Into the Hopper

Links Ben's Twitter [Ben’s Website]https://econoben.dev/) WorkHelix What Are AI Agents - O'Reilly Book Managing Memory for AI Agents - O'Reilly Book Bead Development Tool Subscribe RSS Feed Apple Podcasts Spotify Overcast In this episode of Into the Hopper, Tim talks with Ben Labishin from WorkHelix about AI agents and their impact on software development. Ben discusses AI memory management, practical strategies for using large language models, and the evolving role of developers in the age of AI. The conversation also addresses the balance between automation and foundational skills for junior engineers, offering valuable insights for professionals navigating this transformative landscape.

Find out more at podcast.tdhopper.com.

Find out more at podcast.tdhopper.com.

I talk with data science veteran Ravi Mody about his use of large language models in programming practice. Links: Ravi Mody on LinkedIn ChatGPT Claude.ai BBEdit Cursor Drew Conway's Data Science Venn Diagram

I talk with Jowanza Joseph about his new book Mastering Apache Pulsar: Cloud Native Event Streaming at Scale. Links: Jowanza's Pulsar talks Jowanza's Twitter Jowanza's website Pulsar homepage The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction by Jay Kreps StreamNative - Hosted Pulsar Datastax Astra Streaming - Hosted Pulsar Cloud Native Computing Foundation Pulsar Functions Pulsar IO Pulsar SQL Apache ZooKeeper Apache BookKeeper

I talk with Brenton Mallen about his career progression from ocean engineering to data science. Links: Brenton's Twitter Brenton's Instagram Brenton's Website Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University

I talk with Roy Keyes about his imporant new book Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers. Links: Roy's Twitter Roy's Book Data Scientists at Work Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century by Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil Building Data Science Teams by DJ Patil Find out more about Into the Hopper at podcast.tdhopper.com Music is Una Mañana Dorada by Silva de Alegria is licensed under a Attribution License. tdhopper.com — @tdhopper

Adam Laiacano and I talk with Willem Pienaar, software engineer at Tecton, about feature stores and his work on the Feast open source feature store library. Links: Willem's Twitter Adam's Twitter Feast: feature store for Machine Learning (2020 talk) Feast Tecton GoJek on Wikipedia featurestore.org Find out more about Into the Hopper at podcast.tdhopper.com Music is Una Mañana Dorada by Silva de Alegria is licensed under a Attribution License. tdhopper.com — @tdhopper

In this episode, I talk with Spotify Staff Machine Learning Engineer Adam Laiacano about his roots working on nuclear clocks and his evolution into leading machine learning projects at Spotify. Find out more about Into the Hopper at https://podcast.tdhopper.com/.

In this episode, I speak with Mike Rogers, Senior Director of Solutions Architecture at Tala Security, about the importance of customer-focused data science for enterprise software products. Links: Tala Security Mike's Twitter Mike's LinkedIn How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Being a Math Major Music is Una Mañana Dorada by Silva de Alegria is licensed under a Attribution License.

In this episode, Joel and I discuss his brilliant new book Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz Meditations on Python, mathematics, science, engineering, and design. Links: Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow Livecoding Madness - Let's Build a Deep Learning Library I don't like notebooks Live Coding the Advent of Code Data Science from Scratch Second Edition Fizz Buzz Book: Meditations on Python, mathematics, science, engineering, and design Joel's Twitter Music is Una Mañana Dorada by Silva de Alegria is licensed under a Attribution License. Find out more about Into the Hopper at podcast.tdhopper.com

In this episode, we discuss metadata stores, the marketability of math skills, dreams for the data science language of the future, the career advantage of tackling easy problems, and machine learning as technical debt. Josh also bashes blockchains. Find out more about Into the Hopper at podcast.tdhopper.com Music is Una Mañana Dorada by Silva de Alegria is licensed under a Attribution License. tdhopper.com — @tdhopper