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What the Dev? is a podcast by the SD Times editorial team. We cover the biggest and newest topics in software development.
SD Times hosts What the Dev?, a technology show with 356 episodes published.
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
Dave Rubinstein and Jonathan Macoskey discuss the limitations of current AI models in understanding context, particularly in enterprise settings. Macoskey explains that while language models have improved with internet c
Dave Rubinstein, Editor in Chief of SD Times, discusses with Kumar Vikesh, Senior Product Owner at Progress Data Direct, the challenges of REST connectivity and the introduction of an AI-driven solution to automate the c
Dave discusses real-time voice AI with Mike Pappas, CEO of Modulate. Pappas explains that voice AI involves three key technologies: speech-to-text, language models, and text-to-speech. This technology is valuable in dete
In this episode, Dave speaks with John D'Emic, cofounder and CTO at Revenium, about the challenges organizations face in managing costs and ROI of agentic AI initiatives. John explains that the transition from pre-produc
In this episode with Dave Rubinstein, Cameron Etezadi, CTO of LaunchDarkly, discussed the challenges and misconceptions around Vibe coding. He highlighted that while code production has sped up, confidence in the quality
This week, Dave discusses the issue of Zoom calls freezing despite good Wi-Fi with Shafi Khan, Principal Engineer at Cable Labs. Khan explains that the problem arises from a lack of bi-directional communication between a
In this episode, Dave Rubinstein speaks with Jaya Baloo, founder, COO and CISO at cybersecurity provider AISLE, about the implications of AI models like Anthropic's Mythos, which can discover and exploit vulnerabilities.
In this episode, Dave Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, sits down with Karthik Sj, General Manager of AI at LogicMonitor, to discuss the challenges and progress of AI in enterprise production. Among the topics dis
In this episode, Dave speaks with Mike Sirchuk, president, founder and CEO of Swa Technology, about providing organizations with multiple AI models to choose from, and bringing those tools to where people work today, suc
In this episode, Dave talks with Kenneth Ziegler, CEO of Leapwork, about the findings of a survey on AI in testing, revealing that while 88% of companies are developing agentic software, only 13% are using AI for testing
In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein speaks with Adam Seligman, CTO at Workato, about MCP and what Adam is calling AI strategy heartburn. Seligman compares the current AI adoption to overeating at a
Traditional AppSec tools were created with the assumption that humans wrote code and security reviewed it afterward. But when AI generates code continuously and autonomously, at a speed no traditional security process ca
In this episode, Dave speaks with Derek Holt, CEO at digital.ai, to discuss how AI should be used in testing to give organizations the most value. In this podcast, they talk about: -- How AI pays off when it handles patt
In this episode, Dave interviews Sydnee Mayers, product lead at Cribl, about the skills developers need to thrive in 2026. They discuss: How the development role is changingThe specific skills developers need going forwa
In this episode, Jenna interviews Adi Polak, director of advocacy and developer experience engineering at Confluent, about why developers need to embrace a head chef mindset when working with AI agents. They discuss: Wha
In this episode, Jenna interviews Vic Chynoweth, CEO of Tempo Software, about how the company predicts that this year software development teams will begin challenging the rising complexity in their dev environments. The
In this episode, Jenna interviews Jeff Malnick, GM of developer and AI at 1Password, about the open source agent platform OpenClaw and some of the security concerns that have been raised about it. They discuss: What Open
In this episode, Dave interviews John Dickerson, CEO of Mozilla.ai, about the current state of open AI models. They discuss: The challenges of bringing open AI models to the communityHow government regulations could pote
In this episode, Dave interviews Sara Gutierrez, chief science officer at SHL, about the evolving skills needed in an AI-driven workforce. They discuss: Why in 2026 it's important to have foresight to notice things befor
Mike Pappas
CEO & Co-Founder · The Keyes Company
1 appearance on this show
Jaya Baloo
fellow for computing and cybersecurity · Singularity University
1 appearance on this show
Eran Kinsbruner
vice president of marketing · Checkmarx
1 appearance on this show
John Dickerson
Innovator in IDD Advocacy and Founder of Quillo · Red Road Ventures
1 appearance on this show
Dan Lorenc
CEO and co-founder · Chainguard
1 appearance on this show
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