The Peterman Pod

Career stories and experiences of technical professionals AI summary

Ryan Peterman Visit website › Technology · EN · 75 episodes · latest 2026-11-09

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Sharing the transparent career stories of technical people. Hosted by an ex-Staff engineer at Instagram

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  1. 2026-11-09 · 43 min

    Venki Ramakrishnan (Molecular biologist, Nobel Prize): "The experimental part [of drug discovery] is always going to be the bottleneck."Recent headlines about using AI to speed up drug discovery made me curious about…

  2. 2026-11-02 · 1 hr 22 min · Episode 73

    Stephen Toub is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft who single-handledly rewrote the GitHub Copilot runtime (400,000-line codebase) in Rust. We talked about why/how he did it, how Rust compared with other languages,…

  3. 2026-10-26 · 1 hr 29 min · Episode 72

    Brian Kernighan is a former Bell Labs member of technical staff, co-author of the original C book, and the one who popularized “Hello World.” We talked about what Bell Labs was like and the stories behind all the famous…

  4. 2026-10-19 · 54 min · Episode 71

    This interview is with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the internet's Domain Name System (DNS). I talked to him about the story behind building it and certain design choices he made.• My ergonomic keyboard project I…

  5. 2026-10-12 · 1 hr 1 min · Episode 70

    Scott Aaronson is one of the world's leading quantum computing researchers and spent two years at OpenAI working on AI safety. We talked about why he thinks the singularity has already begun for math, who gets credit…

  6. 2026-10-05 · 35 min

    Neetcode is the most well-known coding interview prep creator with over 1M+ subs on YouTube. I interviewed him about the latest on coding interviews, his career at Amazon vs Google, and what it was like quitting big…

  7. 2026-09-28 · 3 hr 8 min

    In this episode, I asked Ethan Evans (ex-Amazon VP) questions about common situations in corporate politics but they get increasingly darker.• My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned, you can follow along here:…

  8. 2026-09-21 · 44 min

    Philip Su grew quickly to a Distinguished Engineer at Facebook and OpenAI. We talked about the psychology behind peaking in a tech career and the pressure at the highest levels.• My ergonomic keyboard project I…

  9. 2026-09-14 · 1 hr 58 min

    Casey Muratori is a video game developer and programming creator also known for his talks about the history of software and computing. We talked about surprising parts he found while digging through computer history,…

  10. 2026-09-07 · 1 hr 11 min

    Thariq Shihipar is an engineer on Anthropic’s Claude Code team I asked him how Anthropic makes the most out of the models for engineering and how the industry will change soon.• My ergonomic keyboard project I…

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Oldest episode in feed
11/2024 · over 2 years
Typical length
1 hr 12 min
Format
Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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