<![CDATA[Walking Devs]]>Two engineers rambling about tech while enjoying a walk in the park.

]]>https://walkingdevs.comTue, 14 Apr 2026 08:46:41 GMTMon, 02 Feb 2026 22:58:39 GMT60Philipp Spiess and Nicolas Dular<p>Two engineers rambling about tech while enjoying a walk in the park.</p>episodicPhilipp Spiess and Nicolas Dularno<![CDATA[007 Rage Against the Hype]]>https://walkingdevs.com/007-rage-against-the-hype/We talk about the importance of learning concepts and languages instead of just generating everything. We also discuss how the constant rush in the industry is unhealthy and creates unnecessary FOMO, along with a few notable libraries we explored over the past weeks for JavaScript sandboxing and Ruby GraphQL optimizations.

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Chapters:

  • 00:00 Exploring Golang and Learning New Programming Paradigms
  • 06:00 Code Leaked and Industry Pressure for Rapid Progress
  • 11:38 Creating Fear of Missing Out in the Industry
  • 19:28 Optimizing GraphQL API and Positive Discoveries
]]>b57a9f43-b80b-4b0a-9526-991acb7f4fa4Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:33:30 GMT<p>We talk about the importance of learning concepts and languages instead of just generating everything. We also discuss how the constant rush in the industry is unhealthy and creates unnecessary FOMO, along with a few notable libraries we explored over the past weeks for JavaScript sandboxing and Ruby GraphQL optimizations.</p><p></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rivet.dev/" target="_blank"><b>https://rivet.dev/</b></a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://sandboxagent.dev/" target="_blank"><b>https://sandboxagent.dev/</b></a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/" target="_blank"><b>https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/</b></a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://shopify.engineering/faster-breadth-first-graphql-execution" target="_blank"><b>https://shopify.engineering/faster-breadth-first-graphql-execution</b></a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://eversole.dev/blog/the-80-percent-nobody-celebrates/" target="_blank">https://eversole.dev/blog/the-80-percent-nobody-celebrates/</a></li></ul><p>Chapters:</p><ul><li>00:00 Exploring Golang and Learning New Programming Paradigms</li><li>06:00 Code Leaked and Industry Pressure for Rapid Progress</li><li>11:38 Creating Fear of Missing Out in the Industry</li><li>19:28 Optimizing GraphQL API and Positive Discoveries</li></ul>no00:18:09007 Rage Against the Hypefull<![CDATA[006 A Bright Future for Dev Tooling]]>https://walkingdevs.com/006-a-bright-future-for-dev-tooling/The conversation centers around the exploration of development environments, challenges with code editors, discussion on LM providers, cost considerations of LM usage, exploring new programming languages, Rust and Go as development languages, improving legacy tooling with Rust, and AI development and complexity.

]]>519d76da-8841-415a-a0e5-4cc0c4f4b10aTue, 24 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT<p>The conversation centers around the exploration of development environments, challenges with code editors, discussion on LM providers, cost considerations of LM usage, exploring new programming languages, Rust and Go as development languages, improving legacy tooling with Rust, and AI development and complexity.</p>no00:18:4317006 A Bright Future for Dev Toolingfull<![CDATA[005 Hacking Again]]>https://walkingdevs.com/005-hacking-again/We're back after a quick break and talk about the differences in the JS ecosystem on the backend side. Also, a new category: bug of the week, and we talk a bit about a project we hacked on to put an agent in a sandbox.

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]]>83c6ac1c-a85d-4b03-8fcf-07a86e749504Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT<p>We're back after a quick break and talk about the differences in the JS ecosystem on the backend side. Also, a new category: bug of the week, and we talk a bit about a project we hacked on to put an agent in a sandbox.</p><p></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://void.cloud/" target="_blank">https://void.cloud/</a> </li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://agentclientprotocol.com/" target="_blank">https://agentclientprotocol.com</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/" target="_blank">https://linuxcontainers.org/incus</a></li></ul>no00:20:5316005 Hacking Againfull<![CDATA[004 Engineering Career Ladder]]>https://walkingdevs.com/004-engineering-career-ladder/We start the episode and talk about Oban for Python, sharding in Postgres with PgDog, and Next.js by Cloudflare.
And then we dig deeper about career ladders and promotions.

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]]>c4b247a1-1bca-454f-ae99-0deb6f21f4a7Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT<p>We start the episode and talk about Oban for Python, sharding in Postgres with PgDog, and Next.js by Cloudflare.<br />And then we dig deeper about career ladders and promotions.<br /><br />Links</p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://oban.pro/articles/bridging-with-oban" target="_blank">https://oban.pro/articles/bridging-with-oban</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://pgdog.dev/" target="_blank">https://pgdog.dev/</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext" target="_blank">https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.modular.com/blog/the-claude-c-compiler-what-it-reveals-about-the-future-of-software" target="_blank">https://www.modular.com/blog/the-claude-c-compiler-what-it-reveals-about-the-future-of-software</a></li></ul>no00:24:1015004 Engineering Career Ladderfull<![CDATA[003 The Future of Software Collaboration]]>https://walkingdevs.com/003-the-future-of-software-collaboration/The main topic of this weeks episode is a conversation about the impact of AI coding agents on development collaboration and how we think the software development life cycle (planning, code review, and CI/CD) will change.

]]>a82d6498-7804-41eb-a990-842f78051b2bTue, 24 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT<p>The main topic of this weeks episode is a conversation about the impact of AI coding agents on development collaboration and how we think the software development life cycle (planning, code review, and CI/CD) will change. </p>no00:17:5614003 The Future of Software Collaborationfull<![CDATA[002 Agent Fatigue]]>https://walkingdevs.com/002-agent-fatigue/In this episode, we cover the impact of AI on the developer community, work-life balance and AI burnout, concerns about job security, exhaustion and context switching in development, and touch on the future of software development and collaboration. 

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• Your startup idea is their weekend holiday by Andreas Klinger

• AgentLogs by Philipp Spiess

• Software Collaboration in the AI Age by Philipp Spiess

]]>fb182341-da07-4ee3-93f5-554faf7983ccTue, 17 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT<p>In this episode, we cover the impact of AI on the developer community, work-life balance and AI burnout, concerns about job security, exhaustion and context switching in development, and touch on the future of software development and collaboration. </p><p></p><p>Links:</p><p></p><p>• <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgLJ5xas2ow" target="_blank">Your startup idea is their weekend holiday</a> by Andreas Klinger</p><p>• <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/agentlogs/agentlogs" target="_blank">AgentLogs</a> by Philipp Spiess</p><p>• <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://spiess.dev/blog/software-collaboration-in-the-ai-age" target="_blank">Software Collaboration in the AI Age</a> by Philipp Spiess</p>no00:20:1913002 Agent Fatiguefull<![CDATA[001 Interviewing in the Age of AI]]>https://walkingdevs.com/001-interviewing-in-the-age-of-ai/Join us for another walk in the Prater with no sun for the second month in a row. We talk about model-release-week, the new Codex app, AI sandboxes, and orchestration challenges before we dive into interviewing and the impact of AI on the interviewing process for both parties. We end with a positive note about the AI community in Austria.

]]>1883e532-6ff7-4cca-b765-d887f8e6cd43Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT<p>Join us for another walk in the Prater with no sun for the second month in a row. We talk about model-release-week, the new Codex app, AI sandboxes, and orchestration challenges before we dive into interviewing and the impact of AI on the interviewing process for both parties. We end with a positive note about the AI community in Austria.</p>no00:18:3212001 Interviewing in the Age of AIfull<![CDATA[000 Pilot]]>https://walkingdevs.com/000-pilot/In this pilot episode, Nicolas and Philipp discuss the rise of OpenClaw and MoltBook, the democratization of coding, and the impact of AI on software engineering. They also explore the security implications of AI tools and the slow pace of innovation in big tech companies.

]]>256b43cc-3509-45dc-a146-5df7d4d3e223Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:02:28 GMT<p>In this pilot episode, Nicolas and Philipp discuss the rise of OpenClaw and MoltBook, the democratization of coding, and the impact of AI on software engineering. They also explore the security implications of AI tools and the slow pace of innovation in big tech companies.</p>no00:22:2411000 Pilotfull