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Software Madhouse — an unfiltered, occasionally unhinged podcast about building software, the people who build it, and the chaos in between.
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Average audio length:
31 minutes
Video podcast
English
United States
7 episodes
since Sept. 1, 2026
episodic
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The repo is public and the license says MIT, so it must be open source. But can you actually build a working binary without private toolchains and closed blobs? Matt and Robert examine what an open source license really guarantees and where common expectations go further. They walk through the diff…
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Robert’s line from last time did not land: developers use code to solve business problems, and software engineers use code to create them. So Matt and Robert brought Darren Shepherd in to argue it.
Darren created Rancher and k3s, and he is now chief architect at Obot. Matt restates the roles…
The internet is arguing about a new claim: developers no longer write code, they manage agents. Does that mean we have all been promoted to management?
Robert and Matt start with the talk that set it off. At Rails World last week, DHH said he has retired from professional programming and now calls…
Your tests pass, your coverage is high, and your code still breaks in production. That’s what happens when you only test the happy path. In this episode, Matt and Robert take on one of Robert’s biggest pet peeves: unit tests that never cover the negative, or sad, path.
They break down …
Matt and Robert walk through four roles that get mixed together on job boards and resumes: programmer, software developer, software engineer, and computer scientist. They look at what each job actually covers, where “engineer” is a regulated title and where it is just a pay-band label, how ACM/IEEE…
Matt and Robert unpack the Forward Deployed Engineer: a Palantir-coined, customer-facing role that parks an engineer at a customer site for a set stretch of time. They trace the name to military “forward basing,” ask whether an FDE is just a consultant with better branding (or a one-person Pivotal-…
Matt and Robert launch Software Madhouse with the AI open-source firehose: drive-by slop PRs flooding projects like Helm, extra maintainer load, and how communities are fighting back with policies, GitHub caps, kernel Assisted-by: trailers, and tools like Vouch and Good Egg.
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