No Silver Bullets

Aug 15, 2023

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Bryan and Steve Klabnik discuss Fred Brooks' essay "No Silver Bullets"--ostensibly apropos of nothing!--discussing the challenges to 10x (or 100x!) improvements in software engineering.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill speakers on included Steve Klabnik, Ian Grunert, and Tom Lyon.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks
Sub-podcasting (it's a thing!) this
video: Fred Brooks speaking on No Silver Bullet
Ruby on Rails demo (2005)
Future of coding podcast
Amdahl's law
FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition
Knuth and McIlroy Approach a Problem

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