Podcasts

Generally AI Episode 3: the Founders of CS and AI

In this podcast episode, Roland and Anthony delve into the lives and contributions of two legendary programmers, Alan Turing and Claude Shannon. While the two men met only once, their careers contain many parallels: both did foundational work in computer science, cryptography, and AI.

Generally AI Episode 2: AI-Generated Speech and Music

In this podcast episode, Roland and Anthony explore the world of AI-generated voices and music. The discussion begins with Stephen Hawking and the topic of artificially generated voices. Moving on to music, they discuss the generation of musical scores then conclude with a live demonstration of AI-generated music.

Sam Partee on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

In this podcast, Sam Partee shares his insights on Redis' vector database offering, different approaches to embeddings, how to enhance large language models by adding a search component for retrieval augmented generation, and the use of hybrid search in Redis.

Generally AI Episode 1: Large Language Models

In this podcast episode of Generally AI, Roland Meertens and Anthony Alford explore the world of large language models, focusing on their vulnerabilities and security measures. Additionally, they delve into the history of the transformer architecture and Google's role in its development, along with the basics of LLM inference.

Developer Upskilling and Generative AI with Hywel Carver and Suhail Patel

In this episode, Nsikan Essien talks with Hywel Carver and Suhail Patel about developer upskilling and generative AI. Together they try to describe: the software engineer’s learning journey, the ways current generative AI technologies could help or hinder it, and what the role of the software engineer becomes with powerful AI technologies

The Two-hour Design Sprint

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Teresa Cain about the Two-hour Design Sprint.

Leaders Need to Be Coaches to Enable Developer Effectiveness

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Phil Alves about how leaders can enable developer effectiveness.

Developer Enablement at Spotify with Pia Nilsson

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Pia Nilsson, Lead Platform Developer, Experience Lead at Spotify about what it takes to create a great developer experience.

The Journey to Staff-Plus Engineer

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Akhilesh Gupta, a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn about the journey to a staff-plus role.

Building and Nurturing Great Teams

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Nick van Wiggeren of PlanetScale about what it takes to build and nurture great teams.