Pebblebed

After Coding - A podcast by Pebblebed

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3

Latest episode

2026-10-19

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Daddy, what was vim?

For the last 80 years, the motive force of the computer revolution has been coding: the creation of software in formal languages by technical professionals exerting their intellect and their fingers. Sometime in 2025, this changed. To the extent coding remains a human activity, it is now education, craft, or leisure. The economically consequential coding is done by LLMs.

Keith Adams spent most of his waking hours coding, at VMware, Facebook, and Slack. You have run his code, probably today. He is also one of the generations of engineers whose work trained the clankers we now hand the keyboard to.

On After Coding, Keith sits down with the people who still think hardest about software to ask what the discipline becomes once the typing is no longer the point.