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The Merge (by CodeRabbit)

CodeRabbit
Open Source
Coderabbit
Daytona
Tanstack
Cloud
Artificial Intelligence
AST Grab
AI Agents
Claude Opus 4.7
Kubernetes
Openai
Codex 5.3
Opus 4.6
Mastra
Nemotron
Cast AI
Typescript
Codex
Workos
Chachibiti 5.3 Codex

The Merge by CodeRabbit is a podcast that brings you deep conversations with legendary developers who've shaped the tools we use every day. We explore how artificial intelligence is transforming software development while celebrating the creators and tools that built our foundation. Each episode features intimate discussions about building developer tools, maintaining open source projects, and nav... more

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Is coding dead? As autonomous AI agents get better at generating code, the actual implementation of software is becoming incredibly cheap. But what is the last skill that keeps us as humans valuable?

In this episode, we sit down with legendary softw... more

In this episode of The Merge, we sit down with Michael Grinich, founder and CEO of WorkOS.

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Michael shares one of the best explanations of Product-Market Fit we’ve heard: it’s not the finish line... more

What happens when you treat an AI agent like a brilliant, chaotic, sleep-deprived MIT intern instead of a perfect computer program? You actually get elite code.

In this episode of The Merge, we sit down with open-source legend Jesse Vincent, the mas... more

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In this episode of The Merge, recorded live at the CodeRabbit office, we sit down with Max Stoiber to tackle a massive paradigm shift shaking the industry: Why DX (Developer Experience) is dead, and why the future of software engineering belongs comp... more

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Recent Guests

Michael Grinich
Founder of WorkOS, AI/enterprise identity and permissions expert
WorkOS
Episode: How Founders Actually Engineer Product-Market-Fit
Jesse Vincent
Creator of Superpowers, open-source software veteran
Open source developer; creator of K9, RT/Request Tracker
Episode: Fixing "AI Slop": Managing Agents Like Stressed MIT Interns w/ Jesse Vincent, creator of Superpowers
Max Stoiber
Open-source developer known for libraries like styled-components; speaker on AI-assisted software development
OpenAI (mentioned in conversation) / CodeRabbit context implied
Episode: DX is Dead: Max Stoiber on Why Software Engineering is Shifting to "Taste"
Tanner Linsley
Creator and founder of TanStack
TanStack
Episode: Why Tanner Linsley Won’t Take VC Money for TanStack
Kunal Kushwaha
Lead, EMEA region for developer relations at Cast AI
Cast AI
Episode: Google worries about OS models: Kunal Kushwaha on Why Open Source is Killing Proprietary AI
Chris Alexios
Product research engineer at Nvidia
Nvidia
Episode: Why NVIDIA is Betting on Open Source and Ultra-Fast Inference
David Loker
VP of AI at CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit
Episode: Claude OPUS 4.7 - Anthropic drops a new Model - David Loker (VP of AI at CodeRabbit)
Ivan Burazin
CEO of Daytona
Daytona
Episode: Most Founders Don't Understand Open Source | Ivan Burazin (CEO, Daytona)
Abhi Aiyer
Co-founder and CTO of Mastra
Mastra
Episode: TypeScript BEATS Python when building AI Agents (Mastra's YC Journey)

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Hendrik
Host of The Merge, CodeRabbit

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 1 ratings
  • Informative pod on AI

    Love to see the CodeRabbit team gaining more mindshare in the AI code reviews space. Look forward to more episodes that go into what’s happening in the world of AI with more guest speakers from other startups in this domain.

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    Sahilm2002
    United States2 years ago

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Great depth on agentic tooling and open source governance.
Strong emphasis on tooling sustainability and real-world use cases.
Solid balance of founder stories and hands-on technical detail.
Informative pod on AI with practical insights into AI code reviews space.

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#76
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Apple Podcasts
#125
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#225
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Why NVIDIA is Betting on Open Source and Ultra-Fast Inference
Q: What is Nemotron, and what makes the family and its architecture special?
Nemotron is a family of models focused on extreme co-design, combining hardware-aware design with software that enables faster, more capable inference; the conversation highlights Nano, Super, and Ultra, and the use of techniques like mixture of experts to borrow expertise while maintaining a generalist foundation.
Why NVIDIA is Betting on Open Source and Ultra-Fast Inference
Q: Can you give us a little bit about yourself and how you ended up at Nvidia?
The guest describes a passion for building and teaching, a non-traditional education path, and a career that led into Nvidia through a blend of startup work, content creation, and a drive to share ML concepts with a broad audience.
DID GOOGLE JUST WIN THE AI RACE?
Q: What role does prompt design play given the emphasis on prompt quality?
Prompting becomes central; defining the task well and crafting prompts to elicit the intended ground truth is crucial as models increasingly excel at the actual solving once properly prompted.
DID GOOGLE JUST WIN THE AI RACE?
Q: How does the model's cost-performance ratio affect adoption for teams?
Cheaper per token models like Gemini Pro, when paired with strong performance, make it feasible to run evaluations at scale and deploy AI-assisted coding more broadly, balancing cost with the need for accuracy.
DID GOOGLE JUST WIN THE AI RACE?
Q: What does Gemini 3.1 Pro bring to developers in practical terms beyond benchmarks?
It improves workflow productivity by handling routine reasoning tasks, reduces noisy comments, and supports long-context operations with efficient retrieval, enabling developers to focus more on high-impact work.

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Frequently Asked Questions About The Merge

What is The Merge about and what kind of topics does it cover?

The show centers on deep dives with developers who've shaped essential tools and open-source ecosystems, exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming software development, tooling, and infrastructure. Episodes frequently cover building developer tools, managing open-source projects, enterprise readiness, and pragmatic engineering practices—often through the lens of AI-assisted coding, agent-based workflows, and sustainable open-source governance. A distinctive angle is the emphasis on practical, hands-on insights from founders and engineers who've built or powered widely-used tools, plus candid discussions about funding, governance, and the evolving role of engineers in an AI-enabled era. Potential listeners will likely be develope... more

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