It's a long & windy road (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 “coverage” in this free-wheelin’ conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We’re talking Netflix infra, we’re talking sales, we’re talking real-world AI usage, we’re talking career choices…. What’s a good next step? Listen in!

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Featuring:

• Shaundai Person – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. New BMC Theme?! (00:00:00)

2. Let's talk! (00:01:27)

3. Sponsor: Sentry (00:02:32)

https://sentry.io/

4. Build & Friends (00:05:43)

5. The "No AI" challenge (00:06:37)

6. Netflix on Azure or AWS (00:08:44)

7. An API call away (00:10:31)

8. Is "hallucinate" bad? (00:12:55)

9. The AI rebellion (00:14:16)

10. Sponsor: Tailscale (00:17:23)

https://changelog.com/tailscale

11. How much are you using this? (00:20:25)

12. The "Sales" challenge (00:24:45)

13. Shaundai's pitch (00:26:24)

14. Adam's pitch (00:29:45)

15. Closing the deal (00:33:49)

16. Sponsor: Neon (00:41:12)

https://neon.tech

17. Long & windy road (00:43:12)

18. The next good step (00:47:40)

19. Selling inside tech teams (00:54:28)

20. We all win (01:04:41)

21. Bye friends! (01:05:11)

22. Coming up next (01:05:20)