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.
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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