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by Matt Swanson

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Latest episodes

I need a software foreman w/ Stephen Margheim

October 12, 2026 · 56 min

🔗 Impatient Programming: an invite for YAGNI listeners. This is a free guide to how Stephen’s team at Zar builds software with coding agents. It reworks Extreme Programming’s rules for working with agents and includes case studies, essays…
Retiring from programming w/ Justin Searls

October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

Matt just got back from Rails World, where DHH's keynote left a lot of people thinking Rails was over. Justin Searls of Breaking Change, who gave his own retirement talk at Rails World two years ago, joins him to sort it out. They cover…
Irrefutable proof w/ Thorsten Ball

October 2, 2026 · 58 min

Thorsten Ball, who works on Amp, doesn't like the term "software factory." He'd rather be in a workshop, a garden or a "primordial soup" of throwaway tools. He and Matt talk about custom tools you build in minutes and throw away, why the…
Camping chair development w/ John Nunemaker

October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

John Nunemaker runs Fireside, Flipper and Box Out. He used to think of himself as a craftsman, until last December, when he found out that what he really loves is shipping. Now he reads the data models and queries but not the JavaScript…
LLM junk food w/ Justin Duke

October 1, 2026 · 59 min

Justin Duke, who runs Buttondown, calls himself a "radical LLM centrist." About two-thirds of Buttondown's merged code comes from LLMs, but he still pushes back on the most extreme software factory takes. He and Matt talk about why most…

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Infinite plausible PRs w/ Nate Berkopec

September 30, 2026 · 53 min

Back in February, Nate said that coding workflows built around adding more human-in-the-loop steps were a dead end, and that the end state is the "dark factory," where humans aren't allowed on the floor. Six months later, Matt asks him…
What would you say...you do here?

September 30, 2026 · 1 min

Software used to be something you sat down and wrote.Line by line. Decision by decision. The work lived in the hands of the person at the keyboard. That world doesn’t really exist anymore. Everything is changing: who does the work, how…
Programming Books w/ Aaron Francis

December 5, 2023 · 49 min

Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper…
Redis w/ Nate Berkopec

November 28, 2023 · 43 min

Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper Cloud helps…
Service Objects w/ Jason Swett

November 21, 2023 · 2 min

Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper…
Testing w/ Josh Pigford

November 14, 2023 · 44 min

Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper…
GraphQL w/ Trevor Turk (Bonus: VCR)

November 7, 2023 · 54 min

Matt and Trevor talk about GraphQL and try to answer the question "do we need it?" (Bonus hot takes on VCR snapshot testing) This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then…