Jerod Santo is leaving Changelog. On this episode of Changelog and Friends, Santo and Adam Stacoviak cover his official retirement from the podcast and the broader Changelog network, alongside a news rundown that includes Ladybird adopting Rust with AI assistance, the JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (OXC) seeking sponsors, Wes McKinney's take on the Mythical Agent-Month, and Zed's new Agent Client Protocol.
The news segment is worth the full listen. The show links span from a Reddit thread on genuine on-prem preference to Boris Tane's argument that the Software Development Lifecycle is dead, to a Citrini Research piece projecting a 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis. These are not summaries. They are starting points for arguments the hosts actually make out loud.
Changelog++ subscribers get 16 additional minutes with no ads. Santo's departure ends a long co-hosting run, which makes this a document as much as an episode. The full conversation, and the bonus segment, are where the substance lives.
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