Erik Aker and Mike Mull

Picture Me Coding

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Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology. Email us at: podcast@picturemecoding.com Patreon: https://patreon.com/PictureMeCoding You can also pick up a Picture Me Coding shirt, mug, or stickers at our Threadless shop: https://picturemecoding.threadless.com/designs Logo and artwork by Jon Whitmire - https://www.whitmirejon.com/

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Erik Aker and Mike Mull

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Can Software Be Built On An Assembly Line? 14.08.2023 1:00:43

Inspired by an New York Times article on turning the production of Hollywood writing content into an assembly line, and also by Simon Winchester’s book The Perfectionists , Mike and Erik discuss if there is a way to build software analogous to the factory assembly line. What would it take to build an assembly line for software? Who would ever want such a thing? Send us Fan Mail

The Open Source Software Renaissance Is Going to End Someday 01.08.2023 51:07

The revolution in open source software over the last 30 years is akin to the Italian Renaissance: ideas spread like wildfire and this creates a virtuous incubation space for more ideas and innovation. Open source software and package managers have made it incredibly easy for software developers to rapidly share their ideas and for other developers to consume and rapidly accumulate huge amounts of...

And Gravity Drowned Too: the software skeptics take on chatGPT 24.07.2023 40:30

Mike Mull brings up some of the skepticism he's encountered recently around chatGPT. Erik and Mike discuss the hype around LLMs and whether the expectations for it are valid or misplaced. The pair also talk about Godflesh and Killer Mike. Send us Fan Mail