Software Madhouse

Software Madhouse — an unfiltered, occasionally unhinged podcast about building software, the people who build it, and the chaos in between.

Software Madhouse is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 0 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Software Madhouse, a general show with 0 episodes published.

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  Episode #3

  Programmers vs Developers vs Software Engineers

  Sep 15, 202629 minS1

  <p>Matt and Robert walk through four roles that get mixed together on job boards and resumes: programmer, software developer, software engineer, and computer scientist. They look at what each job actually covers, where “engineer” is a regulated title and where it is just a pay-band label, how ACM/IEEE CC2020 draws the line between computer science and software engineering, and how much of the “requirements” work now sits with product managers.</p> <p>They also pull Bureau of Labor Statistics outlooks for programmers, software developers, and computer and information research scientists, and talk about what BLS is saying about AI and I...

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  Episode #2

  What Is A Forward Deployed Engineer?

  Sep 8, 202633 minS1

  <p>Matt and Robert unpack the Forward Deployed Engineer: a Palantir-coined, customer-facing role that parks an engineer at a customer site for a set stretch of time. They trace the name to military “forward basing,” ask whether an FDE is just a consultant with better branding (or a one-person Pivotal-style embed), and look at why vendors bake these unicorns into the price of the software — so the product actually gets used instead of sitting on the shelf until next year’s renewal.</p> <h3 >Links & mentions</h3> FDE on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_deployed_engineer A Day in the L...

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  Episode #1

  Welcome to the Madhouse

  Sep 1, 202629 minS1

  <p>Matt and Robert launch Software Madhouse with the AI open-source firehose: drive-by slop PRs flooding projects like Helm, extra maintainer load, and how communities are fighting back with policies, GitHub caps, kernel Assisted-by: trailers, and tools like Vouch and Good Egg.</p> <h3 >Links & mentions</h3> Kubernetes: Open source maintainership in the age of AI — https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2026/06/26/open-source-maintainership-in-the-age-of-ai/ GitHub: Limit open PRs for users without write access — https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-17-limit-open-pull-requests-for-users-without-write-access/ Linux kernel coding assistants — https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html Vouch (Mitchell Hashimoto / Ghostty) — https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch Good Egg — https://gi...

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