Overcommitted Podcast

Disagree and commit starts with making your case: share concerns, bring data, surface blind spots. Then support the decision once it's made. Erika explains the approach in this clip from this week's Overcommitted episode on changing priorities.

What changed? Why? What does it mean for your work? In this clip, Erika explains how communication can make a priority shift feel less like whiplash. Episode 82 of Overcommitted is out today.

You planned for one project. On Friday, the priorities changed. Erika and Bethany discuss communication, parking unfinished work, and when disagree and commit actually helps. Episode 82 of Overcommitted is out now: Honest Answers: When Priorities Change.

Hey, this looks familiar! 😁 Happy to say our podcast is now on ATProto, as it should be ❤️

Networking is a muscle. Roxy went to her first conference in Jan 2024 and barely spoke. At her second she met the people who brought her into her current job. Her rule: you don't have to be fake about it. Being a little silly is a breath of fresh air. This week's ep 🎙️

Nobody told Roxy she could work in computers. She found out from Instagram reels. Middle school math teacher, then school librarian, then self taught dev, now a developer community manager. Ep 80 is out today 🎙️

New episode! Roxy Rodriguez-Becker on going from middle school math teacher to developer community manager: studying at 4AM, treating networking as a muscle you build, and shipping a tube feed tracker that real families rely on. 🎙️

This week's episode: you can be green and still be failing. Network blips and ephemeral errors are normal failure, and that is what error budgets are for. Catastrophic failure is the anomalous kind. Knowing the difference is a skill. 🎙️

"if I blame anyone in a postmortem, I blame myself." Hindsight bias is the biggest obstacle to a good incident review, and sometimes there was no mistake to learn from. Accountability is not the same as blame. 🎙️

New episode! Erika finally read "How Complex Systems Fail" and she and Bethany dig into normal vs catastrophic failure, whether root cause analysis actually works, hindsight bias in postmortems, and keeping the humans on call from burning out. 🎙️

What's the "just how software works" thing that secretly drives you nuts? Tell us and we'll find out why. Got work drama you can't post in Slack? Send it anonymously and we'll tell you what we'd really do. overcommitted.dev/root-cause overcommitted.dev/honest-answers

Okay, I wrote up a whole pitch on The Discourse this last week for @eggyhead-dev.bsky.social and @trustyduck.bsky.social , and I want to share it here in case we don't end up doing it. Mostly as a way for me to wrap my head around it all. So here's my TL;DR on AI safety the last couple weeks:

Plot. Problem. Solution. Elliott Minns on why technical depth in developer content isn't just about knowing the thing - it's about knowing how to tell the story around it. This week's ep is worth the listen 🎙️

AI tells you what you want to hear. Every model. Every time. The best colleagues push back - in PR review, in handoffs, in design convos. AI doesn't do that. Ep 74 with @dreamsofcode is out now 🎙️

New episode! Elliott Minns takes us inside Dreams of Code to talk technical storytelling, becoming a full-time creator, building a video editor in Rust, AI, and why the craft behind the code still matters. 🎙️

Did AI kill pair programming? 👀 This and more hot takes on engineering culture in an age where everything is changing on the Overcommitted podcast this week! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvPT...

This week on Overcommitted we met with Sreya Sarathy to chat about getting started in tech when AI exists and imposter syndrome (turns out, we all have it). Check it out at overcommitted.dev/starting-a-s...

New episode of Overcommitted is out - it's our first "Closed That Tab" segment. We share about three reads: agent identity & transaction tokens, the OpenAI sandbox escape, and loop engineering that ships ~20 PRs/day autonomously. Check it out!

Bethany and Erika chatted with Ben Balter on his new book, Open & Async (which is out now and VERY good!). Check out our conversation out now wherever you get your podcasts!

New Overcommitted episode is live 🎧 Caidan Williams built Terminal Graph: a spatial dev environment for macOS. Terminals, browsers, editors + AI agents on one infinite canvas, with dataflow piping between them. Self-taught, no degree, ~500 job apps before job #1. His edge? Persistence. 👇

Melanie Nabar sat down with Bethany and Erika to discuss what VCs really look for in an engineering culture. Many of her tips are applicable even if you aren't seeking funding. Here she describes how important data and measurement is while building an engineering culture. Full ep out now 🎧

How do you handle errors in your software when safety is critical? This week on Overcommitted, we chatted with @eriklars.bsky.social who works on live events, where one wrong move could be very problematic, and he had a great answer 👀 overcommitted.dev/safety-criti...

newest episode just dropped! @eriklars.bsky.social builds software for stage automation at TAIT and no, it's not the lighting > performer flying > pyrotechnics > stages that move under taylor swift full episode here: overcommitted.dev/safety-criti...

"Coding used to be like building a building - all planning and structure. Now it feels more like shaping pottery: rough it out, then refine it again and again until you're happy." Brittany on how AI changed the way she builds. New Overcommitted out now!

Software went from deterministic to probabilistic. The computer used to do exactly what you told it. Cameron Etezadi (CTO, LaunchDarkly) on why that changes everything about how we ship.

Coding gets cheaper. The feedback loop gets more important. Cameron Etezadi (CTO, LaunchDarkly) on why release-observe-iterate is the thing that actually scales - even as AI rewrites how we build. Ep 65 is out today. 🎙️

Speed without control is a liability. New episode: Cameron Etezadi (CTO, LaunchDarkly) on vibe coding vs. production-ready software, the release-observe-iterate loop, and how AI is changing what it means to be an engineer. overcommitted.dev

The best teams still run on social fabric. The trick is building it on purpose now. Dennis Pilarinos (founder & CEO of @unblocked) on remote work, AI, and the conscious effort it takes to stay connected. 🎙️ New Overcommitted out now!

I did not need to feel this called out, @sterlingchin.bsky.social and @overcommitted.dev! Cold for this one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-J...

@sterlingchin.bsky.social built an anonymous confessional for production disasters and called it ai crimes in production: ai-crimes-in-production.com first submission (before he even announced it): claude code deleted someone's entire staging folder 💀 overcommitted.dev/agentic-ai-d...

This week's episode: training LLMs with code quality tools baked in = 67% fewer vulnerabilities, 41% fewer bugs 🤯 Joe Tyler from Sonar is literally teaching AI models what "good code" means during training, not after. The future is wild.

New Overcommitted episode with Joe Tyler from Sonar! 🎙️ Deep dive into LLM code quality research - why Claude codes like a senior architect while GPT focuses on efficiency, the verification gap (96% distrust but only 48% verify!), and career advice for engineers interested in AI research.

New episode just released! 🎙️ AI researcher Joe Tyler from Sonar on why AI writing bigger PRs means we need MORE code review, not less. "If you're not looking at the code, that's exactly when you need a verification layer."

For all the folks that ever thought frontend development was "easy" This week on Overcommitted we chatted with @nerdy.dev all about job searching in 2026, career growth, and how and how the heck people figure out CSS in the age of AI. Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts!

New overcommitted is out 🎧 Adam Argyle (@nerdy.dev) on going from seven years at google chrome to staff design engineer at shopify, why llms suck at css, and why he thinks "the finishers", design engineers, are one of the most ai-proof roles in tech right now overcommitted.dev/design-engin...

Your content is in someone else's database, by design 📱 From this week's episode: AT Protocol lets you own your data. And Brittany's building OpenSocial to add what AT Proto doesn't have yet - groups. Platforms need to compete on quality, not lock-in.

"I'm highly motivated by being publicly shamed" might be the most relatable developer quote of 2026 😅 From today's episode - sometimes conference talk deadlines are the best project managers. The accountability of having to demo something publicly is *chef's kiss*

New Overcommitted episode! 🎧 Brittany built Collective Social and OpenSocial on AT Protocol, tackling group management when the protocol doesn't have a native concept of groups yet. Conference talk deadlines as motivation to ship? Relatable 😅

We are just getting started with The Staff Engineer's Path by @whereistanya.bsky.social ! Everyone is welcome to join our book club, check it out on Collective Social at collectivesocial.app!

"You cannot have all the answers as a single person." @whitep4nth3r.com on why we still need each other, even (especially) in the age of AI. Check out this week's episode of Overcommitted 🎧 overcommitted.dev/there-are-no...

@johncrickett.bsky.social built Coding Challenges (90k+ subs) by posting honestly on LinkedIn with 3,200 followers. No funnel, no growth hacks. The post that broke through was him publicly walking the walk on a $100 MVP. 🎙 New Overcommitted out now!

This week @dorkrawk.bsky.social and @brittanyellich.com got together to chat about what it means to be senior in tech... And it was a banger! It's all about leverage 💪 Check out the new episode of Overcommitted wherever you get your podcasts!

My episode of @overcommitted.dev just came out! I had a blast talking to @brittanyellich.com about mentoring, working in a way that makes you happy, and probably AI (because everything is about AI now, right?). Check it out: overcommitted.dev/run-toward-s...

"if you're just talking to chatbots to get answers, you're looking at question answering in too utilitarian of a way" @dorkrawk.bsky.social on why ai tools can't replace actually talking to your coworkers. episode just released this week!

Love the @overcommitted.dev pod. @brittanyellich.com and the other hosts talk craft, careers, and the commitments that shape them. Recently finished this: overcommitted.dev/building-bul... w/@wparad.bsky.social , on the reliability mindset and more. overcommitted.dev to subscribe! #podcast #tech

check out this week's episode of overcommitted with Sabrina Goldfarb for some deeply relatable would you rather content "1,000 unread slack notifications or a codebase with zero documentation?" 👀

It was SO FUN chatting with Sterling today!! Lots of talk about AI agents and being a builder coming soon from @overcommitted.dev 😄