Jerod Santo is leaving Changelog. After years as co-host, Santo officially retires from the podcast in this episode alongside Adam Stacoviak. The news segment covers Ladybird adopting Rust with AI assistance, the JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (OXC) seeking sponsors, and Boris Tane's argument that the Software Development Lifecycle is dead.
The episode also references Wes McKinney's piece on the Mythical Agent-Month, a Reddit thread on engineers preferring on-prem infrastructure, and a Citrini Research report titled 'The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis.' These are not throwaway links. Each one anchors a distinct argument about where software development, AI agents, and infrastructure decisions are heading.
Changelog++ subscribers get 16 additional minutes and no ads. The full episode is worth reading for the Santo retirement discussion alone, but the news segment density makes this a useful index of the current developer discourse. What comes next for the Changelog roster is not yet answered.
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