What the Dev?
What the Dev? is a podcast by the SD Times editorial team. We cover the biggest and newest topics in software development.
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Latest Episodes
363: The Role of AI in Mainframe Modernization
Dave Rubinstein and Matt Whitbourne discuss the evolution and potential of mainframe modernization, particularly with the integration of AI. They highlight the long-standing challenge of maintaining legacy systems, such as COBOL, and the role o...
362: The Disconnect Between AI-generated Code and Security
Dave Rubinstein interviews Ilya Kabanov, a former Google AI security manager, about the disconnect between AI's rapid code generation and security measures. Kabanoff, who leads the Weather Report and is a research affiliate at MIT, discusses th...
361: The AI Adoption Maturity Model (With Ipek Ozkaya of CMU SEI)
Dave and Ipek Ozkaya discuss the AI adoption maturity model created by Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute and Accenture. The model addresses issues like mismatched expectations, untested implementations, and misaligned application...
360: How do you nurture junior developers in an AI world? (With Barun Singh of Andela)
SD Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein and Barun Singh of tech talent company Andela discuss the impact of AI on nurturing future developers. Singh emphasizes that while AI automates coding basics, core knowledge and critical thinking are sti...
359: The Enduring Popularity of Postgres, and what lies ahead (With Snowflake's Craig Kerstiens)
In this episode, David Rubinstein talks with Craig Kerstiens, Snowflake's Director of Software Engineering on Postgres, about the enduring popularity of Postgres, a 30-year-old database technology, due to its reliability and recent innovations ...