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Software Development
Artificial Intelligence
Software Factory
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Automation
Technology
Coding Agents
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Cloud Infrastructure
Ai-Assisted Software Development
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Rails
Customer Value and Software Productivity
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Nate Berkopec

You Ain't Gonna Need It, the podcast where we look at software practices and tools and ask: "do we need it?"

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🔗 Impatient Programming: an invite for YAGNI listeners. This is a free guide to how Stephen’s team at Zar builds software with coding agents. It reworks Extreme Programming’s rules for working with agents and includes case studies, essays and tools.... more

Matt just got back from Rails World, where DHH's keynote left a lot of people thinking Rails was over. Justin Searls of Breaking Change, who gave his own retirement talk at Rails World two years ago, joins him to sort it out. They cover why the keyno... more

Thorsten Ball, who works on Amp, doesn't like the term "software factory." He'd rather be in a workshop, a garden or a "primordial soup" of throwaway tools. He and Matt talk about custom tools you build in minutes and throw away, why the huge jumps i... more

John Nunemaker runs Fireside, Flipper and Box Out. He used to think of himself as a craftsman, until last December, when he found out that what he really loves is shipping. Now he reads the data models and queries but not the JavaScript. He's also dr... more

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Recent Guests

Stephen Margheim
Leads product engineering at Zar and was known as the Rails SQLite guy
Zar
Episode: I need a software foreman w/ Stephen Margheim
Justin Searls
Co-founder at Test Double; host of Breaking Change
Test Double
Episode: Retiring from programming w/ Justin Searls
Thorsten Ball
Co-founder of AMP, discussed in detail during the interview
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Episode: Irrefutable proof w/ Thorsten Ball
John Nunemaker
an early GitHubber and maker of apps at Very Good Software
Very Good Software
Episode: Camping chair development w/ John Nunemaker
Justin Duke
CEO of Buttondown
Buttondown
Episode: LLM junk food w/ Justin Duke
Nate Berkopec
Rails performance consultant, runs Speed Shop
Speed Shop
Episode: Infinite plausible PRs w/ Nate Berkopec

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Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 11 ratings
  • Love this. Very useful.

    Love this. Very useful for pragmatic programmers.

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    okysabeni
    United States3 years ago

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The show is praised for candid takes and useful perspectives for practitioners.

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LLM junk food w/ Justin Duke
Q: Have there been any 180s you've done, where you tried using LLMs in a specific way and later thought it was a misfire?
Matt says his team has moved away from using LLMs as classifiers for routine text tasks and toward having them write repeatable programs, such as regexes, that can be tested and improved against production data.
LLM junk food w/ Justin Duke
Q: Where are you at, either personally or at your company, with the software factory, and is it resonating with you or giving you the ick?
Justin Duke says his team uses LLMs aggressively, with roughly two-thirds of merged code coming from them, but he is wary of extreme claims that engineering practice should be reorganized around maximizing agent throughput.
I need a software foreman w/ Stephen Margheim
Q: I'm curious if you've run into challenges with this or like if you have any either high or low level tactics or guidance on this, because I think it can be tough to get on board with this.
Margheim recommends prioritizing useful attention over automated code generation. His software foreman reports concise observations through layers of filtering, while an inhale-and-exhale rhythm lets agents explore and then consolidate their work.
I need a software foreman w/ Stephen Margheim
Q: Are you finding that that's changed the debate or the convincing of the rest of the team that like, yes, this is the way forward?
Margheim says to embrace radical impatience: when a change is clearly better, make it consistent across the codebase in one pull request, then use real experience with the change to guide later discussions.

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Frequently Asked Questions About YAGNI

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

The show concentrates on modern software practices, automation, and the evolving role of developers in a fast-changing ecosystem. Across episodes, discussions center on AI-assisted workflows, software factories, the tension between speed and quality, and the impact of rapid tooling on careers, teams, and infrastructure. Notable threads include skepticism about traditional frameworks, the rise of agent-based tooling, and practical guidance for engineers to stay relevant, upskick, and deliver business value. A recurring strength is candid, real-world anecdotes from practitioners and contributors who build and ship software in production environments.

This program stands out for its pragmatic take on how tooling, processes, and organizational... more

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