Katyella
Two engineers talking through what they're actually building. Every week Matt and Nina compare notes on the projects, the decisions, the dead ends, and the stuff that worked. No scripts, no guests promoting a book. It's the conversation you'd overhear at the good table at a conference.
I Shouldn't Anger the Time Zone Gods
First guest episode: Ben Sun of Meadow joins from Berlin. Pirates vs the Navy on startup life, whether agile survives AI-speed development, review bottlenecks, bigger tickets, multi-agent testing, and what managed infrastructure is still worth. Plus the continuing saga of Nina not charging for her fiction app.
I Do Miss the Code Editor
Matt and Nina sort the week's tool hype from the useful parts: multi-agent coding in Amp and Codex, model routers, and classifiers that don't need an LLM. Plus live-coding interviews in the AI era, big tech layoffs and golden handcuffs, Nina's collaborative writing app, and the case for finally charging for it.
What Is Programming Anymore?
The week the AI discourse turned dark: a possible coming attack on open source, Primeagen on protecting your energy, and whether letting agents make all the decisions causes skill regression. Plus legacy migration as the consulting angle AI de-risks, and why Nina built apps for years without ever sharing one.
Anybody Can Build Anything Now
Nina migrates Matt's podcast search app from Next.js and Python to her first-ever Java deploy, six years into a software career. Plus the economics of running agents on a subscription versus an API, multi-agent pipelines that pass JSON instead of prose, why AI job interviews feel terrible, and how episode 1 got its title.
Nothing Is Intimidating Anymore
Matt and Nina introduce themselves and get into what AI has done to building software: Nina ships a desktop audio tool that would have taken a team, Matt tries the cloud-agent chief of staff trend, and they argue about whether the curve is flattening and whether the silver bullet that kills programmers actually exists.