Issue 102
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ââSoftware Fundamentals Matter More Than Everâ â Matt Pocockâ from AI Engineer Europe 2026
Conference ⸹ +407k views ⸹ Apr 23, 2026 ⸹ 00h 18m 26stldw: AI coding tools are overhyped and powerful at the same time. Used well theyâre extraordinary; used badly theyâll bury you in tech debt faster than any human team could. After 18 months teaching developers to build with AI agents, Matt Pocock, creator of Total TypeScript, has watched the same patterns emerge: the devs who succeed are the ones who fall back on engineering fundamentals. In this talk he walks through the iterative process his students use to ship high-quality apps with agent swarms and explains why decades-old principles like ubiquitous language, vertical slices, TDD and deep modules now matter more than ever.
âJakub Andrzejewski, Evan You - Panel: Beyond The Vibe: Code Quality Firstâ from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
Conference ⸹ +200 views ⸹ Apr 28, 2026 ⸹ 00h 50m 00stldw: This Vue.js Amsterdam 2026 panel digs into modern frontend engineering, the tradeoffs developers face today and what shifts when AI enters the mainstream. Jakub Andrzejewski, Senior Developer Advocate at Vue Storefront, joins Vue creator Evan You, Debbie OâBrien, Elise Patrikainen and Nuxt Head of Framework Daniel Roe to focus on what software quality really means in the age of AI. They tackle how to keep code maintainable when vibes alone arenât enough.
âGeeCON 2025: Konrad SzaĹkowski - Organizing chaos - Structured Concurrencyâ from GeeCON 2025
Conference ⸹ <100 views ⸹ Apr 26, 2026 ⸹ 00h 49m 46stldw: When thereâs order in our world itâs much easier to navigate, and programmers rediscover this truth every few years. Java 21 gave us virtual threads with the slogan âcreate, start, forgetâ, but we all know what happens in a kidsâ room after a birthday party: chaos. Konrad SzaĹkowski, a frequent speaker on distributed systems and concurrency, walks through Structured Concurrency, the brand-new API designed to organize the mess. He explains why it works and why it was created, then shows the code in action.
âMCP = Mega Context Problem - Matt Careyâ from AI Engineer Europe 2026
Conference ⸹ +17k views ⸹ Apr 25, 2026 ⸹ 00h 22m 42stldw: The best MCP server is the one you didnât have to build. Cloudflareâs REST OpenAPI spec is over 2.3 million tokens, so when teams started building MCP servers they cherry-picked endpoints and shipped a separate service covering a fraction of the API. Matt Carey, AI Engineer on the Agents team at Cloudflare, argues we got it all wrong: the context limit is an agent problem, not an MCP problem. In this talk he walks through techniques the team has been exploring like code mode and tool search to expose complete APIs to agents through MCP, plus work on the MCP TypeScript SDK to make stateless servers the default.
âAnthropic Mythos: Hype, reality and the actual security implicationsâ from ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast
Podcast ⸹ Apr 30, 2026 ⸹ 00h 48m 50stldl: Anthropic Mythos drew huge attention when it launched in mid-April this year, framed as an unprecedented threat to global software. But look closely and it starts to feel like an effective product launch as much as a story about the real security risks of todayâs AI models. In this episode, new host Nate Schutta is joined by Chris Kramer to discuss Anthropic Mythos and Project Glasswing, unpacking whatâs hype and what software developers, security professionals or other technologists should actually pay attention to.
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âAI Is Changing Data Engineering Fastâ from Data Engineering Central Podcast
Podcast ⸹ Apr 29, 2026 ⸹ 00h 56m 58stldl: The hosts dig into uncomfortable truths: AI can write code but cannot replace thinking, while most engineers focus too much on tools and not enough on problem-solving or system design.
âTop 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025 and a Hint for 2026 - James Kettle - ASW #380â from Application Security Weekly
Podcast ⸹ Apr 28, 2026 ⸹ 00h 44m 55stldl: PortSwiggerâs list of web hacking techniques is a long-running initiative in the web hacking community (itâs 19th edition this year!). James Kettle, Director of Research at PortSwigger, shares his thoughts on the 2025 entries and how he expects LLMs and agents to reshape next yearâs list. He also gives a peek into his own blackbox research with LLMs, hinting at what heâll be presenting at Black Hat USA this summer.
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