Programming Throwdown

Running AI in loop hands-free.

In this episode, Patrick and Jason cover Agentic Coding!

Patrick and Jason discuss what it means to become a manager and how the role differs from individual engineering work. They cover hiring, coaching, performance management, team goals, and when moving into management is or is not the right choice.

Patrick and Jason break down workflow orchestrators and why they matter for batch jobs, long-running tasks, and resumable distributed systems. They compare tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Ray, and Kubeflow while explaining the infrastructure patterns behind them.