YAGNI

Discussions on whether common software practices and tools are necessary AI summary

Matt Swanson Visit website › Technology · EN · 19 episodes · latest 2026-10-12

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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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  1. 2026-10-12 · 56 min · Season 3, episode 6

    🔗 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…

  2. 2026-10-02 · 1 hr 22 min · Season 3, episode 5

    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…

  3. 2026-10-02 · 58 min · Season 3, episode 4

    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…

  4. 2026-10-01 · 1 hr 3 min · Season 3, episode 3

    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…

  5. 2026-10-01 · 59 min · Season 3, episode 2

    Justin Duke, who runs Buttondown, calls himself a "radical LLM centrist." About two-thirds of Buttondown's merged code comes from LLMs, but he still pushes back on the most extreme software factory takes. He and Matt…

  6. 2026-09-30 · 53 min · Season 3, episode 1

    Back in February, Nate said that coding workflows built around adding more human-in-the-loop steps were a dead end, and that the end state is the "dark factory," where humans aren't allowed on the floor. Six months…

  7. 2026-09-30 · 1 min

    Software used to be something you sat down and wrote.Line by line. Decision by decision.The work lived in the hands of the person at the keyboard.That world doesn’t really exist anymore. Everything is changing: who does…

  8. 2023-12-05 · 49 min · Season 2, episode 6

    Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?"This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need…

  9. 2023-11-28 · 43 min · Season 2, episode 5

    Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?"This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature…

  10. 2023-11-21 · 2 min · Season 2, episode 4

    Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?"This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need…

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08/2022 · over 4 years
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39 min
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