearing into chat.
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    2 hrs and 43 mins
  • Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)

    Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)
    Sep 3 2026
    This week I'm joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com. What if the majority of open source repositories are already compromised and we just don't know it yet? That's the theory Peer brings to the table this week. We dig into how AI has flattened the knowledge graph to the point that a 16-year-old can vibe hack a power station just as easily as their mom can vibe code an iOS app, why the reporting culture that has kept open source safe all these years is collapsing under AI generated noise, Cal.com's move to fork its own codebase and take the sensitive parts private, and the eye opening reality that shipping "$1 of AI tokens for pennies on the dollar" is now a common startup business model.
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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)

    Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)
    Aug 25 2026
    Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki "do-over" of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy requests, rolling back a 500TB table in seconds, and the very real question of whether to open source any of it. Plus: why he thinks the sleeping, lazy giants should be broken up.
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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)

    Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)
    Jul 21 2026
    Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one. We talk about the AWS API key token attackers just can't resist trying, the real credit card token backed by an actual bank partnership, Breadcrumbs (their brand-new feature that leads intruders straight to your canaries), a live demo where a hardware Canary becomes a Synology NAS in one click, and how a company with zero outbound sales and no price increase in ten years quietly passed $22.5 million in ARR.
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    2 hrs and 7 mins