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Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

No interview this week! Instead, Justin & Autumn sit down to talk about what they’ve been learning recently.

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Featuring:

• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• RTO is going great
• Why techies leave Big Tech
• Urgent need for bias mitigation in LLMs
• AI police reports
• Apple’s LLM whitepaper
• Platform Strategy book
• Bluesky whitepaper
• Ghostty
• The death of product management

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Capitole

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly (00:00:52)

https://fly.io/

3. Sweet treat rant (00:03:46)

4. New formula (00:06:31)

5. Going back to work (00:08:45)

6. SCALE CFP (00:14:17)

7. WebMD video (00:15:21)

8. Pragmatic Engineer (00:16:32)

9. Innovating in big tech (00:23:23)

10. Autumns DEI talk (00:27:41)

11. Sponsor: Sentry (00:31:53)

https://sentry.io/

12. Bias mitigation in LLMs (00:35:17)

13. LLMs cannot reason (00:43:41)

14. Platform Strategy (00:45:27)

15. BlueSky's moment (00:46:24)

16. Ghostty (00:57:47)

17. The Ultimate Death of Product Management (01:01:57)

18. Scaling equality (01:04:08)

19. Thanks for listening! (01:13:57)

20. Outro (01:15:56)