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. https://katyella.com/podcast/ en-us Matt Wojtowicz & Nina 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. Matt Wojtowicz data@katyella.com false 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. https://katyella.com/podcast/ep03/ katyella-podcast-ep03 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 49:32 3 false 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. https://katyella.com/podcast/ep02/ katyella-podcast-ep02 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 53:21 2 false 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. https://katyella.com/podcast/ep01/ katyella-podcast-ep01 Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 42:26 1 false