Better Stack Podcast

The Better Stack Podcast brings you cutting-edge conversations about AI, software development, and technology from the developer advocate team at Better Stack. Join us as we explore the latest in AI, coding tools, and startup journeys with industry experts, helping developers and tech leaders stay ahead in the rapidly evolving world of technology.

Better Stack Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by Better Stack, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Better Stack hosts Better Stack Podcast, a technology show with 18 episodes published.

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  Episode #18

  18: Why Can't AI Find the Gorilla?

  Jul 24, 20261h 36mS1

  Vincent Warmerdam of Marimo joins the Better Stack Podcast to talk Python notebooks, the CoreWeave acquisition, and why LLMs still can't analyze data. He breaks down how Marimo grew 5% a week to become the next evolution of Jupyter, why Python beat every compiled language for data science, and how a gorilla hidden in a dataset exposes the gap between AI doing the work and actually understanding it. Plus mechanical keyboards and RSI, PyPI supply chain attacks, vibe coding and skill atrophy, and the scrubbable IDE he built to make himself care about code again. Relevant LinksCalmCode YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoi0sH40GlLvNl9TZB40QegMarimo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@marimo-teamVincent Twitter: https://x.com/fishnets88❤️ More about usRadically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ SocialsTwitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhqInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstackLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack Chapters:00:00 - Intro & the Keyboard Collection07:29 - Vincent's Background & Marimo15:09 - Purple-Pilled on AI20:48 - The Dynamite Balloon Story28:26 - Why Python Won Data Science36:51 - The Road to Marimo46:30 - CoreWeave & Supply Chain Attacks50:27 - Vibe Coding & Caring About Code1:02:19 - Where's the 10x Better Software?1:12:21 - Vincent's AI Setup1:15:47 - Turning the Tables on YouTube1:33:10 - The Gorilla Dataset

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  Episode #17

  17: The Guy Who Coined "Event Gateways" Explains Why Webhooks Are Dying

  Jul 14, 20261h 10mS1

  In this episode of the Better Stack Podcast, we sit down with Alex Bouchard, founder of Hookdeck, the company on a mission to kill webhooks. Alex shares how a frustrating basement side project — sparked by a Medium post titled "Webhooks suck, but there's something you can do about it" — turned into a fully-funded event infrastructure company. We dig into why he coined the term "Event Gateway," how Hookdeck's open-source Outpost project stays aligned with its business incentives, and why AWS EventBridge's vendor lock-in leaves the door open for a more agnostic alternative. Alex also breaks down the hidden latency problems behind vendor webhooks (and why GitHub, Shopify, and Stripe outages hit harder than you'd think), how AI agents are reshaping event-driven architecture, and why he thinks push-based queues are underrated compared to poll-based ones. Plus: the Vercel testimonial that came out of nowhere, running a 10-person team with an async-first culture, and a spicy hot take on why most queuing systems are "just very dumb."

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  16: Rust, Codex CLI & Why He Quit Coding Before AI - Dreams of Code

  Jun 4, 202657 minS0

  <p>In this episode we sit down with Elliot, the developer behind the Dreams of Code and the Dreams of Autonomy YouTube channels, for a conversation about where software development is heading in the age of AI. We dig into why he's gone all-in on Rust for 2026, the reality of building a cross-platform video editor with unsafe FFI, and why he ditched Claude Code for Codex. Elliot shares how he actually uses AI day-to-day (stubs, public interfaces, and aggressive git staging), why he believes LLMs are hitting diminishing returns, and the death of coding tutorials. Plus native vs web apps...

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  15: Why Claude Recommends Resend, YouTube for Devs & Building in Public - Chris Pennington

  May 22, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>In this episode of the Better Stack Podcast, we sit down with Chris Pennington, DX Engineer at Resend and creator of the Coding in Public YouTube channel. Chris shares his unlikely journey from a documentation role with no professional coding experience to becoming the 10th hire at Resend, all sparked by a YouTube video about React Email. We dig into how Resend gets Claude to recommend them ~70% of the time (JSON-LD, Q&A sections, recency bias, and being early to LLM tooling), how his team runs scoped OpenClaude agents for competitor analysis and marketing reports, and why he still...

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  14: Warp Oz, AI Agents & Why Benchmarks Don't Matter Anymore - Ben Holmes

  Mar 25, 20261h 12mS0

  <p>In this episode, Ben from Warp joins us to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-powered development tools. We explore his journey from creating whiteboard programming shorts to working on Astro, his honest take on React Server Components, and how the rise of coding agents is reshaping what matters in API design. Ben also dives deep into Warp's vision for the future of terminals, transforming them into agent-ready workspaces with built-in diff views, file explorers, and code review features that work with any CLI agent like Claude Code or Codex. Whether you're curious about the future of frameworks, how...

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