The Programming Podcast

With AI tools writing 90% of the code out there and "vibe coding" taking over our timelines, is learning the fundamentals of software engineering a waste of time? Leon and I sit down to finally answer the question we get asked every single day. We break down the truth about the "Agentic Era," why skipping the basics will break your apps in production, and how skills-based hiring is fundamentally...

LeetCode is dead… or is it?HackerRank dropped a bold take that set the internet on fire: “LeetCode is dead,” because devs do not write code line-by-line anymore. We orchestrate AI, debug its output, and catch failures in real time. So if the job changed, should interviews finally change too?💡 Sponsor: Huge shoutout to Auth0!Secure AI agents, humans, and whatever comes nexthttps://auth0.com/In...

For the last 18 months, we’ve been hearing that “AI is Magic.” But what happens when you connect that “magic” to your production database, your billing APIs, and your enterprise systems? It becomes a financial ticking time bomb.In this episode of The Programming Podcast, Leon and I sit down with Monica Bajaj, VP of Engineering at Okta. We are tearing down the "God Mode" tutorials you see on...

In this episode, Danny and Leon break down a massive 48 hours in AI. With the surprise drop of Anthropic Opus 4.6 and OpenAI’s Codex 5.3, the landscape for software engineers has shifted again. We dive deep into what a 1-million-token context window actually means for your workflow, the rise of Agent Teams, and why "vibe coding" recently led to a massive security blunder in the dev community. We...

This isn't about a new JavaScript framework; it's about a significant shift in software engineering. If you're in tech or aspire to be a software developer, this discussion is crucial for understanding the future of web development. ✅ If you made it to the end, comment: “Claude Code!” so we know who is a real one!In this episode, Leon and I live-react to the viral tweet from Andrej Karpathy...

Apple’s latest decision to team with Google and use Gemini signals something bigger than a headline. It highlights how far Gemini has come, and why utility is becoming the real battleground for AI in 2026.In this episode, we sit down with Logan Kilpatrick from the Gemini team at Google DeepMind to talk about what this moment means for developers, builders, and teams choosing tools today. We get...

Is Tailwind actually “dying” or are we watching something bigger happen in real time?In this episode of The Programming Podcast, we dig into a brutal 2026 reality check for developers: the tools and communities we’ve relied on for years are getting shaken up by AI in ways most people didn’t see coming.We break down the Tailwind situation, including the GitHub discussion that surfaced a...

It’s 2026. If you want to learn how to code and actually get results, this episode is your roadmap.Danny and Leon break down the stuff that is not “cool advice,” but is the advice that gets people hired. We talk about why course-hoarding feels productive but is not, what the real bottleneck in tech actually is (hint: not syntax), and how to build a learning system that survives the trough of...

The “prompt-and-pray” era is over — and that’s a good thing.In this episode, we break down why AI “magic” collapses under real production traffic (edge cases, hallucinations, messy inputs, and even infrastructure-level failures)… and what replaces it: actual AI engineering.Danny frames the shift with four architectural pillars that make LLM features shippable and reliable:- State orchestration...

We caught a massive production error during the new Steam Machine launch that exposed internal database IDs and undefined variables to the public. In this episode, we break down exactly what went wrong, how a simple try/catch or React Error Boundary could have saved them, and why "testing in production" is terrifying when millions of dollars are on the line.Plus, we answer a listener's question...