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Beyond The Build is a podcast about the real, unfiltered experiences of being a software engineer. It is listed as a technology show, with an education focus.

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Beyond The Build is hosted by Uma Abu and Ope Osunkoya. They have published 55 episodes. The show covers technology, with an education focus.

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Recent episodes include "Is Polymarket A Money Laundering Machine? | LWIT", "Scams, Surveillance, Cyber Warfare: What The Dark Web Has Been Up To With AI | LWIT", and "Apparently AI Might Kill Us. Anyway, Here’s a PR | LWIT". The latest went out on 28 Sep 2026 and ran about 58 minutes. Reading two or three of these before pitching is the fastest way to see what the show actually books.

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Beyond The Build publishes weekly, a median of 7 days between episodes. Episodes average about 52 minutes. The back catalogue stands at 55 episodes. A show on this cadence plans ahead, so pitch earlier rather than closer to the date you want.

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Beyond The Build

Hosted by Uma Abu and Ope Osunkoya · technology · EN-US · 55 episodes

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Beyond The Build is a podcast about the real, unfiltered experiences of being a software engineer. Hosted by two seasoned engineers, Uma and Ope, we dive into the highs, the lows, and everything in between—from career growth and technical challenges to work-life balance and industry insights. Whether you're an aspiring developer or a seasoned pro, join us as we explore the parts of tech that don’t get talked about enough. Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/umacodes ) Tiktok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes ) Twitter: ( https://twitter.com/umacodes ) LinkedIn: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/ ) <

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Is Polymarket A Money Laundering Machine? | LWIT
Sep 28, 202658 min
Send us Fan Mail Be part of the show: https://btb-listener-line.fly.dev/ Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 This week on Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest stories in software engineering, cybersecurity, AI, and tech. We discuss Jev, a new decision-focused AI model, the shifting AI talent pipeline between China and the US, AI hacking incidents, Kimi coming to AWS Bedrock, the reported FBI breach, North Korean fake developer interviews, Polymarket fraud, Samsung smart fridge failures, and the debate around whether MCP is still necessary. We also talk about senior engineer communication, how coding agents edit files, and the growing problem with AI-generated writing. If you’re a software engineer or tech professional trying to keep up with what’s changing across the industry, this episode is for you. Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/umacodes ) Tiktok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes ) Twitter: ( https://twitter.com/umacodes ) LinkedIn: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/ ) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast ) TikTok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast ) 00:00 Trailer 01:36 Intro — Last Week in Tech 01:50 Prediction Markets, Fraud & Polymarket 06:29 Kimi AI Comes to AWS 10:41 The AI Slowdown & Management Consultants 15:05 Jev: The AI Model Built for Fast Decisions 17:47 Slop Mop & The Problem With AI Writing 21:44 The Changing Landscape of Chinese AI Talent 26:56 AI Models Are Hacking Computers 30:27 Is MCP Still Necessary? 36:45 ShinyHunters Hack the FBI 39:46 When a Software Update Breaks Your Fridge 42:43 North Korean IT Workers & Deepfake Job Interviews 45:40 Rapid Fire: The Senior Engineer Death Spiral 48:03 Managing Capacity, Delegation & Engineering Work 50:13 How Coding Agents Edit Your Files 51:23 Should AI Be Writing Your Documents? 55:49 Wrap Up 56:17 A New Way to Get Your Questions on the Show
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Scams, Surveillance, Cyber Warfare: What The Dark Web Has Been Up To With AI | LWIT
Sep 21, 202654 min
Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down Anthropic’s latest AI misuse report and look at how bad actors are already using AI for scams, surveillance, cyber operations, influence campaigns, telecom data scraping, and other real-world attacks. We also discuss the growing AI arms race between companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and other major labs. AI companies are warning about models becoming harder to supervise while simultaneously investing billions to build more capable systems. Can any company realistically slow down if everyone else keeps racing ahead? We also get into a new security problem emerging around AI coding agents and plugins. As developers give tools like Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI more access to repositories, terminals, APIs, and credentials, supply-chain attacks become significantly more dangerous. Then we debate what code review should look like in the age of AI. If AI can generate code faster than humans can read it, should every line still be reviewed? Or does code review become less about catching bugs and more about making sure engineers still understand the systems they are building? We also cover AWS infrastructure failures during geopolitical conflict, Windows 11 updates breaking hardware, OpenAI’s IPO plans, digital ownership, and what happens when the software and infrastructure we depend on become increasingly automated. Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/umacodes ) Tiktok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes ) Twitter: ( https://twitter.com/umacodes ) LinkedIn: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/ ) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast ) TikTok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast )
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Apparently AI Might Kill Us. Anyway, Here’s a PR | LWIT
Sep 14, 202651 min
Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 In this episode of Beyond The Build, we talk about the growing wave of AI safety warnings coming from researchers at companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, and whether those concerns should actually change how seriously we think about the risks of increasingly capable AI systems. We also get into the security problems that come with AI agents having access to production secrets, private data, credentials, and external systems, along with recent controversies around AI research, watermarking, browser privacy, and the trust we place in the tools we use every day. Then we bring it back to software engineering. If AI can already investigate alerts, write code, open pull requests, and automate more of the development lifecycle, what is actually left for engineers? We discuss why coding is only one part of the job, why judgment, system design, debugging, operations, and accountability still matter, and why you cannot fully delegate a system you do not understand. Along the way, we also touch on AI-assisted research, security vulnerabilities, prompting, brownfield vs. greenfield development, Postgres at scale, expired credit card security, and a few other things happening in tech this week. Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/umacodes ) Tiktok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes ) Twitter: ( https://twitter.com/umacodes ) LinkedIn: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/ ) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast ) TikTok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast )
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AI Just Changed the Rules of Software Security | LWIT
Sep 7, 202646 min
Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 AI is changing software security faster than most engineering teams are prepared for. In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down how AI agents are starting to discover and exploit vulnerabilities, why the window between a CVE being disclosed and actively exploited is shrinking, and what that means for developers, security teams, and companies shipping software today. We also discuss new findings around OpenAI’s AI agent swarms, concerns around observability and model behavior, major data breaches involving identity verification providers, and why digital privacy is becoming even harder to protect. Beyond security, we get into how AI is reshaping software engineering itself, including the impact on frontend developers, Meta’s push toward smaller engineering teams, local LLMs running directly in the browser with WebGPU, and why human error can still take down even the most resilient cloud infrastructure. Topics covered: • AI agents and autonomous hacking • OpenAI swarm security concerns • CVEs and faster vulnerability exploitation • Software supply chain and cybersecurity risks • Data breaches and identity verification • Privacy and age verification • The future of frontend engineering • AI-driven software development • Meta engineering layoffs and productivity • WebLLM and local AI inference • Google Cloud outages and infrastructure resilience Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/umacodes ) Tiktok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes ) Twitter: ( https://twitter.com/umacodes ) LinkedIn: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/ ) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast ) TikTok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast )
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Why Developers Have to Start Caring About Memory | LWIT
Aug 31, 20261h 10m
Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 This week on Last Week in Tech, we’re talking about what happens when memory gets expensive and software can’t afford to stay bloated. RAM prices are climbing fast, Android is tightening memory limits, and companies like Cloudflare are squeezing huge amounts of memory out of their systems through better data structures and smarter engineering. The bigger question is whether memory efficiency is becoming a functional requirement again. We also cover OpenAI cutting Cursor off after its acquisition by SpaceX AI, Nvidia’s reported move for Hugging Face, Stripe acquiring OpenRouter, why the harness around an AI model may matter more than the model itself, and whether AI is slowly eroding the fundamentals developers used to learn through experience. Plus, we get into developer security hygiene, Chrome privacy, the growing number of CVEs, and Meta’s massive settlement over teen social media usage. If you’re a developer, this episode is really about one broader shift: the constraints are coming back, and they may force us to build better software. Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/umacodes ) Tiktok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes ) Twitter: ( https://twitter.com/umacodes ) LinkedIn: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/ ) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast ) TikTok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast )
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Is Polymarket A Money Laundering Machine? | LWIT

Sep 28, 202658 min

Send us Fan Mail Be part of the show: https://btb-listener-line.fly.dev/ Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 This week on Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest stories in software engineering, cybersecurity, AI, and tech. We discuss Jev, a new decision-focused AI model, the shifting AI talent pipeline between China and the US, AI hacking incidents, Kimi coming to AWS Bedrock, the reported FBI breach, North Korean fake developer interviews, Polymarket fraud, Samsung smart fridge failures, and the debate around whether MCP is still necessary. We also talk about senior engineer communication, how coding agents edit files, and the growing problem with AI-generated writing. If you’re a software engineer or tech professional trying to keep up with what’s changing across the industry, this episode is for you. Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/umacodes ) Tiktok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes ) Twitter: ( https://twitter.com/umacodes ) LinkedIn: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/ ) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast ) TikTok: ( https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast ) 00:00 Trailer 01:36 Intro — Last Week in Tech 01:50 Prediction Markets, Fraud & Polymarket 06:29 Kimi AI Comes to AWS 10:41 The AI Slowdown & Management Consultants 15:05 Jev: The AI Model Built for Fast Decisions 17:47 Slop Mop & The Problem With AI Writing 21:44 The Changing Landscape of Chinese AI Talent 26:56 AI Models Are Hacking Computers 30:27 Is MCP Still Necessary? 36:45 ShinyHunters Hack the FBI 39:46 When a Software Update Breaks Your Fridge 42:43 North Korean IT Workers & Deepfake Job Interviews 45:40 Rapid Fire: The Senior Engineer Death Spiral 48:03 Managing Capacity, Delegation & Engineering Work 50:13 How Coding Agents Edit Your Files 51:23 Should AI Be Writing Your Documents? 55:49 Wrap Up 56:17 A New Way to Get Your Questions on the Show

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Is Polymarket A Money Laundering Machine? | LWIT

Scams, Surveillance, Cyber Warfare: What The Dark Web Has Been Up To With AI | LWIT

Apparently AI Might Kill Us. Anyway, Here’s a PR | LWIT

AI Just Changed the Rules of Software Security | LWIT

Why Developers Have to Start Caring About Memory | LWIT

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Is Polymarket A Money Laundering Machine? | LWIT

Scams, Surveillance, Cyber Warfare: What The Dark Web Has Been Up To With AI | LWIT

Apparently AI Might Kill Us. Anyway, Here’s a PR | LWIT

AI Just Changed the Rules of Software Security | LWIT

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