Best Dave And Dev Podcasts (2025)

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335: The development skills required for building software-defined vehicles (with QNX's Justin Moon) 17:12

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In this episode, Dave interviews Justin Moon, vice president of Core Product Engineering at BlackBerry QNX, providers of a real-time OS for embedded systems. They discuss: How QNX is working to close the development skills gap for SDVs How developers manage complexity in vehicle software designs The commercial challenges for autonomous vehicle hard…

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Episode 487: My manager ignores me during 1:1's and I am required to work in an empty office 36:18

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: “My manager insists on a weekly 1:1 with me, but he rarely pays attention. He’s often on his laptop, texting, checking email — basically anything but listening. I’ve tried sending agendas, rescheduling, reducing frequency, waiting until he’s less busy — nothing helps. I’ve even started sitti…

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Leading Transformation and Change with Sophy Pern Ammalo - OrgDev Episode 82 1:00:02

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We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! What really derails a change project – the plan, or the relationships behind it? Our guest today, Sophy Pern, has spent her career helping leaders and teams untangle the relational dynamics that quietly shape whether strategy and change succeed or stall. An international consultant, facilitator and e…

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334: A developer's Hippocratic Oath in the age of AI (with Sonatype's Mitchell Johnson) 17:01

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In this episode, Dave interviews Mitchell Johnson, chief product development officer at Sonatype, about the notion of a Hippocratic Oath for developers, where you do no harm to the codebase, and how AI is impacting that. They discuss: The responsibility a developer has to keeping their codebase healthy whenever they add a new feature How being able…

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Episode 486: No one on my team talks and skip level meetings 29:19

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I work at a big tech company on a remote team of about 10 people, and most of them have been here for 5+ years. I’m in the “newer” half of the team with 4 years here. My problem is, in group meetings, absolutely NO ONE talks. I mean zero small talk, they have trouble responding to simple yes…

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From 'No' to 'Go': How AI Guardrails Drive Trust, Enabling Legal to be a Business Accelerant, Not Blocker (Sabastian Niles, Salesforce President & CLO) 24:32

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In this episode, Sabastian Niles, President and Chief Legal Officer at Salesforce, takes a deep dive into the intersection of corporate strategy, in-house legal careers, and the transformative power of Agentic AI. Sabastian shares his unique career path from a near two-decade tenure at a prestigious law firm before joining Salesforce. This conversa…

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333: What vibe coding means for the future of citizen development and entrepreneurship (with Block's Angie Jones) 13:57

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In this episode, Dave interviews Angie Jones, VP of engineering for AI Tools & Enablement at the financial services company Block. They discuss: How AI is empowering a new wave of developers from non-traditional roles The importance of feeding AI models and agents important business context Block's coding agent Goose…

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Episode 485: I'm terrible at hiring decisions and my coworker spams us with AI-generated memes 43:53

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: What signals do you look for when interviewing candidates? I’ve helped interview many people at this point and almost all of the engineers that I marked as “hire” that we brought on board ended up being low performers and were eventually managed out. I wasn’t the only one who approved them e…

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Master the Art and Science of Organisation Design and Change with Jaimini Lakhani - OrgDev Episode 81 1:03:04

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We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! How do you make sure your organisation’s design is truly fit for purpose – not just neat on paper, but aligned to the strategy your future depends on? And how do you work with senior leaders in a way that builds real trust – so you can understand how value is created in their world, and the tough tra…

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332: Knative graduates from CNCF (with Knative maintainer Dave Protasowski) 18:47

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In this episode, Dave interviews Dave Protasowski, a member of the steering committee for Knative, about the project's recent graduation from the CNCF. They discuss: An overview of what Knative does The history of the project at the CNCF What's in store for Knative in the futureBy SD Times

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Episode 484: How to get a raise after slacking off for YEARS and my PM won't stop DM'ing me 29:27

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi! Love your show and how casually you talk and make fun of everything! I started my career as a freelancer and then joined a mid-size software development company to learn how the sausage is really made, salary wasn’t that important back then. A few kids and a lot more expensive lifestyle …

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The Power of Presence - Inner work of the OD Practitioner with Dr Frances Baldwin - OrgDev Episode 80 1:09:08

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We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! What separates good OD practice from great OD practice – skill, strategy, or self-awareness? You can have the tools. The models. The frameworks. But what really shapes your impact as an OD practitioner? According to Dr Frances Baldwin, it’s not what you do – it’s who you are. Frances has been shaping…

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Benchmarking Legal AI: Measuring the Delta Between Man and Machine (Anna Guo Legalbenchmarks.ai) 26:40

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Is artificial intelligence custom-made for legal tasks better than general AI tools like Google Gemini and ChatGPT? That is the topic of this episode featuring Legalbenchmarks.ai Founder Anna Guo. Anna is a former BigLaw lawyer who left the practice to become an entrepreneur and now focuses her energies on quantifying the utility of AI in the legal…

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331: How Spotify created its own AI tool, AiKA, to improve developer productivity (with Spotify's Pia Nilsson) 13:53

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In this episode, Jenna interviews Pia Nilsson, senior director of engineering at Spotify, about the company's decision to make its own AI tool to improve developer productivity. They discuss: Why they built their own tool instead of using something that already exists How developers are using it day-to-day How AI is shaping developer culture at Spo…

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Episode 483: My team hated me from day one and should I stack PTO before my resignation 38:22

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: How would you handle a situation where a team forms a negative opinion about you from day one — without any clear reason and without ever giving you a real chance to prove yourself? Even when you contribute technically, your suggestions are ignored… until someone else repeats the same thing …

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S5E17: - DAVECON 2027! 🎉 1:00:05

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Join us, while we're Waiting For Review... In this show: Daniel’s Server-Side Swift talk + meeting friends, listeners, and the Swift community in London Dave is an Uncle! Discussion of iOS 26 and macOS 26 design changes, and some frustrations with “Liquid Glass” UI, lag, and new UX structure Dave’s new iPhone 17 Pro and the new camera Daniel roasts…

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S5E16: Windows Vista for iPhones 57:34

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Join us, while we're Waiting For Review... In this show: Daniel travels for Lisa's birthday! iOS 26 first impressions New iPhones... the Orange one looks ✨ Daniel's laptop is on it's last legs... Remoting into Macs TelemetryDeck's real-time iOS 26 roll out dashboard -- We are open for sponsorship! email us at [email protected] The Discor…

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S5E15: Daniel, cluster-toucher extraordinaire 51:36

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Join us, while we're Waiting For Review... In this show: Dave has control of the intro 😈 Daniel is singing... and has signed up to speak at Server Side Swift Dave’s AI-assisted coding experiments Reflections on AI coding productivity and it's limitations Reactions to the recent Apple event (iPhones, AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch, macOS “Liquid Glass”)…

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330: Code quality + security shouldn't be separate concerns (with Aikido Security's Khachatur Virabyan) 11:55

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In this episode, Jenna interviews Khachatur Virabyan, head of code quality at Aikido Security, about why code quality and security should be addressed together. They discuss: The differences in definitions for code quality and security How clean code could still have vulnerabilities The impact AI coding will have on code quality and security…

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Episode 482: I got a promotion, but a tiny raise and an imposter interviewed for my team 31:47

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: After a year of trying, I recently got promoted to staff engineer! It’s great to receive recognition for my work, but i’m not actually very happy, because I only got a 4% raise! I spoke with a former coworker about how much a staff engineer in my role should expect, and he said that he would…

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Want to be a Crypto Lawyer? Rule # 1: Use the Technology. Rule #2: Beware of Hyper-Specialization (Justin Wales-Head of Legal, Crypto.com & Author of Crypto Legal Handbook) 38:14

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Justin Wales, Head of Legal for the Americas at Crypto.com, and author of The Crypto Legal Handbook visits the show to provide his unique perspective on pivoting from a career in Constitutional Law, including work on high-profile appellate cases like the Obergefell gay marriage decision, to becoming a trailblazer in crypto law and blockchain techno…

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329: The impact of AI on ASPM (with ArmorCode's Mark Lambert) 14:04

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Two junior engineers recently joined my team, and I’ve been tasked with onboarding them. This is the first time I’ve been responsible for junior devs, and I’m struggling with how to coach them up. For context, we’re a small engineering team where self-sufficiency is highly valued; processes/…