ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to Asynchronous and Unreliable, the new weekly podcast where we discuss the latest and most fascinating ideas in tech and AI, books and psychology.
Our host Anne Currie is a tech veteran, co-author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software and author of the strangely prescient science fiction Panopticon series
Expect animated, friendly, and lighthearted discussions with some of the most interesting thinkers, writers and practitioners in technology and way beyond.
To find out about just a few of our amazing guests in 2026, visit our website.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
39 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
38 episodes
since March 11, 2026
episodic
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Every tech organisation knows a Brent: the brilliant, helpful person everything goes through. Being indispensable can feel good—but what happens when that person reaches their limit?
Counselling psychologist Andrea Dobson joins Anne Currie to explore burnout from both sides: the individual experien…
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Liz Rice, O'Reilly author and open source expert joins Anne to talk about the problems faced by OSS maintainers in the face of a tsunami of AI-generated PRs. When does being helpful become more like an attack?
What is the purpose of seeking contributions to an open source project? Why are huge PRs …
What happens when attackers can exploit vulnerabilities faster than organisations can patch them — sometimes before the vulnerabilities have even been publicly disclosed?
Anne talks to Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent (Cisco), CNCF governing board member, O’Reilly author and eBPF se…
AI Teams, Niceness and Who's Responsible — Martin Davidson, Part 2
Martin Davidson returns for the second half of our conversation about working with AI agents. We discuss niceness, delegation and agents that negotiate with one another, as well as code optimisation, rewriting Windows 3.1 in Rust, a…
ShownotesWhat happens when you go to bed and your AI teams carry on working? My old friend and colleague Martin Davidson returns to Asynchronous & Unreliable to talk about his latest experiments in building software with AI. Martin has spent decades producing highly resilient systems, and more …
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Building reliability out of unreliable humans, with unreliable human Anne Currie
What happens when a podcast about unreliability meets a household full of colds? This week, I use the podcast itself as a worked example of building more resilient systems.
With Jon too ill to join me, I expl…
ShownotesAI, authors and the business of telling stories—with Katherine Pathak
Could AI help a prolific novelist keep up with her own imagination? And how different is an AI continuing a successful series from a ghostwriter—or an author’s family—taking over?
This week I’m joined by crime writer Kat…
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Are AIs Learning Humanity's Better Nature? with Yanqing Cheng
Anne Currie talks with software engineering leader and Tollens.ai founder Yanqing Cheng about how large language models acquired the helpful assistant persona, and what their training tells us about human learning, morality, an…
In this episode of Asynchronous and Unreliable, I talk to Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices, about his new O’Reilly book, Building Resilient Distributed Systems.
Distributed systems are hard — and, as they scale, they become hard in distinctly inhuman ways. Rare events stop being rare, …
Shownotes
AI Management, Agent Limits, and Why Long Form Text Still Matters
Anne Currie talks with Yanqing Cheng about what she has been learning from building Tollens.ai, where she is experimenting with quality management for AI software products. They also dig into Jon Berger’s book, What Happens…
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