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The Cynical Developer

Cynical Developer

A UK based Technology and Software Developer Podcast that helps you to improve your development knowledge and career,through explaining the latest and greatest in development technology and providing you with what you need to succeed as a developer.

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190 episodes

  1. The First AI-Native Software Teams 6:09
  2. AI Doesn’t Remove Technical Debt - It Accelerates It 6:36
  3. AI Doesn’t Care About Your Tech Stack 5:41
  4. Why Most Companies Are Using AI Completely Wrong 6:02
  5. The Future Developer Is Closer to a Product Engineer 5:52
  6. Why AI Is Making Good Engineers More Valuable 6:21
  7. The Junior Developer Crisis Nobody Is Talking About 6:09
  8. The End of Coding Interviews As We Know Them 5:52
  9. Prompt Engineering Is Dead - Long Live Specification Engineering 6:11
  10. AI Is Creating Two Kinds of Developers 5:52
  11. Why Your Team Doesn’t Own Anything 5:38
  12. Remote Work Didn’t Kill Productivity - Bad Management Did 5:47
  13. The Real Cost of Context Switching 5:30
  14. Why Promotions Rarely Go to the Best Engineers 6:59
  15. Psychological Safety Is Not Being Nice 6:35
  16. Episode 27 - Performance Reviews Are Broken 7:32
  17. Episode 26 - Why Developers Quit (And Don't Tell You Why) 7:42
  18. Episode 25 - What Managers Need to Stop Doing 7:50
  19. Episode 24 - Spec-Driven Development: How You Actually Work With AI 7:27
  20. Episode 23 - When AI Makes Your Codebase Worse 5:42
  21. Episode 22 - The Ethics of AI in Software Teams 5:38
  22. Episode 21 - Why "No-Code" Keeps Failing 5:59
  23. Episode 20 - The Coming Divide: AI-Augmented vs Non-Augmented Teams 6:07
  24. Episode 19 - Why AI Code Still Needs Senior Review 6:01
  25. Episode 18 - Your LLM Is Not a Junior Developer 6:09
  26. Episode 17 - AI Won't Replace Developers — But It Will Replace Some Jobs 6:10
  27. Episode 16 - Observability Is Not Optional Anymore 6:33
  28. Episode 15 - Why Your Cloud Bill Keeps Going Up 5:37
  29. Episode 14 - APIs Are Products — Start Treating Them Like It 4:44
  30. Episode 13 - The Death of "Clean Architecture" Dogma 6:01
  31. Episode 12 - Monoliths Are Back (Because They Never Left) 5:16
  32. Episode 11 - Event-Driven Everything — Do You Actually Need It? 6:31
  33. Episode 10 - The Rise (and Abuse) of Serverless 6:03
  34. Episode 9 - Microservices Were a Mistake (For Most Teams) 5:15
  35. Episode 8 - Meetings Stink! 4:55
  36. Episode 7 - Technical Debt: Who Creates It and Who Pays 6:05
  37. Episode 6 - Why most software estimates are fiction, not fact 5:37
  38. Episode 5 - The Difference Between Busy Teams and Effective Teams 5:02
  39. Episode 4 - Is AI going to make us all 10x Developers? 7:05
  40. Episode 3 - Agile Is Not the Problem — Leadership Is 6:02
  41. Episode 2 - Why "Senior Developer" Doesn't Mean What You Think 6:27
  42. Episode 1 - The State of Software in 2026: What's Actually Broken 5:32
  43. Episode 0 - We are back! 4:20
  44. Episode 159 - JetBrains Space 31:53
  45. Episode 158 - Code Reviews 43:32
  46. Episode 157 - Developer Life Cycle 1:07:53
  47. Episode 156 - Deep Fakes 1:06:25
  48. Episode 155 - Changes in OSS 57:43
  49. Episode 153 - PayPal 31:40
  50. Episode 152 - Spring Time 46:42