AI is generating more code than ever, but most engineers aren't verifying it. Sonar Staff AI Researcher Joe Tyler shares breakthrough findings from his LLM Leaderboard research on code quality, the hidden "coding personalities" of different models, and why the real bottleneck in software engineering isn't writing code: it's securing and reviewing it. Discover the gap between developer distrust and actual verification practices, plus how to position yourself for the verification-first future of software development.

Topics: AI code quality, LLM research, software engineering careers, code verification, developer tools

Show links:

• Sonar LLM Leaderboard: https://www.sonarsource.com/the-coding-personalities-of-leading-llms/leaderboard/
• Sonarqube: https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube
• Sonarsweep: https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarsweep/
• Joe's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-tyler-a668051b1/
• Latent Space: https://www.latent.space/
• Turing Post: https://www.turingpost.com/
• Nathan Lambert: https://substack.com/@natolambert
• Cameron Wolfe: https://substack.com/@cwolferesearch
• Sebastian Raschka: https://substack.com/@rasbt
• Andrew Ng: https://www.andrewng.org/

Summary

Software engineering career moves don't have to be a lottery. In this episode, Adam Argyle breaks down why the technical interview process is fundamentally broken, how design engineering skills actually transfer across roles, and the tactical job search playbook that works today. Whether you're navigating a career pivot, re-entering the market, or just frustrated with the hiring gauntlet, this conversation cuts through the noise on what really matters for career growth and staying sane.

Links

• Adam’s Website: https://nerdy.dev/
• Adam’s CascadiaJS 2025 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW6GECIzvsw
• 10 powerful ways to use CSS variables article: https://nerdy.dev/custom-prop-categories
• Sizzle Rizzle: https://nerdy.dev/sizzle-rizzle

Hosts

• Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.dev
• Bethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28
• Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com
• Erika Eggemeyer: https://github.com/eggyhead

Brittany shares her journey building Collective Social - a Goodreads-style app for all kinds of media built entirely on the AT Protocol - and how it led her to create OpenSocial, a service that lets any app on the decentralized web share group functionality like book clubs. The episode covers the challenges of representing groups when the protocol has no native concept of group identity, using conference talk deadlines as motivation to ship side projects, and rating real-world systems on how well they'd work in a decentralized context. Erika also shares her experience building an interpreter in Go.

Show links:

• Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com
• Collective Social: https://collectivesocial.app
• OpenSocial: https://opensocial.community
• Collective Social on GitHub: https://github.com/collectivesocial
• "Representing groups in ATProto" blog post (Brittany's site)
• AtmosphereConf speaker profile: https://news.atmosphereconf.org/3mfpjx5luuc2m
• GitHub Blog - Build a Personal Organization Command Center with GitHub Copilot CLI: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/build-a-personal-organization-command-center-with-github-copilot-cli/
• "The art of saying yes" blog post: https://brittanyellich.com/say-yes-do-all-the-things/
• "Living in the inflection point" blog post: https://brittanyellich.com/living-in-the-inflection-point/
• Nick Gerakines episode (EP19 - AT Proto, MCP, and Open Source): https://overcommitted.dev/ep-19-at-proto-mcp-and-open-source-with-nick-gerakines
• PDX ATProto talk: https://youtu.be/xFdak3HbDmM?si=rZoPfyYYoP2awADJ&t=2302
• AtmosphereConf talk: https://youtu.be/GVOywon3X-Q?si=yzKLfFNF8bzNT9-e
• The ATProto Store: https://atstore.fyi
• pdsls.dev: https://pdsls.dev
• Atmosphere Community: https://atmosphere.community
• npmx.dev: https://npmx.dev
• Tangled: https://tangled.io
• This is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222376492-this-is-for-everyone

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Topics: AT Protocol, Decentralized Social Media, Side Projects, Open Source, Software Engineering