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. 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.

  2. AI predictions, software factories, and agent verification loops
  3. 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.

  4. Build your own Convex

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

  5. What is Codemode

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

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