# Wes Mckinney

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Ep. #9, Radical Accountability in Software with Wes McKinney

On episode 9 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Wes McKinney, creator of Pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow. They explore how AI coding agents are reshaping software development, why data infrastructure remains surprisingly resistant to automation, and what semantic layers m…

Ep. #9, Radical Accountability in Software with Wes McKinney

On episode 9 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Wes McKinney, creator of Pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow. They explore how AI coding agents are reshaping software development, why data infrastructure remains surprisingly resistant to automation, and what semantic layers m…

065: What the African Cup of Nations Reveals About Continent-Wide Pride and Unity

Unlock the unexpected truths behind the skills and moments that shape our world—like the hidden art of shorthand, the chaotic beauty of football finals, and the cultural power of African tournaments. We get into: The psychology of hiding money in encyclopedias Why the passion in African football …

Sleeping Rats and Sociopathic Agents — with Phillip Cloud

Phillip Cloud has been shaping the Python data ecosystem since the early pandas days — and he has *opinions*. Now a principal engineer at NVIDIA leading the Ibis project, Phillip talks about how he stumbled into open source via an eye movement lab, why he prefers his coding agents cold and emotionl…

Wes McKinney on AI Agents and His Wild Coding Setup

Wes McKinney returns to talk about his complete reversal from AI skepticism to being fully locked in on coding agents, why he thinks Go has become the best language for AI agents, and how he's building his own local data sovereignty tools.

Agentic Engineering and the Lost Art of Verification

> I almost don’t read code now. My approach with Roborev is it’s like my code reader. The mantra is: Roborev reads every line of code that is generated. It gets read multiple times. And so, whenever I push up a pull request, the branch gets re-reviewed. And so by the time I’m merging a pull reques…

TokenMaxxing!: Agentic Software Development with Bob Farzin

In this episode we invite back our friend Bob Farzin to discuss our personal experiences with using teams of agents to write software, and we try to parse out the experiences we're seeing on the interwebs, including Steve Yegge's GasTown and Wes McKinney's discussion of agentic development in the c…

Are We All Managers Now?

Dan, Angie Jones, and Demetrios Brinkman open with a discussion of the Agentic AI Foundation ("AAIF"), founded by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block in December 2025 and now home to roughly 180 member companies. AAIF recently launched an ambassador program (apply [here](https://aaif.io/ambassadors/)) and…

Yves Hilpisch – What Happens to Quants in the AI Era?

Dr. Yves Hilpisch joins The Sophron® Network to discuss what happens to quants in the AI era. We trace two decades of Python in quantitative finance, from a language barely on the radar in 2005 to today's industry standard, and ask how generative AI and agentic coding are reshaping quant careers. T…

Stay Frosty: Wes McKinney, Kenn Software Founder & pandas Creator, on building software with agents

Wes McKinney is the founder of Kenn Software, the creator of pandas, and the co-creator of Apache Arrow. He went from an AI skeptic writing code in Emacs with no autocomplete two years ago to not writing code by hand at all. At API rates, his last 30 days of coding agent use would have cost $60,178…