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Programming Throwdown
Hosted by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci · education · EN-US
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Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.
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What is Programming Throwdown about?
Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.
Who hosts Programming Throwdown?
Programming Throwdown is hosted by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci. The show has published 190 episodes to date.
What has Programming Throwdown covered recently?
Recent episodes include "189: Agentic Loops" (24 August 2026, 83 minutes), "188: World Models" (9 July 2026, 96 minutes), and "187: Agentic Coding" (2 May 2026, 98 minutes).
How often does Programming Throwdown publish?
Programming Throwdown publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 97 minutes across 190 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Programming Throwdown?
Booking probability for Programming Throwdown is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Programming Throwdown requires a Pod Score of 84 or higher. Programming Throwdown's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Programming Throwdown?
The strongest fits for Programming Throwdown are IT Services & Software Development. Programming Throwdown has an education audience.
About the host
Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci hosts Programming Throwdown, an education podcast with 190 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #188
188: World Models
Jul 9, 20261h 36mIntro topic: Running News/Links: Flow matching versus diffusion models https://youtu.be/firXjwZ_6KI?is=QMq8DcCsXTTktOuE OpenCV 5 https://opencv.org/opencv-5/ Claude fable beats pokemon with no harness...
Episode #187
187: Agentic Coding
May 2, 20261h 38mIn this episode, Patrick and Jason cover Agentic Coding!
Episode #186
186: Becoming a Manager
Feb 3, 20261h 28mPatrick and Jason discuss what it means to become a manager and how the role differs from individual engineering work. They cover hiring, coaching, performance management, team goals, and when moving into management is...
Episode #185
185: Workflow Orchestrators
Nov 4, 20251h 32mPatrick and Jason break down workflow orchestrators and why they matter for batch jobs, long-running tasks, and resumable distributed systems. They compare tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Ray, and Kubeflow...
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Episode #184
184: Asynchronous Programming
Sep 23, 20251h 31mPatrick and Jason explain asynchronous programming and how it differs from traditional multithreading and multiprocessing. They cover coroutines, blocking versus non-blocking operations, promises, callbacks...
Episode #183
183: Landing a Software Job in 2025
Jul 31, 20251h 47mPatrick and Jason are joined by Mark Cunningham to discuss how software engineers can find strong job opportunities and perform well throughout the interview process. They cover sourcing strategies, reverse interviews...
Episode #182
182: AI Assisted Coding
Jun 30, 20251h 38mPatrick and Jason discuss how AI-assisted coding tools can speed up development, answer questions about a codebase, and reduce boilerplate work. They compare common workflows and tools such as Copilot, Cursor, and...
Episode #181
181: Memory Management
May 12, 20251h 46mPatrick and Jason cover memory management from both the operating-system and language-runtime perspectives. They discuss heap management, virtual memory, garbage collection, ownership models, and practical techniques...
Episode #180
180: Reinforcement Learning
Mar 17, 20251h 52mPatrick and Jason introduce reinforcement learning and place it alongside supervised and unsupervised learning. They cover Q-learning, SARSA, policy gradients, actor-critic methods, PPO, imitation learning, and why...
Episode #179
179: Project Planning
Feb 3, 20251h 43mPatrick and Jason discuss project planning and management for software teams. They cover why planning matters, how frameworks like SMART goals, Gantt charts, Scrum, Agile, and Kanban fit together, and how to deal with...
Episode #178
178: Working from Home
Dec 3, 20241h 45mPatrick and Jason revisit working from home and the realities of remote engineering work. They cover communication, scheduling, home-office setup, motivation, distractions, and why remote work is not equally effective...
Episode #177
177: Vector Databases
Nov 4, 20241h 28mPatrick and Jason explain vector databases by starting with embeddings, similarity metrics, and approximate nearest-neighbor search. They discuss how these systems store and query high-dimensional vectors and where...
Episode #176
176: MLOps at SwampUp
Sep 24, 20241h 59mJames Morse: Software Engineer at Cisco System Administrator to DevOps Difference between DevOps and MLOps Getting Started with DevOps Luke Marsden: CEO of Helix ML How to start a business at 15 years old BTRFS vs ZFS...
Episode #175
175: Resume Writing
Aug 16, 20241h 41mPatrick and Jason discuss how to write a strong technical resume that gets attention without becoming bloated or misleading. They cover what to include, what to avoid, how automated screening changes resume writing, and...
Episode #174
174: Devops
Jun 10, 20241h 26mPatrick and Jason explain DevOps and how it relates to site reliability, build systems, testing infrastructure, and release processes. They cover infrastructure as code, CI/CD, deployment strategies, operational...
Episode #173
173: Mocking and Unit Tests
Apr 29, 20241h 35mPatrick and Jason discuss unit testing, regression testing, and system testing, with a focus on when mocking actually helps. They explain mocks versus fakes, testing tradeoffs, and the practical role of testing...
Episode #172
172: Transformers and Large Language Models
Mar 11, 20241h 26mPatrick and Jason explain transformers and large language models from the ground up. They cover attention, encoders and decoders, self-supervised learning, RLHF, and the key architectural ideas that made modern LLMs...
Episode #171
171: Compilers and Interpreters
Feb 12, 20241h 25mPatrick and Jason walk through the differences between compilers and interpreters, starting from machine code and assembly and moving up to high-level languages. They cover bytecode, JIT compilation, intermediate...
Episode #170
170: 2023 Holiday Special Live
Dec 24, 20231h 39mPredictions: Jason VR for Work Lowering AI training cost/ improved efficiency RISC-V takeoff Patrick Ai claim of AGI Ai peer reviewer Ai Video Generator More space vehicles reaching orbit Early career, finding role at...
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