Wes Cole

A feed of what I'm reading and watching.

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My podcast with Scott Bolinger about AI, software engineering, and how we work. Browse the episodes and clips in the feed below, or watch on YouTube.

Feed

  1. Redesigning source control at Anthropic

    How Anthropic built Scion and migrated its monorepo from Git in five months to support agent-scale development.

  2. No pull requests, no code review. We push to main.

    How Amp's agents read production logs, watch deploys, grant feature flags, and check their own work end to end.

  3. Cheeky Pint with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang

    Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang join John Collison to discuss Muse Wonder, how frontier models are built, Meta's AI investments, and agentic commerce.

  4. Monday Meditations October 5th 2026

    Mario and Armin discuss Pi Durable, a task-based workflow engine for long-running, multiplayer agents that can suspend and resume, and why they didn't use Temporal or Effect.ts.

  5. Part 1/3 Owning Intelligence Series: How Coinbase Built, Evaluated, and Post-Trained a Fraud Agent

    How Coinbase added a bounded LLM risk agent alongside existing models and rules to review transaction histories and reduce Onramp fraud.

  6. What's This Golem Cloud Thing About?

    A tour of Golem's durable runtime for agents, tools, and artifacts, covering crash recovery, sandboxing, and host-enforced permissions.

  7. if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced

    Why engineering leaders need to make time for AI experimentation, and what AI fluency means for hiring and professional development.

  8. AI predictions, software factories, and agent verification loops
  9. Tobi Lütke on AI, judgment, and building companies

    A conversation with Shopify's co-founder about AI at Shopify, critical skills, and why complex solutions are usually wrong.

  10. Build your own Convex

    An interactive walkthrough of transactions, indexes, real-time queries, and scheduling.

  11. What is Codemode

    Composing agent tool calls in code, and where MCP fits.

  12. Jev, Grok Bot, and slop grenades
  13. Cloud harnesses are the future of coding for SWEs
  14. AI coding skill loss, Codex workflows, and SWE jobs report
  15. No hype: how real engineers are using AI in production today
  16. What's new in AI and software engineering
  17. AI and software engineering: what is valuable now if it's not code?
  18. AI Predictions for 2026: What Software Engineers Need to Know
  19. AI at a big tech company - all hype or losing our jobs?
  20. What happens to engineers when AI writes all the code?
  21. Is Opus 4.5 going to take my software engineering job?
  22. AI changed the meaning of full stack software engineering
  23. How AI is transforming customer support
  24. You're Absolutely Right Episode 7: Cloudflare workers and durable objects
  25. How LLM Context Windows Work
  26. A deep dive on LLM context and tools with 2 principal engineers
  27. Should 70% of your code be written by AI?
  28. 2 principal engineers talk AI tools and testing
  29. 2 principal engineers talk AI coding, layoffs, data models, and 0github.com
  30. The primitive is the product

    Why every software company is now a dev tools company.

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Things I'm reading and watching, saved as I find them. Dates are when I add them here, not when they were published.