In this episode:

The team shared career updates, including Jon’s new SRE role, Jerry’s transition to freelance work, Stu’s move to a principal software engineer position, and Al’s lead role in a DevOps team.

Key discussions revolved around AI, with Jerry sharing his positive experience using Light LM and AI for design documents, while Stu expressed ethical concerns about AI’s energy consumption. Al raised concerns about AI hindering learning for new developers, and Jon highlighted the issue of “AI slop” affecting projects like curl

John mentioned:
– Defensive Security Podcast
– TinyOIDC: https://tinyoidc.authenti-kate.org/ and https://github.com/authenti-kate/tiny-oidc
– Open Source Security Podcast; LLM Finding bugs in Curl
– Human Resources book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZWKGZGN and https://torpublishinggroup.com/human-resources/?isbn=9781250375933&format=ebook

Jerry mentioned:
– A YouTube video about AI Sloop