Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?!
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | Let's talk! | 00:38 |
| 2 | 00:38 | Sponsor: Tiger Data | 02:33 |
| 3 | 03:12 | Animals & Friends | 01:56 |
| 4 | 05:08 | Catching up | 00:40 |
| 5 | 05:48 | Iterative reinvention | 02:47 |
| 6 | 08:35 | Out of the browser | 03:09 |
| 7 | 11:44 | What Amal is cookin' | 03:54 |
| 8 | 15:38 | A moon vacuum | 06:28 |
| 9 | 22:06 | The stack | 06:21 |
| 10 | 28:27 | Sponsor: Namespace | 01:38 |
| 11 | 30:04 | AI datacenters in space? | 06:40 |
| 12 | 36:45 | V BIG vs v small | 02:32 |
| 13 | 39:16 | The SDLC in 2026 | 04:08 |
| 14 | 43:25 | Accountable vs responsible | 02:58 |
| 15 | 46:22 | Polymaths | 05:05 |
| 16 | 51:27 | Things change | 01:18 |
| 17 | 52:45 | A tough time | 02:01 |
| 18 | 54:47 | Code is easy, products are hard | 02:06 |
| 19 | 56:53 | Sponsor: NordLayer | 01:39 |
| 20 | 58:32 | Weird times | 02:35 |
| 21 | 1:01:08 | Shape changes | 05:03 |
| 22 | 1:06:11 | Jevons paradox | 01:54 |
| 23 | 1:08:05 | On vibe coding | 04:19 |
| 24 | 1:12:24 | The vibe coders arc | 04:20 |
| 25 | 1:16:44 | Jerod's personal arc | 01:13 |
| 26 | 1:17:57 | A brave new world | 01:02 |
| 27 | 1:18:59 | AI browsers | 01:51 |
| 28 | 1:20:50 | Keep your AI close... | 00:57 |
| 29 | 1:21:47 | A different perspective | 00:37 |
| 30 | 1:22:25 | Safety first | 00:52 |
| 31 | 1:23:17 | Adam's verification idea | 01:11 |
| 32 | 1:24:28 | On writing tests | 00:57 |
| 33 | 1:25:25 | Test spies! | 01:12 |
| 34 | 1:26:37 | More Istari tech | 03:40 |
| 35 | 1:30:17 | The year of LinkedIn | 01:27 |
| 36 | 1:31:44 | Let's blog! | 04:23 |
| 37 | 1:36:06 | LinkedIn, smoking, flossing | 01:03 |
| 38 | 1:37:09 | Bye, friends | 04:39 |
| 39 | 1:41:49 | Next week on the pod (join ++!) | 01:17 |